Adobe Experience Manager vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

• Ease of use for content authors by drag and drop components.
• Easy to manage users and permissions through grouping.
• Built in assets management.

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• OpenSource: Liferay is open source portal framework so developers can easily extend or customize it for their organization or department based on their requirement.
• OutOfBox: Liferay Portal is not only a portal platform. It also provides a 60+ applications and tools included in the form of portlets. These portlets are available out of the box or in the form of plugins.
• MarketPlace: Liferay has it own market place (i.e app store) where developer or contributors are contributing their ideas (application) so community can use it freely (some are paid).
• Enterprise-Ready Portal Solution: It is fully ready to support mission-critical, enterprise applications in an environment configured for multiple redundancies and 24/7 up-times.
• High Availability and High Performance: Liferay Portal has been tested to support more than 3,000 concurrent transactions (33,000 simultaneous users) on a single 8-core application server, with mean login times under one second and maximum ½ throughput of 79+ logins per second. Liferay Portal has proven to handle millions of page views and over 1.3 million users.
• Liferay Portal is also deployable to the Cloud and virtual server environments and ensures high availability and performance with: Hardware/Software Load Balancing, HTTP Failover, Session Replication
• Distributed Cache using Lightweight Multicast Protocol
• Terracotta, Oracle RAC, and other scalability solutions

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• Components were introduced to reduce the development & authoring time by reusing them. With some clients, it worked very well because they had page structure and content like that. But if you have UI requirements that can not support component re-usability then your life will be difficult. You will end up creating more and more components in the hope that they will be utilized one day some where on some page... Although you can achieve re-usability by creating smaller customizable component but then again it will increase your development time. In a Nutshell, you will not save development time.
• Osgi was a great concept. AEM Developer used to write the most of business logic in them but due to adaptation of micro-services, now everybody wants to implement business logic in there instead of AEM internal OSGi. If your architecture had micro services then power of Osgi is useless for you, you will just use 10-20% of it which will bring no big value.
• License of AEM is super costly, not every organization can afford it. Once you have implemented AEM, it will be hard to get rid of it. Getting rid will mean another investment.
• Like other products, AEM also releases new versions. Upgrades to new versions never happens smoothly. Means organization needs to spend more money to upgrade the servers.
• You need a big infrastructure to deploy AEM server setup. Each setup needs at least 3 machines, one for author, one for publisher and one for dispatcher. This means spending more money on maintenance.
• TouchUI is confusing sometimes for everyone i.e business, authors, developers.

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• Portal Security: It has good security model but in few areas it requires improvement.
• Encrypt LDAP passwords on import
• Log in should be via SSL by default
• Upgrade/patch process should include an alert in the control panel
• Add virus scan for uploaded files
• Server Administration
• Garbage Collector should be able to be scheduled to run from the control panel
• Reindexing should be able to be scheduled from the control panel
• Provide GUI to change the default Liferay favorite icon to any desired logo
• LDAP mapping GUI to custom Liferay attributes
• Configurations: Less configurations from properties files and provide more GUI to update from control panel.

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• A few clients see no ROI but few are heavily dependent and align on it.. Mixed reviews from clients

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• Liferay scales well both in terms of performance but also in terms of operational self-service and eases the burden on IT.
• Compliance, Marketing and Client Engagement teams can create and modify content and submit it for approval. This results in lower operational costs in the areas of new private-label sites and maintenance of current sites because, prior to Liferay, site content management required expensive IT software engineering resources to implement compliance and marketing content changes.

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