An Overall Solid Product

In my experience with the customer support of OnBase, the issues that have been submitted were all addressed and fixed in a timely manner. There are also several ways to submit a ticket such as creating one online or calling the phone number provided on their site. An account manager, success advisor, and support team are all assigned to helping you with any questions or issues that arise and phone numbers and email addresses for each of those areas are provided as well.

OnBase is a product that can be used as little or as much as it is needed. An initial implementation, there may be only a handful of workflows being used, but as a company grows or changes and new opportunities to implement this tool reveal themselves, the number of workflows can grow quite a bit. Since it offers so many different tools, this product can be utilized in basically any departments in one way or another.

OnBase does well with document storage, workflows, and scanning and indexing documents. A specific case in which it was very useful was a department that had a large amount of physical files that they wanted to transition over to be stored digitally. There were five different types of documents that each had their own cover sheet. We were able to build a scan queue as well as an automated workflow that utilized the advanced capture module of OnBase that detected specific areas of the different cover sheets to automatically index the documents and enter in several keywords. This process was made much more streamlined and efficient with the different capabilities of OnBase.

A less specific scenario when OnBase may not be the best option is when sharing documents between two different companies is required. Transferring documents directly from OnBase to a different organization is difficult if the other organization does not also have OnBase. Either the documents need to be saved outside of OnBase then sent using a different method, or the other organization needs access to your company's OnBase environment.