Adobe Experience Manager Forms vs. OpenText Exstream

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Experience Manager Forms
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Adobe Experience Manager Forms (formerly LiveCycle) is designed to make it easy to create and publish forms for any device. With its machine learning and AI-fueled feature, Automated Forms Conversion, users can modernize forms at speed.N/A
OpenText Exstream
Score 9.8 out of 10
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OpenText Exstream (formerly HP Exstream) is a multichannel customer communication management solution that helps companies tailor customer communications through web, email, print and mobile channels.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Adobe Experience Manager FormsOpenText Exstream
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(5 ratings)
7.8
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
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3.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe Experience Manager FormsOpenText Exstream
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Helps in creating forms that we normally used to create in Excel. For this reason alone it's a huge upgrade. Plus is relatively easy to use once you know how to use it. Also, it works best for forms that you need to fill in.
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OpenText
OpenText Exstream is well suited for creation of documents in a corporate environment with huge throughput, but at the same time needs a very structured set of document types due to layout requirements.
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Pros
Adobe
  • It enables me to quickly update and distribute forms that have been changed.
  • The layout features help ensure that the forms look professional.
  • The ability to preview what the final form will look like and how it will work, while still editing, is extremely helpful.
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OpenText
  • Secure Document Generaration
  • Customer Communication
  • Fast Batch processing
  • On demand API based document retrial and re-printing
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Cons
Adobe
  • Biggest issue is the user friendliness for the designer. It is hard to get elements to do what you want if you are adding any sort of design to your form. In my case I make flyers which require not only the form fills, but also other elements like pictures and background design elements.
  • The import from PSD or AI function does not work properly most of the time. If you create a document with lots of visual elements, your best bet is to convert as much of that as possible to a rasterized image and then popping that in as the background rather than trying to import elements. They come out very wonky, colors are lost in conversion, and the layout doesn't come over.
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OpenText
  • merge the design manager and designer
  • the way components are used accros applications
  • when using XML the array handling must be improved
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
We chose this solution because it offered more flexibility , decreased our overall expenses and is what allowed us to execute our operations and business needs effectively. Adobe LiveCycle is a step above all of its competitors. Your only setback will be the initial training time investments.
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OpenText
Design flexibility, customer communication and lesser cost of ownership.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Easier for employees to fill forms
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OpenText
  • increased customer and employee satisfaction
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