IBM Enterprise Content Manager vs. OpenText Extended ECM Platform

Again, I like to think of my association and usage of IBM Case Manager V.5.2. Please keep in mind that this is only one component of the IBM Enterprise Content Management suite of products. I believe IBM Case Manager is an ideal solution for medium to large companies looking to automate lnad

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Information control. Information management. Not good at collaboration or collaborative work on documents. Administration is complex, and requires highly specialized teams to do it.

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• It provides easy to use administrative tools to work with the product.
• Good documentation on the production is available which makes it easier to use.
• It supports high availability architecture

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• Searching
• Create Metadata to help with searching
• Control versioning you can see multiple versions of a document and can revert back to it if necessary.
• Document management, it has built in house keeping features.
• One source of the truth.

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• As enterprise and mid-market systems go, the price is highly competitive (especially when you consider what's included in the license). That said, this product is not accessible for small businesses as a self hosted solution. The "Navigator on Cloud" solution is much more accessible, but gives less control over data.
• To get all the features, there are many moving parts. For large enterprises, this is no problem, and the cloud solution obviates most of these concerns.

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• Flow management.
• Inefficiency in BD.
• Electronic signatures.

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There is no plan to change ECM at organizational level. Replacing products and changing custom applications involves lot of effort

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OpenText Enterprise Content Management is reliable and it has a friendly user interface. It can replace all legacy document repositories. With the integrations with SAP, it gives non-Sap users visibility into documents that are critical for making key decisions.

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The end-user experience is excellent. The Administration experience needs some more work.

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It is used for the basics of the tool, without taking advantage of the options it has.

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The support is not very efficient, either by a partner or directly from Opentext. The support for Latin America is very limited by the language, and they do not have specialized support that supports the Spanish language.

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Our relationship with IBM is long standing. We have been Gold Partners for some time and are viewed by many internal groups as their Go To partner for large ECM deployments. Most of our systems engineers hold multiple certifications as solutions developers. Our clients are national and international. The support we receive from IBM has been excellent and our partnership with them on numerous projects has been excellent.

Incentivized

• We have seen our customers realize increased employee efficiency by reducing the amount of time it takes to process a transaction.
• We have seen improvements in customer service because information can be made more readily available to customer service personnel who are fielding service calls.
• We have seen improvements in decision making because processing-related statistics are more readily available to the managers who need the input to make quality business decisions that affect the day-to-day operations.

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• Users are empowered to manage their own content
• Employees are more effecient, not spending a lot of time searching for documents.
• Reduced company liability

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