Adobe Experience Manager vs Oracle Beehive comparison

Adobe and Oracle are both solutions in the Enterprise Social Software category. Adobe is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6, while Oracle is ranked #21. Adobe holds a 3.0% mindshare in ESS, compared to Oracle’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Adobe Experience Manager

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96% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

Adobe Experience Manager

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Oracle Beehive and Adobe Experience Manager compete in collaboration and content management. Adobe Experience Manager appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and long-term ROI.

Features: Oracle Beehive focuses on unified collaboration with messaging and conferencing, task management, and team workspace capabilities. Adobe Experience Manager offers advanced content management, personalization capabilities, and digital asset management. It is ideal for organizations needing robust content solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adobe Experience Manager provides a flexible deployment model with dedicated customer support, ensuring reliability and ease of use. In contrast, Oracle Beehive's deployment is less agile, potentially causing complexities.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Beehive features a lower setup cost, appealing to budget-conscious organizations, but its ROI is limited due to its feature set. Adobe Experience Manager, despite a higher initial investment, offers better long-term ROI thanks to its comprehensive functionality, making it valuable for extensive digital experiences.

To learn more, read our detailed Adobe Experience Manager vs. Oracle Beehive Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (5th), Web Content Management (1st), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)

Oracle Beehive

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

21st

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 3.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Beehive is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Social Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Adobe Experience Manager	3.0%
Oracle Beehive	1.8%
Other	95.2%

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reviewer2771634

Senior Technical Program Manager /Senior Lead Solution Architech- Product Technology & Gen AI at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Have faced challenges with setup and pricing but have found flexibility and support helpful

Adobe Experience Manager needs more optimization. The frequency of components where we have vitals of a page or an app needs to be optimized because these are heavy Java codes along with some AEM developments. The code language should be optimized or they should have some string functions or web plugins to create a lighter version rather than implementing large amounts of code lines. They should start implementing industry best practices which are not currently offered. We perform our internal development for customization at our own pace. We have multiple frameworks that help us in various ways. We are advancing in terms of AI integration. We have already started our own POCs before Adobe implements these features.

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it_user1127034

President of Operations for Montreal Area at Transitions service conseil

Has an excellent Database Management System and high level of services, performance, and availability

We will need to implement prototypes in our data warehouse. We will have to implement and to support some different types of files like video, audio, pictures, and non-structured data. So we are working on that. We would like better integration for data security. We will have many partners, eight or nine external partners. We will still use our system to upgrade our warehouse. But with many partners, the data warehouse will not be unique. It will be a distributed data platform. So we would need and we are looking for many services to better manage the integrity and the use of all of the data. We are receiving all these data from trains and trucks that are working on the highways and on the roads. We will have to implement some facilities to adequately use all this data at a really high volume coming from IoT. So we are not choosing that and we will have to implement some services. Right now, we don't have any monitoring. We do have major density and access control, but when a user is in our environment, we do not have the services to really measure what he is doing. I will have to report in three months on the project and its evolution. I don't have the financials and the best practices regarding the financial models with costs and benefits for a major data platform with many partners. We will know what it will cost, but we will have to define some benefits because when I will be at the treasury board asking for a major project, they will ask me what would the benefits from that will be. I'm doing research into best practices. I know that the U.S. government has a platform like the one we want to build. It is a bigger one, from what I understand. I think that the state of California and maybe the state of New York has the type of platform we want to put in place. I would like to present more than just an article. I would like to have a reference model, to really be on target by showing the benefits that are possible down the road.

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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."

"Adobe Experience Manager has made document management smoother because many people use Adobe, making it simpler for me to modify and resend PDF documents."

"The most valuable features of Adobe Experience Manager include its capability to manage content and create reusable fragments."

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

"Adobe Experience Manager is one of the best enterprise-level content management and digital experience platforms available."

"I like the profiling and segmentation."

"Over the past two to three years, the organization has grown rapidly with Adobe Experience Manager as a best and supportive tool."

"The best feature is the experience fragment; if you want to replicate content across multiple websites with 1,000 or 20,000 pages, this feature helps accomplish it in a fraction of seconds."

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"We have really high level of services, performance, availability, and it is stable. Everything works together really well."

"This solution has automated protection from downtime. High-availability is built into every component, and the backups are completely automated."

Cons

"There is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be transferred or synced to the production environment, there is no direct way of doing the sync."

"I assigned a rating of eight because there are certain limitations we must consider, and there are restrictions in Adobe Experience Manager that we cannot resolve."

"The licensing plus implementation and maintenance cost is very expensive, making it not suitable for small organizations, and the setup is very complex."

"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."

"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 Experience Manager needs more optimization. The frequency of components where we have vitals of a page or an app needs to be optimized because these are heavy Java codes along with some AEM developments."

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

"The licenses are very expensive."

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"The price of licenses is high and should be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's really costly."

"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."

"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."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?

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

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What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?

Moving forward, if Adobe implements AI tools wherein a vendor or a stakeholder comes in and gives instructions, they could develop a page or a whole site accordingly in a few minutes or a few days,...

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What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

Adobe Experience Manager is used for developing components, content management, and developing experience fragments and content fragments. Assets are used for the DAM for storing files and document...

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Also Known As

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

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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.

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Oracle Beehive provides an integrated set of communication and collaboration services built on a single scalable, secure, enterprise-class platform. Beehive allows users to access their collaborative information through familiar tools while enabling IT to consolidate infrastructure and implement a centrally managed, secure, and compliant collaboration environment built on Oracle technology.

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