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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs OpenText Web CMS comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Web Content Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (27th)
OpenText Web CMS
Ranking in Web Content Management
16th
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 5.4%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Web CMS is 2.2%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.4%
OpenText Web CMS2.2%
Other92.4%
Web Content Management
 

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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.
it_user114849 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Difficult to use but a flexible solution.
Teamsite LiveSite Mediabin connector OpenDeploy/DD Dynamic Content publishing Custom Workflow development and publishing lifecycle As much as it's flexible to use, it is equally hard to use. 5+ years Unique at each client based on their install base on how they use it. So we have had…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"You can create and manage dozens of sites with a single installation of Liferay, without a single line of Java code."
"Initial setup is as easy as downloading, unpacking and starting."
"Architecture is so good that you can fit many organizational structures into Liferay."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"Liferay provides a vast range of features with minimal license costs, which makes it better than the others."
"Customers liked this portal software platform because Open Source platform with no stack agenda can run in any existing infrastructure with low cost of adoption and offers over 70 out-of-the-box bundled features with an open API architecture that allows you to maximize aggregation and back-end integration."
"Compared to other platforms the initial setup is not very complex."
"It is just awesome; you should experience DXP."
"Customer Service: Good. Technical Support: Good."
 

Cons

"As it is open source, it has lots of features and it is constantly updating. Therefore, bugs also keep coming."
"I would like to see better documentation. Updates in the documentation do not follow updates in the code and functionality."
"If you are a basic web developer or you have a very small organization, I don't think I would work with it."
"It lacks true multi-tenant support."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"For new installations, the setup is simple; but again migrations for the old version are a nightmare."
"Although it has been improving, I cannot shake the feeling that it was released too early."
"There are still some parts where Liferay can improve: Document library: Allow you to view and preview all popular types of files Auditing capability"
"As much as it's flexible to use, it is equally hard to use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
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Questions from the Community

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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