Adobe Experience Manager vs Oracle Beehive comparison

Adobe and Oracle are both solutions in the Enterprise Social Software category. Adobe is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.6, while Oracle is ranked #20. Adobe holds a 3.1% mindshare in ESS, compared to Oracle’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Oracle Beehive and Adobe Experience Manager compete in collaboration and content management. Adobe Experience Manager appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and long-term ROI.

Features: Oracle Beehive focuses on unified collaboration with messaging and conferencing, task management, and team workspace capabilities. Adobe Experience Manager offers advanced content management, personalization capabilities, and digital asset management. It is ideal for organizations needing robust content solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adobe Experience Manager provides a flexible deployment model with dedicated customer support, ensuring reliability and ease of use. In contrast, Oracle Beehive's deployment is less agile, potentially causing complexities.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Beehive features a lower setup cost, appealing to budget-conscious organizations, but its ROI is limited due to its feature set. Adobe Experience Manager, despite a higher initial investment, offers better long-term ROI thanks to its comprehensive functionality, making it valuable for extensive digital experiences.

To learn more, read our detailed Adobe Experience Manager vs. Oracle Beehive Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (8th), Web Content Management (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)

Oracle Beehive

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

20th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (30th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 3.1%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Beehive is 1.3%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Thomas Becker

Managing Partner(Austria) at a integrator with 11-50 employees

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…

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MarcAllaire

President of Operations for Montreal Area at Transitions service conseil

Has an excellent Database Management System and high level of services, performance, and availability

We will need to implement prototypes in our data warehouse. We will have to implement and to support some different types of files like video, audio, pictures, and non-structured data. So we are working on that. We would like better integration for data security. We will have many partners, eight or nine external partners. We will still use our system to upgrade our warehouse. But with many partners, the data warehouse will not be unique. It will be a distributed data platform. So we would need and we are looking for many services to better manage the integrity and the use of all of the data. We are receiving all these data from trains and trucks that are working on the highways and on the roads. We will have to implement some facilities to adequately use all this data at a really high volume coming from IoT. So we are not choosing that and we will have to implement some services. Right now, we don't have any monitoring. We do have major density and access control, but when a user is in our environment, we do not have the services to really measure what he is doing. I will have to report in three months on the project and its evolution. I don't have the financials and the best practices regarding the financial models with costs and benefits for a major data platform with many partners. We will know what it will cost, but we will have to define some benefits because when I will be at the treasury board asking for a major project, they will ask me what would the benefits from that will be. I'm doing research into best practices. I know that the U.S. government has a platform like the one we want to build. It is a bigger one, from what I understand. I think that the state of California and maybe the state of New York has the type of platform we want to put in place. I would like to present more than just an article. I would like to have a reference model, to really be on target by showing the benefits that are possible down the road.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."

"Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them."

"Easy to work with the solution."

"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."

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"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."

"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."

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"This solution has automated protection from downtime. High-availability is built into every component, and the backups are completely automated."

"We have really high level of services, performance, availability, and it is stable. Everything works together really well."

Cons

"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."

"The licenses are very expensive."

"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."

"Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user face issues in AEM as a Cloud Service."

"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."

"Adobe's technical support is so-so."

"The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies."

More Adobe Experience Manager cons

"The price of licenses is high and should be improved."

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."

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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.

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What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?

While there are many aspects that could be improved, discussing them would require more time. The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies.

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What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia.

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Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud

Beehive

Overview

Adobe Communique 5 (Adobe CQ5), currently manifested as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a web-based content management system which is developed to help businesses in offering high-end digital experience to their customers.

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Oracle Beehive provides an integrated set of communication and collaboration services built on a single scalable, secure, enterprise-class platform. Beehive allows users to access their collaborative information through familiar tools while enabling IT to consolidate infrastructure and implement a centrally managed, secure, and compliant collaboration environment built on Oracle technology.

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