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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Experience Manager

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering marketing content.N/A

    Jahia Digital Experience Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AJahia is a Java-based enterprise content management system. It features an integrated user portal, web publishing and content management, document management, collaboration, and multi-channel publishing.N/A

    Marq

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMarq, formerly Lucidpress, is a design & brand templating platform that enables users to create & share branded collateral. Marq offers consistency so brands can deliver its message more effectively wherever it goes. The vendor states over 5 million people use Lucidpress to create, customize, control & distribute their brand’s content.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeRequired
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Jahia Solutions
    Chose Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    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, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    Jahia provides a similar user experience to other CMS I have used in the past - it features a simple interface that makes navigating and learning how to use the platform easy and the ability to copy and paste content saves time and effort when building new pages. The ease in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    A lot of these technologies are very close when it comes to the technology capabilities, but Jahia came across as the best company to work with in terms of understanding our needs and collaborating with us to deliver the results that the business wanted to see. Finding a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    Jahia goes head-to-head with other leading DXP platforms. We found it had the features our customers prioritized without overcomplicated interfaces and implementations. We work with clients who have built out other DXPs in ways that are cumbersome and even painful to maintain …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    Sales and engagement swayed us to purchase Jahia Digital Experience Platform. Personally, I would have gone with Sitecore Experience Platform due to the tech stack. Sitecore Experience Platform never provided anything but a canned demo. Jahia Digital Experience Platform …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    The capability to build complex applications with multiple products (better, more complete stack) separates Jahia from the others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    These are the four we traditionally see still. Jahia ranks high when we have a client not needing the brand awareness of Adobe. Not wanting the .Net of Sitecore, and not wanting the PHP of Acquia.
    Incentivized
    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    180 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    145 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    184 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    113 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    125 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Adobe Experience ManagerJahia Digital Experience PlatformMarq
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Adobe Experience Manager and Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Marq
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.4
    38 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    34 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Marq
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.438 Ratings8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Experience Manager and Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Marq
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.0
    33 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    8.5
    35 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Marq
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    Ratings
    API7.829 Ratings7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.129 Ratings9.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Adobe Experience Manager and Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Marq
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.5
    38 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    6.6
    35 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Marq
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    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor7.433 Ratings9.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.734 Ratings1.130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.034 Ratings8.333 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.637 Ratings8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.326 Ratings4.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.835 Ratings8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.135 Ratings7.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.629 Ratings7.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Jahia Digital Experience Platform and Marq
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.3
    37 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Jahia Digital Experience Platform
    5.7
    34 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Marq
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    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.731 Ratings9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.133 Ratings4.134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management7.236 Ratings6.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.534 Ratings4.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.130 Ratings4.53 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Experience ManagerJahia Digital Experience PlatformMarq
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (220 ratings)
    8.0
    (44 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (181 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    6.4
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Experience ManagerJahia Digital Experience PlatformMarq
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    I'll answer the second one because I mean, the first one I don't have an issue with. The second scenario is we oftentimes have the need to spin off very small campaign style sites or sites that generate leads but are unbranded and that sort of thing. So that's hard to do in AEM because you have to then create another organization within AEM to do that. And we're talking about sites that are maybe five to 10 pages in size. So we've been investigating Edge, but then that's a different workflow, so we'd have to train people on that. So it would be nice if there was something within the AEM structure that could allow you to do something very similar to Edge, where you make some small micro sites that are not necessarily branded, that you could still host within the platform and not have to retrain everybody on a completely different platform.
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    Jahia Solutions
    In my experience, Jahia Digital Experience Platform as a CMS platform is excellent when you have a large amount of content that needs to be customized. It is also good for when you have templated content that has minor variations. I would say it is less appropriate when the content has numerous mathematical computations, or a large amount of business logic that comes into play with data processing.
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
    For self-publishers, Marq is the best option, in my opinion. I have recommended it to others and they have been also amazed at how beautiful their end product looks and how easy it is to export and get the printers. A win win for everyone involved in the process of creating magazines and marketing materials.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • It allows us to scale so that we can make a change on a global footer. And it applies to all of the different property websites. It allows us to set up components and compartmentalize things in a way. The big thing is that it's scalable. And then it also ties into Adobe Analytics and other Adobe products. So we are a complete Adobe shop. Every Adobe product that we can use, we use. I don't think we do it for marketing so much, but for doing target testing and analytics, data scientists are using the same product and so it all speaks.
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    Jahia Solutions
    • Content management: It is very easy to update text, images, files and videos even for a non technical user.
    • Multi-site Management: It has a robust multi-site management capability, It helps in maintaining multiple websites with consistent branding.
    • Digital asset management: It is easier to store organize and retrieve images, videos and documents.
    • It has a great built-in analytics and reporting feature.
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
    • User management
    • Easy to create and edit templates
    • Able to install an approval layer to govern use
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • There are some glitches in permissions inheritance that require us to toggle a save on permissions in groups that inherit from a group that was recently updated.
    • Large packages require stopping the workflow launcher OSGi components or many workflows will slow down the server.
    • Locked pages are hard to find unless I use /siteadmin... I often hear that the CQ tools will go away, but if we lose that, some small things might be harder to do, like finding locked pages.
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    Jahia Solutions
    • It lacks the ability to manage multiple versions of a page or content in general.
    • The back office interface sometimes encounters bugs or display problems.
    • It's difficult to keep pre-production sites up to date in terms of content compared to production, because the time required to import/export sites is very long once the site is rich in content.
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
    • Automated page numbering would be amazing
    • Scroll button should be darker to find it easier
    • More template options
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    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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    Jahia Solutions
    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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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Usability
    Adobe
    Adobe Experience Manager overall is fairly easy to use and caters to a wide range of users when it comes to their technical abilities. It has the flexibility to enable UI/UX designers to pop in and easily design new content with drop in components. It also has sufficient capabilities for those who are more technically inclined and want to dig more into custom code or solutions
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    Jahia Solutions
    The interface and ergonomics are designed to facilitate the use of the product. The creation of template is easy which allows to minimize the actions necessary for the provision of content.
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Being part of Adobe Suite means you are already notified when the tool has any outages. However, I have never faced unplanned outages. Whenever you face any issue with the site, it is clearly stated if there were any planned outages and how quickly you will be back to normal. So, I will say that even the outages are planned and managed in a great way like their other services.
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    Jahia Solutions
    [I give it this rating because it] was up most of the time. There are so many scheduled reboots that I don't think it would be a good choice for a 95% SLA.
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Performance
    Adobe
    With respect to performance, Adobe experience manager is one of the best in the CMS space. We didn't observe frequent slowness on platform, however the systems which are accessing experience manager should be of good specifications without which slowness would be observed. Adobe experience manager works well in integration with other solutions, unless the destination application is designed to trigger frequent calls to AEM.
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    Jahia Solutions
    It's stable after upgrade to Jahia 8. Not much server down so far
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Adobe
    Adobe Experience Manager, in all its capacity, is a great alternative to any other CMS you are using. It helps in rapid development and makes life easier for maintaining the website for multi-language sites. Technical know-how is eliminated at content authoring. Better documentation in terms of live examples with videos would be appreciated.
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    Jahia Solutions
    As I was saying, the support makes sure to be available for any question, or any technical point that we may need to discuss about. Moreover, whenever we have an issue with the platform they get alerted and also send us an email so that we are aware. We had multiple complex topics to work on in the past, but they always have been answering our question
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    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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    Jahia Solutions
    No answers on this topic
    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    SSO is one fits all, so we don't have to have a separate SSO for each application of Adobe The integration with Analytics works perfectly and bring directly value really quickly Target remains more complicated to set up, but can also bring a lot of value once integrated with the rest of the Adobe platform The fact that the solution is Cloud services is also a big advantage for maintenance
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    Jahia Solutions
    Jahia provides a similar user experience to other CMS I have used in the past - it features a simple interface that makes navigating and learning how to use the platform easy and the ability to copy and paste content saves time and effort when building new pages. The ease in which you can manage the site in different languages is also a big plus!
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
    I think if we had found Canva first we would have probably chosen it as our platform. We had already invested a lot of time and energy into developing multiple templates and branding standards in LucidPress
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    Instead of being directly involved in the tool purchase, I am involved in analysis or what we can use to maximize the tool. Small organizations may find it expensive. However, if the team or organization focuses more on your ROI or the features you will get, then it will definitely be worth it. Pricing is based on a number of factors, including team size or the use of the tool. The user can select the pricing option that best fits their needs based on the number of form submissions they make or the number of pages they wish to publish on their global/multisite sites.
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    Jahia Solutions
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Jahia Solutions
    You can create your own feature module and it can be resuable across the projects. The Java libraries is available for development of Tomcat or JSP
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Professional Services
    Adobe
    The professional services team within adobe is one of the best in terms of technical and solutioning knowledge. However, considering the billing charges of adobe professional services team, it is always recommended to involve them during platform initial setup or when a complex solution is to be built with platform customizations.
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    Jahia Solutions
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • too soon to tell on increased conversion rates based on external marketing factors in play but having increased visibility into customer engagement trends will most likely lead to improvement of our conversion rates.
    • There have been productivity gains from the perspective of actually migrating all of our externally managed sites to the same in-house Adobe Experience Manager platform and then being able to utilize those universal components.
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    Jahia Solutions
    • Our once frustrated contributors are now happy to create content with Jahia Digital Experience Platform!
    • Pages are snappy and bug-free, which wasn't always the case.
    • Jahia Digital Experience Platform has mapped our complex organization into nice roles and permissions.
    • All our external services were nicely integrated into a modern portal.
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    Marq (LPS Holdco LLC)
    • I am able to save over $10K per issue by doing the design and layout myself.
    • I am able to save at least 2-3 weeks per issue by doing the design and layout myself.
    • I don't need to employ a team to compile each issue, I do it all myself.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Experience Manager Screenshots

    Screenshot of AEM Forms - Creates an adaptive formScreenshot of AEM Forms - themes libraryScreenshot of AEM Forms - where to create a templateScreenshot of AEM Forms - the interactive communications editorScreenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - document-based authoring enables marketers to create and publish content with familiar tools.Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - Universal Editor, an advanced visual editor, empowers marketers to edit and publish content.

    Jahia Digital Experience Platform Screenshots

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