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 web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"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 look and feel and the user interface are great."
"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."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"The search feature is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use."
"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."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"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."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"The solution's support services and GenAI could be improved and made faster and more knowledgeable."
"Make it more intuitive."
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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 HCL Digital Experience, 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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