Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) vs. Plone

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Score 6.3 out of 10
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Liferay 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
Plone
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.N/A
Pricing
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Plone
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.
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Community Pulse
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Plone
Considered Both Products
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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 …
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
I selected Liferay Experience Digital Platform(DXP) so that I have the use personally.
I use this as this platform have a grear content management that is to be noted.
It takes us to customer acquisition as a much higher level.
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Great choice for Java based enterprise organizations. Liferay is on the heavier side of CMS systems, and it excels in larger projects but is a waste of time for smaller projects.
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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.
Plone
Chose Plone
DRUPAL: Plone is cheaper, so with drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve
WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone.
Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and …
Chose Plone
Since 2004, when we first started using Plone, here hasn't been any feature or request or system that we couldn't have been done with Plone.

Sometimes there have been cases, where we pilot or test other workflow-based systems, but usually the problems come with licences …
Chose Plone
WordPress,Joomla,Drupal,MS SharePoint
Chose Plone
Plone is much harder to learn then Wordpress. Development in Wordpress is learnt in day's, where development in Plone really takes years to get to the full depth. That said, once you're able to develop in Plone, is it a rock solid system, with readable code. In my experience …
Chose Plone
Plone may be more complicated than Wordpress when considering organizational factors and overall use, but for a reason. It has further capabilities than Wordpress and other content management systems. It takes slight training to learn, but it provides great knowledge that many …
Chose Plone
I did not select Plone. It was the choice of the organization we were doing the contract work for. I did not look into other products.
Chose Plone
Among the open source CMSs Plone is most reliable to develop large and complex application because is codebase is maintained with an object oriented approach where each parts is strictly independent from the others. So you can deeply customize it and it is still secure and …
Chose Plone
Plone is really almost the only truly enterprise opensource CMS. Most of its opensource competitors cant compete in this area, while they may have some nice editing tools, and some cool features, Plone stands our for its security, scalability, version control, highly …
Chose Plone
The security is much better with Plone than most of its competitors. It is also written in Python which makes it a better target for internal software development than PHP (which as a language is quite broken). Plone's component architecture makes our own extensions more …
Chose Plone
Plone is highly customizable as are the products above. But Plone offers many other design features and standards which others don't. Plone also has the largest open source community providing new modules and ideas for you to add to plone.
Features
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Plone
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Ratings
Plone
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Plone
10.0
Ratings
25% above category average
API00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Ratings
Plone
9.4
Ratings
19% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Ratings
Plone
9.4
Ratings
23% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Plone
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
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Availability
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Performance
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Support Rating
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8.0
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In-Person Training
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Online Training
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10.0
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Ease of integration
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Product Scalability
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User Testimonials
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Plone
Likelihood to Recommend
Lifeary Digital Experience Platform(DXP) is well suited for long meeting, personalisation of data , customer data and customer management in any circumstances. The things in here that are less appropriate are that the picturiastion will be much better. Have individual databases for individual programs and the list of client should be listed systematically.
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The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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Pros
  • User management
  • Security and access management
  • WYSIWYG
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  • Rock-solid technology stack. The python/Zope/Plone stack is as solid as anything else out there.
  • Highly customizable TTW, if needed, via the Zope Management Interface, or Diazo XSL-transform theme design.
  • Good support from core developers, lots of solid add-ons which address just about any needs.
  • Amazingly customizable workflow, permissions and security management.
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Cons
  • It requires technical expertise and the right people to achieve customization.
  • There is little documentation available for certain functions that make them a bit complex to master.
  • The SSL function for login.
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  • Bullets and formatting sometimes make it difficult to add text to an existing paragraph. The 'code' button is useful in those cases, but only to those who know html.
  • Sometimes the pages don't save correctly and you use information.
  • Uploading and displaying images is a bit too much work.
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Likelihood to Renew
We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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Plone has been used for more than ten years and it already has an interesting roadmap for its future. I do not know any other open source CMS with the same story of continuous evolution and security track. Interesting new features are added at each release and new modules are created continuously
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Usability
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Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small.
The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
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Reliability and Availability
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Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
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Performance
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Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
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Support Rating
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There are not too many Plone companies in the world. But the ones who are, are high level professionals
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In-Person Training
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I have been participating Plone training and the trainers have always been professional. Materials were good and the instructions clear
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Online Training
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Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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Alternatives Considered
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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Plone is much harder to learn then Wordpress. Development in Wordpress is learnt in day's, where development in Plone really takes years to get to the full depth. That said, once you're able to develop in Plone, is it a rock solid system, with readable code. In my experience Wordpress websites need to be updated so often, and the code feels bad organised. I have been building Wordpress websites, choosing Wordpress only when the client has almost no money. But I can never deliver the quality I want to deliver when using Wordpress. Plone does offer the possibility to deliver professional websites. As for Joomla, in the past I have done some Joomla development, but the whole CMS-paradigm could not settle in my brain. Being a web developer for over 15 years now, Joomla always felt contra-intuitive. Let alone the task of teaching this to my clients. Plone is now my only choice. It gives me a fast development-cycle, a user-friendly CMS and a rock stable and very secure system.
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Scalability
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Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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Return on Investment
  • Can reduce IT costs eventually.
  • Increases upfront costs due to technical knowledge needed for initial setup and maintenance.
  • Hard to analyze ROI until after it's totally implemented.
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  • We thought that tapping into the user/content management tooling of Plone would be a good and useful thing, however it turned out to be a major pain to tie into those parts of Plone.
  • I wish we would have built the extra functionality completely outside Plone and found a way to integrate it. It would have been much easier.
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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.