AEM provides flexibility and control
May 30, 2024
AEM provides flexibility and control

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Adobe Experience Manager Sites
- Adobe Experience Manager Assets
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Experience Manager
We use Adobe Experience Manager, both for our content management system for our website and also for emails using Campaign. AEM Is a vital tool in managing our web content. It provides the ability to create templates and structured components to build a unified design, branding, and consistent placement of navigation throughout sites and across the university, but also allows the flexibility to personalize and customize pages. Recently, we were able to use an HTML component to drop in just enough JavaScript to automate a sorting of cards for a feature on our site while still keeping the template and branding of the system in place. We use Campaign to send email to our faculty and workshop participants. The analytics we can see in Campaign’s reports help us determine message delivery and gives us insights on how to improve our messaging.
Pros
- Customized templates
- Flexible components
- Access management
- Asset management
- Scheduled publishing
Cons
- A find and replace feature that could be set to search the full stack or a specific hostname.
- The ability to use snippets of content across pages (like inheritance) but not in just one directory/folder.
- In the column view of site structure it would be nice to be able to search/sort by date.
- Allows editors with minimal HTML experience to meaningfully contribute to content management.
- Delivers a consistent style to users that helps them have a good UX across all departments and subsites.
- Allows managers to use the specialized talent of the programming team to create components and features.
- Allows team members to focus where they excel. Writers add the text content, artists/designers can provide and edit visual media, and programmers can write the code. Each can work independently.
- Being able to easily move and rename a page saved me lots of time when in the middle of a project I realized I needed to nest some content one directory lower.
- Flexibility of creating and using components gives web content managers the ability to customize their pages while maintaining a consistent look and feel across the enterprise.
- Being able to “lock up” some areas makes it easy to manage brand elements like the logo and standard enterprise-wide navigation.
Overall, I prefer AEM as an enterprise site management tool. It allows levels of access control and delegation, while leaving the server management and updates to a specialized team. I do miss the flexibility of being able to search and replace that I have in a WordPress site, and I miss the ability to have one file for redirects like I had in percussion.
Do you think Adobe Experience Manager delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Adobe Experience Manager's feature set?
Yes
Did Adobe Experience Manager live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Adobe Experience Manager go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Adobe Experience Manager again?
Yes

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