We performed a comparison between Adobe Experience Manager and WordPress 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."Easy to work with the solution."
"Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them."
"If you want to use content in a mobile application and you want the content in some other application, you can simply expose it from the CMS to different clients or different systems. It's easy. On top of that, the technology underlying AEM is open-source and is very powerful like Apache Sling and JCR."
"It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer."
"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."
"I've used several CMS tools, but Adobe Experience Manager is feature-rich, especially for web security and content management. It's more efficient to manage content on Adobe Experience Manager, and you can do a lot with it, such as updating content at any time, and on any platform, even from mobile or tablet. Adobe Experience Manager is still getting updated daily, and it's the best CMS tool in the market for me. I like that you can manage assets in Adobe Experience Manager. I also like that the solution has an analytics dashboard that shows you where the traffic comes from, how many clicks come from a specific location, the number of clicks and impressions, etc. Adobe Experience Manager can be accessed by other teams, for example, the digital media department of my company, so the solution can be used and updated per each team's requirement. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a web developer tool, as it also allows visibility tracking and has other uses. I also like that the GUI for Adobe Experience Manager is straightforward and catchy. It has separate folders and icons, so using Adobe Experience Manager isn't tough. The solution is straightforward to use and handle."
"I like the native applications such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform. Because of these, it's very easy to connect and obtain reports on how my website is doing, how many have visited it, how frequently, etc. The multiple publisher concept is one of the best parts of this solution."
"The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility."
"I like the tool's plugins."
"It is easy to edit content using WordPress."
"The best feature of WordPress is its user-friendliness and its strong SEO capabilities."
"It is a stable system which offers a wide variety of themes and templates."
"Ready-made themes speed the design process; a huge number of quality themes are available from several sources."
"This program has made it possible for our company to advertise all around the country, instead of keeping it local."
"The best feature in WordPress is Elementor. It lets you easily create one-page landing sites."
"Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user face issues in AEM as a Cloud Service."
"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."
"Programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution."
"In comparison to other CMS products, Adobe Experience Manager is missing some capabilities such as proper versioning or a better versioning system and backend connectivity. If something is deleted in AEM, the user cannot recover it. You have to call technical support, and they will need to recover the whole instance. So, it's really difficult. For example, if you delete a page, you cannot recover it. There should be an option to recover it. In AEM, you have to go to the previous state of the instance itself or the virtual machine, and you have to restore everything, which is not good."
"The latest trend is to render everything in the client-side framework. For example, SPA or single page application. This is a feature that needs improvement. The cloud deployment pipeline needs to be improved as well."
"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."
"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved."
"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."
"It could be a little bit easier to use."
"I would like to have the ability to customize the whole WordPress installation. WordPress comes with a number of core features. I would love to be able to remove those I'm not using at the moment."
"WordPress needs to improve its usability."
"WordPress sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."
"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."
"The system should be more informative."
"I think that WordPress is too cool in its contact."
Adobe Experience Manager is ranked 3rd in Web Content Management with 16 reviews while WordPress is ranked 2nd in Web Content Management with 28 reviews. Adobe Experience Manager is rated 7.8, while WordPress is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Adobe Experience Manager writes "A powerful product that can be used for user experience, product design, and user journeys". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WordPress writes "Very customizable, and forms the base for most websites on the Internet". Adobe Experience Manager is most compared with Adobe CQ5, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, SharePoint, SDL Tridion DX and Sitecore Experience Manager, whereas WordPress is most compared with SharePoint, Quintype, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Drupal and TerminalFour Site Manager. See our Adobe Experience Manager vs. WordPress report.
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