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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Sitecore Digital Marketing System comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (5th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (2nd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (57th)
Sitecore Digital Marketing ...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Marketing Management (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Sitecore Digital Marketing System aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Liferay Digital Experience Platform is designed for Web Content Management and holds a mindshare of 5.0%, down 9.1% compared to last year.
Sitecore Digital Marketing System, on the other hand, focuses on Marketing Management, holds 1.6% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.0%
Adobe Experience Manager9.6%
WordPress Business-Enterprise8.2%
Other77.2%
Web Content Management
Marketing Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Sitecore Digital Marketing System1.6%
Salesforce Marketing Cloud15.9%
Microsoft Dynamics CRM15.4%
Other67.1%
Marketing Management
 

Featured Reviews

PR
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.
VK
Product Delivery Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Advanced features and personalization improve content management experience
I primarily use Sitecore Digital Marketing System for content creation and management. This includes handling text, videos, and images displayed on websites, providing an interface where everything is presented seamlessly to the user on the front end Sitecore Digital Marketing System is a…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For me, the most important features are scalability, architecture, the fact that it's Java-based, includes a CMS, and provides audience targeting tools."
"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 like Likeray because it's a secure platform."
"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."
"Liferay was mainly selected by me due to its collaboration and the digital features that help to make the digital platforms very strong for the customers."
"It has helped our client to quickly set up websites for their external clients."
"I usually see this platform as a Swiss Army Knife for building new features."
"Liferay enables you to stay with latest technologies with each version release."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to create web pages with ease."
"Sitecore Digital Marketing System offers very good customer support; it is a pricey solution, and they back it up with excellent service."
"Sitecore Digital Marketing System is a standout tool because it offers cloud capabilities and numerous built-in features, including AI components."
 

Cons

"Staging and LARs export/import features. This is always a pain in Liferay with many errors caused mostly by some inconsistent data in the database."
"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."
"It lacks true multi-tenant support."
"Documentation needs improvement."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"There are still some parts where Liferay can improve: Document library: Allow you to view and preview all popular types of files Auditing capability"
"Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering."
"I would like to see better documentation. Updates in the documentation do not follow updates in the code and functionality."
"In a few scenarios, Sitecore DMS works slowly."
"Sitecore Digital Marketing System is a pricey solution with licensing costs, the details of which I am not familiar."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"It is a bit expensive."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
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....
What needs improvement with Sitecore Digital Marketing System?
Sitecore Digital Marketing System can be improved by incorporating more AI capabilities. AI should assist in generating appropriate content automatically and enhancing searches, such as locating sp...
What is your primary use case for Sitecore Digital Marketing System?
I primarily use Sitecore Digital Marketing System ( /products/sitecore-digital-marketing-system-reviews ) for content creation and management. This includes handling text, videos, and images displa...
What advice do you have for others considering Sitecore Digital Marketing System?
I advise remaining anonymous on reviews as I opted to keep my company name and identity private due to my presence in social media and connections with partners. I rate Sitecore Digital Marketing S...
 

Also Known As

Liferay DXP
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