Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

Kentico vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Kentico
Ranking in Web Content Management
14th
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Web Content Management
4th
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Kentico is 1.2%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 8.2%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

AB
May 10, 2019
The advanced marketing suite has helped us to establish our US business
Our primary use case is to deliver enterprise level web solutions It has helped us establish our business in the USA and allows us to work with a range of corporate clients. The most valuable features are its integration capabilities and advanced marketing suite. This product needs an out of…
Bhavin Panchani - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 4, 2024
Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use
My company has 20 people who work on the product. I know that my company has around seven customers who use the tool. I recommend the product depending on the use cases of the person who wants to buy it. If your use case is to develop a public site, customer portal, self-service, or intranet, I would say that you should go for the Liferay Digital Experience Platform. If your use cases are related to e-commerce, you need to evaluate your use cases against Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and you can use it if you find it to be a good fit. Otherwise, you should search for other platforms.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I would say they have a modern, flexible, agile content management system."
"The most valuable features are its integration capabilities and advanced marketing suite."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"Manageability is very good and probably the most valuable part of a tool of this type. There is a little more of a learning curve than you have with a simple tool, but a business user can learn to manage the system as an administrator very easily."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"It allows us to arrange and develop new ideas, then incorporate them into the portal. We can create a one stop information center, so people can access the information from one window."
"The solution is easy to install."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"We chose Liferay because it is open-source and that we can make any number of users apply, register into the system and use the system, as opposed to other solutions where the cost is based on user licenses. This is one of the most attractive features."
 

Cons

"This product needs an out of the box Intranet/Extranet Solution."
"They don't have a lot of libraries, which is something that they can improve on."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"It could be improved in terms of adding filters to some of the rules. Therefore, you can retain how long a document would need to stay in an archive."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing fees are probably about $100,000 USD per year."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive. What Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers at its current price can be considered something that is worth the money."
"It is a bit expensive."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Web Content Management solutions are best for your needs.
814,763 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Real Estate/Law Firm
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Educational Organization
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

Does Kentico provide good options for marketing?
Absolutely! I can't stress enough how important marketing is for the digital experience you're giving to customers. If you want to reach your clients through multiple channels, each type of content...
What is the content management system of Kentico like?
In my experience, Kentico has been a very flexible and easy-to-use content management system. Keep in mind that we haven't been using it for a while because our management decided to change DXPs fo...
What do you use Kentico for?
Hello, I think Kentico will serve you well as a digital experience platform and especially for commerce purposes. We at my company have been using this feature of the DXP as well because we recentl...
What is the best feature of Liferay?
A tricky question because it'd depend on what your focus will be on Liferay as a digital experience platform. I mean, if for me the experience management is the best feature, for someone with diff...
Is Liferay suitable for complete beginners?
A non-developer here, and frankly, a little bit of a tech beginner in general. My company branched out into digital experience a bit later than we should have but picking Liferay as a DXP was one o...
What is Liferay’s capacity for backup?
Yes, I think you can trust the cloud feature of Liferay pretty well. It gives you the option to back up your data as well as restore it and that's pretty vital for any digital experience platform....
 

Also Known As

No data available
Liferay DXP
 

Learn More

 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Gibson Musical Instruments, Mazda, Segway, Twinings, Ingram Micro, Allergan, Kingspan
Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
Find out what your peers are saying about Kentico vs. Liferay Digital Experience Platform and other solutions. Updated: October 2024.
814,763 professionals have used our research since 2012.