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"One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market.""The speed in which you can take a CMS and make it a full-blown shopping cart with analytics tracking, SEO, user accounts, security, and ease of use through a robust framework of modules and plugins to enhance and promote-related content is about as turnkey as it gets with Joomla."

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"The look and feel and the user interface are great.""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.""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.""I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector.""The solution is easy to install.""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 web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time.""The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."

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"I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this.""I would like to see the same sorting and attributes available through the web browser on the JED (sorting by free or commercial license, sort by rating, popularity, etc.) within the back-end Joomla Web Installer when browsing extensions."

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"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 plugins should be more affordable.""The integration and configuration need to be simplified.""Social area and capabilities need improvement.""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 LAR import and export feature of the product doesn't work well. From a developer's point of view, the tool's OSGi framework is not easy."

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  • "Joomla is open source, therefore free. Only hosting, the time to build it along with the training time is your startup cost."
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  • "Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
  • "It is a bit expensive."
  • "It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
  • "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."
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    Top Answer: 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… more »
    Top Answer: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 of… more »
    Top Answer: 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. Do… more »
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    Liferay DXP
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    Overview
    Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications.

    Liferay is a top-ranking digital experience platform used by companies in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and energy and utilities. This product allows companies to initiate highly personalized digital experiences through mobile, social, and web. Organizations can use Liferay DXP for customer, partner, supplier, or employee portals, as well as integrational platforms, taking advantage of the platform's many customization options to suit their needs completely. The Liferay Experience Cloud offers companies the ability to use the Liferay DXP to build their own digital experiences, as well as to use it as a fully managed cloud platform, including options for self-management and self-hosting.

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform Features

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform provides various features in the following categories:

    • Identity management and access control (application security): These features include identity management support, user management, service access policies, and personal data management.

    • Platform services: Clustering and performance monitoring, auditing and optimization, back-end APIs, dynamic virtual hosting, site and search administration, and single-page applications.
    • Integration and interoperability: The features in this category include integration framework, developer studio, front-end toolkits, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin, Liferay connected services (LCS), Liferay marketplace and workspace, and Blade CLI.

    • Collaboration and social: Blogs, knowledge base, social networking, wiki, forums, message boards, calendar, AlloyEditor, inline image editor, and polls, among other features.

    • Forms, workflow, and business process automation: Features include forms, validation, field library, various types of form entries, data provider integration, and several other features.
    • Content management: Vast array of features for companies to take advantage of when preparing and publishing different types of content, including text and images.

    • Experience management: The features in the experience management category include building pages through fragments and editors for them, various widgets, as well as templates for pages, and SEO-friendly updates.

    • Segmentation and personalization: These features are designed for the full personalization of the platform in order to reach different types of customers and appeal to their individual needs regarding the company that is using Liferay.

    • Multichannel support: The features in multichannel support include APIs, adaptive media, and responsive design, providing companies with the ability to apply Liferay's full customization to their digital experience platform's design and function.

    • Search: Liferay Digital Experience Platforms provide various features for search integrations, multi-language search, and options for filtering and sorting.

    • Analytics and optimization: A crucial part of every digital experience platform is the analytics option for companies to monitor the data of their users and, based on it, improve their approach. That is why Liferay Digital Experience Platform provides five different analytics features.

    • Cloud capability: To provide companies with the best possible experience, Liferay offers various features regarding the proper operation of the platforms, including real-time alerts, monitoring, and options for backup and restoration.

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform Benefits

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers the following benefits:

    Sample Customers
    Artisan Web and Print, HLVC Design, Media A-Team Inc, Holdingbay - Tristan Bailey, Molehill Web Works, Sysgen Media, Pappy Productions, Inc., Turn To The ProsPB Web Development, LC Publishing - LambCottage Foundation
    Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    REVIEWERS
    Government18%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Educational Organization11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business100%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise46%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise54%

    Joomla is ranked 14th in Web Content Management while Liferay Digital Experience Platform is ranked 4th in Web Content Management with 44 reviews. Joomla is rated 8.6, while Liferay Digital Experience Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Joomla writes "One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Liferay Digital Experience Platform writes "Allows us to extend its CMS, site management, and workflow features". Joomla is most compared with SharePoint, whereas Liferay Digital Experience Platform is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager, Magnolia CMS, WordPress, SharePoint and Sitecore Experience Platform.

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