Drupal vs Sitecore Experience Manager comparison

Drupal and Sitecore are both solutions in the Web Content Management category. Drupal is ranked #5, while Sitecore is ranked #8. Drupal holds a 6.5% mindshare in WCM, compared to Sitecore’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Drupal users are willing to recommend the solution.

Drupal

Read 37 Drupal reviews

1,350 Views
909 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

Sitecore Experience Manager

Read 1 Sitecore Experience Manager review

702 Views
468 Comparison Views

0% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Drupal and Sitecore Experience Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Drupal

Ranking in Web Content Management

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (4th)

Sitecore Experience Manager

Ranking in Web Content Management

8th

Average Rating

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Drupal is 6.5%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sitecore Experience Manager is 2.4%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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it_user635487

Application Developer, Sr at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 27, 2017

Being free to extend or alter it is important for us.

The open source nature of Drupal, being free to extend or alter it is massively important for us. We also use it to build communications. Not being tied to a single vendor means that we can have scale for developers It gives the company the ability to quickly spin up ideas, and the scalability to…

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it_user72771

Info Sec Consultant at Size 41 Digital

May 9, 2017

It's a CMS with the usual features and functions. It was an old version and for us to move to a newer version we had to take three separate projects with each one incurring significant cost.

I feel a little bad giving Sitecore a 6/10, because I think the problems the organisation I worked for had with it were partially because of: - shiny toy purchase - not fit for the org's purpose (more to do with the org) - UX and UI was poor meaning users didn't engage with it even after…

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it_user8925

Developer with 51-200 employees

Aug 23, 2013

Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons

At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

15%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Educational Organization

38%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Comparisons

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Compared 20% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

Ibexa DXP vs Drupal

Compared 11% of the time

Plone vs Drupal

Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 31% of the time

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Compared 23% of the time

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Compared 23% of the time

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Overview

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications

For those who want a robust CMS without all the digital marketing power of the Sitecore Experience Platform (XP), the Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) empowers you to deliver the right content, to the right person, exactly at the right time.

Sample Customers

BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously

easyJet, Toshiba, Thomas Cook Travel Group, Oxfam, New York Life, Jabra, Graf von Faber-Castell, Canon, Boy Scouts of America

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