15 years of helping Indian businesses
choose better software

What Is M-Files?

M-Files is the leading platform for knowledge work automation. With the M-Files platform, knowledge workers can find information faster, work smarter, and achieve more. M-Files features an innovative metadata-driven architecture, embedded workflow engine, and advanced artificial intelligence. This enables customers to eliminate information chaos, improve process efficiency, and automate security and compliance. For more information, visit www.m-files.com.

Who Uses M-Files?

M-Files serves a variety of industries and business needs for mid-market to Enterprise global B2B companies.

M-Files Software - M-Files - Search
M-Files Software - M-Files - Profile
M-Files Software - M-Files - Permissions
M-Files Software - M-Files - Process Maps
M-Files Software - M-Files - Pinned items

Not sure about M-Files? Compare with a popular alternative

M-Files

M-Files

4.2 (180)
No pricing found
Free version
Free trial
35
14
4.1 (180)
4.2 (180)
4.1 (180)
VS.
Starting Price
Pricing Options
Features
Integrations
Ease of Use
Value for Money
Customer Service Software
No pricing found
Free version
Free trial
67
9
4.2 (895)
4.2 (895)
4.4 (895)
Green rating bars show the winning product based on the average rating and number of reviews.

Other great alternatives to M-Files

Revver
Top rated features
Access Controls/Permissions
Document Capture
Document Storage
MasterControl Quality Excellence
Top rated features
Access Controls/Permissions
Document Storage
Electronic Signature
Google Drive
Top rated features
Access Controls/Permissions
Document Storage
File Sharing Software
Microsoft SharePoint
Top rated features
Collaboration Tools
Document Management Software
File Sharing Software
Alfresco Digital Business Platform
Top rated features
Content Management Software (CMS)
Document Management Software
Document Storage
Nuxeo
Top rated features
Content Management Software (CMS)
Document Management Software
Document Storage
DocuWare
Top rated features
Document Storage
File Sharing Software
Secure Data Storage
ShareFile
Top rated features
Document Storage
File Sharing Software
Secure Data Storage
GrandTransfer
Top rated features
No features have been rated by reviewers for this product.

M-Files Reviews for Indian Users

Average score

Overall
4.2
Ease of Use
4.1
Customer Service Software
4.1
Features
4.2
Value for Money
4.2

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Clarwin
Clarwin
IT Services Manager in Philippines
Verified LinkedIn User
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Go-to application for any Digitization Project

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: M-files is a must for any company seeking to implement digital transformation initiatives in their company. I love best is its extensive feature set and seamless integration with Microsoft products (e.g., office, IIS server, MS SQL, Windows, etc.) The workflow feature is easy to customize, setup, and implement. It will change the way you deal with paper documents once you experience how easy it is to digitize, and manage your documents. The OCR functionality is a beast! Just like having Google on your local repository, reading through the very contents of your digital documents.

Pros:

The thing I like the most is the seamless integration with Microsoft products. This made it easy for implementing the use of M-files into our office workflow (it works well from within Outlook, Microsoft Office, even Windows Explorer). The creation of a Workflow is made very easy via a graphical workflow editor. Just a little learning curve and we are able to setup the different manual processes into a solid digital workflow for the office (e.g., filing for leave, routing of papers for approval, storing scanned copies of contracts and any kind of document in the office).

Cons:

When implementing on a large scale (e.g., company-wide) we really had to sit down and plan out our licensing arrangement. Note that M-Files comes in a variety of licensing options (e.g., read-only, named user, concurrent user). Some offices can possibly share licenses (but number of active sessions will be limited). Planning out the best license option is quite a task since we were woking on a limited buget and we had to optimize the value-for-money setup we can have. It can also be a bit overwhelming for new users. We had a bit of difficulty in the deployment since we had to train all the users (who found it not so intuitive at first). But then, after the training, it has then been integrated well for our daily use.

Chris
Systems Analyst in Canada
Construction software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

ISO Optimized DMS Software

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

With our company looking to become ISO certified, we knew that a proper DMS/QMS system would be required within our company. After multiple meetings, we decided on M-Files as it provided the easiest integration into our current system, and increased our security control for all documents within our company. We now have the ability to control change management, document approval process, SOP reviews, etc. efficiently and effectively

Cons:

It can be confusing at first with having to 'check out' a document from M-Files to review and/or edit. Once complete, you check it back in which will change the version number of the file. Once figured out, all of our documents are now properly maintained.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Security & Investigations, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Expensive, bad documentation, no debugging capability and bad support from the vendor

1.0 7 years ago

Comments: We are a german company that uses M-Files for some years. I'm the poor guy that has to configure the backend/server side.
The basic functions are easy to setup, once installed, the server and client side runs well. The basic idea is easy to understand, documents belongs to classes ans has class-specific metadata attributes like "telephone number". Attributes can be linked to other objects... fine!
What makes me sleepless nights is, that if the implementation of a little bit more complex things like right structures, workflows with many steps e.g., you're totally lost with M-Files.
There are some different documentation pdfs, describing just the basic functionality - WITHOUT CLEAR EXAMPLES.
There's the possibility to submit tickets (if you have a support contract). This tickets are answered after some days by (asian?) supporters. There's a lot of mail-overhead just to desribe the problem. In most cases the supporters does not respond to the concrete problem. The do'n offer, for example, a short teamviewer session to solve the problem on the customers system. That's can not be calles good support!
M-Files provides the possibility to write own (visual basic) code, triggered by event handlers. This code can be written to a empty white editor (without any debug possibilities, or any kind of help to the programmer) on the server side. Notepad.exe provides more features! No Breapoints, no debug log output, the only way to debug own code is to rise exceptions that blows the script. That is 1983, not 2017! The API functions are not nice encapsulated, it's a nightmare to wirte own code...but required often - to customize and build workarounds for missing functionality.
Logging in general...not nice. There's a "event log" on the server side. Some basic events are logged here, for example login, logout, document checkout... But it's not very detailed! If somethin went wrong, it's not written there. Maaan!
The user frontend (windows client) looks nice and works well. The server side looks also nice on the first view, but many "nice" features are not implemented. Lists of 300+ Users... no search field, no possibility to select 5 people and delete them, you have to do tis one by one...
I hope this (view from the administration part) gives you a small impression of the daily work. M-Files seems to spend a lot of money in marketing an nice small videos to bring the CEO to buy the product, but where are the videos describing the rights structure from the technical side? Nope!

Pros:

- Usefull user interface on the client side - Good basic structure

Cons:

- Expensive - Very bad support - Bad documentation - No usefull examples - Not self-explaining to the adminsitrator

David
David
IT Project Manager in Philippines
Verified LinkedIn User
Investment Management Software, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

One Place for All Document Types

4.0 5 years ago

Comments: M-files was a great tool to create one common space for us to store, share, and retrieve documents and digital assets online. Workflow are next, but we're still securing more funding given the new pricing model.

Pros:

Our office being limited with space has decided to keep tidy and lean by going digital. We tried M-files because it has good reviews, good recommendations from industry partners, and it has been receiving awards as well. So far, so good. After manual scanning, we upload our files into the M-files vault and everything is securely stored and easily accessible in one place. Searching for the file you need is easy because M-Files makes searching via metadata, and also not by location logic, but by what the document you're looking for is. Workflows is another reason we took M-Files in. We played around with it and it really is easy to create workflows via the graphical logic setup screen. Even the non-technical staff understands how the design works because it is pretty intuitive and straight-forward.

Cons:

M-Files has changed its delivery and pricing model. We have a perpetual license for 2018, but it turns out we need to upgrade into the subscription model for M-Files 2019 in order to continue receiving the updates, upgrades, and customer support. Since we have not yet upgraded, we are put on hold in terms of implementing our digital workflows. Now we're just waiting for the next budget season and release to upgrade.

M-Files Response

5 years ago

Hi David, Thank you for sharing about your experiences using M-Files with others on Capterra. It is rewarding to hear that M-Files has helped your business with its digital transformation and that you are realizing improvements in the way that your staff store, share, and retrieve documents and digital assets online. I am confident that when you are ready to upgrade to M-Files Online that your company will see the value in having immediate access to product improvements and new capabilities. Please feel free to reach out or visit our customer portal should you have any questions or if we can be of assistance to you.

Çağrı
Çağrı
Engineer in Türkiye
Verified LinkedIn User
Automotive, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Good For Data Storage But It Needs To Be Faster To Allow User Better Experience"

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: I have been using this software for 2 years.We were storing the working documets to another sharefolder. First feeling was there was no folder structer and user interface is not familliar as we were using before. But I would like to add using M-files Software has increased our storage capacity. It also helps data transmits when someone left the company.We have started to eliminate know-how lost in company .Addition to this I feel working with this softare may be time consumer.M-Files team needs to improve the infterface and needs to make the software more user friendly

Pros:

I woudl say the most I like about the M-Files is ensuring security to the companies for working in bussiness.M files eliminating the data transfer and data leak to 3rd party companies which are not allowed to Access the data. Other think I like at it is integrated and working pretty fine with Microsoft Office softwares .It aslo makes our business efficiency great

Cons:

What I dislike about the M-Files is User interface quite diffuclt to get used .They need to impove as well. One other thing check in and check out to folder requires additional tasks and reminders to proceed with document.It decreases work efficiency dramaticaly

M-Files Response

4 years ago

We appreciate your candid response regarding your experience with M-Files. Would you be open to discuss in more detail? If so, please feel free to contact me as my contact information can be found below.