OnBase vs. Oracle WebCenter Content

OnBase is a content services solution for organizations that need high visibility to documents or information across multiple teams or departments. It supports users' access control, workflow functionality with transaction history, electronic document retention, and destruction documentation. Hyland can support the organization for implementations or solutions, or the organization can utilize the education services and build out the solution themselves.

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If your company is large and uses other Oracle products, Oracle WebCenter Content is probably a worthwhile investment. It integrates well with other Oracle applications and has the potential to help automate some of your existing processes. If you do not use other Oracle products, I would say there are better alternatives out there that are probably more user-friendly and cost effective.

Incentivized

• Houses documents for easy retrival.
• Allows for simple document scanning and storage.
• Has the ability to allow paperless document import so document do not have to scanned.
• Makes the review and document sharing process easy.
• Has security features that allow you to keep only the staff you want to view documents able to access them.

Incentivized

• It provided one single repository with a URL link to access each AP invoice.
• It gives a life cycle to each invoice where a business user can perform some additional indexing as per their needs.
• It also provides a reporting feature and a front-end for users to view invoices with ease and very helpful for auditing purpose.
• It uses the BPEL engine to customize the life cycle and also it can automate the auto entry of supplier invoices in your EBS system.
• Reduce a lot of manual efforts, manual errors and workforce.

Incentivized

• The Administrator interface, while powerful, is antiquated and has so many options to chose from it can be overwhelming at times trying to find what you need in order to accomplish a task.
• The Unity application is a work in progress and is missing out of some features that are much better in the thick client, such as scanning documents in at high volume. This has improved over time, though.
• Hyland Onbase is a content management platform and, while it does handle ingestion and scanning processes, does require a 3rd party application to really complete the whole package. Hyland's Perceptive platform or Kofax Capture complement it greatly.

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• Any images in the emails sent by suppliers (supplier logos in the signature) are treated as invoices by WebCenter Content software.
• We have an invoice with 4 lines and each line has its own project manager. Ideally, each invoice line should be sent for approval to respective project managers. However, WebCenter Business Process management was sending all the lines to all project managers.
• The user experience of Oracle WebCenter Content can be drastically improved. It is not up to the mark.

Incentivized

OnBase has become a core part of our enterprise solutions toolkit due to its ever-growing integration capabilities. Any business process that produces or tracks documents or object entities can be modeled and managed within OnBase and used to supplement almost any line-of-business system that we use.

Incentivized

The challenges with converting to a completely new system create quite a barrier to switching to anything else. If we find another system that offers guaranteed improvements to the user interface -- as well as as a more coherent set of options for data interchanges with current and future enterprise data sources -- we would be more interested in swithing to that new product. Of course, the expense in purchasing competitor system, along with the costs of migrating all current content, along with retooling all existing workflows in place, would be carefully weighed against the benefits incurred from a switch-over.

You get out of something what you put into it. You reap what you sow! If an organization will spend time setting the solution up, dedicating staff to its development and ongoing support, and always keep the end-user in mind during development, you will have one of the most well-received solutions in your organization. So many organizations that I speak with stand up a solution but don't commit someone to its upkeep and development. It is vital that you have the staff to work within the solution on a daily basis.

Incentivized

It meets all required functionality requirements -- but handles none of them in an exceptional manner

I have had exceptional support from Hyland; however, I am a direct customer from Hyland and receive support directly from Hyland support technicians. I have heard complaints from other customers who have partner relationships as then the support is 100% driven through the partner and you are dependent on the skills and abilities of your partner corporate support team.

The trainer was very knowledgeable and was a Hyland employee. The training was at their corporate headquarters, so it allowed our team to become familiar with organization and culture.

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With the Premium subscription, there is a tone of training with audio and practice options.

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Using Hyland professional services to assist with the implementation made things much easier. They have the knowledge and experience to get the system live as users are expecting

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IntelliChief (Quadrant product) was used as the first AP invoice workflow and content repository in 2006. Very hard to compare since I haven't used a current version. RVI - Real Vision Inc. was used for Credit/Collections documents and workflow. No way to compare Haven't had to look for a replacement for any reason since purchasing OnBase.

We were looking for an automated invoice processing solution. As we are already on Oracle ERP, it made sense for us to go for Oracle Fusion payables with Oracle WebCenter Content. We have a good relationship with Oracle and Oracle promised us priority support during the time of implementation.

Incentivized

• OnBase provides a very reliable ECM platform for the company.
• OnBase helped to remove the dependency on paper files and file folders. This saved real estate cost as well as facilitated the ability to work from anywhere.
• OnBase made same day processing of all incoming and outgoing documents a reality.

Incentivized

• When integrated with a system like Biscom, WebCenter Content makes document capture, retention, and archiving much more efficient and cost-effective.
• When integrated with a system like Siebel CRM, WebCenter Content makes communications with customers/leads more efficient.
• Leveraging the robust content authoring capabilities has helped our web clients reduce the amount of involvement required of IT services during the normal course of web content authoring and management.