Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Slack comparison

Liferay Digital Experience ...

Read 73 Slack reviews

2,033 Views
739 Comparison Views

93% willing to recommend

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Slack 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. Slack Report (Updated: March 2020).

Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. Slack

March 2020

Download the complete report

Helped 837,501 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

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)

Slack

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Social Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Slack 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 8.5%, up 8.5% compared to last year.
Slack, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 12.5% mindshare, up 9.8% since last year.

Web Content Management

Enterprise Social Software

Featured Reviews

Bhavin Panchani

Chief Executive Officer at IGNEK

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.

Read full review

PaulButticaz

Account Manager at Eclipse Networks, Inc.

A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity

Slack has been around for a long time, and it's an industry leader. Of course, Salesforce owns Slack now and is starting to integrate into it. I have attended Slack conferences and met with product and support managers. They're an excellent organization. Choosing Slack depends on the organization's size, so you need to plan your deployment and make sure you put some controls and standards in place and not just turn it on. If you're a Slack shop, you will have to have something like a Zoom or Microsoft Teams platform for when you need to do video conferencing internally or externally. Many shops have both products, but they use Slack for collaboration, chat, and so on, and use Teams for video and audio conferences. At the end of the day, Slack is missing those capabilities, so either you're going to be a Slack/Zoom shop or you're going to be a Microsoft Teams shop. I rate Slack an eight out of ten.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is easy to install."

"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."

"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."

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

"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 integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."

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

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

"Slack is a very collaborative tool that makes it easier for me to communicate with the onboarding and billing teams."

"Tasks and team huddles are the most valuable features of Slack."

"The product has the ability to scale."

"The solution is scalable."

"The solution's initial setup process is easy."

"Its intuitive design makes it easy to use and understand, hence we do not have a need to spend much on educating our teams."

"Slack is a very stable product."

"The most valuable features of Slack are communication and its ability to create hidden, private, and open groups."

More Slack pros

Cons

"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."

"Social area 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."

"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."

"The plugins should be more affordable."

"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 reason is we are moving towards a new CRM, so we have a suitable solution to integrate with the new CRM."

"When scaled on a large scale, the solution's cost becomes a matter of concern for organizations."

"Customization is something that Slack is lacking."

"The tool should be able to fetch a conversation when we search for it even if it is in the thread."

"There could be a read function so that when you send a message, instead of the other person having to add a reaction, you know that the message went through."

"The tool has stability issues that need to be improved. We are not native English speakers and Slack needs to integrate grammar checks."

"I would like the in-meeting content sharing facility to be improved."

"I would like to see the social sharing of blogs, announcements, or other news directly from the message corner."

More Slack cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a bit expensive."

"Licensing costs can be very expensive."

"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."

"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."

"When it comes to pricing, it is on the expensive side."

"It is an affordable solution."

"It's on the more expensive side."

"I would rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."

"The solution’s pricing is cheap."

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution is cheap in my country."

"We use the free version that does not have a license."

More Slack pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Web Content Management solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

837,501 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

86%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

University

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...

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 do you like most about Slack?

Nowadays, we don't need to visit an HR portal. Our marketing and human resources teams directly share details about birthdays, upcoming events, and important dates in Slack. Whether it's a training...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Slack?

The pricing is reasonable. While cheaper would be better, we are generally satisfied with the current pricing model.

What needs improvement with Slack?

Slack's Canvas feature could be improved in terms of its user experience. While they are trying to integrate something like Notion, it doesn't work well, which is why we still use Notion for offici...

Drupal vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Comparisons

Compared 22% of the time

Adobe Experience Manager vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Compared 17% of the time

Strapi vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Compared 14% of the time

SharePoint vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Compared 9% of the time

WordPress vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Compared 9% of the time

More Liferay Digital Experience Platform Competitors

Symphony vs Slack

Compared 22% of the time

Chatter vs Slack

Compared 16% of the time

ChatWork vs Slack

Compared 16% of the time

Atlassian Confluence vs Slack

Compared 15% of the time

Jive vs Slack

Compared 13% of the time

More Slack Competitors

Product Reports

Liferay Digital Experience Platform

February 2025

Liferay Digital Experience Platform report

Download Liferay Digital Experience Platform product report

Download Slack product report

January 2025

Also Known As

Liferay DXP

No data available

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

Slack is where work happens. It’s a digital workspace that powers your organization — all the pieces and the people — so you can get things done.

Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.

Sample Customers

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

Strava, The New York Times, Spotify, Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Eventbrite, Box, Circa, Stripe