We performed a comparison between Drupal and Liferay Digital Experience Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS."
"It is good for big projects."
"We use a part of the solution called Acquia. The personalization portion of this is the most valuable aspect fo the solution."
"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 integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"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."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"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."
"Digital experience features like target, segmentation, and campaign management have a long way to go."
"It is a little bit simplified."
"I think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems."
"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"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 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."
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Drupal is ranked 5th in Web Content Management while Liferay Digital Experience Platform is ranked 4th in Web Content Management with 44 reviews. Drupal is rated 8.6, while Liferay Digital Experience Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Drupal writes "Through my different companies, we have developed many Drupal sites, from simple ones to complex E-commerce sites and custom made applications. The UI could be improved, though". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Liferay Digital Experience Platform writes "Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use". Drupal is most compared with SharePoint, WordPress, Adobe Experience Manager, Magnolia CMS and Squiz Digital Experience Platform, whereas Liferay Digital Experience Platform is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress, Magnolia CMS, SharePoint and HCL Digital Experience.
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If the core need is to have a web content tool to manage the UI primarily then Drupal is the choice. If the core need is to have a
"functional " portalized UI with social features, personalisation,
integrate various apps and show it to the user based on user profile then
Liferay is ideal as the UI layer.
Drupal and LIferay are not at all similar; akin to comparing apples and oranges. Drupal is a social community platform designed primarily for external Internet scenarios. Liferay is an enterprise portal solution primarily designed for internal intranet scenarios. There are many dozens of other solutions for both scenarios. However, any organization looking at evaluating a software solution should first detail their plans and business requirements before looking at the technology.
I have personal experience only with Drupal, I suggest you check what type of requirements you have, for example:
- type of database
- middleware (PHP/Java), not only if have to install them but also if one day you need to develop for or in case you have to search for an hosting website
- user centralization and authentication (LDAP/AD, SSO)
- integration with other applications (for example a DMS like Alfresco or search engine like Solr)
- commercial support (cost and/or location of possible support)
- business view (which role would have a different view (mobile/different viewed content on desktop), which has security and style impact)
and then match them with the functionalities/plugin they both have
I wouldn't really compare the two - they both cater to different set of requirements / use cases.
While Drupal is Web Content Management (WCM) tool and is good fit for small to medium size interactive or social web solution requirement.
Liferay on the other hand is an Enterprise Portal software (it also has WCM as part of it's offering). It would fit in better where your requirements are more toward sharing personalized information to users / exposing several application to users though a common interface.