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Drupal vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Sitecore Digital Marketing System comparison

 

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Web Content Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Drupal6.0%
WordPress Business-Enterprise12.8%
Adobe Experience Manager10.8%
Other70.4%
Web Content Management
Web Content Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform7.5%
WordPress Business-Enterprise12.8%
Adobe Experience Manager10.8%
Other68.9%
Web Content Management
Marketing Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Sitecore Digital Marketing System1.3%
Microsoft Dynamics CRM21.3%
SAP CRM18.1%
Other59.3%
Marketing Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user982032 - PeerSpot reviewer
A good product that helps me to manage complex digital solutions
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.
Bhavin Panchani - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use
My company has 20 people who work on the product. I know that my company has around seven customers who use the tool. I recommend the product depending on the use cases of the person who wants to buy it. If your use case is to develop a public site, customer portal, self-service, or intranet, I would say that you should go for the Liferay Digital Experience Platform. If your use cases are related to e-commerce, you need to evaluate your use cases against Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and you can use it if you find it to be a good fit. Otherwise, you should search for other platforms.
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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

"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."
"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."
"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"We chose Liferay because it is open-source and that we can make any number of users apply, register into the system and use the system, as opposed to other solutions where the cost is based on user licenses. This is one of the most attractive features."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"The solution is easy to install."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"Manageability is very good and probably the most valuable part of a tool of this type. There is a little more of a learning curve than you have with a simple tool, but a business user can learn to manage the system as an administrator very easily."
"It allows us to arrange and develop new ideas, then incorporate them into the portal. We can create a one stop information center, so people can access the information from one window."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to create web pages with ease."
 

Cons

"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."
"Digital experience features like target, segmentation, and campaign management have a long way to go."
"I think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems."
"It is a little bit simplified."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"It could be improved in terms of adding filters to some of the rules. Therefore, you can retain how long a document would need to stay in an archive."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"In a few scenarios, Sitecore DMS works slowly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like to see better pricing."
"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive. What Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers at its current price can be considered something that is worth the money."
"It is a bit expensive."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
17%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Hospitality Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
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Questions from the Community

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What is the best feature of Liferay?
A tricky question because it'd depend on what your focus will be on Liferay as a digital experience platform. I mean...
Is Liferay suitable for complete beginners?
A non-developer here, and frankly, a little bit of a tech beginner in general. My company branched out into digital e...
What is Liferay’s capacity for backup?
Yes, I think you can trust the cloud feature of Liferay pretty well. It gives you the option to back up your data as...
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 generati...
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...
 

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