IBM FileNet vs Nuxeo comparison

IBM and Hyland are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. IBM is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Hyland is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 6.2% mindshare in ECM, compared to Hyland’s 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Hyland users who would recommend it.

IBM FileNet

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91% willing to recommend

Nuxeo

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between IBM FileNet and Nuxeo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM FileNet

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

105

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Nuxeo

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Asset Management (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of IBM FileNet is 6.2%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nuxeo is 3.0%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM FileNet	6.2%
Nuxeo	3.0%
Other	90.8%

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Shankar-Kambhampaty

Consulting CTO at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees

Business workflows have been automated and document processes are streamlined at large scale

I believe IBM FileNet could be improved or enhanced in the future, specifically the user interface development support, which, despite all the improvements, still feels from the 2010s or 2000s. The current state of the user interface development support and the ability to customize it leaves much to be desired. The backend engine, process engine, and object engine are fantastic. However, the user interface, which is required to provide an impressive experience to the user, is difficult to build. IBM will need to do something about this area. Over time, IBM has made improvements with enhancements through CP4BA and other tools, with which user interfaces can be built. But there is much more is needed. The initial setup process for IBM FileNet requires specialists. IBM FileNet is not a click-click-click deploy kind of product. It has several components that need to be installed in different versions and in a particular order. Additionally, IBM Cloud does not provide a proper experience. The problem is I cannot use IBM Cloud easily. I cannot even get a membership easily. With AWS, I just use my credit card, sign up, and I am done. With IBM Cloud, that is not how it is. They go through all validation processes, and it is a nightmare at times. There are problems around IBM FileNet, not exactly with IBM FileNet itself, but the point is that it is not a click-click-click deploy either on the cloud or on-premise. It requires specialists, and there is a big learning curve toward deploying and managing the whole infrastructure as well as the software. I communicate with the technical support of IBM frequently. I have communicated several times, and frankly, there is much to be desired on that side. When you raise a ticket, it takes 24 to 48 hours for them to respond. We live in a time where business moves at the speed of light. Twenty-four hours is a very long time. You need to be able to get technical support instantaneously. It is not like the more contemporary support models where you get turnaround in minutes, not days.

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reviewer2650419

Customer Success Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Powerful data model building enables comprehensive document management for government sectors

The learning curve in Nuxeo is not easy, and it requires additional time. It's challenging to onboard new users or new developers. The resources on Hyland are good but lack exercises and use cases to apply by oneself during learning. There is not much practice to apply that knowledge directly on Nuxeo and get further details into the platform.

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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 features that I have found most valuable include the Data Capture and Case Manager features."

"The most valuable feature for me is the possibility to share and to collaborate, the possibility to connect FileNet with many other IBM products as well. It helps avoid the possibility of creating "island applications." We have an ecosystem where everything can be interconnected."

"The document collaboration is very good. There is something called Pink Note where departments can collaborate within the document. It has a built-in viewer to see any type of document."

"We shred all our paper and no longer need the cabinet space. We used to have about six to 12 inches of cabinet space per customer, which is now gone."

"It puts governance in place around the content and processes. Access levels can be set to certain parts of the document based on role level."

"The product is robust and can process a lot of documents for enterprise content management."

"It provides good stability and scalability for huge enterprises as well."

"It has an excellent document storage repository, which is good at what it does."

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"Nuxeo is very powerful in terms of building up the data model and the context model."

Cons

"The FileNet API seems like it is very difficult and not transparent."

"The basic and fundamental point about FileNet is that the interface is very bad. It's just not appealing so people are reluctant to use it."

"During the initial setup, all the details and different technical things that we were trying to figure out became complex."

"Currently, our primary ERP system is SAP S/4HANA. Despite this, we have encountered difficulties integrating the solution with it, which remains an unresolved challenge for our team."

"I would like to see in FileNet integrated with Watson, which can read something and send it without any human contact or interaction."

"Developers like us have an upgraded interface. That interface does not work in the process that we have today. It hangs and is not user-friendly."

"I would love it if single sign-on was a lot easier to set up. That's the most difficult part of it."

"One of the things I know is a bit of a challenge for them - because I know that it lives on top of FileNet, so it's not necessarily living on top of a relational database, per se - is that we also are using it as our system of record for our language management and our language definitions. I know that that was a little bit of a challenge, just because of the underlying architecture."

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"The learning curve in Nuxeo is not easy, and it requires additional time. It's challenging to onboard new users or new developers."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing costs depend on the size of the storage."

"When it comes to pricing, IBM needs to make an effort to improve the cost. That's the main issue regarding use of FinalNet in Columbia."

"Yearly, we pay for the maintenance, which is $20,000."

"It has reduced operating costs by reducing the amount of manual work needed."

"The physical space that we have gained back pays for the service. Therefore, it has reduced our operating costs overall. We have definitely seen ROI. I would estimate $30,000 a year."

"FileNet is quite expensive, although Documentum is expensive too."

"For the medium scale or large scale, I would recommend FileNet. FileNet is free of licensing expenses, thus good for the money. It is not expensive, but worth for the money, especially for medium scale and large scale industries."

"1. It will be more expensive than estimated to setup. 2. You will need to double the staff while you are running the old system and installing the new system. 3. Depending on the number of documents to be migrated, make sure you understand the potentially massive amount of time and effort required to migrate the existing content to the new platform."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Government

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	74

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM FileNet?

The product is robust and can process a lot of documents for enterprise content management.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM FileNet?

The pricing and licensing of IBM FileNet is high. We are living in a world where the minimal license from IBM costs anywhere from seventy-five thousand to one hundred thousand US dollars, depending...

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What needs improvement with IBM FileNet?

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What is your primary use case for Nuxeo?

We are mainly using Nuxeo for the government sector, and we are providing document management for those government sectors and universities. So, the main use cases are for government and universities.

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What advice do you have for others considering Nuxeo?

The overall rating for Nuxeo is eight out of ten. My advice would be to consider sector and customer requirements carefully when choosing a platform.

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Overview

IBM FileNet is a leading IBM enterprise content management product family. IBM FileNet is one of the ECM solutions that can change the way a company does business by enabling users to capture, activate, socialize, analyze, and govern content throughout its lifecycle.

There are many IBM FileNet products available, all of which are integrated and based on the FileNet P8 Platform.

IBM

Nuxeo, now part of Hyland, makes it easy to build smart content applications that enhance customer experiences, improve decision making, and accelerate products to market. Common use cases for the Nuxeo Platform include digital asset management (DAM), enterprise content management (ECM), product asset management (PAM), document management, case management, and knowledge management. The Nuxeo Platform has been architected to take full advantage of the cloud and uses a modular architecture to deliver elastic scalability and performance. The platform provides critical content management capabilities with advanced functionality in search, collaboration, workflow, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), renditions, a configurable user interface, and the industry's most advanced metadata modeling. Leading organizations use Nuxeo to modernize their information management systems or accelerate ideas to market by connecting data and digital assets.

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Sample Customers

Suncorp Group Limited, St. Vincent Health, Citigroup, SRCSD, and UK Dept for Work and Pensions.

Electronic Arts, Jeppesen, U.S. Navy, Orange, GSD&M, Sirona Dental, Skyscanner, Verizon, Unizin, Enernoc, NHS

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