IBM Datacap vs. OpenText MBPM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Datacap
Score 8.2 out of 10
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IBM® Datacap helps users streamline the capture, recognition and classification of business documents and extract important information. Datacap supports multiple-channel capture by processing paper documents on scanners, mobile devices, multi-function peripherals and fax. It uses natural language processing, text analytics and machine learning technologies, to automatically identify, classify and extract content from unstructured or variable documents. The software can reduce labor and paper…N/A
OpenText MBPM
Score 7.2 out of 10
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OpenText acquired BPM solution Metastorm in 2011, and has rebranded the product as OpenText MBPM. It is an alternative BPM solution to OpenText's primary BPM offering called OpenText Cordys Business Process Management.N/A
Pricing
IBM DatacapOpenText MBPM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM DatacapOpenText MBPM
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
IBM DatacapOpenText MBPM
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Datacap
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Ratings
OpenText MBPM
7.0
3 Ratings
15% below category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
IBM Datacap
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Ratings
OpenText MBPM
7.3
3 Ratings
14% below category average
Process designer00 Ratings8.13 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings7.13 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings6.93 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings6.13 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
IBM Datacap
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Ratings
OpenText MBPM
7.6
3 Ratings
7% below category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
IBM Datacap
-
Ratings
OpenText MBPM
6.0
2 Ratings
30% below category average
Content management00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM DatacapOpenText MBPM
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(5 ratings)
7.1
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM DatacapOpenText MBPM
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Once highly customized, IBM Datacap can suit any business unit and scenario. To realize accurate knowledge and insight base on business documents, I would emphasize use of IBM Datacap since it has robust OCR tool that ease document capturing.
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OpenText
Metastorm is well-suited for scenarios in which internal stress testing an application is needed in a hurry before showcasing it to potential customers. It supports different views of the process from Swimlane perspective, so different methodologies can be handled. It is an Enterprise level tool and handles both small and large projects quite well, although smaller companies may be stressed out by the amount of time it takes to properly maintain the application.
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Pros
IBM
  • Machine learning automates document processing from external applications and sources like scanners.
  • Exporting data with just a click to other content repositories.
  • Redaction of data based on requester role. Therefore, we are able to block irrelevant or sensitive information based on the specification of users.
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OpenText
  • Complex routing of tasks based on calculated criteria
  • Linking between tasks and accessing relevant information
  • Organising, scheduling and prioritising
  • Different views for different people
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Cons
IBM
  • Image capture through IBM Datacap mobile application hangs when machine learning is processing metadata.
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OpenText
  • The Metastorm process engine is based on an older version of .NET. Updating to a newer version would resolve several known issues with .NET email functionality.
  • Metastorm builds web pages at run time. While the UI presented to the end user is fine, the Document Object Model is convoluted and subject to change with new releases. Providing a more simplified DOM or at very least a custom function to replace document.getElementById() would make client-side scripting a much more powerful tool.
  • One function that I've seen Metastorm competitors do well, is email wizards. Having a WYSIWYG email editor would be really nice.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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OpenText
There are other products that seem to be a better fit for future initiatives.
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Usability
IBM
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OpenText
Although it is intuitive to use it does require training
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Support Rating
IBM
Generally they are very good and reactive to our requests. if we find an issue our error they are quick to add a fix to the next release if needs be.
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OpenText
Great customer service for an API support related query
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
It's easier to extract data from documents for analytics, unlike other similar platforms.
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OpenText
We found that OpenText MBPM held its own quite well against IBM BPM. We ended up choosing OpenText MBPM due to the analytics, complex routing, and the ease of SOA service integration. Furthermore, the ability to quickly develop simple User interfaces make this tool a daily component of our most-used toolbox components.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • We have protected and safeguarded business information by redacting documents to ensure that confidential data doesn’t reach to irrelevant business users or cyber attackers.
  • Business procedures automation has been enhanced by IBM Datacap as part of the Cloud pak, which eases workflow and decision management.
  • Being based on modern modular, IBM Datacap allows us to pay for what we use, thus no losses are encountered.
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OpenText
  • The development of the ticketing system has enabled us to greatly improve customer relationships
  • The scheduling and allocation of the tasks has reduced both the number of open tickets and the turnaround time to resolution
  • Management information from the system has improved decision making
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