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IBM ECM pros and cons

Vendor: IBM
3.9 out of 5
 

IBM ECM Pros review quotes

Thinh Tran - PeerSpot reviewer
BPM Consultant at TECHCOMBANK
Sep 17, 2025
I am going to continue using it because it is a good product for enterprise document management.
Omar_Ismail - PeerSpot reviewer
ECM, Archives and Digital Preservation Consultant at DataServe
Mar 20, 2024
The tool is a very stable solution with high availability and no information leakage. It has built-in API integration on-site. You can integrate with other components and applications like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.
it_user844491 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 25, 2018
The vertical scalability, as we can use it across some of our applications.
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it_user844476 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 25, 2018
The scalability is a valuable feature, that we're able to display our documents to so many people.
it_user632766 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 22, 2017
The most valuable features are the enterprise scaling capabilities.
it_user632709 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 9, 2017
IBM Enterprise Content Management suite (ICN 2.0.3 for FileNet CM 5.2.1) is an enterprise-ready robust collaboration solution for knowledge workers that would meet the broad needs of the entire enterprise (e.g., document-records management, search, scanning (Datacap), cloud ready, etc.), compared to the other competitors' offerings in the market.
it_user543261 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP & Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 31, 2017
With the new version of Datacap that we're on now, what had took nine months to train somebody, now takes just a couple weeks.
it_user543234 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP, North America ECM Platform Architect at The Chubb Corporation
Dec 11, 2016
We were using an old technology and with the move to FileNet, we now have new capabilities, new features, and a new roadmap.
it_user543258 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 13, 2016
We've used CMOD or its predecessor for 25 years, so that's pretty stable.
it_user543267 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. ECM Developer at DaVita Kidney Care
Nov 21, 2016
The scalability of Datacap is amazing; we really like it.
 

IBM ECM Cons review quotes

Thinh Tran - PeerSpot reviewer
BPM Consultant at TECHCOMBANK
Sep 17, 2025
Currently, IBM ECM only handles physical files, not unstructured files.
Omar_Ismail - PeerSpot reviewer
ECM, Archives and Digital Preservation Consultant at DataServe
Mar 20, 2024
The development platform is not local. For example, you need 100 days in IBM, whereas other platforms, like ServiceNow, need only 20 days.
it_user844491 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 25, 2018
I would like to see seamless application integration.
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it_user844476 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 25, 2018
I think it's already getting away from Java applets. A lot of our users struggle with keeping up to date with Java versioning, so a lot of the functions they're doing, like printing, emailing, and even some of the viewing, they're struggling with.
it_user632766 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 22, 2017
More importantly, it is sometimes overly complex, and requires a lot of work from the infrastructure and administration standpoint; a lot of hands-on patches.
it_user632709 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 9, 2017
We abandoned our Case manager solution as it was so complex and cost-prohibitive for us.
it_user543261 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP & Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 31, 2017
It didn't implement as easy as we had hoped. We had some partner issues.
it_user543234 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP, North America ECM Platform Architect at The Chubb Corporation
Dec 11, 2016
There are definitely challenges. It's not an easy solution.
it_user543258 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 13, 2016
We’d like for it to be able to ingest reports that were created on the distributed side and get them into the same repository, where you have one repository for all reports.
it_user543267 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. ECM Developer at DaVita Kidney Care
Nov 21, 2016
Datacap's solution development time is sometimes a multiple of other solutions’ development time, even for simple capture processes, because nothing is out of the box.