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Pros
"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.""Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website.""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.""I've used several CMS tools, but Adobe Experience Manager is feature-rich, especially for web security and content management. It's more efficient to manage content on Adobe Experience Manager, and you can do a lot with it, such as updating content at any time, and on any platform, even from mobile or tablet. Adobe Experience Manager is still getting updated daily, and it's the best CMS tool in the market for me. I like that you can manage assets in Adobe Experience Manager. I also like that the solution has an analytics dashboard that shows you where the traffic comes from, how many clicks come from a specific location, the number of clicks and impressions, etc. Adobe Experience Manager can be accessed by other teams, for example, the digital media department of my company, so the solution can be used and updated per each team's requirement. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a web developer tool, as it also allows visibility tracking and has other uses. I also like that the GUI for Adobe Experience Manager is straightforward and catchy. It has separate folders and icons, so using Adobe Experience Manager isn't tough. The solution is straightforward to use and handle."

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"I would say they have a modern, flexible, agile content management system.""The most valuable features are its integration capabilities and advanced marketing suite."

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Cons
"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved.""The solution's pricing and stability could be improved.""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 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.""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.""Programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution."

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"This product needs an out of the box Intranet/Extranet Solution.""They don't have a lot of libraries, which is something that they can improve on."

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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."
  • "Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."
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  • "The licensing fees are probably about $100,000 USD per year."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website.
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing and stability could be improved.
    Top Answer:Adobe Experience Manager is used for user experience, product design, and user journeys.
    Top Answer:Absolutely! I can't stress enough how important marketing is for the digital experience you're giving to customers. If you want to reach your clients through multiple channels, each type of content… more »
    Top Answer:In my experience, Kentico has been a very flexible and easy-to-use content management system. Keep in mind that we haven't been using it for a while because our management decided to change DXPs for… more »
    Top Answer:Hello, I think Kentico will serve you well as a digital experience platform and especially for commerce purposes. We at my company have been using this feature of the DXP as well because we recently… more »
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    Also Known As
    Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud
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    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. 

    Kentico is a high-quality digital experience platform that allows companies and organizations to reach customers across different channels through its content management, digital marketing, and e-commerce features. Kentico offers easy-to-use applications that allow even beginners to create a working DXP that will benefit their organization as well as the users on their platform. Kentico also provides a way for companies to track the satisfaction of their customers through a detailed customer data platform that is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other data regulations. Companies can receive insight into different target groups within their customer base. This top-quality feature of Kentico helps businesses to adapt to the needs of their customers and make their DX more successful.

    Kentico Features

    Kentico’s value-added features include:

    • Content management: Page builder, option for structured content, digital asset management, multilingual content, workflows and versioning, multi-site management.

    • Digital marketing: Kentico offers companies a variety of features regarding the creation of successful digital marketing for their brands, ensuring the vast reach of their content. Features in this category include market automation and personalization, content management, email marketing, social marketing, recommendations, search, form builder, and SEO optimization.

    • Digital commerce: Shopping cart and checkout process, payment and shipping options, promotion and discounts, product information management and multi-store management, and commerce integration. To provide you with the ability to reach an international client base, Kentico also offers multilingual shopping.

    • Customer data: An efficient digital experience platform should be able to provide companies with the ability to track and analyze customer data to be able to act accordingly and improve its services to benefit clients. Kentico offers features that include contact management, segmentation, activity tracking, lead scoring, personas, and data protection, to ensure that the DXP complies with all data protection regulations.

    • Analytics: Kentico also offers features like A/B testing, web analytics, and reporting, to provide companies with data about performance of the DXP.

    • Platform: Headless API, deployment tools, MVC development, and cloud deployment help businesses build and maintain their digital experience platforms.

    • Integrations: There are various integration features that this DXP provides for its clients, including out-of-the-box integrations, translation management, and integration bus.

    Kentico Benefits

    The Kentico digital experience platform offers its users the following benefits:

    • Easy content management
    • Ability to maximize ROI
    • Option to launch a DXP with low to no code
    • Digital experience maturity
    • Solutions for multichannel marketing

    Reviews from Real Users

    Kentico is a modern, flexible and agile content management system, according to the President at a tech services company that uses the DXP for UI and website development.

    Sample Customers
    Metra
    Gibson Musical Instruments, Mazda, Segway, Twinings, Ingram Micro, Allergan, Kingspan
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization41%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Real Estate/Law Firm13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise60%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise46%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise45%

    Adobe Experience Manager is ranked 3rd in Web Content Management with 15 reviews while Kentico is ranked 11th in Web Content Management. Adobe Experience Manager is rated 7.8, while Kentico is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Adobe Experience Manager writes "A powerful product that can be used for user experience, product design, and user journeys". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kentico writes "The advanced marketing suite has helped us to establish our US business". Adobe Experience Manager is most compared with Adobe CQ5, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, WordPress, SDL Tridion DX and SharePoint, whereas Kentico is most compared with WordPress, HubSpot CMS Hub, Sitecore Experience Platform and Liferay Digital Experience Platform.

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