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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Office 365 comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (6th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (4th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (25th)
Office 365
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
152
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Office 365 aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Liferay Digital Experience Platform is designed for Web Content Management and holds a mindshare of 5.2%, down 9.0% compared to last year.
Office 365, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 8.4% mindshare, up 6.9% since last year.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.2%
Drupal9.9%
Adobe Experience Manager8.5%
Other76.4%
Web Content Management
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Office 3658.4%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise7.9%
Google Workspace7.6%
Other76.1%
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

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E-Governance Head at Creant Technologies
Optimizing digital presence with customizable design and seamless integration
The main benefits that Liferay Digital Experience Platform brings to the table are numerous. First is rapid application development and many features. Features such as content management and document management make your life easy; workflow management is also present. Workflow can be designed and derived. Form development and everything is very smooth and easy to deliver to the end customer, and you can find many features in one box. You have blogs, wikis, and everything with out-of-box functionality. My experience with actionable insights is positive; they help in refining content strategies. The content creation is helpful. For external content creation, I use headless CMS APIs for Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and headless APIs for content creation are also available. My thoughts on the integration capabilities are that integration is seamless. You have headless APIs where you can integrate seamlessly with any other application such as LDAP or SSO, or you can also integrate with different external systems. You have an SAP connector; everything is available. Liferay Digital Experience Platform's open source flexibility has helped in customizing functionalities for the specific needs of my customers as it is a highly flexible application that can be optimized. My advice for other organizations considering Liferay Digital Experience Platform is that if it's available, we need to improve on the performance, which is currently what we are seeing. Otherwise, earlier Service Builder was acceptable. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Liferay Digital Experience Platform a 9.
BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Collaboration has transformed how our teams work and Copilot now drives faster daily decisions
The interface for the security and compliance center could be simplified. It changes frequently, which can make it somewhat difficult for admins to stay up-to-date on where specific settings are located. The compliance center modification or improvement of Office 365 needs to be introduced. The rest of the features feel acceptable to me. The reason it is not a ten is because of the complexity of managing the vast array of admin settings, which requires a specialized IT team. Even though it meets industry standards for decent security compliance such as SOC and HIPAA, the complexity of managing the admin settings needs to improve.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Liferay enables you to stay with latest technologies with each version release."
"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"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."
"All the features that are provided by Liferay are very useful, such as Web Content, Document Library and Media, Roles, Permissioning, Resources, Organizations, Users, Sites, Custom Fields, Plugins, and so on."
"It has helped our client to quickly set up websites for their external clients."
"If you need something that is scalable, that needs broader functionality, and you need to develop your own services, then this is an excellent solution."
"It’s fast, easy, scalable, and stable with a competitive price."
"I find Office 365 convenient and easy to use, primarily because I have been a Microsoft product user for a long time, and its user-friendly interface and consistent workflow across various Microsoft products are particularly notable."
"Teams is really helpful because my university uses Microsoft Outlook, and integrating with Teams and coordinating with my team members is very useful."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"Office 365 is scalable and easy to integrate with APIs, which is very beneficial for the operations we conduct."
"Office 365 is the best business platform for startups or small companies."
"The integrations with Teams and SharePoint are beneficial as we use Teams for sharing and editing documents, which helps with document collaboration."
"Regarding the return on investment for Office 365 for my company, it is very easy to defend the acquisition against the finance team because the product offers many advantages, time saving, quicker responses, accurate information, and security in the information and procedure."
"Overall excellent product with great features, consider small and medium businesses to have at least basic ATP and DLP features."
 

Cons

"Liferay needs a better web content search engine."
"Liferay is a phenomenal product with deficient marketing."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"Documentation is an issue and needs to be improved."
"Yes we faced many issues during production deployment and specially performance tuning and best suppoprt architecture."
"The documentation could be better."
"Major upgrades switch the Liferay framework core structure dramatically in EVERY occasion."
"It lacks true multi-tenant support."
"Based on the ones I've used, I think Microsoft is not actually the best."
"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."
"One of the big changes is when Microsoft updates anything, they will switch where some of the settings are and where to find them, which becomes a little frustrating because you're used to it in one spot and it's someplace else."
"Sometimes there are simple bugs. For example, I create an appointment, and it disappears or is differently showcased in Microsoft Teams because Teams also has a meeting section as opposed to Outlook, but these are just temporary bugs."
"I would rate Microsoft technical support as 3 or 4 out of 10."
"I wish Project could be more integrated into Office 365, as it currently requires a separate license."
"I'm not happy with how Microsoft Office 365 works."
"There was a problem with the owner of a Team; although it was listed as an owner, he couldn't do whatever an owner can do."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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'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."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"It is a bit expensive."
"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"I would rate the solution 3 out of 5 for the price. I think Microsoft presents a good solution concerning the price."
"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."
"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."
"The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."
"​The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."
"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business62
Midsize Enterprise31
Large Enterprise70
 

Questions from the Community

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....
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Office 365?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Office 365 is that it is moderate.
What needs improvement with Office 365?
Office 365 could be improved or enhanced in some ways. It would be better if it were more simple to find the points, or sometimes there are so many possible configurations that it makes you confuse...
What is your primary use case for Office 365?
Teams and Outlook are important for us, and Teams is central to our operations. I utilize Power Automate for streamlining repetitive tasks in our organization, but not for large tasks. For tasks su...
 

Also Known As

Liferay DXP
Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1
 

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Sample Customers

Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
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