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Adobe Experience Manager vs Sitecore Digital Marketing System comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (7th), Web Content Management (3rd), Enterprise Social Software (5th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)
Sitecore Digital Marketing ...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Marketing Management (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Adobe Experience Manager and Sitecore Digital Marketing System aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Adobe Experience Manager is designed for Enterprise Content Management and holds a mindshare of 3.3%, up 3.0% compared to last year.
Sitecore Digital Marketing System, on the other hand, focuses on Marketing Management, holds 1.2% mindshare, up 0.9% since last year.
Enterprise Content Management
Marketing Management
 

Featured Reviews

Thomas Becker - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
VK
Advanced features and personalization improve content management experience
I primarily use Sitecore Digital Marketing System for content creation and management. This includes handling text, videos, and images displayed on websites, providing an interface where everything is presented seamlessly to the user on the front end Sitecore Digital Marketing System is a…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features of Adobe Experience Manager include its capability to manage content and create reusable fragments."
"Easy to work with the solution."
"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."
"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."
"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."
"Adobe Experience Manager is pretty stable."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to create web pages with ease."
 

Cons

"The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies."
"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."
"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."
"Adobe's technical support is so-so."
"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."
"Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user face issues in AEM as a Cloud Service."
"Adobe Experience Manager could improve by allowing the reuse of components like a progress bar across multiple pages to make the development process more efficient."
"In a few scenarios, Sitecore DMS works slowly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."
"It's really costly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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.
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...
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...
What do you like most about Sitecore Digital Marketing System?
The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to create web pages with ease.
What needs improvement with Sitecore Digital Marketing System?
Sitecore Digital Marketing System can be improved by incorporating more AI capabilities. AI should assist in generating appropriate content automatically and enhancing searches, such as locating sp...
What is your primary use case for Sitecore Digital Marketing System?
I primarily use Sitecore Digital Marketing System ( /products/sitecore-digital-marketing-system-reviews ) for content creation and management. This includes handling text, videos, and images displa...
 

Also Known As

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