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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs SharePoint comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Web Content Management
6th
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (27th)
SharePoint
Ranking in Web Content Management
3rd
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
166
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 5.6%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 7.3%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint7.3%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.6%
Other87.1%
Web Content Management
 

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.
AnjneyBhardwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC Corporate
Collaboration has improved through simplified document access and controlled sharing
SharePoint is definitely used to keep a record of our files and data. The capability is quite good because it is time-saving. I have used it only four or five times, but it has been very helpful to keep all my information in a consolidated manner. The search feature is one of the most beneficial factors that we use to filter out the latest data or the latest file as per our convenience and use case. When you have a large repository, this feature is particularly valuable. Role-based access control has been helpful while developing the knowledge platform. The roles were defined clearly, which made it easy for the four or five of us to work simultaneously and collaborate on our project in a similar manner.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Big benefit is in relation to cost; there are a lot of out of box things and on the other side it has got an elastic platform for further improvements."
"It has increased communication between the departments and their employees."
"All the portlets and widgets are plugins, which provides flexibility to add or modify in multiple ways."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"I usually see this platform as a Swiss Army Knife for building new features."
"From enterprise intranet website requirements to a public facing website that receives heavy traffic, Liferay passes all tests and checks off your requirements."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"Ease of use, ease of setup, ease of administration, ease of configuration, ease of customization... what's not to like?"
"We use this solution as central repository for all the corporate information systems."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"SharePoint acts as a version control system, allowing easy recovery of past document versions."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its user interface, which is very easy to use."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"Using the workflow as an example, it has helped to transform the conventional paperwork processes into digitized and faster processes."
 

Cons

"Staging and LARs export/import features. This is always a pain in Liferay with many errors caused mostly by some inconsistent data in the database."
"For new installations, the setup is simple; but again migrations for the old version are a nightmare."
"Documentation needs improvement."
"Liferay needs a better web content search engine."
"There are several areas that need improvement: The core code base needs refactoring."
"Liferay is a very stable product (except for version 7, as it is relatively new)."
"Although it has been improving, I cannot shake the feeling that it was released too early."
"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."
"The user profile synchronization feature is cumbersome to configure and at least initially had some stability issues."
"The interface is not all that great, but other than that, there's not much to say because it's a pretty simple tool and I don't have high expectations for it to improve."
"Technical support is poor. Microsoft makes it tough to get quality support."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"SharePoint is not always intuitive to use and can be overwhelming for non-tech-savvy users."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"SharePoint Designer enables creating workflows easily. However, they produce errors at times."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"It is a bit expensive."
"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 very expensive.​"
"The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."
"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."
"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."
"The pricing is competitive."
"For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance."
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Comparison Review

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Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
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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
10%
Construction Company
8%
Government
8%
Manufacturing 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 Business81
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise84
 

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?
I don't know how SharePoint can be improved because it works effectively, so I can't think of any improvement. It exists in the background, similar to Windows, where you don't think about it, but i...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
I have been using SharePoint for three years since I began employment at Wartsila. My main use case for SharePoint is storing documents, meeting recordings, and visiting websites created by my coll...
 

Also Known As

Liferay DXP
SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

Overview

 

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.
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