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Adobe Experience Manager vs CoreMedia comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager
Ranking in Web Content Management
3rd
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (8th), Enterprise Social Software (5th)
CoreMedia
Ranking in Web Content Management
9th
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Digital Asset Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 12.9%, down from 15.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CoreMedia is 1.7%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Akshat Prakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 21, 2023
A powerful product that can be used for user experience, product design, and user journeys
Adobe Experience Manager is used for user experience, product design, and user journeys Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them. Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved. I have been using Adobe Experience Manager for…
VB
Apr 30, 2024
Provides effective workflow management and catalog management
We use the solution for CMS in e-commerce The solution provides good stability. CoreMedia is good for workflow management and user reviews. It is difficult to scale the solution with respect to the costs and infrastructure. The solution's integration and multimedia could be improved. I have…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I like the profiling and segmentation."
"It's a complete package. You don't need to look elsewhere for digital marketing."
"It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer."
"The most valuable features of Adobe Experience Manager include its capability to manage content and create reusable fragments."
"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."
"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."
"Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them."
"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."
"CoreMedia is good for workflow management and user reviews."
 

Cons

"A little bit of background knowledge of coding and website structure is required."
"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."
"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved."
"Adobe Experience Manager could improve by allowing the reuse of components like a progress bar across multiple pages to make the development process more efficient."
"The licenses are very expensive."
"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."
"Programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution."
"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."
"It is difficult to scale the solution with respect to the costs and infrastructure."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."
"It's really costly."
"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."
"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."
"Our customers pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
44%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
4%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?
It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.
What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?
The licenses are very expensive. Customers don't want to invest so much.
What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?
We use the solution for e-commerce. For the e-commerce part, we have three types of channels: mobile, web, and tools, both B2B and B2C.
What do you like most about CoreMedia?
CoreMedia is good for workflow management and user reviews.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CoreMedia?
Our customers pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution.
What needs improvement with CoreMedia?
It is difficult to scale the solution with respect to the costs and infrastructure. The solution's integration and multimedia could be improved.
 

Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), N24, Bild.de, Nation Media Group, ARD, ZDF, M. DuMont Schauberg
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