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OpenText Extended ECM Platform vs. SAP NetWeaver BPM

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Extended ECM Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe OpenText Extended ECM Platform aims to transparently integrate with applications such as SAP S/4HANA®, SAP® SuccessFactors®, Salesforce®, Microsoft® Office 365® or other process-driving software. With ECM integrations, the content services platform bridges content silos and automates business processes to allow information to flow across applications. Extended ECM Platform leverages an organization’s investment in its enterprise content services software and other applications, with the goal…N/A

    SAP BPM

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASAP NetWeaver Business Process Management is a business process management offering and application infrastructure. It supports joint modeling of processes, central process execution via a Java-based engine, provision of interfaces for users, and integration of business rules into processes.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText Extended ECM PlatformSAP BPM
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText Extended ECM PlatformSAP BPM
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    OpenText Extended ECM PlatformSAP BPM
    Enterprise Content Management
    Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of OpenText Extended ECM Platform and SAP NetWeaver BPM
    Feature
    OpenText Extended ECM Platform
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    -
    Ratings
    Content capture & imaging9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File sync, storage & archiving8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Records management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content search & retrieval8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise content collaboration5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, risk management & information governance9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract lifecycle management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated workflows8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of OpenText Extended ECM Platform and SAP NetWeaver BPM
    Feature
    OpenText Extended ECM Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of OpenText Extended ECM Platform and SAP NetWeaver BPM
    Feature
    OpenText Extended ECM Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Process designer00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of OpenText Extended ECM Platform and SAP NetWeaver BPM
    Feature
    OpenText Extended ECM Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of OpenText Extended ECM Platform and SAP NetWeaver BPM
    Feature
    OpenText Extended ECM Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP NetWeaver BPM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Extended ECM PlatformSAP BPM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText Extended ECM PlatformSAP BPM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    Information control. Information management. Not good at collaboration or collaborative work on documents. Administration is complex, and requires highly specialized teams to do it.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    It is well suited when we need to integrate business processes with SAP ERP and SAP CRM - the solution can be integrated with business rules/procedures defined in SAP ERP/CRM and NetWeaver can be used to monitor the rules and flag off exceptions. When there are multiple workflows running, it tends to slow down running of these processes. Also, it entirely depends on SAP portal for it to run efficiently.
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • 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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    SAP
    • Virtual paper trail. Iterations of process and current documentation are all stored as "artifacts", leaving a great trail.
    • Configuration of users. BPM somewhat magically determines which users will be impacted and automates rules.
    • A pro (that is also a con) is the design interface. If you know what you are doing, it is incredibly powerful and malleable.
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • Flow management.
    • Inefficiency in BD.
    • Electronic signatures.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    • Live readings would be nice.
    • Easier to maneuver
    • Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    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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    SAP
    As a big fan of SAP in general, the BPM solution fits right in with all the other things SAP does well, and does it with incredible efficiency
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    Usability
    OpenText
    It is used for the basics of the tool, without taking advantage of the options it has.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    OpenText
    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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    SAP
    We have our own tech support for systems, I would say they probably could use more training on it, I don't really think it's anything regarding the SAP system, but more the knowledge they have on the system itself. It seems to take longer for them to fix any issues we may come across.
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    I found the initial setup of NetWeaver is much simpler than other products especially in an SAP environment where we have SAP ERP/HRM/CRM as it can be well integrated with other SAP products. The only drawback is the need/dependency on SAP Portal. It is better suited in an environment where SAP ERP is running.
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • 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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    SAP
    • Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions
    • Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow
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