IBM FileNet vs OpenText Extended ECM comparison

IBM and OpenText are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while OpenText is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.7. IBM holds a 10.5% mindshare in ECM, compared to OpenText’s 11.5% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

IBM FileNet

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91% willing to recommend

OpenText Extended ECM

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

IBM FileNet and OpenText Extended ECM are competing in the enterprise content management category. OpenText Extended ECM appears to have the upper hand with its superior integration capabilities enhancing its functionality.

Features: IBM FileNet is known for its strong governance and compliance features, providing excellent data security. It also offers robust document management and scalability. OpenText Extended ECM stands out with its seamless integration with business applications, enhanced collaboration, and workflow management. Additionally, it benefits from strong search and indexing capabilities.

Room for Improvement: IBM FileNet could enhance deployment flexibility and more user-friendly interface options. Improving initial deployment costs could also be beneficial. OpenText Extended ECM could improve its information governance features, strengthen compliance capabilities, and optimize document security.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Extended ECM offers flexible cloud deployment options, which enhance scalability and provide quicker response times in customer service. IBM FileNet, with its traditional on-premises deployment, suits organizations with stringent security needs and offers a reliable support process.

Pricing and ROI: IBM FileNet generally incurs higher initial setup costs due to its on-premises nature but offers long-term ROI through data security and compliance benefits. In contrast, OpenText Extended ECM's cloud-based model provides a more economical entry point, reducing infrastructure costs and delivering faster ROI through improved integration.

To learn more, read our detailed IBM FileNet vs. OpenText Extended ECM Report (Updated: March 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

IBM FileNet

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

101

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText Extended ECM

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

3rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of IBM FileNet is 10.5%, up from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Extended ECM is 11.5%, up from 10.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Content Management

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Emad Rizki

System integrator at Indépendant

Facilitates seamless integration for large enterprises with strong deployment capabilities

FileNet was scalable and could be implemented into big multinational organizations. However, it has become very expensive recently. Compared to low-code solutions such as Appian and outsystems, FileNet has gaps, mainly because it requires coding, which is not preferred by clients due to pricing concerns in Pakistan. We transitioned clients to cloud solutions, although FileNet has been strongly integrated with on-prem deployments.

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Jaideep MS

Practice Director at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Enables effective document control yet requires better affordability and clarity

I use extended ECM for procurement, sales, engineering documents, and sometimes invoices and accounts payable or receivable The version controls and the business workspace part integrate well with SAP and OpenText, providing granular level control over who accesses the workspace. The seamless…

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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

"Gves us the ability to create an end-to-end [document] transaction."

"The product has helped with compliance and governance issues. There are some archiving policies which a financial organization has to keep. Our organization can keep up with them because of the IBM product."

"The application, in terms of durability, has been able to withstand the usage, given that it was installed in 2003 and it's still working."

"The beauty is the response time. It is very good nowadays within the platform."

"Everybody ties into Active Directory and things like that, but on top of that are the extra layers of security for encryption, so they can meet standards required by PCI and by HIPAA: encryption at rest, encryption in flight, encryption in the database, all together. There are really only three products on the market that know how to do that, and FileNet is one of them."

"[The most valuable features are] scalability and ease of use. These features are important because the customer where we have deployed it has millions of documents... And over the last five years, the volume of the documents has been increasing. It's handling all of them and without any errors."

"We have probably cut out at least 40 percent of what the work process was by easing out that whole distribution of paper."

"The best part of FileNet includes its advantages and most valuable features, which are its scalability and stability."

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"We can configure the solution with any industry's products per customer requirements."

"We use Core Share to share documents with external auditors or with vendors, and that prevents them from being able to get into the whole system. It is useful."

"OpenText Extended ECM's most valuable features include permissions and security models. I also like the tool's ability to add metadata and use it to categorize information."

"The integration of a document management platform with many other applications, e.g. SAP, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, SharePoint, etc."

"The version controls and the business workspace part integrate well with SAP and OpenText, providing granular level control over who accesses the workspace."

"Retention is useful. I have been pleased with the search functionality and the extensibility for tying it into integrations with other systems and building workflows on top of it."

"Simplicity to roll out, features available, customization options."

"WebReports has a lot of capabilities that offer good opportunities to customize the applications the way we want to."

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Cons

"A little better control into the ACLs of FileNet and databases."

"I think the support could be better, and it could improve."

"The new user interface is not easy to set up, so some improvements along these lines would be good."

"The usability is fair. It could be a bit better. It could be better designed. They could put more effort into the user experience and do a better job of integrating other components, like Datacap, to be a bit more seamless."

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

"We would like to see, in FileNet, the ability to manage video and audio."

"We brought DocuSign into our company's solution three years before. At that time there was no direct integration. We would like to pull documents out from FileNet, push them to DocuSign and, when done, retrieve them and store them back in FileNet. We wrote our own custom solution for that. It would be nice if there was some tool we could have used to do that."

"I would like to have easier steps for setting up the application. They should have an easy one step process for the whole installation. Right now, you have to know the application well to set it up and have IT expertise."

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"Initially there can be stability issues due to unknown factors such as usage of the system, quantity of documents ingested, load during peak hours."

"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved."

"I have not used it enough to start running into issues. Some of my technical guys could name a couple of things, but in terms of support, we did have challenges getting good responses from them."

"When it comes to addressing complex use cases, three or four years ago, we ended up purchasing an additional OpenText product called AppWorks because we started to run into some limitations with the workflow that can be done in Extended ECM. It was a little limiting, so we ended up getting another product."

"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."

"The solution should work better with partners and be more developer-friendly."

"A dashboard with information would be nice to see."

"The initial setup can get really complicated, and it takes time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM FileNet is an expensive solution."

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

"The cost is about $40,000, plus yearly maintenance."

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

"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."

"For small scale industries, they allow different options. They can do open source. It is the complexity of the data security that they should think about before they choose."

"The tool is expensive, and I rate its pricing a ten out of ten."

"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."

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"OpenText Extended ECM's pricing and licensing are aggressive and confusing for the end customer."

"The total cost of the product will vary on the capabilities required"

"Both Open Text ECM and IBM File share are expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"The product is pricey."

"It is a little more expensive than our previous solution, but because of the fact that it has become a rallying point for different groups to come under, it might end up paying off better in the long run by not having seven siloed solutions. Even though this one solution is a little pricey, it might eliminate other ones."

"The pricing is costly. It's costly to integrate with Office 365 and to go back and forth with the sales team."

"The tool's pricing is confusing to the end customer."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

Government

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 product has become more expensive and requires significant investment for enterprise solutions.

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What needs improvement with IBM FileNet?

FileNet needs improvement in pricing as it has become very expensive. Also, in comparison to local solutions, the need for coding is a disadvantage.

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What do you like most about OpenText Content Suite Platform?

We also have a module on top of the Content Server called WebReports that has been one of the things that helped us facilitate the workflow and give managers good reporting and visibility into wher...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenText Content Suite Platform?

The cost is a significant factor that may deter medium-sized businesses from using OpenText extended ECM.

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What needs improvement with OpenText Content Suite Platform?

The cost of the product could be improved. Currently, there are certain snags in document viewing, and communication from the pre-sales team is not clear. The expectation from the customer versus t...

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OpenText Content Suite Platform, OpenText Core Share

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

OpenText Extended ECM (formerly OpenText Content Suite Platform) is an enterprise content management platform that securely governs the information lifecycle by integrating with leading enterprise applications, such as SAP, Microsoft 365, Salesforce and SAP SuccessFactors. Bringing content and processes together, Extended ECM provides access to information when and where it’s needed, improves decision-making and drives operational effectiveness.

OpenText

Sample Customers

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

ATCO Australia, MSIG Asia, Orica, Salt River Project

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