M‑Files vs. Totango

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
M‑Files
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
M-Files delivers Context-First Document Management with a metadata-driven architecture that improves productivity across the document lifecycle. By linking documents to the people, processes, clients, and projects that give them meaning, M-Files creates a unified environment that strengthens governance.N/A
Totango
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Totango customer success software, now with Catalyst, helps enterprise businesses and cross-functional teams accelerate customer outcomes in productivity, retention, and expansion. Totango and Catalyst will become a unified product, following the merger in February 2024.N/A
Pricing
M‑FilesTotango
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
M‑FilesTotango
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsEach package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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Community Pulse
M‑FilesTotango
Features
M‑FilesTotango
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
M‑Files
-
Ratings
Totango
8.5
182 Ratings
3% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
M‑Files
-
Ratings
Totango
8.4
216 Ratings
3% below category average
API00 Ratings6.9149 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.4173 Ratings
Integration with Marketo00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
M‑Files
-
Ratings
Totango
8.1
247 Ratings
8% below category average
Product usage00 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
M‑Files
-
Ratings
Totango
8.1
260 Ratings
6% below category average
NPS surveys00 Ratings9.4124 Ratings
Sponsor tracking00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
Customer profiles00 Ratings7.9251 Ratings
Automated workflow00 Ratings9.1240 Ratings
Internal collaboration00 Ratings7.7226 Ratings
Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.5253 Ratings
Customer segmentation00 Ratings8.7243 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
M‑Files
-
Ratings
Totango
8.3
254 Ratings
2% below category average
Customer health trends00 Ratings8.4243 Ratings
Engagement analytics00 Ratings8.8229 Ratings
Revenue forecasting00 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings8.4237 Ratings
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User Ratings
M‑FilesTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(68 ratings)
9.1
(261 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(15 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(12 ratings)
8.6
(95 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(3 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(11 ratings)
7.7
(93 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(8 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
Configurability
9.6
(2 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
M‑FilesTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
M‑Files
M‑Files is great for companies with multiple locations. Drive letters can become cumbersome to use and collaborate with colleagues and M‑Files fills that gap. The check out/check in system is great and allows only one editor at a time. This can be good and bad depending on the situation.
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Totango
for a CSM it´s marvelous, you have in one window everything,the agenda for your day by day work, the workload you have in a day,all the customers database and call history added by tasks and toutch points, the to do thing in each customer you know what to do next, with renewal you hace an digital engadgement with customers inform they need to renew in order to keep using the app.
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Pros
M‑Files
  • Reliable: Our M-Files system has only gone down one time (for a very short period of time) at the beginning of the two years that we have been with M-Files. Our previous vendor's system had so many downtimes that our IT Department had to assign an associate to work with me for sending out notifications to associates etc. With our last vendor, one day I came to work and only 60 of the 260 consent for surgery forms were available to our end users although they were visible to me as the Administrator but weren't showing up for the end-users!
  • Our M-Files system was created for us. It was created by working with developers to only have on our system what we required, and I must say, there were so many extra features that M-Files offered in our program that weren't available with our previous vendor. As mentioned previously, we can have two policies or forms visible to the end-user so one can be listed as "draft" or "training only" so our end users can read and use for training as we get ready to roll out a new medical record system. I can also preload policies and leave them in the working stage until they are approved and go back and publish them the day they are approved. The list goes on with so many great features.
  • Our end users would say the greatest asset of this product is the search function. It's amazing how fast it is. There are many ways to search out a form or policy which makes it a true asset for our associates.
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Totango
  • Enables us to easily send and collect NPS & CSAT scores regularly.
  • Syncs with HubSpot to bring in updated client data and deals automatically.
  • Allows us to manage clients based on health score which is multi-dimensional.
  • I can log touch points directly in Totango from Gmail so easily..
  • As we improve and develop our non SaaS business client experience, Totango continues to develop more functionality that we can benefit from.
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Cons
M‑Files
  • If you are new to Electronic Document Management, this can be a really difficult product to roll out. Since it is infinitely versatile, there are infinite ways to configure it wrong. I highly recommend the M-Files admin training offered by M-Files as it will set you in the right direction.
  • Many options are paid add-ons. So while you are not paying for what you don't need, many great features will come at a cost.
  • If you don't have a technical person on staff, this will be tricky to maintain. Not impossible. If your processes do not change, once setup it will be fine.
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Totango
  • Integrations -- in my experience, they constantly break and disconnect.
  • Implementation -- I feel it was a HUGE challenge to set-up our environment. It took over 200 hours and it didn't work.
  • Communication -- during implementation/onboarding, in my opinion, we were mislead on how to create some of our custom data objects and it ended up being a big waste of time since the approach we were instructed to use ended up being incorrect.
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Likelihood to Renew
M‑Files
M-files meets our almost all needs, we dont have other option to replace m-files. it saves lots, like Hardware because of Vault Feature means we can create many vaults (mini-servers) in m-files in other solutions we need more hardware for more installations.
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Totango
I personally believe Totango is the right Customer Success Tool for me, my team, and my organization. I couldn't find limitations until now, it's capabilities are on point and it's very scalable. of course, transitioning to another tool would mean a lot of hours and training, and would expose risks
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Usability
M‑Files
It is a powerful system that can locate content fast and effectively. The system takes quite some time to setup initially. It can be hard for M-Files support to know how businesses operate and how they want to use the system in a way that works for them. The customization makes it great for companies to cater to their own needs. Once the system is set up in a way that makes sense for the business, the user experience is positive. There is room for improvement in the notifications, workflow, and support areas.
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Totango
It is easy to use and understand, and simple to follow day to day. Logging notes and tasks is one of the key areas this is utilised along with tracking reports and accessing key data points for conversations with customers which is helpful. Mobile app helps too to access information on the go.
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Reliability and Availability
M‑Files
always there.
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Totango
I have yet to experience any downtime with Totango (knock on wood) so reliability has been really top tier since we were onboarded. Given that the support team has been really helpful so far, I can imagine should downtime every be the case, they'll be able to communicate proactively/effectively on the current state of the platform
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Performance
M‑Files
I noticed some lagging with the integration with Microsoft Office but not so much that I would not use it. It has gotten better with updates. to be fair the issues were when Office 2013 first came out.
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Totango
At times the integration sync can be really slow when it comes to touchpoints. I can't say the same for customer health syncing, but I do tend to notice the lag from email syncing, and in those cases, I will need to refresh the Totango page a couple of times or wait a couple of extra seconds/minutes for it to show up.
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Support Rating
M‑Files
Usually when I need help from them I got support and it was very good and focused to solve my problem. I didn't have so many problems, but when used it worked. I just would like to have a support in my native language, but I can understand that sometimes is hard for the companies.
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Totango
I give Totango a support rating of 10 because I can always get support whenever needed. If its a technical issue, I know I can email their support team for help. If it's a more in depth question with respect to our instance of Totango, I can reach out to our CSM and always get help in a very reasonable amount of time. I always look to Totango as the standard when I think of how to best communicate and support our own customers.
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In-Person Training
M‑Files
We had online conference call training with a recording to use later as needed
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Totango
No answers on this topic
Online Training
M‑Files
They answer all questions and record your training for later use.
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Totango
Our CSM did a great job of conducting the training so we understand, at the very least, the functionality that is directly relevant to us. This also allowed us to train our own new team mates when onboarding based on the training flow that was first presented to us. This was also conducted as a interactive sessions, as training are notoriously known to be dry
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Implementation Rating
M‑Files
The key insight is that the most important thing is to have a open mind. The application is easy to use, but if you have a company with different views and it is not aligned could be a huge problem. So the company transformation is required together with the application. Ensure to use as much as possible the capabilities of the application helps to have best ROI.
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Totango
Totango has been easy for our team to integrate most of our new features into, which is great considering we have to factor in the customers' usage of the new features into all of the health and usage metrics we have. It has taken a while to integrate our second product however, which is why I would rank this a 7.
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Alternatives Considered
M‑Files
The customization ability seemed to be a level above and easy to navigate and available options are constantly being reinvented. We have used OnBase for years and now desire to move away from this option for a number of reasons.
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Totango
Pipedrive is a great CRM for Sales purposes but it doesnt give much tools for CX management. Totango is all the opposite, it is an excellent product for Customer Management . We currently use both platforms integrated with each other and it gives great results to both Sales and Customer Success teams
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Scalability
M‑Files
do so much more than we need but has all the stuff we do need.
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Totango
Information keeps missing and changing in totango . Because of that there is are lot of problems with it. We need to manually keep the backup in an another file. More over if in case we take the backup its so hard to track since its all in numbers. Totango can be much better if the cloud storage is working fine. My company is planning to discontinue due to this factor
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Return on Investment
M‑Files
  • M-Files allows us to track important milestones and expiration dates. We are now able to easily track revisions to contracts with community partners and record comments and history in one place.
  • We are able to track all contracts that come through our District and to create monthly reports to present to our Board.
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Totango
  • Since using Totango we have seen our engagement numbers go up as we are better able to identify the groups that are struggling.
  • We have also seen an increase in retention as we are more consistent in messaging and not missing any data.
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ScreenShots

M‑Files Screenshots

Screenshot of M-Files - SearchScreenshot of M-Files - Profile openScreenshot of M-Files - PermissionsScreenshot of M-Files - Process mapsScreenshot of M-Files - Pinned items

Totango Screenshots

Screenshot of collaboration tools to manage a customer portfolioScreenshot of a 360° view of customer healthScreenshot of the dashboard to monitor customer metricsScreenshot of engaging in-app experiences and email campaigns to improve customer retentionScreenshot of integrated data in the Customer Data Hub