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HCL Digital Experience vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

HCL Digital Experience
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (6th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (30th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) category, the mindshare of HCL Digital Experience is 4.6%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 9.5%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform9.5%
HCL Digital Experience4.6%
Other85.9%
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user677694 - PeerSpot reviewer
Responsable Technique IT at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's easy to customize security access for all resources or content.
Design which contents do you want integrate to your IBM portal. Evaluate constraints for each integration and solve them by technology choices included in this product. They are a lot of solution proposed by IBM portal products Choose if you want a premise solution or a cloud solution ( 2 solutions are advantages and disadvantages)
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E-Governance Head at Creant Technologies
Optimizing digital presence with customizable design and seamless integration
The main benefits that Liferay Digital Experience Platform brings to the table are numerous. First is rapid application development and many features. Features such as content management and document management make your life easy; workflow management is also present. Workflow can be designed and derived. Form development and everything is very smooth and easy to deliver to the end customer, and you can find many features in one box. You have blogs, wikis, and everything with out-of-box functionality. My experience with actionable insights is positive; they help in refining content strategies. The content creation is helpful. For external content creation, I use headless CMS APIs for Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and headless APIs for content creation are also available. My thoughts on the integration capabilities are that integration is seamless. You have headless APIs where you can integrate seamlessly with any other application such as LDAP or SSO, or you can also integrate with different external systems. You have an SAP connector; everything is available. Liferay Digital Experience Platform's open source flexibility has helped in customizing functionalities for the specific needs of my customers as it is a highly flexible application that can be optimized. My advice for other organizations considering Liferay Digital Experience Platform is that if it's available, we need to improve on the performance, which is currently what we are seeing. Otherwise, earlier Service Builder was acceptable. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Liferay Digital Experience Platform a 9.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Workflow to manage page and content with validation step is great and it's easy to customize security access for all resources or content."
"Compared to other big players in portal platforms, Liferay's pricing is very competitive, and remember, the latest version of Liferay is not just a portal framework, but it is a digital experience platform which offers way more."
"Compared to other platforms the initial setup is not very complex."
"Initial setup is as easy as downloading, unpacking and starting."
"As of now, the technology is up-to-date and fulfills all essential requirements."
"You can create and manage dozens of sites with a single installation of Liferay, without a single line of Java code."
"You can create and manage dozens of sites with a single installation of Liferay, without a single line of Java code."
"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."
"If you are looking for a complete portal solution with security and ease of set-up, then go for it."
 

Cons

"Customer service is medium for quality and answer, low for resolving problem."
"There are still some parts where Liferay can improve: Document library: Allow you to view and preview all popular types of files Auditing capability"
"Documentation needs improvement."
"However, it is not very strong yet to be used for completely marketing-oriented implementations."
"Major upgrades switch the Liferay framework core structure dramatically in EVERY occasion."
"Social areas and capabilities need improvement."
"The current version is good, but one problem is with objects where the load takes much time if the records are increasing."
"Setup was not straightforward. The Community Edition was a bit complicated and they should fix the code."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"It is a bit expensive."
"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."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Government
16%
Venture Capital & Private Equity Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
 

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, if for me the experience management is the best feature, for someone with diff...
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 experience a bit later than we should have but picking Liferay as a DXP was one o...
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 well as restore it and that's pretty vital for any digital experience platform....
 

Also Known As

IBM Digital Experience Manager, IBM WebSphere Portal
Liferay DXP
 

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Sample Customers

Skypicker, Inventive, Factor-y S.r.l., Meander Medical Center, Intesa S.p.A., Deutsche Lufthansa AG, CinePostproduction, UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A, Jyske Bank, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
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