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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/ALiferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.N/A

    MODX

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe MODX Digital Experience Platform provides everything you need to build, host, and maintain amazing websites your way. The vendor says that with MODX CMS and cloud hosting, users have complete control over their creative vision and the experiences they deliver, without restriction or compromise. They can focus more on building great digital experiences, and less on hosting and maintaining. If you ever need help, MODX Professionals are available worldwide and direct support from…

    $39

    per month

    Pricing
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)MODX
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Base
    $39
    per month
    Pro
    $99
    per month
    Business
    $349
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)MODX
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.PAYMENT FORMS MODX Cloud accepts major credit cards and PayPal for your hosting subscription. We can only accept check (cheque) payments on the Enterprise Plan, annually. CANCELLATION You may cancel your MODX Cloud account at any time. Before you cancel you'll be reminded to backup and remove all your live websites and then follow the instructions for cancellation. If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. REFUNDS If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. All other cancellations will be effective at the end of your current billing period. We do not provide refunds for remaining days or months on monthly or annual billing.
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    Features
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)MODX
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and MODX
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    MODX
    9.9
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and MODX
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    MODX
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    API00 Ratings6.13 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and MODX
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    MODX
    9.4
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.83 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and MODX
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    MODX
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)MODX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)MODX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Liferay, Inc.
    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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    MODX
    [MODX is well suited for] all websites, from blogs to corporate sites. It is fast scalable and really good. A small site can be build really fast, and a large site can be made extremely scalable. A website redesign is easy to implement with a new template, without having to redo the content. It got great user groups and users and back-office access can be completely customized.
    While ecommerce is possible with some really good plugins I would only use MODX with ecommerce for sites where ecommerce is not the primary role. For pure ecommerce sites rather use a dedicated system like e.g. PrestaShop (i would say the same thing with other ecommerce plugins e.g. WP woo commerce don't do it unless its a site add on.)
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    Pros
    Liferay, Inc.
    • Personalization
    • Business to client relationship
    • Customer management is better.
    Incentivized
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    MODX
    • Ease of use - the MODX platform is very easy to use for someone who may have limited experience in content management.
    • Content blocks - the content blocks within MODX add to the usability and customization of the website being managed.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Liferay, Inc.
    • Harder to get started
    • Enterprise level of options can cause confusion
    • Development documentation could be better
    Incentivized
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    MODX
    • The user interface was confusing at times.
    • Not a plug and play CMS system.
    • The site manager doesn't always run fast.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Liferay, Inc.
    We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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    MODX
    It is the CMS we use the most, not because we know it well but because we literally tried many of other CMS and this one did it for us.
    However having said we really do not like the one shoe fits all approach. E..g for eCommerce we usually use PrestaShop etc. if a specialized CMS can do a task rather use that.
    However for a general CMS [MODX] is hard to beat.
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    Usability
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    MODX
    Great and easy to use for both the coder and the end user. Especially if setup correctly by the coder.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    MODX
    We have not had it go down due to bugs etc. especially when comparing it to other cms out there.
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    Performance
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    MODX
    Damn its fast. really good page speed out of the box.
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    Support Rating
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    MODX
    Great community support on slack.
    If you have a paid plugin great support also esp from modmore
    If you have cloud hosting MODX support is fast and all servers are optimized for MODX
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    Implementation Rating
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    MODX
    Good system
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    Alternatives Considered
    Liferay, Inc.
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) feels more professional than other similar products I tried or used. With this, I mainly mean the look or aspect when you are editing, setting or configuring anything in the platform, wether you are setting users, roles, creating new pages, adding components to them, or even configuring server or instance related configurations.
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    MODX
    The other company that we looked into was WordPress and all of the features that it offered our organization. What MODX offered to us from development to everyday use just made more sense for our organization as a whole. WordPress is still a great CMS platform, just not exactly what we were looking for.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Liferay, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    MODX
    Very scalable. e.g. in the [MODX] manager you can manage multiple websites at once without having to login else where. it is very convenient and this way resources and be easily managed and shared.
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    Return on Investment
    Liferay, Inc.
    • Its high scalability and flexibility has allowed us to include all essential solutions to meet our business needs while preserving the originality of the brand and helping us to improve the quality of our processes and services within the same friendly and unified environment.
    • This powerful platform has allowed us to keep the efforts of all our units aligned, from sales, marketing, operations, support and customer service, in a solid collaborative environment.
    Incentivized
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    MODX
    • Increased security permissions of the users and freelancers who worked on our website.
    • Gave our developers the ability to create any page that they wanted with custom code.
    • Hindered our Marketing team's ability to stay on top of our content strategy with changes.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) features a unified look and feel that makes site administration a breeze.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) comes with blogs out-of-the-box, designed to give enterprises a slick blogging experience similar to what they're used to with consumer platforms.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.

    MODX Screenshots

    Screenshot of MODX Manager InterfaceScreenshot of SEO Management - page levelProduct screenshotScreenshot of Easy editing landing pageScreenshot of Edit files directlyScreenshot of Create & edit custom fields