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The DocuWare alternative for document management beyond accounts payable

DocuWare is well known for invoice and accounts payable automation. EDMS by Sibasi does that, then keeps going: the same platform handles registry correspondence, statutory retention, contract obligations and matter files, and it writes straight back into Dynamics 365 Business Central.

See it against your documents Full capability matrix

DocuWare is established for

Productised invoice and accounts payable automation
Quick standing up of a standard configuration
A mature cloud offering with a clear onboarding path
Prebuilt indexing for common finance document types

What it costs you every year

Cloud licensing is reported in third-party comparisons at roughly USD 13 to 75 per user per month depending on scale and modules, billed by subscription and additional to Microsoft 365.

Indicative published ranges, not a vendor quotation.

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Where DocuWare is strongest, and what we deliver there

Taken on their own ground rather than ours. Every row below is a capability the category is known for, with what EDMS by Sibasi does about it.

Capability	What the category is known for	EDMS by Sibasi
Invoice capture and extraction	Reading supplier invoices without manual keying.	Prebuilt AI models for invoices and receipts, extracting supplier, invoice number, LPO reference, line values, tax and dates, with confidence thresholds routing exceptions to a human.
Approval routing	Invoices routed by value and cost centre.	Conditional routing against your own authority matrix, escalation on overdue approvals, delegation during leave, and approval actions available from Outlook and Teams without opening a portal.
Finance system integration	Getting the document to the transaction.	Native Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV integration. The purchase order opens its contract, delivery note and invoice directly, with documents staying governed by the EDMS rather than copied into an attachment field.
Beyond finance	Document management for the rest of the organisation.	The same platform covers registry correspondence, HR and personnel files, procurement records, contract obligations, matter files and controlled quality documents, on one file plan.
Statutory records management	Retention, disposal and legal hold obligations.	Retention schedules against a functional file plan, record declaration, legal hold, disposition review by a named officer, and destruction certificates that satisfy an auditor.
Where the documents live	Repository location and residency.	Your own Microsoft tenant, a dedicated Azure region, or your own servers where policy requires it. Decided at design and documented, not assumed.

REF / WHERE WE WIN

Four differences that do not change between releases

Features move. Licensing models, where your documents live, how many security surfaces you carry and who is on site when something breaks do not.

WIN-01

One platform for the whole organisation

Buying a finance-shaped product solves accounts payable and leaves the registry, HR, procurement and legal exactly as they were. You then buy again.

WIN-02

Records management is included, not adjacent

Public bodies and regulated institutions in this region are assessed against statutory retention. That is designed into the deployment against your own schedule.

WIN-03

Native to your finance system

Business Central and Dynamics NAV integration is first-class rather than a connector, so the document and the transaction stay in step in both directions.

WIN-04

No per-seat subscription

A cloud subscription is easy to approve in year one. Model five years against your own headcount and compare it to a one-off deployment on licences you already hold.

You get the invoice automation, plus registry, HR, procurement, contracts and statutory records management on the same platform, integrated with Business Central, without a subscription that grows with every hire.

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Organisations that already trust Sibasi with their systems

Regulators, development finance institutions, public utilities, government agencies, humanitarian operations and telecoms across Africa, and further afield where the work has taken us.

Development finance
Regulator
Public utility
Development finance
Government agency
International development
Humanitarian & health
Telecommunications
Digital infrastructure
Financial sector development
Investment & energy
Government & geoscience
Trade & development
Research & science
Airline & transport
Retail & automotive
Agriculture & health
Investment & development

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Put us next to DocuWare against your own numbers

Tell us your user count and the shape of your requirement. We will model five years both ways and show you the same capability running on the platform you already own.

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