Adobe Experience Manager vs DNN Platform

Adobe Experience Manager

If you have a number of smaller parts of your organization that you want to maintain the same look & feel as the rest of the organization, it is easy to create a base site and then let them customize. Also, if you have contributors of content who are not involved in the web site maintenance - our professors, for example - they can enter the text on a basic page which is then incorporated through tagging

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Diana Williams

Senior System Administrator

University of Georgia College of AgricultureHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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DNN Platform

Well suited to large enterprise website or web application developments. Less well suited to smaller site which would be better catered for by something like Wordpress.

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Verified User

Account Manager in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Adobe Experience Manager

8.2

DNN Platform

10.0

Role-based user permissions

8.2

10.0

Adobe Experience Manager

7.6

DNN Platform

10.0

API

7.4

10.0

Internationalization / multi-language

7.8

10.0

Adobe Experience Manager

7.0

DNN Platform

7.0

WYSIWYG editor

8.3

8.1

Code quality / cleanliness

7.0

7.7

Admin section

7.5

7.4

Page templates

6.9

7.8

Library of website themes

5.5

2.0

Mobile optimization / responsive design

6.9

9.0

Publishing workflow

7.9

7.8

Form generator

6.3

5.9

Adobe Experience Manager

6.1

DNN Platform

7.7

Content taxonomy

6.6

7.6

SEO support

6.4

7.4

Bulk management

6.1

7.1

Availability / breadth of extensions

6.0

8.6

Community / comment management

5.3

8.0

Pros

It is easy for people who are not web designers to achieve an attractive and useful website
It is easy to manage users and their permissions
It allows users to assemble their digital assets in one place, for use on the web site

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Diana Williams

Senior System Administrator

University of Georgia College of AgricultureHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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DNN allows for multiple installation and hosting options, so large corporate and small clients can each have a service that fits them.
DNN has the ability to have a lot of features customized.
The licensing, if using the on demand or Evoq versions is pricey, but is better than many alternatives.

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John Reitz

Creative Director

Links Technology SolutionsInternet, 51-200 employees

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Cons

A lot of the OOB (Out Of the Box) components are still a little buggy and not fully ready to go without some minor tweaks.
Since the software was acquired not too long ago by Adobe, a lot of Adobe integrated solutions are not fully baked yet. That is getting better with time.

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Vagner Polund

Software developer

Axis41Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Out of the box, it has some modules, but not enough unless you do a paid version.
The support is a bit slow.
The menuing can be confusing and terms used a bit strange. which makes training difficult.

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John Reitz

Creative Director

Links Technology SolutionsInternet, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Adobe Experience Manager9.0

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If I had the choice to renew, I would. Adobe CQ is one of the better CMS's I've been able to use. It's well organized, fast and easy to use. Although it is a little high in price, the fact that it does a good job justifies the decision to renew

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Cassie Lyn Dusute

UX Developer

Cengage LearningInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Adobe Experience Manager10.0

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I personally feel that AEM is very intuitive to use from an authoring standpoint. The entire CMS was engineered around the author. Everything about AEM is geared to helping authors generate and maintain content. There are ways that tool tips can be customized so that any individual could simply hover over and be guided step by step on how to author web content

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Vagner Polund

Software developer

Axis41Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Support

Adobe Experience Manager9.0

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Its so far the best Content Management System, available in market.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Implementation

Adobe Experience Manager8.7

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Depending on your individual needs, It is really quite simple to create an authoring experience for a website that looks really good. I have been part of many implementations and many teams and have seen many projects that were super successful and others that were not implemented well. AEM has room for a lot of flexibility in the implementation process compared to other CMS like SharePoint

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Axis41Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We selected Adobe CQ mostly for the ease of page authoring in brought to our non-technical staff. Powerful and simple UI widgets made it very simple for our merchandiser to create, edit and publish new pages. It also allowed us to customize those widgets to fit their needs while keeping the same clean experience. We also saw a plus in the ability to run activation workflows based on our own organization hierarchy, which helped make sure the right pages were exposed to the right eyes before going live. Overall, it was the mixture of user-friendliness of the authoring interface with the robustness of the technology stack that convinced us to go with CQ.

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Fernando Galeano

CQ5 Developer

TravelocityLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 51-200 employees

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Each project has a specific set of requierments and these drive our CMS decisions. I tend to think of DNN Platform as a good option when the hosting requierments are complex or specificly defined and there needs to be a level of custom options created. The roles and credentialling is also somewhat better than most.

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John Reitz

Creative Director

Links Technology SolutionsInternet, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Our direct business landing pages have seen an increase in ROI since switching to Adobe Experience Manager.
Our non-direct pages have seen a severe drop-off in traffic and conversions since the switch to Adobe Experience Manager. The more creative, editorial-type content that used to be imperative to our site is now relegated to second tier. Just getting a "content hub" with this site was a beast of a project.
The overall efficiency of our web team has increased with bulk edits, so that they can make single updates and impact our multiple sites. This is a huge money-saver for team staffing.

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Verified User

Program Manager in Social Media

Insurance Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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