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M‑Files

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What is M‑Files?

M-Files is a platform for knowledge work automation, that helps knowledge workers to find information faster. M-Files features a metadata-driven architecture, embedded workflow engine, and advanced artificial intelligence. This helps customers to eliminate information chaos, improve process efficiency, and automate…

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M-Files is a versatile software that is widely used across various industries and departments. Users have reported significant …
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Why M-Files

10 out of 10
March 01, 2023
Incentivized
As I have been consultant for M-Files, I implemented M-Files in almost 10 organizations. These organization were Manufacturing, Education, …
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What is M‑Files?

M-Files is a platform for knowledge work automation, that helps knowledge workers to find information faster. M-Files features a metadata-driven architecture, embedded workflow engine, and advanced artificial intelligence. This helps customers to eliminate information chaos, improve process…

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Product Details

What is M‑Files?

M-Files is a platform for knowledge work automation, that helps knowledge workers to find information faster. M-Files features a metadata-driven architecture, embedded workflow engine, and advanced artificial intelligence. This helps customers to eliminate information chaos, improve process efficiency, and automate security and compliance.

The vendor's value proposition:

  • EASE OF USE: M-Files increases productivity and improves work quality by making information easy to find and use.
  • WORKFLOW AUTOMATION: M-Files increases consistency of work and reduces errors by automating workflows.
  • COLLABORATION: M-Files enables superior customer experiences through a collaborative workspace.
  • COMPLIANCE: M-Files reduces business risk by ensuring compliance.

M-Files is designed to improve business performance by helping people find and use information more effectively. Using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, M-Files breaks down silos by delivering an in-context experience for accessing and leveraging information that resides in any system and repository, including network folders, SharePoint, file sharing services, ECM systems, CRM, ERP and other business systems and repositories.

M‑Files Screenshots

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M‑Files Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone
Supported CountriesM-Files is available in 100+ countries through direct support or via the company's partner network.
Supported LanguagesM-Files is available in 30+ languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified/PRC), Chinese (Traditional/Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Frequently Asked Questions

Laserfiche, OpenText Content Suite Platform, and Alfresco are common alternatives for M‑Files.

Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of M‑Files are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(147)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

M-Files is a versatile software that is widely used across various industries and departments. Users have reported significant improvements in document retention, retrieval, and collaboration. The software serves as a central repository for storing business-critical documentation, including customer data and agreements. It has helped organizations achieve a paperless office by archiving financial data and recording invitations to tender. M-Files has been instrumental in streamlining manufacturing operations, quality control systems, and corporate functions. It simplifies access to files and data from different databases and applications, improving search capabilities and facilitating workflow management. Users appreciate the high configurability of M-Files, enabling the creation of sophisticated systems for structured information. It is also utilized by individuals for managing business and personal documents, easily finding and organizing various types of files. M-Files has successfully been implemented in education institutions to organize and manage decades worth of contracts and contractual details. Risk intelligence analysts benefit from M-Files' AI support and metadata-driven properties when developing risk assessments. The software serves as a strategic DevOps platform and a main database for industrial asset management deployments. Additionally, it is relied upon for powerful workflow tools, allowing organizations to manage internal processes and support growth without additional staffing resources. Overall, M-Files provides efficient information and document management solutions across industries such as manufacturing, education, health, and social sectors.

Users commonly recommend M-Files for its security and affordability. They suggest trying it out and learning all its features to transform the way organizations operate. M-Files is recommended to organizations of all sizes and resources. Users appreciate the convenience of file sharing and the high-level security system provided by M-Files. They also recommend creating specific folders for each topic to enhance organization. Additionally, new users are encouraged to try M-Files.

Another common recommendation is due to M-Files being a next-generation intelligent content management platform. It is highly recommended by users, including business concerns and friends. They find it easy to use and almost bug-free, making it suitable for companies dealing with numerous files and documents. Suggestions include setting up low-hanging fruit in M-Files and utilizing online training materials. Effort should be put into information and document management models and architecture.

Furthermore, users highly recommend M-Files without second thought. They advise allocating sufficient time and resources for training and persuading colleagues for successful implementation. Users suggest trialing the M-Files solution before partnering with another Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor as adoption rate is critical for successful implementation. An improvement suggestion is to make the product OS and platform agnostic while implementing optional features into the standard version for a competitive advantage.

Overall, users recommend M-Files for its secure and affordable nature, its convenience in sharing files, its high-level security system, and its next-generation intelligent content management platform capabilities.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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March 03, 2023

Strong DMS

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
M-Files is well suited for what it is designed for - document management. The quality of API documentation makes customization of M-files for a particular client a cumbersome task.
March 01, 2023

Why M-Files

Zakir Hussain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
M-Files is best for companies who have multiple sub companies they can manage whole the operations from one single machine. Companies who only want to get DMS for archiving M-Files is not considered suitable as the it has many features and cost is becoming high.
Anssi Mäkelä | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
M-files is well suited for its core tasks like document and information management, automating workflows, keeping track of tasks, sharing materials easily and securely, etc. but I would also recommend to customize M-files to fit for any specific needs. M-files is very versatile and you can integrate it with other software.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Document storage and search works well if the metadata is well setup and filled in by the user or automation. Getting data via REST API could be easier. Now one needs to combine ID:s and values from different API calls and pad manually to get .csv files. The SQL interface would perhaps be better to maintain, but that requires extra setup so REST would be better.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am not a software expert but understand the complexity of a product such as this, but in my opinion the product is difficult, confusing, and time consuming to master. It takes years if not used constantly. After several years of use I am still learning to manipulate the interface to work as I desire. It gets the job done by holding all of our documents in one place and fairly easy to access once learned.
September 02, 2022

2 thumbs up

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The system has been great for consistent user interaction. Only down side on the user side is the multiple vault configuration specifically with searches. This is probably more of a training issue but users really have confusion knowing to go to other vaults when searching archive items.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
M-Files is a wonderful enterprise document management tool. The only area where I see it lacking is visibility into the workflow; i.e. a visual of what step/person a certain task is with. Secondly, most of the integrations to do document federation is custom code. I'd like to see them have more out-of-the-box functionality to plugin with other major systems such as Oracle.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall document management, one may also build any type of workflow, service management, or further automatization or integration to other solutions very easily. Naturally then one needs to have detailed knowledge of M-Files and coding power.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
M-Files is in my experience the absolute best document management system currently in existence. It allows for extreme flexibility to suit the needs of any organization, especially in access management. I have never seen a system other than M-Files that delivers the same functionality in document search and access management.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I recommend this software to small and large organization that require efficiency and [want to] get rid off paper based processes that consume their time. It is a great tool for organization[s] dealing with huge amount[s] of data for efficient operations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the available document management software, M-Files suits most of the business needs. It has a lot of good feature inbuilt that makes document management easier for any organization. Basically, if you are into the application then we need not want to go out of the application for any document management activity and it provides good connectors to Microsoft application that also makes easier with editing the documents.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For Catholic Health, M-Files has been a huge success. We have around 27,000 documents on this system and it's an extremely easy system to use and a great resource for our end users. It's hard when you make the decision to change vendors and need to pick a new system. There are a lot of companies out there offering their services and promising you everything but when it comes down to it, not all can provide what was promised. I honestly don't think we could have picked a better system for us. We had a few glitches in the beginning because we thought we had 10,000 policies and forms, but when we went to transfer them over, we really, at that time, had 25,000 documents because we had the previous versions that were required to be retained. When creating this system, there was tremendous time spent on our special requirements, and it is well worth that time spent to make a system that is exactly what is required for your company, and I think we accomplished that. Honestly, Strickland Solutions has made enhancements to our system since it was created to increase the quality of our system. I think it's endless what can be done by the programmers. They have always been able to come up with a solution for us. As far as scenarios that are less appropriate, we only asked for a presentation based on our needs but it seems like M-Files could create a system for anything based on the amazing skill of the programmers.
Arto Määttä | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think practically everyone can benefit from M-Files. It is especially suitable for those companies that have multiple locations. With M-Files it is easy to share documents and make sure that everyone has the most updated one. If you want to keep things simple, you can replace old folder-based file system with M-files. However, if you want more complex system, that is easy to build.
May 22, 2020

M-Files Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The M-Files workflow feature is fantastic, and a lot of our departments use this feature to review/approve various documents.

The metadata feature is a concept that is lost on a lot of people, so there is a big learning curve when new folks start using it.
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