We performed a comparison between Liferay Digital Experience Platform and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"The solution is easy to install."
"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."
"The search feature is valuable."
"It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is file sharing or information sharing."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"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 integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"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."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"When you are trying to migrate from a different platform to SharePoint for file storage, the upload utility should be more flexible, taking more files and then updating you on the upload status of the files you are trying to transfer into SharePoint."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
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Liferay Digital Experience Platform is ranked 4th in Web Content Management with 44 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Web Content Management with 150 reviews. Liferay Digital Experience Platform is rated 8.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Liferay Digital Experience Platform writes "Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Liferay Digital Experience Platform is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress, Magnolia CMS, Drupal and Sitecore Experience Platform, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and Box. See our Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. SharePoint report.
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