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Epicor Software

DocStar

9.2 /10

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What is DocStar?

DocStar is a scalable, strategic cloud-based tool that allows you to manage all of your content securely—from capture to destruction.

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Awards & Recognition

DocStar won the following awards in the Enterprise Content Management - Enterprise category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Contract Negotiation

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

11 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

10 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2022

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021

DocStar Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

2
Since last award

91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love DocStar?

0% Negative

4% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Caring
Altruistic
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 91

ECM Document Management

Metadata Management

Mobile

Collaboration

Access Permissions Management

Workflow Process Automation

Capture Channels

File Approvals Esignatures

Search

File Conversion

Ediscovery Audit Trail

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 88

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

DocStar Reviews

Jacob H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Utilities
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Easy to use and meets our needs!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates DocStar from other similar products?

The UI is user friendly and extremely easy to navigate. The built in training modules are literal life savers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The searchability function is astounding. Between metadata and OCR, there's nothing our employees cannot find within minutes.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not being able to choose the document file type when scanning into DocStar ECM.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

There are additional Epicor programs and modules that can be integrated with DocStar ECM. Be sure to have all needs and requirements known before implementation.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Brandon W.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Very easy to use and integrates well!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates DocStar from other similar products?

Responsive support. Workflow improvements and invoice approvals are very smooth.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Saves time, paper, and accuracy.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Updates do not always propagate to clients running on servers, sometimes require manual interaction.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Have a basic technical understanding of the processes. Issues are typically resolved quickly and easily if you have an admin on-hand.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Boniface G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Content Management Made Easy

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates DocStar from other similar products?

First, this product is scalable. Secondly, it is cloud based and makes content management easy. Its very secure

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like the security features of this product. The fact that it's scalable makes it ideal for business use. The software is affordable Offers some of the best content security features.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I have not experienced problems using this product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For content management and security, Epicor ECM (formerly DocStar) never disappoint. It's secure, affordable, and scalable. It has all that a business needs.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service
Effective Service

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

DocStar Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

2 Since last award

91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love DocStar?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

ECM Document Management Includes lifecycle management, access and permissions, and ability to administer, view, create, edit, and delete content assets.

Metadata Management A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users to see and access information in simple business language.

Mobile Ability to support multiple devices, OSes and platforms using mobile optimized, HTML-based web access and/or native applications.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Access Permissions Management The granularity of user-access controls that can be configured in the ECM system

Workflow Process Automation The extent to and ease of which actions within the system can be configured to be performed automatically

Capture Channels Variety of ways a file can be ingested into the ECM system

File Approvals Esignatures Ability to capture approvals by the ECM system as part of a workflow

Search The system can search an entire body of a document for a keyword or phrase.

File Conversion You can convert files from given types to other formats within the ECM system (e.g. from Word to PDF).

Ediscovery Audit Trail The extent to which files and file histories are tracked & ability to manage files en masse for the purposes of legal proceedings

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

DocStar Reviews

Jacob H.

Easy to use and meets our needs!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Brandon W.

Very easy to use and integrates well!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Boniface G.

Content Management Made Easy

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

ECM Document Management

Metadata Management

Mobile

Collaboration

Access Permissions Management

Workflow Process Automation

Capture Channels

File Approvals Esignatures

Search

File Conversion

Ediscovery Audit Trail

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

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Ease of Customization