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."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 solution is easy to install."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"The search feature is valuable."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"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 documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"The product must provide more automation."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"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."
"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."
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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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