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Igloo vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Igloo
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Intranet (5th)
Liferay Digital Experience ...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (6th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (2nd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (32nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Igloo and Liferay Digital Experience Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Igloo is designed for Enterprise Intranet and holds a mindshare of 9.2%, up 1.5% compared to last year.
Liferay Digital Experience Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Web Content Management, holds 4.7% mindshare, down 9.1% since last year.
Enterprise Intranet Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Igloo9.2%
SharePoint18.4%
Hub11.2%
Other61.2%
Enterprise Intranet
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform4.7%
Adobe Experience Manager8.9%
Drupal8.0%
Other78.4%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user639447 - PeerSpot reviewer
Social Media Coordinator at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
The most valuable feature is the ability to create team spaces. Many users have requested a live-edit option for documents.
With many team members all around the world in different time zones, we found that working together in a structured space, rather than over email, was less chaotic. We also found that the information was better documented and organized in Igloo. To be specific: Many users have requested that Igloo implement a live-edit option for documents, such as Google Docs. This would improve the product because for now one has the option to reserve a document, edit it, and then upload an updated version meaning other team members have to wait for one person to be done before adding their contribution. If there were such a feature it would allow for more immediate direct collaboration between members of the community. However, Igloo keeps track of previous versions of the document so this feature is useful as well to see how collaboration progresses between team members.
PR
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

"It gives us the ability to create "spaces" for our schools."
"Customer Service: Excellent customer service, responsive, hand-holding if needed."
"Igloo was the cheapest and had the best set of functions useful for our purposes."
"It is a wonderful open-source product that has many out-of-the-box features."
"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."
"It has a built-in WCMS (web content management system) and provides the ability to develop complex portlet-based web applications, which is valuable because it is Java/Java EE-based and open source."
"Liferay is a good product and can reduce time and cost on project implementation."
"You can create and manage dozens of sites with a single installation of Liferay, without a single line of Java code."
"It's an enterprise-level solution that is ready to use almost immediately and users can immediately share and collaborate once they've installed the application."
"It allows us to arrange and develop new ideas, then incorporate them into the portal, creating a one stop information center so people can access the information from one window."
"You can create and manage dozens of sites with a single installation of Liferay, without a single line of Java code."
 

Cons

"Hoping they include "the ability to communicate and have face time" within your own space."
"We had difficulties getting everyone to work with the online software so as to get the best out of it."
"I look forward to an update to their text editor."
"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."
"The front-end technologies need improvement."
"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."
"It lacks true multi-tenant support."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering."
"The documentation could be better."
"For new installations, the setup is simple; but again migrations for the old version are a nightmare."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"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."
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Financial Services Firm
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Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
 

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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....
 

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