Adobe Experience Manager vs OpenText Documentum comparison

Adobe and OpenText are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. Adobe is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.6, while OpenText is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.8. Adobe holds a 3.0% mindshare in ECM, compared to OpenText’s 12.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Adobe Experience Manager

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95% willing to recommend

OpenText Documentum

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83% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Adobe Experience Manager and OpenText Documentum compete in the content management system category. Adobe Experience Manager seems to have the upper hand due to its deep integration with Adobe Marketing Cloud enhancing content and digital marketing management.

Features: AEM integrates seamlessly with Adobe Marketing Cloud, offering comprehensive digital marketing tools. Key capabilities include digital asset management, analytics, and 3D asset repurposing. Documentum is strong in content server capabilities, secure document storage, and metadata management, suitable for complex content lifecycle demands.

Room for Improvement: AEM users face challenges with high total cost of ownership and complex integration in Microsoft environments, with slow cloud support. Documentum users cite high costs and outdated UI features, along with concerns over cloud security and file format support. Both could improve documentation and AI and workflow integration features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AEM supports multiple deployment options, with technically responsive but sometimes slow support. Documentum excels in on-premises deployment but is criticized for being less cloud-ready with a need for enhanced customer service responsiveness and documentation quality.

Pricing and ROI: AEM's high costs are mitigated by strong ROI from advanced analytics and content management, fitting for large-scale enterprises. Documentum offers competitive pricing but may incur high costs due to support and licensing, delivering ROI through stability and security in document management.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Content Management (3rd), Enterprise Social Software (6th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)

OpenText Documentum

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 3.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Documentum is 12.6%, up from 10.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Thomas Becker

Managing Partner(Austria) at a integrator with 11-50 employees

Impressive integration of customer behavior with an easy setup and okay support

I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia Working with big companies, I help them either consider setting up a new content management system or address issues they might have with their existing…

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Sunil Mudambi

Founder & Managing Director at 3 Cubed Business Consulting Pte Ltd

Saves time and increases an organization's productivity

It's a great enterprise content management product. Our customers love the product for its stability and scalability. Search is the most useful feature of the solution. The way we retrieve documents is more important than how we store them. There's no use if we can't find a document. It's the most critical feature. My organization works with other customers. We are consultants for OpenText. Our customers have seen a lot of benefits in terms of regulatory compliance. Industries like banking are highly regulated. The product captures the information centrally so everybody in the bank can see the right information at the right time. It is tamper-proof and enables us to return to the document source, which is helpful with legal issues.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"If you want to use content in a mobile application and you want the content in some other application, you can simply expose it from the CMS to different clients or different systems. It's easy. On top of that, the technology underlying AEM is open-source and is very powerful like Apache Sling and JCR."

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"I like the native applications such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform. Because of these, it's very easy to connect and obtain reports on how my website is doing, how many have visited it, how frequently, etc. The multiple publisher concept is one of the best parts of this solution."

"I've used several CMS tools, but Adobe Experience Manager is feature-rich, especially for web security and content management. It's more efficient to manage content on Adobe Experience Manager, and you can do a lot with it, such as updating content at any time, and on any platform, even from mobile or tablet. Adobe Experience Manager is still getting updated daily, and it's the best CMS tool in the market for me. I like that you can manage assets in Adobe Experience Manager. I also like that the solution has an analytics dashboard that shows you where the traffic comes from, how many clicks come from a specific location, the number of clicks and impressions, etc. Adobe Experience Manager can be accessed by other teams, for example, the digital media department of my company, so the solution can be used and updated per each team's requirement. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a web developer tool, as it also allows visibility tracking and has other uses. I also like that the GUI for Adobe Experience Manager is straightforward and catchy. It has separate folders and icons, so using Adobe Experience Manager isn't tough. The solution is straightforward to use and handle."

"It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer."

"Easy to work with the solution."

"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."

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"The product is user-friendly."

"The tool's most valuable feature is ACL, which helps to control the user groups that access the documents."

"We primarily use it for storing documents. We host a variety of documents in OpenText Documentum. This includes raw files, analyzed files, and documents in multiple formats."

"It stands out for its impressive records management capabilities and the ability to handle an extensive volume of documents, even reaching into the billions."

"It is a very secure system. It is reliable, and that is one of the reasons people manage their content within Documentum. It gives them the confidence that the content is accessible to the right people and not to the wrong people."

"OpenText Documentum has improved availability and performance in our organization."

"The most valuable feature is that the documents are kept secure."

"The most valuable feature is the management."

Cons

"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."

"Adobe Experience Manager could improve by allowing the reuse of components like a progress bar across multiple pages to make the development process more efficient."

"Programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution."

"In comparison to other CMS products, Adobe Experience Manager is missing some capabilities such as proper versioning or a better versioning system and backend connectivity. If something is deleted in AEM, the user cannot recover it. You have to call technical support, and they will need to recover the whole instance. So, it's really difficult. For example, if you delete a page, you cannot recover it. There should be an option to recover it. In AEM, you have to go to the previous state of the instance itself or the virtual machine, and you have to restore everything, which is not good."

"The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies."

"A little bit of background knowledge of coding and website structure is required."

"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved."

"The latest trend is to render everything in the client-side framework. For example, SPA or single page application. This is a feature that needs improvement. The cloud deployment pipeline needs to be improved as well."

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"The price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant."

"While generally secure, some noted security issues need consideration. The installation process for on-premise setup needs improvement as well."

"OpenText Documentum has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of adding some AI integrations."

"It's difficult to manage and customize Documentum."

"The main issue is the software's performance when storing around 10 million or more documents. It becomes slow and needs improvement. Perhaps it's a cloud-related issue, but it needs to be addressed. It could be due to our S3 bucket or something else. Nevertheless, this is a significant challenge we're facing."

"OpenText Documentum needs to improve its support."

"Sometimes DocBroker cannot see the DocBase."

"The product needs to improve the way documents are logged together. I believe running it on the cloud or containerization will bring value to it. The tool's Time to Market and deployment cycle need to be improved. Finding suitable training materials for OpenText Documentum is also a bottleneck. If we can find the training modules easily, we can bring together people, give them quick training, and start working on the deployment. It can help with quick outputs."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's really costly."

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."

"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."

"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."

"The price is considered affordable now."

"OpenText Documentum's pricing is good."

"It falls in line with a lot of things that are out there on the market. There is nothing extraordinary in terms of great or bad."

"The product is expensive."

"OpenText Documentum has announced a new licensing model, which could be more expensive."

"It is quite an expensive product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

46%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?

It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.

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What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?

While there are many aspects that could be improved, discussing them would require more time. The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies.

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What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Documentum?

It falls in line with a lot of things that are out there on the market. There is nothing extraordinary in terms of great or bad.

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What do you like most about OpenText Documentum?

The most valuable feature of Documentum for our content management needs is its ability to segregate access based on department and role.

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What needs improvement with OpenText Documentum?

The price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant.

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Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud

Dell EMC Documentum, Documentum , Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform

Overview

Adobe Communique 5 (Adobe CQ5), currently manifested as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a web-based content management system which is developed to help businesses in offering high-end digital experience to their customers.

Adobe

OpenText Documentum organizes, preserves and makes information
accessible, while ensuring it adheres to all privacy and security
protocols. Documentum manages content across file stores and integrates
with enterprise applications, including SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft,
to help organizations conquer information management challenges.

Documentum provides integrated support for the entire lifecycle of a
wide range of content; beyond typical office documents to include CAD files, design
templates, rich media, audio, video, instant messaging threads, blog
posts, images and more.

OpenText

Sample Customers

Metra

Agility; Bibliotheca Alexandrina; Capitec Bank; Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa; County of Los Angeles, Department of Human Resources; Fresenius Kabi; Heathrow Airport; Lahey Health; Linde PLC; Milestone Pharma Co. Ltd; National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; Open Grid Europe GmbH; REPCO NEX Industrial Solutions; Springer Nature; Syngene International; Tata Power DDL; University of Texas Austin

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