Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs SharePoint comparison

Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. SharePoint

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...

Ranking in Web Content Management

5th

Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (2nd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (57th)

SharePoint

Ranking in Web Content Management

2nd

Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

165

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 5.0%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 7.3%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SharePoint	7.3%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform	5.0%
Other	87.7%

Web Content Management

Featured Reviews

PratyushRaj

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.

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reviewer2811600

SDE 1 at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Centralized document governance has boosted collaboration and made knowledge sharing structured

SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifically when working with multiple sites and document libraries. Another improvement would be search functionalities. While it is good sometimes, it does not always return the most relevant result unless a document is very well-structured and tagged. Also, initial setup and customizations can be time-consuming and may require technical expertise, specifically when configuring workflows or permissions. From a modern development perspective, tighter and more seamless integrations with tools including Power Automate and better support for custom backend integrations through APIs could make it more efficient. Overall, simplifying usability and enhancing search and integration capability would make SharePoint even stronger. One additional area I would appreciate improvement would be performance and responsiveness, especially when dealing with a large document library. Sometimes loading or navigating through large datasets can feel quite slow. Another aspect is permissions management. While it is very powerful, it can become complex to manage at scale, specifically when there are multiple levels of access across teams and projects. Improving developer experience would also be beneficial. Making customization, API integrations, and extensions more straightforward would help teams, especially backend developers, leverage SharePoint more efficiently.

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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

"It has increased communication between the departments and their employees."

"As of now, the technology is up-to-date and fulfills all essential requirements."

"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."

"Liferay is highly scalable and more complex than Drupal."

"Compared to other platforms the initial setup is not very complex."

"Flexibility to fit our business requirements under many different scenarios, from simple public web sites to customer or distributor portal solutions and intranets."

"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."

"Architecture is so good that you can fit many organizational structures into Liferay."

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"SharePoint is a great document management tool."

"SharePoint is the ideal platform in the collaboration scenario where it is quite easy to set up document repositories with appropriate permissions with just a few mouse clicks."

"The SharePoint interface is adequate and also a little bit faster."

"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."

"Ease of use, ease of setup, ease of administration, ease of configuration, ease of customization... what's not to like?"

"The initial setup is easy."

"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."

"SharePoint is a ten out of ten solution."

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Cons

"Although it has been improving, I cannot shake the feeling that it was released too early."

"I would like to see it require fewer configurations from the properties file, and provide more GUI options to configure changes."

"Documentation is an issue and needs to be improved."

"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 provided needs to be more detailed; it's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."

"There are still some parts where Liferay can improve: Document library: Allow you to view and preview all popular types of files Auditing capability"

"Social areas and capabilities need improvement."

"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."

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"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."

"The initial setup was somewhat complex."

"I would love to see a more robust workflow."

"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."

"Achieving our goals in a multi-vendor project was not an easy task because of the 2010 UI."

"Replication needs improvement."

"Technical support is poor. Microsoft makes it tough to get quality support."

"It should have a lighter interface."

More SharePoint cons

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."

"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."

"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."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."

"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."

"The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good."

"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."

"It is very expensive."

"The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."

More SharePoint pricing and cost advice

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	39
Large Enterprise	81

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 SharePoint?

I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.

What needs improvement with SharePoint?

It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution. Sometimes I have to refresh pages more than with Google, but it does not charge; the page ...

What is your primary use case for SharePoint?

I create a data warehouse and establish a link between different applications. For data exchange, the vendor is Oracle.

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Also Known As

Liferay DXP

SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

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.

Liferay

SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

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Sample Customers

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

Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.

Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. SharePoint