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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 5.4%, down 7.6% compared to last year.
Office 365, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 7.2% mindshare, down 9.6% since last year.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.4%
Drupal9.2%
Adobe Experience Manager8.5%
Other76.9%
Web Content Management
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Office 3657.2%
Box - Intelligent Content Management8.1%
Google Workspace7.1%
Other77.6%
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

"Compared to other platforms the initial setup is not very complex."
"Liferay is highly scalable and more complex than Drupal."
"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."
"Customers liked this portal software platform because Open Source platform with no stack agenda can run in any existing infrastructure with low cost of adoption and offers over 70 out-of-the-box bundled features with an open API architecture that allows you to maximize aggregation and back-end integration."
"It has a built-in WCMS (web content management system) and provides the ability to develop complex portlet-based web applications, which is valuable because it is Java/Java EE-based and open source."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"You can create and manage dozens of sites with a single installation of Liferay, without a single line of Java code."
"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 most valuable features of Office 365 include its ecosystem integration capabilities, allowing for seamless usage across different platforms."
"Provided us with better capability to trace emails, and provide security over those emails."
"The cloud storage and real-time collaboration features are incredibly valuable."
"Yammer and SharePoint’s social collaboration features have transformed our work style and the way we collaborate with the clients."
"I find Office 365 valuable because it is compatible across all companies, which is essential for our organization, and the flexibility to adjust subscriptions with headcount changes is an advantage for cost management."
"The ease of access, basically, to have almost everything in a one-stop shop, is definitely a good return on the investment as well."
"Office 365 overall is cost-effective for us; we use the Enterprise E5 version of it, which gives us our Office license, all Windows licenses, and a whole bunch of tools, including Power BI, the whole lot."
"It is stable."
 

Cons

"Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering."
"We had a number of issues with stability, but we found solutions from the community or in patches for the enterprise edition."
"We tried the 'eat your own dog food' approach and used Liferay for our company's website, but Liferay just isn't meant to build websites."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"Documentation for the newly launched version is not up to the mark."
"I would like to see better documentation. Updates in the documentation do not follow updates in the code and functionality."
"As it is open source, it has lots of features and it is constantly updating. Therefore, bugs also keep coming."
"If you are a basic web developer or you have a very small organization, I don't think I would work with it."
"It is a pain to use, to be honest."
"I feel frustrated with Microsoft support sometimes, rating it a five. It is difficult to get through to support, and they often refer us to guides to solve problems rather than providing direct support."
"Microsoft could improve their support; I don't deal with Office 365 or Office 365 application-specific issues, but I wonder if it's similar where you get someone from Microsoft to hold your case, which could take a couple of days, maybe a week in between when they get back in contact with you."
"The issue arises when I need to ask Microsoft directly for support, and I have had delays, such as with a SharePoint issue that took two weeks to resolve, and another instance where the ticket was mishandled and sent to the wrong queue, which delayed the response even further."
"In terms of disadvantages in Office 365, the cost is something some people complain about because I live in South Africa and it is quoted in dollars."
"Data protection and email security are almost the same for all the organizations, irrespective of their segment (SMB or enterprises), with standard subscription at least basic Data loss prevention and Advance threat protection can be enabled for SMB segments, it is available in enterprise version / Premium versions."
"PowerPoint could have more features to assist users in design."
"The scalability is okay. However, we have such a large organization, and because IT has to enact it, it takes a while to do each one by one."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."
"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 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."
"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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