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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MindTouch

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AMindTouch is a customer experience management platform with content management and help authoring capabilities. Formerly known as MediaWiki, it is optimized for building knowledge bases for customer self-service and agent assistance purposes.N/A

    OnBase

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AOnBase by Hyland is an enterprise content management platform with business process and case management capabilities. It is modular by design and allows users to tailor the solution to their specific requirements.N/A
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    MindTouchOnBase
    Editions & Modules
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    MindTouchOnBase
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    MindTouchOnBase
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    MindTouch
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    Hyland
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    MindTouchOnBase
    Enterprise Content Management
    Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of MindTouch and OnBase
    Feature
    MindTouch
    -
    Ratings
    OnBase
    8.2
    43 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content capture & imaging00 Ratings9.041 Ratings
    File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Document management00 Ratings10.042 Ratings
    Records management00 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Content search & retrieval00 Ratings8.043 Ratings
    Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Content publishing & creation00 Ratings8.222 Ratings
    Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings8.424 Ratings
    Automated workflows00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Artificial intelligence00 Ratings5.811 Ratings
    Mobile support00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
    Integration00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
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    MindTouchOnBase
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    Zoho CRM Plus
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    Egnyte
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Sogolytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Epicor ECM
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Medallia
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MindTouchOnBase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (110 ratings)
    9.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (18 ratings)
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (29 ratings)
    8.6
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (31 ratings)
    5.8
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    1.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MindTouchOnBase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MindTouch
    If a company doesn't want to make their knowledge base public-facing, you lose a lot of the value of using MindTouch in a closed environment. MindTouch is not ideal for extremely structured content management scenarios that are strong DITA advocates. Companies that require localization might not be good fits either.
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    Hyland
    OnBase is a content services solution for organizations that need high visibility to documents or information across multiple teams or departments. It supports users' access control, workflow functionality with transaction history, electronic document retention, and destruction documentation. Hyland can support the organization for implementations or solutions, or the organization can utilize the education services and build out the solution themselves.
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    Pros
    MindTouch
    • MindTouch helps to easily organize our help articles to ensure that our end user is receiving the proper information.
    • The MindTouch platform is extremely easy to navigate which reduces the turnaround time for our team to publish new material.
    • The editor tools supplied through MindTouch make styling our documentation a breeze.
    • The contextual help tool allows our customers to consume documentation based on the page they are viewing in our platform.
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    Hyland
    • Workflow and Configuration - easy to learn
    • Documentation for each application and toolset
    • Hyland Account Managers and staff are knowledgeable
    • Robust User Community that helps solve an issue or make recommendations
    • Web client - no application installation needed on a PC for users
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    Cons
    MindTouch
    • When we do have a support issue, we frequently need to go through multiple people, contacts, ways of explaining things, etc,. before someone on their end actually understands our problem. It's rare that the first person we talk to understands the big picture or appreciates our use case.
    • The draft functionality is a promising start but lacks some key features that cause us regular frustration. For example, you can only create one draft of a page at a time. This is fine if changes come to you in perfect sequential order, but it makes it impossible for us to update a live page while a draft exists. More specifically, if we're working on updating content on a page for a new feature being released next month, but then we notice a typo today, we can't fix the typo in production without first deleting the draft or doing some hacky workaround of temporarily copying/pasting the source HTML of the draft page and saving it someplace else.
    • Existence of, or integration with, true source control would be a huge win, but it's something currently lacking in the product. MindTouch's content reuse feature is helpful in the right situations, but it's not robust enough to scale well for lots of content.
    • Version history of page changes is not 100% reliable. Sometimes items don't show up at all or there is a delay before the diff is visible. Also, creating a draft does not register at all in the page version history.
    • In-site search is poor, unless you know the *exact* title of what you're looking for. We tell our customers to use Google, not the MindTouch search. Google is excellent at searching our MindTouch site.
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    Hyland
    • I personally find the user inferface to be obnoxious and obtuse.
    • When we have issues it is often hard to resolve the problem as there are many variables such as file types, DPI, and scanner setting that combine to make it hard to pinpoint trouble spots.
    • The upgrade process has always been a nightmare for our team. We are not on the latest version now due to this issue.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MindTouch
    We've put lots and lots of content into the MindTouch system, of course, so that makes it harder to opt out, but we're also very pleased with their rate of development and weekly pushing of improvements, as well as their response and solutions to our questions and input All in all, a winning combination.
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    Hyland
    OnBase has become a core part of our enterprise solutions toolkit due to its ever-growing integration capabilities. Any business process that produces or tracks documents or object entities can be modeled and managed within OnBase and used to supplement almost any line-of-business system that we use.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    MindTouch
    The site is responsive across multiple devices and screens. It has a clear path to contact support. The articles are searchable. Site users do have trouble navigating the site and finding what they need. That may be due to the architecture of the site, but it'd be nice if MindTouch offered more solutions are this. Our content is organized by product line. And many of those product lines have overlapping training content, so we have extensive duplicate content.
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    Hyland
    You get out of something what you put into it. You reap what you sow! If an organization will spend time setting the solution up, dedicating staff to its development and ongoing support, and always keep the end-user in mind during development, you will have one of the most well-received solutions in your organization. So many organizations that I speak with stand up a solution but don't commit someone to its upkeep and development. It is vital that you have the staff to work within the solution on a daily basis.
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    Performance
    MindTouch
    MindTouch is a hosted site, so as a heavy user there are times when I notice that pages are slow to load, or something happens like Amazon Web Services crashing the entire east coast for a few hours, that you do notice even if it isn't actually the fault of the MT tool itself. It's the risk of using a hosted tool, but the benefits are pretty amazing and outweigh these performance issues.
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    Hyland
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    MindTouch
    It's good. Pretty solid. We got a lot of input to get up and running, but did a lot of the setup and customization work ourselves, because of our high standards. We've gotten good response and results on specific projects related to customization and our CSM is also pretty responsive. Overall, I think that the jobs of CSMs and support folks would be easier if the product weren't wonky in some ways. They seem to have to do more "workarounds" for basic functionality that should just work out of the box
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    Hyland
    This rating is a compromise because I technically have 2 tiers of support.
    I go through a re-seller that I give a (10). I send an email and receive acknowledgment within minutes.
    For the few times we need to contact Hyland for assistance, it sometimes takes a couple of days to receive a response - and then the first tier might go back and forth a dozen times through email instead of initiating a phone call. And for an advanced issue, they take too long before they forward to an evangelist or someone more knowledgeable that is able to assist. I give that process an (8).
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    In-Person Training
    MindTouch
    No answers on this topic
    Hyland
    The trainer was very knowledgeable and was a Hyland employee. The training was at their corporate headquarters, so it allowed our team to become familiar with organization and culture.
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    Online Training
    MindTouch
    Written documentation and videos are very good and have helped on numerous occasions when I've had to look up how to accomplish a certain task. The reason I have not given a full score is mainly because there have been some inaccuracies in the documentation because updates to the MindTouch framework have slightly changed the way things work. But this is usually the same type of challenges I face when making documentation for the software solution we develop. So all in all I'm very satisfied with both the personal webinars and the online documentation MindTouch provides for their service.
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    Hyland
    With the Premium subscription, there is a tone of training with audio and practice options.
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    Implementation Rating
    MindTouch
    Just know that there is so much more involved than adding your content. There are so many pieces to launching your site -- especially if you are moving from another platform. If you are not a person who typically works in the "website" realm, do your homework, ask your web people, engineers, etc., because there's a lot to do that you won't know about until you are unexpectedly smacked in the face with it. Learn from my mistakes! We are very happy now, but it was a long road getting to launch day for us
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    Hyland
    Using Hyland professional services to assist with the implementation made things much easier. They have the knowledge and experience to get the system live as users are expecting
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    Alternatives Considered
    MindTouch
    I will be brief. DealerTeam is built upon Salesforce and we try to support native apps. We used Desk.com first for basic Help Ticket management. The product did not satisfy how our customers were looking for information. We upgraded to Service Cloud with Knowledge Base and spent one year writing content and developing our support agency. Again, our customers were upset about submitting help tickets and waiting for answers. They wanted access to self-help while working with a customer. Today we continue to use Service Cloud with MindTouch integration and have found complete success. There is simply no other solution I know of that is a flexible and easy to use as MindTouch when it come to providing customer success and product support
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    Hyland
    The version of SharePoint we were utilizing was not very practical. We oftentimes had issues with archived documents, where they could be found or opening them all together. It seemed the older the document the harder it was to access when logged into SharePoint. This is critical in our business as we need to behave full access to documentation sent and received for an owner's account.
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    Scalability
    MindTouch
    We tried to migrate to MindTouch for 5 months and failed, remained with Zendesk
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    Hyland
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    MindTouch
    • Our operational efficiently has improved significantly. Prior to Mindtouch, we managing duplicate content in two separate authoring solutions. Delivering content predictably and consistently was difficult and stressful for writers. In Mindtouch, we were able to optimize our content (remove redundancies) giving us more time to test, review, and improve content quality.
    • Traffic to our knowledge center is increasing monthly.
    • Internally, SMEs and customer-facing teams are recognizing the value Mindtouch brings through self-service knowledge. These SMEs want to contribute more to content, either as contributing writers or collaborators with tech writers.
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    Hyland
    • OnBase provides a very reliable ECM platform for the company.
    • OnBase helped to remove the dependency on paper files and file folders. This saved real estate cost as well as facilitated the ability to work from anywhere.
    • OnBase made same day processing of all incoming and outgoing documents a reality.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    MindTouch Screenshots

    Screenshot of Content from MindTouch site visualized with Wave Analytics.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Whirlpool.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Conga.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Cisco Meraki.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Hitachi Data Systems.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Zuora.

    OnBase Screenshots

    Screenshot of an Approval for an Ad-Hoc Task.Screenshot of Onbase's Dark Mode.Screenshot of the Document Viewer.Screenshot of the Send to Department feature.Screenshot of the Workflow Stage.