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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.
Bharat Raghavan - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager For Marketing And Strategy at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Secure collaboration has improved as I create and host protected web assets for my team
It is a little difficult to name the areas for improvements in SharePoint because I don't use it all that much. I know I can host pages on it and feel that the CMS platform, which helps create those pages, can be improved. 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. The main issue bothering me today is the Content Management System, which is basically the interface through which I can create the landing page. The design and the way to incorporate things could be better because there are better content management platforms available right now. Even newer platforms like WordPress are better, so I think SharePoint can improve on that.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Liferay was mainly selected by me due to its collaboration and the digital features that help to make the digital platforms very strong for the customers."
"It is a wonderful open-source product that has many out-of-the-box features."
"Compared to other big players in portal platforms, Liferay's pricing is very competitive, and remember, the latest version of Liferay is not just a portal framework, but it is a digital experience platform which offers way more."
"Liferay Digital Experience Platform has helped us optimize our digital presence and deliver rapid application development, every customer is happy, and they are giving us repeat orders for whatever we have delivered on Liferay Digital Experience Platform."
"All the features that are provided by Liferay are very useful, such as Web Content, Document Library and Media, Roles, Permissioning, Resources, Organizations, Users, Sites, Custom Fields, Plugins, and so on."
"For me, the most important features are scalability, architecture, the fact that it's Java-based, includes a CMS, and provides audience targeting tools."
"Liferay provides a vast range of features with minimal license costs, which makes it better than the others."
"Liferay enables you to stay with latest technologies with each version release."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"SharePoint 2013 had a better and cleaner user interface that has appealed to more users."
"Easy management of content and portal and the document repository features are a distinguishing point compared to a file server."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"The most valuable aspect of SharePoint is its integration with Teams. T"
"Co-editing of documents enables teams to work on the same document and the work gets done faster."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking, better than looking into three systems to find the full picture."
 

Cons

"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."
"However, it is not very strong yet to be used for completely marketing-oriented implementations."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"I am having a hard time getting through the security scans."
"Liferay is a phenomenal product with deficient marketing."
"There are several areas that need improvement: The core code base needs refactoring."
"As for now, Liferay DXP was just released, so there are many issues."
"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."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"Make it more intuitive."
"For the most part, the tool is useable, but there are many end users who still find it difficult overall."
"Unless you have worked with a SharePoint business analyst, designer or power user, managing individual sites does require training to understand the components of the site settings and content."
"The navigation is confusing."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"It is a bit 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."
"The platform has medium pricing."
"The data classification and search elements are cheap."
"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."
"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."
"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."
"The pricing is competitive."
"The pricing is competitive."
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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
8%
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 ...
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 platf...
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 abo...
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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