Adobe Experience Manager vs Jahia

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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Jahia

Jahia is well suited if at leats one of the situations occure : - Important UX requirements- Integration projects

- Multi-sites, multi-language

- Different sites development by different teams that should fit in one shared instance

- High availability, clustering

- High load, high performance

- Need for a headless CMS

- A/B testing and market automation

- Stable architecture with limited risks of incompatibilities between modules

- Excellent support from the editor in enterprise distribution

There is a free community distribution that can be used as entry level, but as soon as a project becomes critical I'd strongly recommend the enterprise distribution. While subscription costs of the enterprise distribution are relatively low compared to ones of other enterprise CMS, they could be more progressive and can be problematic for intermediate projects. This is mainly a problem for the first site at a client, as the subscription costs don't directly depend on the number of deployed sites.

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Bernard de Terwangne

Project Manager, Jahia CMS Expert

NSI IT Software & ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Adobe Experience Manager

8.2

Jahia

8.2

Role-based user permissions

8.2

Adobe Experience Manager

7.6

Jahia

7.1

API

7.5

7.9

Internationalization / multi-language

7.7

6.4

Adobe Experience Manager

7.0

Jahia

7.1

WYSIWYG editor

8.2

7.3

Code quality / cleanliness

7.0

8.2

Admin section

7.5

7.3

Page templates

6.9

9.1

Library of website themes

5.5

4.1

Mobile optimization / responsive design

7.0

8.2

Publishing workflow

8.0

4.6

Form generator

6.3

8.2

Adobe Experience Manager

6.1

Jahia

6.5

Content taxonomy

6.6

9.0

SEO support

6.5

8.2

Bulk management

6.1

6.4

Availability / breadth of extensions

6.1

4.7

Community / comment management

5.4

4.5

Pros

Manages web content with an intuitive WYSIWYG authoring experience.
Manages Digital Assets used by your website such as images, audio, documents, etc.
Creates an simple easy to use experience to generate web content. Centers all web content generation around the author.

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Vagner Polund

Software developer

Axis41Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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User Experience : Jahia is especially simple to use for all user roles including visitors, content editors, reviewers, editors in chief, administrators and developers
Integration : Jahia is a developer friendly CMS developped in Java and based on cool features such as OSGI enabling hot deployement and reducing risks of unwanted interactions between modules and sites
Well integrated Form Factory
Enterprise Feautres such as marketting automation tools

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Bernard de Terwangne

Project Manager, Jahia CMS Expert

NSI IT Software & ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 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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Review workflows are not as intuitive as you'd imagine. This is an area in the UX where the editor has work to do. It works well but it could be more intuitive
Pricing should be more progressive and more aggressive
Jahia deserves more publicity. The product is excellent but nobody knows it. The editor should focus on marketing.

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Bernard de Terwangne

Project Manager, Jahia CMS Expert

NSI IT Software & ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Adobe Experience Manager9.0

Based on 5 answers

We had and still have a fantastic experience using Adobe CQ. Lots of flexibility, great integration with other Adobe products we already use and a powerful technology make it a great fit for our corporate environment. Also as the community grows, it makes it easier to network with other developers and users to get new ideas on how to continue to get the best out of the software.

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Fernando Galeano

CQ5 Developer

TravelocityLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 51-200 employees

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Jahia1.0

Based on 1 answer

I would not use Jahia as it proved too complex for our needs and didn't help our over goal of customer satisfaction. Along with the man hours to build and execute, it wasn't worth the hassle

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Robert Evans

Interactive Design Marketing Manager

Tresna DesignsEvents Services, 51-200 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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Adobe Experience Manager9.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Vagner Polund

Software developer

Axis41Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

AEM provides a better way to control user permissions which Content Marketer is lacking. Moreover, the ability to integrate with the Adobe Target product provides a wider range of audience segments that can be targeted besides the default author-targeted functionalities. It really helps create a custom user experience for a variety of users that might be looking for different things on the site (for example, doctors vs. patients etc.).

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Tea Dejanovic

Associate Business Consultant

PerficientInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Liferay is a good product with a broad community and a strong integration capability but a weak contribution interface and no website management easiness.Drupal is good for simple website needs, with a very large community and modules. But it's architecture is too unstable, from version to version, for long term selection and there is not much integration possibility for corporate IT requirements (banking for ex). Both lack in term of hot deployment and agility/industrialization. Adobe Experience Manager is a good product, but with much higher pricing; and so with lower ROI.

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Cédric Fourneau

Project Manager

Smile Open Source SolutionsInternet, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Difficult to calculate ROI, which would likely only be measured by time savings and improved SEO.
Takes time, which lowers productivity, to get up and running smoothly when first adopted.
Ensures we're using best practices, including maximizing SEO and more, through check lists and evaluations/ratings.

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Courtney E. Howard

Editor in Chief & Conference Director - Intelligent Aerospace; Executive Editor - Military & Aerospace Electronics

PennWellPublishing, 501-1000 employees

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Increased employee efficiency for contributors (and templates development for internal dev).
Allow a better targeting of the audience (in combination with Marketing Factory).
Allow users to manage a side sub-project quickly and effortlessly (landing pages, event website).

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Cédric Fourneau

Project Manager

Smile Open Source SolutionsInternet, 501-1000 employees

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