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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) (4th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (23rd)
 

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 9.1%, up 3.2% compared to last year.
Liferay Digital Experience Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Web Content Management, holds 5.1% mindshare, down 9.2% since last year.
Enterprise Intranet Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Igloo9.1%
SharePoint19.9%
Interact Intranet9.4%
Other61.6%
Enterprise Intranet
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.1%
Drupal9.5%
Adobe Experience Manager8.6%
Other76.8%
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.
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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

"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 gives us the ability to create "spaces" for our schools."
"It is a wonderful open-source product that has many out-of-the-box features."
"It is just awesome; you should experience DXP."
"If you need to build enterprise solutions with digital experience, then this product fulfills all the requirements from customization, custom development, integration, and configuration."
"It has increased communication between the departments and their employees."
"The product has helped our members and communities to freely connect, share knowledge, develop initiatives and share expertise in a secure environment."
"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."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"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."
 

Cons

"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."
"Hoping they include "the ability to communicate and have face time" within your own space."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"For new installations, the setup is simple; but again migrations for the old version are a nightmare."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"The loading speed could be improved."
"The current version is good, but one problem is with objects where the load takes much time if the records are increasing."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"Liferay requires more room to provide ease of use for the content contributors."
"Although it has been improving, I cannot shake the feeling that it was released too early."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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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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