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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Oracle WebCenter comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Web Content Management
6th
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (24th)
Oracle WebCenter
Ranking in Web Content Management
14th
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
7th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (17th), Enterprise Content Management (22nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 5.0%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle WebCenter is 3.2%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.0%
Oracle WebCenter3.2%
Other91.8%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

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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.
reviewer2105979 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Vice President - Head Digital Partnership and Alliances at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Has a user-friendly interface but performance is not up to scratch
I mainly use WebCenter for content management and publishing WebCenter's interface is very user-friendly. WebCenter requires a lot of design effort to upload content to our regular system. Its performance is also not up to the market standard, and its agility and adaptability could be improved.…

Quotes from Members

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Pros

"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."
"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."
"All the features that are provided by Liferay are very useful, such as Web Content, Document Library and Media, Roles, Permissioning, Resources, Organizations, Users, Sites, Custom Fields, Plugins, and so on."
"Liferay was a great choice."
"It’s fast, easy, scalable, and stable with a competitive price."
"It has helped our client to quickly set up websites for their external clients."
"Liferay has a CMS, role-based permissions, and hierarchy-of-organization community management which provides lots of features for intranet and enterprise applications."
"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."
"The main feature and idea of dynamically creating navigation, pages and portals are overall good and very valuable."
"In terms of scalability, it is easy to scale."
"You can move workloads in between sub-servers so that you don't overload a portion of the server."
"The solution is completely scalable and one of the best Oracle tools in my opinion."
"A great solution for storing and searching large volumes of documents with easy access."
"This product is very good for scaling; it is easy to expand this solution and I think it is the best solution for all of the problems you might have with document storage."
"Overall, this is a very good solution and other than the support for the Arabic translation, I cannot think of additional features that I would like at the moment."
"The most valuable features to me are the ability to create contents with the interface, such as creating database tables, and the product's JSP APIs and REST APIs are also very useful."
 

Cons

"There are still some parts where Liferay can improve: Document library: Allow you to view and preview all popular types of files Auditing capability"
"However, it is not very strong yet to be used for completely marketing-oriented implementations."
"Liferay is a very stable product (except for version 7, as it is relatively new)."
"Documentation needs improvement."
"It lacks true multi-tenant support."
"Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering."
"As it is open source, it has lots of features and it is constantly updating. Therefore, bugs also keep coming."
"The front-end technologies need improvement."
"I would like them to add more Web 2.0 features."
"Some parts of the product seemed to be unstable; various exceptions which lead to reaching out for Oracle support."
"The solution should be offered in Persian. Right now, our version is in English, and there's a bit of a language barrier between the users and the product."
"We have a lot of pain with instabilities and are not getting enough support from Oracle."
"In terms of what needs to be improved, I would say the speed of the backup should be enhanced."
"If you compare it and other products side by side, you would not buy Oracle."
"This solution needs to support translation into the Arabic language."
"Initial setup was simple for standard things, but for customisation and third-party integration, it can get cumbersome."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The price needs to be lowered."
"WebCenter's pricing is on the higher side."
"The price of this solution is considered to be high; however, when speaking with Oracle, it is possible to get discounts of up to sixty percent."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Construction Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise10
 

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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Also Known As

Liferay DXP
WebCenter, FatWire
 

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Sample Customers

Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society, Jagran Prakashan Ltd., Standard Forwarding LLC, United Automotive Electronic Systems Co. Ltd., INSO sistemi per le infrastrutture sociali S.p.A., Helsana Versicherungen AG, ArRiyadh Development Authority, John Lewis Partnership, Arqiva, SURUGADAI EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE, Portuguese Official Agriculture and Fisheries
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