Liferay Digital Experience Platform Previous Solutions
I am not aware of any previous solutions in my current company. I worked with WordPress and Drupal, and I switched to Liferay for the integration capabilities using Java standards and flexibility.
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Santosh Kumar Bharatha
Senior Application Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I was using IBM WCM but switched to Liferay, as it is open source and has a lot of support.
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Aritra Ghosh
Senior Technology Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Initially, we were using the IBM WebSphere Portal. However, we switched over to Liferay because of its lower licensing costs, obviously.
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Ravi Kumar Gupta
Technical Architect at Azilen Technologies Pvt Ltd
Previous to Liferay, I knew of WordPress and Joomla!, which people use to write their websites with little content.
When I came across Liferay, I got to see the out-of-the-box portlets and the way I can just put things in the deploy folder.
I can use the hot-deploy feature to create a site with very little configuration and place it on as many sites as I wanted.
I immediately switched to Liferay because of what it offered.
I got a chance to compare Liferay with other portals and tools like IBM WebSphere, SharePoint, GateIn, etc. I found Liferay’s development and deployment faster, along with its capability and offerings of the in-built portlets.
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Jignesh Vachhani
Lead Software Professional at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I did not previously use a different solution.
View full review »We used ColdFusion for a previous project for a CMS portal.
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RobertMakale
IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
As a national business portal, it is used as a content management solution and we have not used any other solution. For the archival and preservation system, we used an application called Saperion Enterprise Content Management System.
When compared to Saperion Enterprise Content Management System it can support more users without having an impact on the cost. That was favorable for us because we need any researcher anywhere in the world to be able to access the Tanzania National Archive without having any cost on the software. We chose Liferay mainly because of that.
View full review »We previously used Sun Java System Portal Server. We switched because Sun Portal just plain sucked.
View full review »I have used two other portal servers. I really did not like the way they allowed admins to do administrative actions. Liferay is easy to understand and complete the admin actions through the control panel with meaningful names and a short description about what each module does.
View full review »We started using Liferay directly. There was no previous solution.
View full review »We used Microsoft SharePoint and IBM WebSphere. They are not straightforward and have a complex user experience as a developer.
View full review »Before using Liferay Digital Experience Platform, we used WordPress. Liferay is far more secure and robust.
View full review »Liferay was mainly selected by me due to its collaboration and the digital features that help to make the digital platforms very strong for the customers.
View full review »We switched because of the cost, flexibility with Liferay, and ease of use.
View full review »As a portal practice, we are vendor agnostic.
View full review »I’ve tested several options over the years: PHPnuke, PostNuke, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal. But none of them have as many built-in features as Liferay.
View full review »We didn’t use any other solutions.
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RinaldoBonazzo
Software Factory Manager at RealT Technology
I've also worked on Tableau, which is a social platform. Tableau is quite lightweight and easy to use, but the community is smaller. Liferay has a big community at the moment.
View full review »Liferay brings with it several frameworks that are beautifully organized. (Hibernate, Struts, Spring.) That is why this is tricky to explain.
As an engineer, the ability to use the frameworks you like is a great plus. But after a while, one may notice that using Liferay, as an intermediary for some services, is much simpler. They do a great job in providing extension points and tools like the Blade CLI and Service Builder.
The simplicity of the overall development process is a major advantage that comes with consistency. The learning curve is quite high, but I would say it is definitely worth it.
View full review »I have used Plone, but went ahead with Liferay due to the availability of vast out-of-the-box features.
View full review »We didn’t have anything before Liferay. I had analyzed JBoss Portal in 2008, but I then went ahead with Liferay and I have never turned back.
View full review »Yes, we used several PHP site management products but, when comparing to Liferay, they lack coherence and simplicity in the content management functions. As for integration and scalability, Liferay beats them all easily.
View full review »My company was using SharePoint. I am not sure why the switch was made.
View full review »We are a consulting company. Based on our clients' requirements, we have used various CMS products, such as Mura CMS, Drupal, and SharePoint.
View full review »I was not previously using any other solutions.
View full review »We traditionally build applications from scratch. This makes basic setup, such as user management, organization, roles, and permissions easier. It is easy to extend or customize out-of-the-box features.
View full review »We previously used an IBM WebSphere product. We moved to an open source product to support the concept being promoted in the UK Government and expected scalability without scaled cost.
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View full review »We previously deployed WebLogic, but we moved to Liferay because it offered a range of out-of-box features. It was also faster than WebLogic.
View full review »I used more Microsoft solutions and Liferay is a more complex, “all in one” solution.
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