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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

PR
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 has a CMS, role-based permissions, and hierarchy-of-organization community management which provides lots of features for intranet and enterprise applications."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"If you need to build enterprise solutions with digital experience, then this product fulfills all the requirements from customization, custom development, integration, and configuration."
"As of now, the technology is up-to-date and fulfills all essential requirements."
"If you are looking for a complete portal solution with security and ease of set-up, then go for it."
"Liferay is very quick and easy to set up, whether you are using the built-in database or an external database."
"From enterprise intranet website requirements to a public facing website that receives heavy traffic, Liferay passes all tests and checks off your requirements."
"Flexibility to fit our business requirements under many different scenarios, from simple public web sites to customer or distributor portal solutions and intranets."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"The scheduling capabilities of Microsoft Teams are particularly helpful, allowing me to create internal teams and organize project-related communications."
"AI with Office 365 is useful for programming, and sometimes for reporting and creating emails, which is easier."
"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."
"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."
"Having everything in one place in Office 365, and all the apps integrate together with OneDrive, and the email management is pretty decent."
"Office 365 applications are indispensable for data cleansing, data collection, and analytics, with Excel acting as the primary system for formulas, data extraction, and data cleansing across various sectors in Egypt, including banking and real estate."
"Office 365 is popular and easy to use due to its intuitive interface, and the collaboration with OneDrive allows us to access anything, anywhere, in the same format across devices, including mobile phones."
 

Cons

"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"Setup was not straightforward. The Community Edition was a bit complicated and they should fix the code."
"Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering."
"If you are a basic web developer or you have a very small organization, I don't think I would work with it."
"The current version is good, but one problem is with objects where the load takes much time if the records are increasing."
"As for now, Liferay DXP was just released, so there are many issues."
"The development license might be too costly for small to medium-sized businesses."
"There are several areas that need improvement: The core code base needs refactoring."
"The price is getting more and more expensive."
"There is something called Office Script in Excel, which is not very user-friendly."
"The mobile phone applications are too heavy and should be lighter."
"I have issues with call licensing problems, and there is a lack of good information about PBX and IT integration with Teams."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."
"Microsoft Excel for Mac (version 15.30) is very slow with a large Excel document."
"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."
"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."
"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."
"I would rate the solution 3 out of 5 for the price. I think Microsoft presents a good solution concerning the price."
"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
17%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software 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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