OpenText XM Fax vs. PaperTrail

XMedius is well suited for a large business with hundreds of fax numbers. Could you imagine trying to manage 1000 individual fax machines? That would be a nightmare! Instead it's all in one neat place

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It is very easy to use. We utilize it to save and show the logs for as many apps as we want. You can use it as an addon on Heroku.

Incentivized

• Contacted sales to set up the creation of enterprise accounts directly through the dashboard.
• XM Fax Support worked directly with Xerox to correct an issue I had with a device software update. Issues correct within a few days.
• XM Fax provided onsite sales support for sales and technical training.

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• PaperTrail is less expensive than many of its competitors.
• PaperTrail is very easy to set up; you can start collecting logs in no time.
• It is easy to configure email alerts and Slack integrations with PaperTrail.

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• Error logs include error codes, but sometimes it is hard to understand what it means. Either a shared documentation or detailed error log might help end users better to detect any issue on fax requests.

• Interface is aging and in need of a re-write. It's functional, but not all that nice to work with
• While the logs are near-real-time, they could greatly improve the speed at which logs are available in the UI
• Pricing plans are not all that competitive with newer offerings with other companies

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PaperTrail has become a basic app for me to save and see app logs. It is very easy to use, very intuitive and easy to customize. The feature I like most is that we can use it with several apps at same time.

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PaperTrail's live-tailing performance is adequate and searches over the recent history load quickly. Searching over long periods of time can be extremely slow, however.

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XMedius does faxing for a quick response from an end user where Egnyte is best suited for secure file transfer.

I only used Logz.io for a very brief time. It seemed a bit more difficult to setup than Papertrail.

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• I m not sure on pricing or how XMedius is pricing solutions now
• Cloud-based / vs On-Prem I think my vote always goes for on Prem
• ROI (not my field)

• Free plan is sufficient for development and small services, and the paid plans are very cheap at low log volume. For us, the price is right with PaperTrail - though I can't speak to how their pricing compares at very high volumes.
• Adding cloud-logging to your apps can really speed up development and debugging - the impact to engineering productivity cannot be understated.

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