Microsoft Azure vs. OpenText Content Suite Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Azure
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
$29
per month
OpenText Content Suite Platform
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
The OpenText Content Suite Platform oversees the lifecycle management of information across the enterprise from capture through archiving and disposition. With agile information governance to address the latest data governance and data privacy best practices, the vendor states their Content Suite reduces risk and empowers organizations to focus on using information to drive strategic growth and productivity.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft AzureOpenText Content Suite Platform
Editions & Modules
Developer
$29
per month
Standard
$100
per month
Professional Direct
$1000
per month
Basic
Free
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft AzureOpenText Content Suite Platform
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.
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Microsoft Azure

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OpenText Content Suite Platform
Chose OpenText Content Suite Platform
SharePoint is not very strong on records management as part of the base system. So after evaluation, it was found to not comply to all needs and therefore discarded. We also evaluated Afresco which is an opensource offering. The problem was that we could not find enough people …
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Features
Microsoft AzureOpenText Content Suite Platform
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
8.6
17 Ratings
6% above category average
OpenText Content Suite Platform
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.716 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling9.316 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing8.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates7.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.415 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls9.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation8.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
OpenText Content Suite Platform
7.7
6 Ratings
7% below category average
Content capture & imaging00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
Document management00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Records management00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Content search & retrieval00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
Content publishing & creation00 Ratings4.35 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
Automated workflows00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
Artificial intelligence00 Ratings4.34 Ratings
Mobile support00 Ratings4.94 Ratings
Integration00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft AzureOpenText Content Suite Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(88 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(15 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(27 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
6.8
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(27 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft AzureOpenText Content Suite Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
In terms of cloud computing, Microsoft Azure is the only comprehensive result the company offers. Regardless of how big or small an organization is, it can make use of this system. As a cyber-security professional, this is your best option for data management. A business that wants to minimize capital expenditures can use Microsoft Azure. Many Microsoft services accept it. People with little or no knowledge of cloud computing may find it impossible. It isn’t the solution for companies that don’t want to risk having only one platform and infrastructure vendor.
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OpenText
Great for content management and records even for organizations whose staff are not much experienced in the technical backgrounds as it's easy to use and no previous knowledge on HTML is required. It is great for storing invoices and payment proofs and for organizations dealing with global clients for general use documents.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure simply provides end to end life cycle. Starting from the development to automated deployment, you will find [a] bunch of options. Custom hook-points allow [integration] on-premise resources as well.
  • Excellent documentation around all the services make it really easy for any novice. Overall support by [the] community and Azure Technical team is exceptional.
  • BOT Services, Computer Vision services, ML frameworks provide excellent results as compare to similar services provided by other giants in the same space.
  • Azure data services provide excellent support to ingest data from different sources, ETL, and consumption of data for BI purpose.
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OpenText
  • Document Management is being done well since it allows you to put in a corporate folder structure that applies to the business unit you currently work in.
  • Records Management works well in this organisation as it allows you to classify the document according to the file plan, as well as manage it according to the retention schedule for tat file plan.
  • The ability to collaborate on files works really well. You can share with users within your group, as well as allow other users access to the files for either read access to read/write access.
  • Access control of the folder and even individual files allows you to ensure only necessary people can have the right type of access. This is especially welcome in the government environment where document management is of utmost importance.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • In our experience, Azure Kubernetes Survice was difficult to set up, which is why we used Kubernetes on top of VMs.
  • Azure REST API is a bit difficult to use, which made it difficult for us to automate our interactions with Azure.
  • Azure's Web UI does a good job of showing metrics on individual VMs, but it would be great if there was a way to show certain metrics from multiple VMs on one dashboard. For example, hard drive usage on our database VMs.
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OpenText
  • The user interface and configurability of that interface lack a lot of flexibility and modern tools.
  • There needs to be stronger and more powerful integration to electronic forms and workflow capabilities which are core to modern ECM.
  • Management of audit and content history needs to be modernized and made more dynamic and sustainable.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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OpenText
The staff is comfortable with it and I doubt they'd change at this point.
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Usability
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure's overall usability has been better than expected. Often times vendors promise the world, only to leave you with a run-down town. Not the case with our experience. From an implementation perspective, all went perfect, and from the user-facing experience we have had no technical issues, just some learning curve issues that are more about "why" than "how"
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OpenText
The interface is easy to understand and learn quickly.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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OpenText
I never had any issues with access internally or via VPN. But, the response via VPN, was a bit slow.
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Performance
Microsoft
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OpenText
  • I used OpenText nearly every day and I never had any performance issues that I can recall. That said, it's not terribly fast either.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Support is easy with all the knowledge base articles available for free on the web. Plus, if you have a preferred status you can leverage their concierge support to get rapid response. Sometimes they’ll bounce you around a lot to get you to the right person, but they are quite responsive (especially when you are paying for the service). Many of the older Microsoft skills are also transferable from old-school on-prem to Azure-based virtual interfaces.
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OpenText
OpenText has an outstanding support and knowledge base. All problems which couldn't be solved by us (high complexity cases) were promptly resolved and the resolution also shared with us.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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OpenText
No, it's pretty easy to implement and use.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
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OpenText
Having used OpenText Content Suite for a long time, I can say it stands the competition. It offers many versions which is unlike many products in its category. Also, while it is not affordable, I believe the cost is justified considering what a business can achieve with this software.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Brings down Capex to customers.
  • Some of the built-in security features of DDoS Basic protection that comes with VNET on Azure or even WAF on AGW brings huge advantages to customers.
  • Hybrid benefits for those who have software assurance can save even more costs by moving to Azure.
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OpenText
  • With OpenText Content Suite, we can easily keep documents safe
  • Document collaboration is easy with OpenText
  • We can easily handle invoicing and automation thanks to features such as content capture and imaging.
  • With OpenText Content Suite, there is better file sync and archiving
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