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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Office 365 comparison

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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) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (27th)
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 5.6%, down 7.0% compared to last year.
Office 365, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 6.8% mindshare, down 10.1% since last year.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.6%
Drupal9.1%
Adobe Experience Manager8.5%
Other76.8%
Web Content Management
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Office 3656.8%
Box - Intelligent Content Management8.1%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise7.0%
Other78.1%
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

"Liferay has a CMS, role-based permissions, and hierarchy-of-organization community management which provides lots of features for intranet and enterprise applications."
"If you need to build enterprise solutions with digital experience, then this product fulfills all the requirements from customization, custom development, integration, and configuration."
"Compared to other platforms the initial setup is not very complex."
"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."
"It’s fast, easy, scalable, and stable with a competitive price."
"CMS lets business users create and manage web content while maintaining revisions, and Liferay enables users to be independent of developers and to manage content within the portal."
"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."
"For me, the most important features are scalability, architecture, the fact that it's Java-based, includes a CMS, and provides audience targeting tools."
"We have been using Office 365 for more than a year right now, and it has been predominantly incorporated with good results."
"Deployment went very smoothly even in its infancy."
"Office 365 plus the 64-bit 2016 versions of the Office desktop applications is a great combination that I could not function without."
"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."
"My thoughts about the price of Office 365 are that it is acceptable."
"It includes Office 365 applications such as Excel, Outlook, and Word."
"Overall excellent product with great features, consider small and medium businesses to have at least basic ATP and DLP features."
"One of the most valuable features of Office 365 is the collaboration capability; multiple employees can work on the same document at the same time, which enhances productivity."
 

Cons

"Liferay requires more room to provide ease of use for the content contributors."
"Documentation needs improvement."
"However, it is not very strong yet to be used for completely marketing-oriented implementations."
"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."
"The documentation could be better."
"If you are a basic web developer or you have a very small organization, I don't think I would work with it."
"I would like to see it require fewer configurations from the properties file, and provide more GUI options to configure changes."
"As it is open source, it has lots of features and it is constantly updating. Therefore, bugs also keep coming."
"There is something called Office Script in Excel, which is not very user-friendly."
"In terms of improvements for Office 365, I don't think there is much that needs to be enhanced, but it might take some time to reload sometimes."
"Office 365 is costly, but there aren't many alternatives."
"Microsoft could improve their online apps compared to the desktop versions, as they are not easy to use."
"The version we are using is very generic. It requires that you perform a lot of customizations."
"There is not much I would improve for Office 365, though fewer updates would be nice."
"Office 365 could be improved in areas such as their collaboration functionality."
"From a performance point of view, Office 365 can be too slow, especially when used intensively, and it consumes too much memory, causing other applications to underperform."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"It is a bit expensive."
"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"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."
"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."
"For the moment, we are paying on a monthly basis because we are still adapting the support and how we want to proceed. I think we will move to paying for the annual license."
"​The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."
"Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."
"The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing 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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