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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) (2nd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (32nd)
Office 365
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
153
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 4.7%, down 9.1% compared to last year.
Office 365, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 9.0% mindshare, up 5.5% since last year.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform4.7%
Adobe Experience Manager8.9%
Drupal8.0%
Other78.4%
Web Content Management
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Office 3659.0%
Google Workspace8.3%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise8.0%
Other74.7%
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.
Anubrata Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Landmark Group
Teams streamlines collaboration but Outlook experiences occasional slowness on Mac
Teams is a really good collaboration tool. You can work basically at any part of the world and communicate and collaborate with anybody, as long as they are connected to the internet. It helps with remote work, and although I don't work remotely, I have offices in Dubai and different geographical locations. It helps me connect with my colleagues and team who are not in the same geography as I am in Bangalore. Teams can facilitate team meetings, screen sharing, and organizing meetings.Regarding security, we have two-factor authentication governed by organizational policy. When trying to login to Office 365, Teams, or any Office 365 app, we are required to provide a password and use Microsoft Authenticator to sign in using a code. This is how two-factor authentication is implemented in our organization. Office 365 offers a suite of apps including OneNote, though I don't use it very often. In terms of integration with Microsoft ecosystem, it offers everything needed to get work done without any hassle.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Liferay enables you to stay with latest technologies with each version release."
"If you need to build enterprise solutions with digital experience, then this product fulfills all the requirements from customization, custom development, integration, and configuration."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"Liferay is a good product and can reduce time and cost on project implementation."
"Liferay is very quick and easy to set up, whether you are using the built-in database or an external database."
"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"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."
"Liferay was mainly selected by me due to its collaboration and the digital features that help to make the digital platforms very strong for the customers."
"The ability to convert Word documents to PDF file is one of the features I love most."
"The most valuable feature is the integration between net and mobile devices."
"Microsoft Teams is a very good option for me to connect within the organization or with my team; we can also connect with external teams, share links, share screens, and take control of other people's meetings."
"My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint."
"The valuable features I use most are Outlook, Word, print to PDF functionality, and Excel; for our meetings, we use Teams regularly, and it serves as a good platform for our ongoing meetings and project management."
"Office 365 meets all our requirements, and I don't have any additional features I would add."
"Office 365 is a pretty stable solution; it is in the cloud, so I can use all the documents that I have anywhere I want."
"The AI-enabled meeting notes feature has significantly improved our productivity."
 

Cons

"Support provided for the Enterprise Edition is really poor."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed; it's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"I am having a hard time getting through the security scans."
"We found it difficult to upload documents. It seemed unnecessarily complex."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering."
"I would like to see it require fewer configurations from the properties file, and provide more GUI options to configure changes."
"The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command."
"The integration with third-party apps could be enhanced."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"One area for improvement could be the meeting recordings."
"Office 365 could be improved in areas such as their collaboration functionality."
"To be very honest, we use Cute FTP to transfer most files, and if they had FTP portals which they could guarantee were secure, that would be a great help."
"The pricing is not very reasonable as it could benefit from being more flexible."
"The default reporting is not very helpful; extendable mostly through PowerShell; must have knowledge of PowerShell to fully utilize."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a bit expensive."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"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's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."
"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."
"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."
"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

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 Enterprise30
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 can be improved by increasing support, which currently is not efficient and takes a lot of time to resolve issues. It has been observed that support personnel often lack hands-on experie...
What is your primary use case for Office 365?
Email and collaboration are the main use cases for Office 365 at Omagi Media Labs. It is used for internal and external communication in daily work. Groups and Teams groups are created and used in ...
 

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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