Adobe Experience Manager vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Adobe Experience Manager

CQ is best suited for multi-site projects that require frequent updates or new pages spun up very quickly and with the same quality as the rest of your site. It's also a great fit if you have extensive media libraries: pictures, videos, etc. The Digital Asset Manager is very powerful and if it's coupled with a CDN, it can be itself a great solution for that particular purpose alone.Key questions to ask would be:- How comfortable will our authors be with this publishing platform? What are their needs and wants? Can CQ accommodate them?- How skilled is our development team to take a project like CQ? The best of CQ comes when is customized but it will come with a price. Time and talent will be necessary to tweak it to the right fit.- Do we have enough time and resources to allow our technical and non-technical stuff to learn? Can we afford all the oficial training levels?

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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Liferay Portal is a framework which comes with a fine grained security/permission model, (Web) Content Management, Authentication and Authorization, outbox portlets with different features to manage content or users. So if any business application has below questions then I can recommend not to use Liferay as a platform.

Application is big but not content or user driven.
Application with few static contents.
Application with batch transactions(DB) i.e. insert , update db records in batch.
Application with ERP capabilities.
Application with Big Data support.

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Varun Shah

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MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Adobe Experience Manager

8.1

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

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Role-based user permissions

8.1

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Adobe Experience Manager

7.7

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

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API

7.5

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Internationalization / multi-language

7.9

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Adobe Experience Manager

7.1

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

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WYSIWYG editor

8.3

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Code quality / cleanliness

6.9

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Admin section

7.2

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Page templates

6.9

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Library of website themes

5.8

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Mobile optimization / responsive design

8.0

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Publishing workflow

7.8

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Form generator

6.0

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Adobe Experience Manager

6.3

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

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Content taxonomy

7.2

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SEO support

6.9

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Bulk management

5.4

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Availability / breadth of extensions

6.5

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Community / comment management

5.3

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Pros

One central location to manage all sites.
All assets can be easily accessed, managed, and published from one central location.
Easy for authors to create and publish content.

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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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Cons

Adobe CQ could do a better job at providing more intuitive user and developer documentation

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Ali Alkhafaji

VP, Technology and Architecture

ValtechInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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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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MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 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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CQ5 Developer

TravelocityLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 51-200 employees

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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)10.0

Based on 1 answer

We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.

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MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

Adobe Experience Manager10.0

Based on 2 answers

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

Based on 2 answers

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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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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Alfresco: Very good CMS but not good for presentation or front end technology.Portofino: Not much scalable and high available CMS.eXo Platform: Slowly growing in market but not mature community like Liferay and less support from community.Microsoft SharePoint: Proprietary Software from Microsoft. Nuxeo ECM Platform: Picking up the market but not mature community and support from the community.

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MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Increased employee efficiency - Once the components were created the content authors could knock out a ton of pages in one day.
Customer changes were easier to fix.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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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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Varun Shah

Software Engineer

MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 501-1000 employees

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