Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Office 365 comparison

The compared Liferay and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Liferay is ranked #4 in WCM , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 8.2% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #9 in CCP , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 6.0% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Liferay users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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91% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Web Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. Office 365 Report (Updated: March 2020).

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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. Office 365

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Content Management (4th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (2nd)

Office 365

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (9th)

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 8.2%, down 8.9% compared to last year.
Office 365, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 6.0% mindshare, down 7.1% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Bhavin Panchani

Chief Executive Officer at IGNEK

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.

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Minos Pitsillides

IT Director at IT-Flow ltd

Mar 31, 2022

Excellent technical support, easy to install, but the price, while affordable, could be improved

Office 365 is scalable, but it is dependent on the situation. We don't have a problem with it from an organizational standpoint. They started with 100 employees and then added another 500 after six months, for a total of 600 employees. The setup of new users, new emails, and new applications to be assigned to the new users is straightforward. They also provide the PowerShell command, which they provided more, development type, like, for example, you can create users, not manually, but through a script that can create users, for example, 100 users in two, three minutes, and you don't do it manually. They're fantastic. My portfolio contains approximately 50 companies. Office 365 is our primary platform for the 50 companies. I only have one on G Suite, and the majority of them will be migrating from G Suite to 365 in the coming month.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."

"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."

"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."

"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."

"The look and feel and the user interface are great."

"It is very easy to deploy."

"Great impact on project management and team collaboration."

"It's inexpensive to license."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."

"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."

"The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."

"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."

"It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place."

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Cons

"Social area and capabilities need improvement."

"The plugins should be more affordable."

"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."

"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."

"Security is still complex, but the admin console improving."

"The security should be improved."

"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."

"The online applications have limited functionality compared to the local applications."

"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."

"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."

"I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app."

"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"It is a bit expensive."

"The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."

"Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them."

"The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."

"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."

"I would rate the solution 3 out of 5 for the price. I think Microsoft presents a good solution concerning the price."

"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."

"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."

"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

16%

Educational Organization

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

82%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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...

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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...

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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....

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What are the differences between SnapComms and Office 365?

Here are the key differences between SnapComms and Office 365: SnapComms is specifically designed for employee communications, while Office 365 is a suite of productivity tools for bus...

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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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Overview

Liferay is a top-ranking digital experience platform used by companies in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and energy and utilities. This product allows companies to initiate highly personalized digital experiences through mobile, social, and web. Organizations can use Liferay DXP for customer, partner, supplier, or employee portals, as well as integrational platforms, taking advantage of the platform's many customization options to suit their needs completely. The Liferay Experience Cloud offers companies the ability to use the Liferay DXP to build their own digital experiences, as well as to use it as a fully managed cloud platform, including options for self-management and self-hosting.

Liferay Digital Experience Platform Features

Liferay Digital Experience Platform provides various features in the following categories:

Identity management and access control (application security): These features include identity management support, user management, service access policies, and personal data management.
Platform services: Clustering and performance monitoring, auditing and optimization, back-end APIs, dynamic virtual hosting, site and search administration, and single-page applications.

Integration and interoperability: The features in this category include integration framework, developer studio, front-end toolkits, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin, Liferay connected services (LCS), Liferay marketplace and workspace, and Blade CLI.
Collaboration and social: Blogs, knowledge base, social networking, wiki, forums, message boards, calendar, AlloyEditor, inline image editor, and polls, among other features.
Forms, workflow, and business process automation: Features include forms, validation, field library, various types of form entries, data provider integration, and several other features.
Content management: Vast array of features for companies to take advantage of when preparing and publishing different types of content, including text and images.
Experience management: The features in the experience management category include building pages through fragments and editors for them, various widgets, as well as templates for pages, and SEO-friendly updates.
Segmentation and personalization: These features are designed for the full personalization of the platform in order to reach different types of customers and appeal to their individual needs regarding the company that is using Liferay.
Multichannel support: The features in multichannel support include APIs, adaptive media, and responsive design, providing companies with the ability to apply Liferay's full customization to their digital experience platform's design and function.
Search: Liferay Digital Experience Platforms provide various features for search integrations, multi-language search, and options for filtering and sorting.
Analytics and optimization: A crucial part of every digital experience platform is the analytics option for companies to monitor the data of their users and, based on it, improve their approach. That is why Liferay Digital Experience Platform provides five different analytics features.
Cloud capability: To provide companies with the best possible experience, Liferay offers various features regarding the proper operation of the platforms, including real-time alerts, monitoring, and options for backup and restoration.

Liferay Digital Experience Platform Benefits

Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers the following benefits:

Creation of custom solutions
Simplification of IT management
Unity of disparate systems
Developer freedom.

Reviews from Real Users

According to a Communications head at a university, Liferay is a secure platform and the interface is user-friendly, with a great look and feel.

Preeti S., Senior Manager - Cloud Transformation at a computer software company, remarks that she's seenmultiple projects where Enterprise portals are implemented using Liferay, confirming the popularity and vast user base of this digital experience platform.

Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates.

Sample Customers

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

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