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Hyland OnBase vs OpenText Content Management comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.6
Hyland OnBase enhances efficiency and cost savings by streamlining processes, reducing paper use, and supporting remote work.
Sentiment score
7.4
Users find OpenText ECM valuable for efficient multitasking and ROI, despite challenges in precise IT measurement.
I have seen a return on investment with Hyland OnBase because it provides a very reliable ECM platform for my organization, helps to remove the dependency on paper files and file folders, saves real estate costs, and facilitates the ability to work from anywhere.
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
I have been able to see a return on investment as the time for approvals has been reduced, and since they are centralized, everything is in one place.
Gerente De Proyectos at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
ROI may be very short if you use OpenText Content Management system effectively.
Director Consulting SAP OpenText en Entelgy at DCL Consultores EIM SL
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.8
Hyland OnBase offers responsive service, but support quality varies and may require premium packages for enhanced assistance.
Sentiment score
4.7
OpenText's customer service is responsive but faces delays, with inconsistent efficiency and a need for expertise improvement.
Our vendor relationship facilitated integration with our system and offered additional service beyond the Hyland OnBase product.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
I would describe the customer service and technical support of Hyland OnBase as being based on the partner that is used.
Gerente De Proyectos at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I find technical support from Hyland to be good.
Product owner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The staff lacks adequate knowledge.
Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Currently, they are improving support and transitioning to a new solution, which is better than what they implemented in the past three to four years.
Director Consulting SAP OpenText en Entelgy at DCL Consultores EIM SL
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.5
Hyland OnBase is praised for scalability and adaptability, efficiently expanding to support growing business demands despite setup costs.
Sentiment score
7.2
OpenText Content Management excels in scalability and adaptability, supporting large organizations despite documentation challenges, with seamless system integration.
Transitioning to cloud-based services may reduce these costs in the future.
Product owner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
There is not enough documentation about scaling, which makes it difficult to enhance or modify environments without significant effort.
Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Hyland OnBase is a stable, reliable platform with strong traceability, high performance, and minimal maintenance, akin to Windows.
Sentiment score
7.0
OpenText Content Management is stable but needs enhancements in alerting and performance, with improvements noted in newer versions.
Hyland OnBase was a stable solution that worked effectively for us.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The product is quite stable if it is well-managed.
Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Hyland OnBase needs improved usability, integration, and support, with simplified management, enhanced features, and better documentation and pricing adjustments.
OpenText Content Management needs feature enhancements, better integration, improved performance, and more robust support and AI capabilities.
The application could potentially be more open-source, allowing integration with more solutions.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Hyland is working on a new platform (HXP) to integrate features from all products, addressing some concerns.
Product owner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The experience with the platform's learning curve is quite steep, especially for less technical staff.
Gerente De Proyectos at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The expectation from the customer versus the product explanation needs alignment.
Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Another important aspect is the improvement of the artificial intelligence already embedded in OpenText Content Management solution.
Director Consulting SAP OpenText en Entelgy at DCL Consultores EIM SL
 

Setup Cost

Hyland OnBase offers modular enterprise solutions, with varied pricing and complex licensing, often seen as justified yet expensive.
OpenText Content Management is costly and complex, but offers comprehensive solutions, potentially deterring medium-sized businesses despite its strengths.
We also paid for workflow licenses, which allowed up to 250 concurrent users.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
I find pricing to be on the higher side due to its monolithic architecture.
Product owner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is very cost-effective and affordable.
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
If you compare it to an archiving solution and you are using content management only for archiving, the cost of the license may seem too high, as you are paying for a license that not only includes archiving but also controls the full life cycle of information, connects with SAP and Salesforce, features a native connection with Office 365, and supports parallel editing.
Director Consulting SAP OpenText en Entelgy at DCL Consultores EIM SL
The cost is a significant factor that may deter medium-sized businesses from using OpenText extended ECM.
Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Hyland OnBase excels in document management with scalable workflows, easy integration, customization, automation, and robust security features.
OpenText Content Management integrates with major apps, enhancing productivity with security, automation, and robust search features for efficient document handling.
It provided data security features, allowing restrictions on sensitive documents, such as who could view or modify them.
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The workflow engine has made the biggest difference for me because it is excellent for automating approval processes.
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
Hyland OnBase has impacted my organization positively by faster document retrieval, intuitive setup, reduced manual processing, and comes with security.
Business Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The seamless integration between SAP and OpenText offers a 360-degree view of documents, facilitating a full-text search capability.
Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
OpenText Content Management has a feature that is unique in the market, which is the deep integration with leading applications, allowing reflection of the connections between different processes and objects in applications such as SAP, SuccessFactors, or Salesforce, visible inside the document management application.
Director Consulting SAP OpenText en Entelgy at DCL Consultores EIM SL
 

Categories and Ranking

Hyland OnBase
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (15th), Low-Code Development Platforms (16th)
OpenText Content Management
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Hyland OnBase is 4.9%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Content Management is 6.0%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Hyland OnBase4.9%
OpenText Content Management6.0%
Other89.1%
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Abdul_Jabbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
Automated workflows have transformed document handling and support daily approvals and billing
The best features Hyland OnBase offers in my experience include being a robust storage solution that integrates well with the Epic solution, allows Unity Forms to be easy to create and use, and has Distribution Services for sending email notifications as reminders.Out of those features, the workflow engine has made the biggest difference for me because it is excellent for automating approval processes, and we use Hyland OnBase for legal requests, hardware requests, travel requests, corporate credit card requests, and file transfer requests. WorkView is an incredible module for gathering and displaying summary information, and we utilize it highly in our subsidiary to manage our legal contracts, their financial billing process, and their travel. We also use the Document Import Process coupled with Unity API for writing custom code to automate processes to send and receive data from other systems that are not yet API enabled. The impact of Hyland OnBase on our organization is that automating manual processes has had an incredible effect on our return on investment, and the man-hours saved by automating processes pays for the system, ranging from one to five hours. I measured the man-hours saved through the tracking of workflows and automation processes. Additionally, Hyland OnBase has allowed us to move away from moving paper around various departments, providing workflow management to keep approval inside the system and out of the email boxes, eliminating the need for paper storage, and saving storage costs with other vendors.
Alejandro Stromer - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Consulting SAP OpenText en Entelgy at DCL Consultores EIM SL
Has provided deep integration with business applications and supported full content lifecycle management
OpenText Content Management has a feature that is unique in the market, which is the deep integration with leading applications, allowing reflection of the connections between different processes and objects in applications such as SAP, SuccessFactors, or Salesforce, visible inside the document management application. Without connecting to the leading application, for example SAP, you can navigate between all documentation, having a full 360-degree view of all information related to the process. This means that when you create some action regarding an object that has a connected document in the content management system, you can automatically see additional information connected, managed and controlled by the leading application, with automatic reflection in the document management system. This is a unique advantage that OpenText Content Management has, which is not found in the market. Another unique feature is the integration with Office 365, where you can work with different folders or binders in the document management system and connect to Teams in a simple way, making all this information available in the Teams you are working with. Digital Asset Management is a big part of the content management solution within OpenText Content Management, allowing full integration of all documentation, pictures, plans, and technical documentation if you have asset management inside SAP. It connects similarly to other modules of SAP but includes a special feature for asset management from a technical point of view and connects with the engineering department, providing the full life cycle from development through deployment to maintenance. This means you have the full life cycle from the beginning when you define the solution, construct it, and finally transfer it to maintenance to keep all information updated easily, avoiding risks and ensuring access to accurate information at the right moment.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
10%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hyland OnBase?
The main factors that influenced my decision to choose Hyland OnBase over other options available on the market were the cost compared to others and the high document-handling capacity that Hyland ...
What needs improvement with Hyland OnBase?
More training videos, if they are more findable, would improve documentation and training documentations from Hyland's side, because there is a lack of documentation and training materials from Hyl...
What is your primary use case for Hyland OnBase?
As a business analyst, while working on a recent project, I used Hyland OnBase as an enterprise-like document management tool. It was used for storing, organizing, and retrieving invoices regarding...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenText Content Suite Platform?
OpenText Content Management has changed the licensing concept to one license that includes all features. Although this may make the final license price a little higher in the market, considering al...
What needs improvement with OpenText Content Suite Platform?
There are some areas in OpenText Content Management that could be improved, particularly regarding the way you define and extend the solution with different metadata. Another important aspect is th...
What is your primary use case for OpenText Content Suite Platform?
We are partners of OpenText Content Management in the area of content management and in another area of SAP solutions, with OpenText Content Management solution related to SAP platforms.
 

Also Known As

OnBase
OpenText Content Suite Platform, OpenText Core Share
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Honda France Industries, Hill County Texas, Hylant Group, ING Lease France, State of South Carolina, Syracuse University, Swindon College, Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rochester Institute of Technology, Moen, Odense University Hospital
ATCO Australia, MSIG Asia, Orica, Salt River Project
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