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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A

    IBM FileNet Content Manager

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM FileNet Content Manager is a cloud-native content services solution to manage, share and collaborate on content to save employees’ time and improve customer experiences. This ECM solution includes functionality for document management, business process management, case management, content analytics, imaging, records management, and information governance. The IBM FileNet Content Manager content management solution provides the foundation for IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation. It uses AI…N/A
    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)IBM FileNet Content Manager
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)IBM FileNet Content Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)IBM FileNet Content Manager
    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    178 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    158 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    174 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)IBM FileNet Content Manager
    Enterprise Content Management
    Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and IBM FileNet Content Manager
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    IBM FileNet Content Manager
    7.9
    22 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Content capture & imaging00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings8.620 Ratings
    Document management00 Ratings8.422 Ratings
    Records management00 Ratings7.320 Ratings
    Content search & retrieval00 Ratings8.220 Ratings
    Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Content publishing & creation00 Ratings8.719 Ratings
    Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings7.821 Ratings
    Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings7.917 Ratings
    Automated workflows00 Ratings6.618 Ratings
    Artificial intelligence00 Ratings8.115 Ratings
    Mobile support00 Ratings6.614 Ratings
    Integration00 Ratings8.420 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)IBM FileNet Content Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (16 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)IBM FileNet Content Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    It is doing its job effectively, and its scalability is superb. So, if you have a mixed environment with cloud and on-premise systems to protect this product, provide a solution to the challenge. However, its management is more suited to DevOps teams rather than to the ones responsible for on-premise systems, making the management a bit more complex.
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    IBM
    Well Suited Scenarios: Regulatory Compliance: IBM FileNet Content Manager is ideal for industries with strict regulatory requirements, such as healthcare and finance. It helps organizations securely manage and retain documents, ensuring compliance with data retention policies. Enterprise Document Management: Large organizations that deal with extensive document volumes benefit from FileNet's document capture, indexing, and search capabilities. It simplifies document management across departments. Less Appropriate Scenarios: Small Businesses: For small businesses with limited document management needs, FileNet may be overly complex and expensive. Simpler, more cost-effective solutions may be a better fit.Simple Document Storage: Organizations primarily seeking basic cloud-based document storage without extensive workflow automation or compliance requirements might find FileNet's capabilities excessive for their needs.
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    Pros
    F5
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
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    IBM
    • Detailed Audit trials for all document interactions.
    • As our organization grows, so does our data volume, IBM FileNet Content Manager seamlessly scales to accommodate this growth.
    • The search capabilities are powerful and we can quickly find information just by typing a name.
    • The version control feature ensures that every change, edit, or contribution is tracked and documented.
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    Cons
    F5
    • Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
    • The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
    • Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.
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    IBM
    • IBM FileNet Content Manager's interface is complex and difficult to navigate for some users. IBM should consider improving the user interface to make it more easier and intuitive.
    • IBM FileNet Content Manager may be difficult to integrate with other applications and systems. IBM should consider improving its integration capabilities to ease connectivity with other systems.
    • The wide range of customization make it challenging for users to configure the software to find find their specific needs. IBM should simplify the customization process to make it easier for users.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
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    IBM
    It's a great tool for our legacy system however the implementation, management time and lack of a niche provided by IBM makes it a difficult tool to recommend in a fast-paced market.
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    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The other one that I've used in the past, they're very similar and I haven't used it recently, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison today. But I can say that F5 does everything we want it to do consistent with what this other product did do and it's got enhanced features and of course we have a long history with F5 as a product set in general.
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    IBM
    IBM FileNet Content Manager is a much superior product compared to anything in the market, IBM AI is really great and the ability to automate is really awesome. We also use other IBM products such as RPA and it integrates seamlessly. Compliance is really the USP of IBM FileNet Content Manager
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    Scalability
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
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    IBM
    • It really streamline the business processes and reduced the overall approval time across the department.
    • Search for Document is really accurate and easy to search the specific documents.
    • Manage the content is easy
    • Also allow to add non documents related objects
    • API,s are well structured and documented
    • Content Navigator is simple to use
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    ScreenShots

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    IBM FileNet Content Manager Screenshots

    Screenshot of Editing in Microsoft Word - Collaboration in real time using Microsoft Office for the web.Screenshot of External file sharing - Securely share with external users.Screenshot of Annotation and redaction - Features an advanced viewer used to create annotations and apply redactions to content.