Adobe Experience Manager Review
November 18, 2016
Adobe Experience Manager Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Experience Manager
My company implements Adobe Experience Manager solutions on behalf of others.
- Give content editors an easy and intuitive interface to manage content. For example the WCM allows users to create and edit pages. The page editor allows the users to navigate the DAM and drag/drop images onto the page. Once done editing, they can submit the page into a workflow for manager review.
- Give managers the tools to establish an editorial workflow to better control what is published. Managers can create custom workflows, often with out of the box components (there is a workflow editor) to allow them to control the review and publishing of content.
- Based on Open Source so it is easier for developers to work with. There are at least 2 major OSS libraries out there, ACS Commons and WCM.IO.
- Out of the box integrations with many other systems, especially the Adobe Marketing Cloud.
- It is hard to find people with the skill to develop solutions on AEM.
- The TouchUI pales in comparison to the features found in the Classic UI. Developers have a hard time implementing solutions in the new Touch UI because the framework is lacking, where as in the Classic UI the framework is more robust. For example there are some out of the box classic UI widgets that allow developers to create key/value pair lists in dialogs. In touch ui that does not exists and developers are forced to implement custom solutions.
- It is based on open source, so a lot of the code base is out there (except the proprietary AEM stuff, i.e. WCM). This means that between versions of AEM, there are major changes (they are good at backward compatibility however). This could be a good thing, but may be a bad thing if your company is more sensitive to big changes that come hard and fast. There are people out there developing on AEM 6.2, as if it were still AEM 5.6. They don't even know how to take advantage of the new features.