Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs SharePoint comparison

Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. SharePoint

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...

Ranking in Web Content Management

4th

Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (2nd)

SharePoint

Ranking in Web Content Management

2nd

Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

160

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 8.7%, up from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 12.0%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Content Management

Featured Reviews

Bhavin Panchani

Chief Executive Officer at IGNEK

Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use

My company has 20 people who work on the product. I know that my company has around seven customers who use the tool. I recommend the product depending on the use cases of the person who wants to buy it. If your use case is to develop a public site, customer portal, self-service, or intranet, I would say that you should go for the Liferay Digital Experience Platform. If your use cases are related to e-commerce, you need to evaluate your use cases against Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and you can use it if you find it to be a good fit. Otherwise, you should search for other platforms.

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Sanil Paul

IT Service Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Streamlined collaboration through seamless integration and customization

I have been an administrator for SharePoint and have used it as an end-user for document storage. Predominantly, I've been involved in administration SharePoint helps a lot since we've moved from using it directly to using it as a backend for Teams, which makes collaboration easier. It supports…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."

"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."

"The solution is easy to install."

"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."

"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."

"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."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."

"SharePoint is easy to collaborate with."

"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."

"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."

"SharePoint manages version control, which makes it easier to track and amend documentation accurately, maintaining document integrity and enabling quick recovery if necessary."

"Its most valuable feature is the document library."

"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."

"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."

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Cons

"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."

"The plugins should be more affordable."

"Social area and capabilities need improvement."

"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."

"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 integration and configuration need to be simplified."

"Using SharePoint is difficult."

"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."

"The solution's support services and GenAI could be improved and made faster and more knowledgeable."

"The integration with Outlook could be improved."

"We would like more security features, like automating."

"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."

"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."

"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."

More SharePoint cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a bit 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's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."

"Licensing costs can be very expensive."

"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."

"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."

"The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."

"The data classification and search elements are cheap."

"The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."

"The pricing works for us."

"It comes bundled with the Microsoft 365 pricing plans."

"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

10%

Comms Service Provider

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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....

What do you like most about SharePoint?

The search feature is valuable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?

With SharePoint, we save by not needing multiple external licenses. Unlike Drupal ( /products/drupal-reviews ), all necessary applications are included in the Microsoft license, making it cost-effe...

What needs improvement with SharePoint?

When working on a website with SharePoint Online, not many people can edit simultaneously. If I am editing one section, my colleague cannot edit it at the same time. A chat support or chatbot featu...

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Also Known As

Liferay DXP

SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Overview

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:

Creation of custom solutions
Simplification of IT management
Unity of disparate systems
Developer freedom.

Reviews from Real Users

According to a Communications head at a university, Liferay is a secure platform and the interface is user-friendly, with a great look and feel.

Preeti S., Senior Manager - Cloud Transformation at a computer software company, remarks that she's seenmultiple projects where Enterprise portals are implemented using Liferay, confirming the popularity and vast user base of this digital experience platform.

Liferay

SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

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Sample Customers

Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations

Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.

Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. SharePoint