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OpenText Documentum Content Management vs SharePoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Documentum Content...
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
3rd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SharePoint
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
164
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (2nd), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of OpenText Documentum Content Management is 8.0%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 11.8%, down from 17.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SharePoint11.8%
OpenText Documentum Content Management8.0%
Other80.2%
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

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Consultant In Risk Management and Performance Improvemenf at Deloitte Risk Advisory
User finds integration useful but seeks improvement in interface intuitiveness
I am satisfied with OpenText Documentum so far; it has great integration capabilities. The connection with our API and SAP is useful, as you can use their SAP interface. The key point that my company decided to go with OpenText Documentum is mostly because you can integrate it with many other tools such as Salesforce.
AnjneyBhardwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC Corporate
Collaboration has improved through simplified document access and controlled sharing
SharePoint is definitely used to keep a record of our files and data. The capability is quite good because it is time-saving. I have used it only four or five times, but it has been very helpful to keep all my information in a consolidated manner. The search feature is one of the most beneficial factors that we use to filter out the latest data or the latest file as per our convenience and use case. When you have a large repository, this feature is particularly valuable. Role-based access control has been helpful while developing the knowledge platform. The roles were defined clearly, which made it easy for the four or five of us to work simultaneously and collaborate on our project in a similar manner.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has the ability to categorize and search."
"The most impactful thing is the size, which is almost 25 TB."
"The product is user-friendly."
"I am satisfied with OpenText Documentum so far; it has great integration capabilities."
"OpenText Documentum is a robust choice for enterprise-level document management."
"The most valuable feature is the good automation engine, which helps in reducing the development cost and allows easy development of applications."
"It is quite good."
"OpenText Documentum's composition is good. It is convenient and straight out of the box."
"The security feature is valuable."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint include the ability to co-edit documents in the Office suite, particularly Excel and Word."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"Regarding the best features in SharePoint, the accessibility part of it is great; we don't need to do the coding from zero scratch, which we really appreciate."
"It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."
 

Cons

"The price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant."
"The interface of OpenText Documentum could be more intuitive; sometimes it is hard to find where the information is located."
"OpenText Documentum is moving to the cloud, and I am concerned about the security aspect of it."
"They should develop something so that bugs don't happen in our project. We make changes manually and some bugs happen."
"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."
"The price is quite high as the licensing prices are significant."
"We mostly use the Life Sciences package. That package is somewhat dated. There should be enhancements to the Life Science package and additional offerings to support pharma in particular."
"It should provide more tools to help clients upgrade solutions based on Webtop."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"It would be nice if the editing and setting up of SharePoint were more user-friendly, so I do not have to have an expert to deal with it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"OpenText Documentum has announced a new licensing model, which could be more expensive."
"OpenText Documentum's pricing is good."
"The product is expensive."
"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 price is considered affordable now."
"It is quite an expensive product."
"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
"For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance."
"It is very expensive.​"
"The product is reasonably priced."
"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."
"It comes bundled with the Microsoft 365 pricing plans."
"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."
"Licensing can be by server or by seat."
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Comparison Review

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Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise28
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business80
Midsize Enterprise38
Large Enterprise81
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What needs improvement with OpenText Documentum?
The interface of OpenText Documentum could be more intuitive; sometimes it is hard to find where the information is located.
What is your primary use case for OpenText Documentum?
We are using it to archive the information about our sales.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?
I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.
What needs improvement with SharePoint?
It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution. Sometimes I have to refresh pages more than with Google, but it does not charge; the page ...
 

Also Known As

Dell EMC Documentum, Documentum , Documentum xCelerated Composition Platform
SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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
Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.
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