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Adobe Experience Manager vs OpenText Content Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.5
Adobe Experience Manager offers high ROI with ease of use, excellent content management, and no-deployment-required content updates.
Sentiment score
7.3
Users appreciate OpenText for its reliability, integrations, multitasking, and value, enhancing applications and supporting infrastructure effectively.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
Adobe Experience Manager's customer service varies, with knowledgeable staff but inconsistent response times and lengthy ticket processes.
Sentiment score
4.6
OpenText's customer service is responsive but faces delays, with inconsistent efficiency and a need for expertise improvement.
They are attentive to big companies but tend to be negligent towards mid-sized companies.
They are always supportive.
The staff lacks adequate knowledge.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Adobe Experience Manager offers scalable, customizable global site provisioning, with challenges in cloud transition and licensing requirements for horizontal scaling.
Sentiment score
7.6
OpenText Content Management excels in scalability, efficiently supporting large user bases despite challenges with documentation for environment modification.
You cannot simply add more servers without purchasing the license.
There is not enough documentation about scaling, which makes it difficult to enhance or modify environments without significant effort.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Adobe Experience Manager offers high performance and stability, though large-scale setups and integrations may face occasional challenges.
Sentiment score
7.3
OpenText Content Management is stable but needs enhancements in alerting and performance, with improvements noted in newer versions.
Since they are enterprise and have significant digital business coming through the digital medium, the stability of the product is very important.
The product is quite stable if it is well-managed.
 

Room For Improvement

Adobe Experience Manager needs improved documentation, integration, pricing, content synchronization, and developer support to ease management and development.
OpenText Content Management struggles with user interface limitations, integration issues, performance concerns, and insufficient support, requiring enhancement.
There is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be transferred or synced to the production environment, there is no direct way of doing the sync.
Technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies.
The expectation from the customer versus the product explanation needs alignment.
 

Setup Cost

Adobe Experience Manager is costly, with unclear licensing fees, but offers a free trial and potential efficiency benefits.
OpenText Content Management is costly and complex, but offers comprehensive solutions, potentially deterring medium-sized businesses despite its strengths.
Adobe Experience Manager is expensive compared to competitors.
For large enterprises, the cost is often comparable with other major CMSs.
The cost is a significant factor that may deter medium-sized businesses from using OpenText extended ECM.
 

Valuable Features

Adobe Experience Manager integrates with Adobe Marketing Cloud, offering user-friendly content management, powerful analytics, and advanced asset handling capabilities.
OpenText Content Management offers seamless integration, robust features, and versatility, enhancing productivity, user experience, and organizational efficiency.
Feature-wise, I believe the dispatcher module is the best aspect of Adobe Experience Manager.
The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive.
The seamless integration between SAP and OpenText offers a 360-degree view of documents, facilitating a full-text search capability.
 

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (2nd), Enterprise Social Software (5th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)
OpenText Content Management
Ranking in Enterprise Content Management
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 3.0%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Content Management is 11.1%, up from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Thomas Becker - PeerSpot reviewer
Impressive integration of customer behavior with an easy setup and okay support
I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia Working with big companies, I help them either consider setting up a new content management system or address issues they might have with their existing…
Jaideep MS - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables effective document control yet requires better affordability and clarity
I use extended ECM for procurement, sales, engineering documents, and sometimes invoices and accounts payable or receivable The version controls and the business workspace part integrate well with SAP and OpenText, providing granular level control over who accesses the workspace. The seamless…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
13%
Educational Organization
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 content is created as Adobe Experience Manager has an author, publisher, and dispatcher. However, there is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be t...
What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?
We are working on digital experience platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager or Sitefinity. It's for powering their customer-facing website, not the transaction portal, but the brochureware port...
What do you like most about OpenText Content Suite Platform?
We also have a module on top of the Content Server called WebReports that has been one of the things that helped us facilitate the workflow and give managers good reporting and visibility into wher...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenText Content Suite Platform?
The cost is a significant factor that may deter medium-sized businesses from using OpenText extended ECM.
What needs improvement with OpenText Content Suite Platform?
The cost of the product could be improved. Currently, there are certain snags in document viewing, and communication from the pre-sales team is not clear. The expectation from the customer versus t...
 

Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud
OpenText Content Suite Platform, OpenText Core Share
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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ATCO Australia, MSIG Asia, Orica, Salt River Project
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