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Top 10 Enterprise Content Management software
September 25, 2025 | Editor: Michael Stromann
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ECM and document management software and cloud services.
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SharePoint's multi-purpose platform allows for managing and provisioning of intranet portals, extranets and websites, document management and file management, collaboration spaces, social networking tools, enterprise search, business intelligence tooling, process/information integration, and third-party developed solutions. SharePoint can also be used as a web application development platform.
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Alfresco is a Free enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing webapps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and Activiti workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology.
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OpenText products help organizations put content to work. Whether your goal is to drive revenue, improve productivity, reduce costs or ensure regulatory compliance and sound information governance, OpenText has the product to execute.
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OpenKM is a web base document management application that uses standards and Open Source technologies. OpenKM provides full document management capabilities including version control and file history, metadata, scanning, workflow, search, and more. It also allows the social activities around content to be used to connect people to other people, information to information, and people to information; helping to manage, more efficiently, the collective intelligence of the human resources of the company.
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Laserfiche content management, business process automation and data analytics deliver rapid ROI for your organization. Get work done faster with the leading cloud content services platform — featuring low-code process automation, secure content management, intelligent content capture and prebuilt integrations.
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Document management and workflow automation software. DocuWare digitizes and secures your information to flow effortlessly between your decision makers — anywhere, any device, any time.
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The M-Files metadata-driven document management platform enables knowledge workers to instantly find the right information in any context, automate business processes, and enforce information control. This provides businesses with a competitive advantage and substantial ROI as they deliver superior customer experiences and higher-quality work with lower risk.
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Nuxeo provides an Open Source Content Management Platform enabling architects and developers to easily build, deploy, and run content-centric business applications. In the cloud or on premise, Nuxeo's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology offers an integrated solution for Document Management, Case Management, Digital Asset Management and much more. Built on a modern, Java-based architecture, the Nuxeo Platform is architected for modularity and extensibility, unlike traditional ECM solutions.
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OnBase, Hyland’s flagship product, is a single enterprise information platform designed to manage your content, processes and cases. OnBase centralizes your important business content in one secure location, and then delivers relevant information to you when you need it, wherever you are. Increase productivity, deliver excellent customer service and reduce risk across your entire enterprise.
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LogicalDOC is a document management system software easy-to-use, reliable and affordable, which can improve your business efficiency. The installation and implementation of LogicalDOC's Document Management System software is easy. Irrespective of the type of organization whether large or small, the support, licensing and optional packages are all affordable. LogicalDOC - DMS (Document Management System) greatly facilitates how one manages and process important documents, this eases your job and saves you a lot in terms of monetary value and time waste.
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IBM ECM delivers high value solutions that can help companies transform the way they do business by enabling them to put content in motion: capturing, activating, socializing, analyzing and governing it throughout the entire lifecycle. FileNet Content Manager provides powerful document management and ready-to-use workflow that helps you capture, manage, and share content.
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DocuShare is one of the most flexible, easy-to-use content management platforms on the market today. It manages a wide range of paper and digital content and automates your business processes so your organization’s, customers, constituents, and partners can efficiently access, share and process business critical information 24 x 7.
Important news about Enterprise Content Management software
2022. OpenText acquires Micro Focus for $6B
ECM giant OpenText is buying Micro Focus for a total value of $6 billion. Micro Focus is a British company, built much of its business buying legacy software companies like Borland, Novell and Cobol-IT. Its highest-profile deal was an $8.8 billion agreement in 2016 to partner with HPE on part of its enterprise software portfolio. Aside from some of the pieces in the HPE portfolio, like the infamous Autonomy deal, most of Micro Focus’ catalog doesn’t align in a direct way with OpenText’s content management roots. That’s because it appears to be a big deal about getting bigger rather than direct synergy with the acquiring company.
2021. Sanity raises $39M for its “use-anywhere” approach to content repositories
A startup called Sanity, which has built a system to make it easier to repurpose and use content assets across a number of places, and to more easily use data as content, has raised $39 million. Sanity is taking a programmatic approach to content, giving companies a content lake - structured, yet schema-less. This in turn gives companies the ability to use it across a number of use cases. This is notable because typically content is stored in silos created for specific purposes, part of the limitation of how CMS systems, even typical headless CMS systems, are conceived and built. That makes repurposing slow, buggy, and something a business might be more stretched to do.
2021. Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
Templafy, a Denmark-born B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation, has raised a $60 million D round. To some extent, Templafy competes with PandaDoc. However it is very enterprise focused, so it is agnostic to use case. It’s really about helping employees produce pretty much any type of business document or content that they need to have, allow them to start from any application where they work. It might be Office or Google but it could also be Salesforce or Teams or Slack. Others are very vertically focused against particular use cases, for example around sales. Templafy is horizontally focused and helping out on a series of use cases across large enterprises.
