Adobe Experience Manager vs Drupal vs SharePoint comparison

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We performed a comparison between Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal, and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 10.8%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Drupal is 5.9%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 10.3%, down from 12.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SharePoint	10.3%
Adobe Experience Manager	10.8%
Drupal	5.9%
Other	73.0%

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Featured Reviews

Thomas Becker

Managing Partner(Austria) at a integrator with 11-50 employees

Impressive integration of customer behavior with an easy setup and okay support

I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia Working with big companies, I help them either consider setting up a new content management system or address issues they might have with their existing…

A good product that helps me to manage complex digital solutions

it_user982032

Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

My advice to others would be that Drupal is not only a CMS, you need to learn the Drupal fundamentals before to start the project. Drupal is a handy tool whenever you work on a digital infrastructure broad project and not only a simple website. So if you have a big project, you can use Drupal. But if you have a small website, like a blog or simple website, my advice would be not to use Drupal, because Drupal is too complex and the cost to maintain the platform can be too high, related to the value of your website, for example. If you have a website with a big product catalog, for example, in many languages and in many countries in the world, then Drupal is good. But if you have a simple website, like a portfolio or five page-website, you can use many other technologies that'd be simple to maintain and implement. On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Drupal an eight. In the next release, I would like to see basic page buttons and better integration with the analytics platform. A drag and drop function to create simple pages will also be handy. For example, if a customer wants to create a landing page, it should be easy for him or her to do so. I would also like to see better translation management.

Collaborative work benefits while user-friendliness challenges persist

Madhur D'silva

Lead Consultant at Eviden

The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its user interface, which is very easy to use. I do not have to be very technical to use it. Its rights management capabilities and ability to restrict access to certain people are also very useful. Furthermore, I can access SharePoint from any device, whether it is a phone or laptop, which is very convenient.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"If you want to use content in a mobile application and you want the content in some other application, you can simply expose it from the CMS to different clients or different systems. It's easy. On top of that, the technology underlying AEM is open-source and is very powerful like Apache Sling and JCR."

"I like the profiling and segmentation."

"I like the native applications such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform. Because of these, it's very easy to connect and obtain reports on how my website is doing, how many have visited it, how frequently, etc. The multiple publisher concept is one of the best parts of this solution."

"Easy to work with the solution."

"Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them."

"The search capability in Adobe Experience Manager is superior, as search capabilities are determined by the metadata, and it also has metadata automation using AI."

"We use a part of the solution called Acquia. The personalization portion of this is the most valuable aspect fo the solution."

"It is good for big projects."

"You can build websites on it very quickly."

"The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS."

"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."

"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."

"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."

"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."

"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."

"SharePoint acts as a version control system, allowing easy recovery of past document versions."

"Tech support tops off as excellent."

"It has made us faster and more efficient."

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Cons

"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved."

"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."

"The latest trend is to render everything in the client-side framework. For example, SPA or single page application. This is a feature that needs improvement. The cloud deployment pipeline needs to be improved as well."

"Adobe's technical support is so-so."

"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."

"In comparison to other CMS products, Adobe Experience Manager is missing some capabilities such as proper versioning or a better versioning system and backend connectivity. If something is deleted in AEM, the user cannot recover it. You have to call technical support, and they will need to recover the whole instance. So, it's really difficult. For example, if you delete a page, you cannot recover it. There should be an option to recover it. In AEM, you have to go to the previous state of the instance itself or the virtual machine, and you have to restore everything, which is not good."

"The licenses are very expensive."

"Many people complain about the price as it's one of the most expensive tools."

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"I think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems."

"Digital experience features like target, segmentation, and campaign management have a long way to go."

"It is a little bit simplified."

"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."

"SharePoint is not always intuitive to use and can be overwhelming for non-tech-savvy users."

"Microsoft support could be better, especially for enterprise troubleshooting. They require a lot of logs and often rely on online support, which does not meet customer expectations."

"The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people."

"The product must provide more automation."

"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."

"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."

"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."

"When working on a website with SharePoint Online, not many people can edit simultaneously. If I am editing one section, my colleague cannot edit it at the same time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."

"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."

"It's really costly."

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."

"I would like to see better pricing."

"The pricing is competitive."

"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."

"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."

"It is very expensive."

"The pricing works for us."

"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

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Aug 23, 2013

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Government

16%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	79
Midsize Enterprise	37
Large Enterprise	80

Questions from the Community

It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.

What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?

Improvements could be made, though it's difficult to pinpoint because Adobe Experience Manager has been part of my wo...

What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

I am on the Digital Asset Management team and we coordinate projects through Workfront, tracking assets through Workf...

What do you like most about SharePoint?

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The search feature is valuable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?

As SharePoint is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, the pricing is acceptable.

What needs improvement with SharePoint?

Not with SharePoint specifically, but overall with the software or tools from Microsoft, I think there are areas that...

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Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud, Adobe CQ5

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SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Overview

Adobe Communique 5 (Adobe CQ5), currently manifested as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a web-based content management system which is developed to help businesses in offering high-end digital experience to their customers.

Adobe

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications

SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

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Sample Customers

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BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously

Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.