Adobe Experience Manager vs Plone comparison

Adobe and Plone are both solutions in the Web Content Management category. Adobe is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5, while Plone is ranked #19. Adobe holds a 12.9% mindshare in WCM, compared to Plone’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Plone users who would recommend it.

Adobe Experience Manager

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

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

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager

Ranking in Web Content Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (7th), Enterprise Social Software (5th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)

Plone

Ranking in Web Content Management

19th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 12.9%, down from 13.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plone is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

29%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

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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?

The content is created as Adobe Experience Manager has an author, publisher, and dispatcher. However, there is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be t...

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What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

We are working on digital experience platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager or Sitefinity. It's for powering their customer-facing website, not the transaction portal, but the brochureware port...

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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.

Adobe

An open source content, knowledge, and document management system for intranets, portals, and web communities. Technology neutral.

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Sample Customers

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The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, The Mountaineers, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Onkopedia, Regione Emilia Romagna, Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, University of Leuven, University of Jyv_skyl_, Denso Auto

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