# OpenText Filr Reviews **Vendor:** OpenText **Category:** [Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/enterprise-content-management-ecm) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About OpenText Filr Feels like Dropbox. Acts like Fort Knox. ## OpenText Filr Reviews ### 1. Filr review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** Filr is a goood application for sharing large amounts of data. It allows for the user to send an invite to the one receiving the document, drawing, report, etc. The one (or many team members) that are given access to the shared data then can either simply view the info, or they can comment and also contribute to the shared file site. This occurs when the inviting party chooses what level of access the invitee will have. The inviter can also choose a date at which this access ends or it can go on indefinitely for the life of the project as required. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** When getting ready to send out the invite to the necessary participants, it is not very streamline. You have to go through a few extra steps to have the persons’ emails added into the proper form to send them out as an invite. The problem is that without these extra steps, it appears like you did everything correctly and sent out an invitation to Filr without the recipient ever receiving anything. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company is an architectural firm and the bulk of the documents that we produce are huge file, mostly drawings, construction documents. We can share these large files with clients and consultants from the start of the design process, through construction , and then through final completion. ### 2. Great enterprise alternative to Dropbox for educational institutions. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shane F. | Director of Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** Ease of use. Access to folders for work while being at home. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** Nothing that I can think of. Updates have been great simplified, so that's a plus. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access to folders outside of work. Also through web interface if I don't want client installed or don't have a work provided machine. ### 3. Simple file sharing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** Clean and stable system. Easy to use interface. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** The desktop app could do with some work. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used to store data and easily share with 3rd party partners. Stable and secure cloud ### 4. Good Software to Replace Dropbox **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron D. | Network/PC Support Specialist, Oil & Energy, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** If you are worried about someone else hosting your cloud storage then you are in luck. Novell Filr is a great tool to use for cloud storage. This software is well encrypted and great to use. Very similar to Dropbox and Microsoft Onedrive. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** The fact that you have to have Novell products to use this. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Filr:** Use this instead of Dropbox **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving files to the server while traveling. ### 5. Frustrating more often than not **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** Novell is flexible and can be powerful if taken the time to learn its robust capabilities. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** Learning this program was a task and could easily turn away most people. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Part of what we use it for is creating universal images for our company that allows for easier reimaging of our machines ### 6. Central Location **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** I like the fact that ALL files are in one place! So convenient. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** The ease of use is a restriction. Kind of difficult to learn. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are challenges with mobile use. I'm always on the go. So this is imperative. ### 7. Fillr Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** The easiness or using the product during transactions **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** The time it takes to load during transactions sometimes **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buying quicker for purchases ### 8. The B2B Solution for Marketers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** It enabled me and our IT staff to determine which users are allowed to share files, which files they can share, and with whom they can share them. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** I disliked the plugins for outlook and gmail. It was very cumbersome to enable. The plugins aren't the greatest in terms of implementation. Determine what add-ons are best for your business and that should help determine a fit. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Filr:** Set up all of your segments and folders first. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives users access to all their files and shared network folders from any device or location. It makes work mobility possible. ### 9. Great fast & secure remote access to company on-premise file servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** We are using Filr version 2 today. I heard version 3 was just released a week or so ago. Quick and Secure access to our company on-premise file servers on all my mobile devices. I can also use a browser anywhere in the world and gain access that way. I like that I can share a file to a customer outside of our company and its shared in a very secure manner. I can see ALL the files and folders on the company servers, but its smart enough to only download the files I touch. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** I wish we could have our company logo on the GUI interface of the mobile clients and on the web browser sessions instead of seeing the Micro Focus logo everywhere. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Filr:** You have to conduct a Demo or PoC of it, it is an amazing solution on your mobile devices and for sharing a file(s) to a customer through an email message with a link to your company Filr service. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gives me and all employees very quick and secure access to our company file servers from anywhere at any time while away from the office desktop. I can find a file very quickly though the Filr GUI interface ### 10. Great Tool - Lacks some features **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avery L. | Technical Support Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Filr?** I used Novell Flir while working in my university IT department. Its a good tool and setup is pretty straight forward. Our staff and students (Especially CS students) used it for managing our shared file spaces. **What do you dislike about OpenText Filr?** For our needs I think the tool was a bit overkill. At $4500/user it seems a bit ridiculous when a large majority of our users were able to meet their needs simply by mapping network drives. I don't know if this has changed but at the time Flir was not cross-platform which made the idea to invest in this software seem like a bad idea to me considering a large number of our users utilized Mac OS and Linux based OSes. It also lacks these features found in other products: -IAAS (AWS) -Multi - Tenancy -Document Quick edit -File Locking -Outlook Integration -Google Drive integration -Audit Reports **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Filr:** Great tool, just make sure that it aligns with your needs. **What problems is OpenText Filr solving and how is that benefiting you?** Like I said, it got the job done and as far as stability goes it was very reliable. ## OpenText Filr Discussions - [What is Micro Focus Filr used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-micro-focus-filr-used-for) - [View OpenText Filr pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/micro-focus-filr/reviews/micro-focus-filr-review-67911?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-27+10%3A09%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=da93d415-baf1-49a7-bb61-d0325095288d&secure%5Btoken%5D=29380c5db38d04c26702f857bbb0055a9df620cbdecd9fd814d7cb11b5f5501e&format=llm_user) ## OpenText Filr Features **File Management** - Device Syncing - Web Interface - File Type Support - Search - Mobile Apps **Agentic AI - Cloud Content Collaboration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction **Collaboration** - File following - File Sharing - Simultaneously Editing - Change Tracking / Audit Logs **Administration** - User and Role Management - Policies and Controls - Device Management - Storage Limits - Storage Zones - Security **Platform** - Performance and Reliability - Reporting and Auditing - System of Record Integration - APIs ## Top OpenText Filr Alternatives - [Microsoft OneDrive for Business](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-onedrive-for-business/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (9,899 reviews) - [Dropbox](https://www.g2.com/products/dropbox/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (30,738 reviews) - [Nextcloud](https://www.g2.com/products/nextcloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (186 reviews)