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Adobe Web Experience Management vs Qualtrics XM Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Web Experience Manage...
Ranking in Customer Experience Management
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Qualtrics XM Platform
Ranking in Customer Experience Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Social CRM (5th), Survey Software (1st), Customer Feedback Management (1st), Product Management Software (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Customer Experience Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Web Experience Management is 2.2%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualtrics XM Platform is 3.6%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Customer Experience Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qualtrics XM Platform3.6%
Adobe Web Experience Management2.2%
Other94.2%
Customer Experience Management
 

Featured Reviews

Somnath Shelke - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Architect at IBM
Content as a service has improved omnichannel delivery but deployment and debugging still need work
There is room for improvement in Adobe Web Experience Management, particularly concerning single-page applications. It has certain aspects that need improvement regarding content exposure. While content as a service has been introduced, there are some difficulties when implementing it, as customizations are required, which are not out-of-the-box features or APIs provided. Additionally, the deployment strategy employed for Adobe Cloud Services has room for improvement, particularly in the time taken for deployment and debugging. Developers find it challenging to debug issues in the environment, as previous on-premises versions provided more visibility. This aspect definitely needs improvement. Normally, for the cloud, deployment takes around thirty to forty-five minutes, but I have seen situations where it takes more than one hour, sometimes even one and a half hours. For the production environment, at least half an hour may be acceptable, but one and a half hours is not acceptable. This contrasts with the on-premises version, which has a different architecture for deployment. This should be improved, and they need to look into it because one and a half hours for deployment is too much.
EM
Sr. Service Delivery Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Customer insights have improved decision making but a steep learning curve still limits adoption
The best features Qualtrics XM Platform offers include advanced survey logic, enterprise-grade analytics, omnichannel feedback collection, and it is starting to develop strong AI capabilities. The most valuable feature for my team out of those is the omnichannel feedback collection because it is quite versatile. We can send out our research survey on pretty much every channel available right now, so our customers and our client customers can respond from whatever channel they choose. Qualtrics XM Platform has positively impacted my organization by providing a much better understanding of our clients and partners. It gives us insights not only on our performance but also analytics from our competition, or rather, enterprises in the same area as us. Regarding those insights, we collected all our data, and analyzing it was very simple. We identified the key areas that we needed to improve to satisfy our clients, so we made the necessary changes to our processes and how we approach our clients. The satisfaction rate improved significantly, and our churn rate decreased considerably.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"When new clients come for a requirement of a new site, we suggest Adobe Experience Manager because this is one of the best content management systems; it is easy to author, easy to manage, and easy to maintain."
"The user interface of Adobe Web Experience Management is user-friendly, and that is the main reason most clients are moving to Adobe from other vendors."
"The templates and components that come out of the box are very helpful, especially in terms of the content fragments and experience fragments. Every client would like to have some templates and components, and they would like to cut down the effort of having to create every component that's customized. So, they try to use them out of the box. Other than that, the user roles and permissions workflows, third-party integrations, and system integration are the features that are very important."
"Overall, I find this product to be good because it is a hundred percent Java-based tool and supports the integration of other frameworks seamlessly, providing visibility for developers while offering considerable feasibility to integrate different frameworks comfortably."
"Good content and digital management capabilities."
"This product is very efficient at managing end-to-end content publishing flows."
"The most valuable feature of Qualtrics Customer XM is the survey, which is very user-friendly and designed as a drag-and-drop item."
"AI-driven analytics in Qualtrics XM Platform is very useful for scenarios involving text analysis, as it automatically creates topics and categories, performs sentiment analysis, and provides summaries similar to Amazon reviews, making it widely accepted by clients for its meaningful insights."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its simplicity and standardization. The consistent look and feel across surveys make it easy to use and provide a sense of simplicity. Once I've navigated through it for one survey, I feel confident I can efficiently handle the next hundred surveys. The intuitive interface contributes to the overall ease of use."
"The solution has other extra features, like Stats iQ, Text iQ, and Predict iQ."
"Workflows are very powerful. There are a lot of good things, but I feel workflows are the best."
"Text iQ is a great feature."
"The solution allows the development of multiple surveys based on the lifecycle"
"Qualtrics XM Platform has positively impacted my organization by providing a much better understanding of our clients and partners."
 

Cons

"From a technical support point of view for Adobe Web Experience Management, I would rate them a five. They attempt to resolve issues promptly, but response times can vary, and sometimes clients need to wait at least a month for more complex queries related to product parts as the support team has to consult with the core product team, which can take time."
"Additionally, the deployment strategy employed for Adobe Cloud Services has room for improvement, particularly in the time taken for deployment and debugging."
"This product is unable to handle very large video files and related elements."
"It would be better if it also supports some styling. Currently, whenever we have to do design for a particular client according to their brand strategy, it takes a good amount of effort. Adobe never focuses on this area. They say that you design your pages, templates, etc. If they can define common components or a common section of the style sheet so that if you want to have a button by default, you can go and just mention the specifications, such as the color code, and those specifications are automatically followed across the whole site or multiple sites according to the brand strategy. Such functionality will be helpful because currently, it takes a lot of effort to manage them separately."
"Unable to handle very large video files."
"Sometimes, they take a good amount of time to react to the issues."
"The solution is expensive. It needs to improve the server builder, which can help it do impressive research. When I mention that the server builder can improve, I'm referring to the ease of performing tasks like implicit association testing. While it's possible to do these tasks in Delighted by Qualtrics, it's not as straightforward to create them. Additionally, there are different tiers of features based on the payment plan. As a collaborator, I may not completely oversee all the features available."
"It is not easy to implement because it requires an implementation partner for about three to four months."
"Most of the improvements made constantly cause some friction in the platform."
"The process of creating, updating, and importing participants needs to be more flexible"
"The solution's integration with Salesforce should be improved."
"It is not easy to implement."
"Sometimes, a lot of emails bounce back during email distribution."
"The solution should add more visual-type elements or image-based question approaches."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's definitely an expensive solution, but it comes with a lot of features and scalability. As compared to other content management systems that we have in the market, AEM is the costliest one. There is no hidden or additional fee."
"The solution is fairly expensive, but it would be money well spent."
"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Qualtrics Customer XM, which is expensive."
"The product is not cheap."
"Pricing depends upon the different kinds of use cases."
"Delighted by Qualtrics is more expensive than the competitor solutions"
"Some clients felt that this product was expensive when the sales team tried to sell it to them."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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University
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adobe Web Experience Management?
Adobe Web Experience Management is a little bit costlier compared to other products. I would rate the pricing for Adobe Web Experience Management as a high price, probably around three or four, ind...
What needs improvement with Adobe Web Experience Management?
There is room for improvement in Adobe Web Experience Management, particularly concerning single-page applications. It has certain aspects that need improvement regarding content exposure. While co...
What is your primary use case for Adobe Web Experience Management?
Adobe Web Experience Management is mainly used for static websites where frequent content changes occur. The tool is utilized in parallel for websites where content is configured in one place and c...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Delighted by Qualtrics?
Delighted by Qualtrics is more expensive than the competitor solutions. In my personal experience, even if I imagine that we have a partner running the solution on our behalf, internal resources wi...
What needs improvement with Delighted by Qualtrics?
The building performance of Qualtrics XM Platform for back-end builders can be improved, as it has been a bit slow. However, Qualtrics XM Platform has become faster at implementing community-reques...
What is your primary use case for Delighted by Qualtrics?
Our firm has partnered with Qualtrics XM Platform, delivering solutions to our clients. We use Qualtrics XM Platform for customer feedback collection, including relationship surveys and transaction...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Delighted by Qualtrics, Qualtrics Customer XM, Qualtrics Core XM,
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, University of Georgia, The University of Auckland, Dalhousie University, KfW Bankengruppe, IG Group, National Australia Bank, Investec, New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Singapore Tourism Board, European Southern Observatory (ESO)
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