Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) vs. Sidekick

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.

If you are a professional agency that requires access to a ton of Saas applications like email, accounting, CRM, websites, etc, then this browser (Sidekick) application is the ticket for you. If you like a ton of features for free, this is not for you. I feel It is breaking my bank account. :(

• Personalization
• Business to client relationship
• Customer management is better.

Incentivized

• Makes it easy to find and hide applications
• Makes it easy to focus on productive work
• It is easy to configure
• It has tons of features to make online work productive

• Harder to get started
• Enterprise level of options can cause confusion
• Development documentation could be better

Incentivized

• Group applications on the left side of the part (like categories on the bar)
• Make it hard to close a tab when on a session (warn with a "did you mean to do that?")
• Be able to save the session while live.
• Protect all tabs within a saved session without making them little tabs.

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

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.

When comparing these two, Sidekick was way easier to use and configure. I got confused immediately when trying to set up workspaces in VIVALDI. Sidekick reminded me of ClickUp and was set up within the hour.

• 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

• Work productivity has increased by at least 10%
• Enjoyment of working with a ton of applications has increased
• There is no longer fear or losing valuable and important work