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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Yammer comparison

The compared Liferay and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Liferay is ranked #4 in WCM , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 8.5% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #4 in ESS , with an average rating of 7.3, and holds a 6.3% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Liferay users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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91% willing to recommend
Yammer
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  • 466 Comparison Views
77% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Yammer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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
44
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (4th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (2nd)
Yammer
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Social Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Liferay Digital Experience Platform and Yammer 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 8.0% compared to last year.
Yammer, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 6.3% mindshare, down 7.8% since last year.
Web Content Management
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

Bhavin Panchani - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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Rishi Pande - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud-based platform supports seamless collaboration but needs branding flexibility
I have transitioned to using Yammer in the cloud for about six to seven years People share their files and ideas and attend meetings in a collaborative manner. They work on specific sales-related documents. Yammer allows collaboration anywhere, anytime, on any device. Its adaptability and…
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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 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 solution is easy to install."
"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."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"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."
"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."
"Groups is the most valuable feature in Yammer."
"We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer."
"It's really easy to use the solution."
"Valuable features include the integration with Microsoft Office and the fact that it is in the cloud. Also, it's quite easy to use."
"Yammer allows collaboration anywhere, anytime, on any device."
"The design of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"Yammer shows the post’s actions, comments, and how people react. We can quickly see what's going on."
"People share their files and ideas and attend meetings in a collaborative manner."
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Cons

"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."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"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 plugins should be more affordable."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."
"The solution must be able to stream by itself, without integration, the same way that you are able to do it on Facebook Live, Instagram, etc. Streaming must be embedded into it."
"Users need to be in the Acting Directory to exploit the features."
"This solution would be improved if it was well integrated with other communication applications."
"The way you want to control the communication could be an issue. It depends on what kind of company you are. We are a public company, and there are some regulations that we need to comply with. Its ease of use can be an issue for a company because anybody can subscribe and use it. There are many competitors that are overlapping. Since Microsoft bought Yammer, it tends to be in the shadow. It is not put in the front from the service perspective."
"Yammer's UX and UI are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required"
"Although Microsoft is working on it, having a centralized network instead of creating multiple networks based on a domain would help businesses with multiple companies or child companies."
"Sometimes, we lose access to the solution for unknown reasons."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"It is a bit expensive."
"Compared to other products like Amazon, Yammer's pricing is fine."
"Yammer is a pretty cheap solution, and it's included in multiple subscriptions."
"Its cost is included in the license bundle for Microsoft."
"We get it as part of our Office 365 subscriptions, so I don't think we pay any additional cost for Yammer. It's included in the Office 365 subscriptions."
"I don't know about the pricing. Now that Microsoft has bought Yammer, it should be a part of our subscriptions for Office 365."
"The pricing is not bad."
"I think that there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution."
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Comparison Review

it_user8913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 22, 2013
Yammer vs. SP Social in 2013
There are several discussions on SharePoint’s social strategy going on at the moment. I had some great discussions with my MVP mate Adis during Summit last week. Since #SPC12 almost every SharePoint addicted developer, it-pro, power user has reviewed Yammer. If you don’t know what Yammer is, here a…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
 

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...
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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...
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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....
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What do you like most about Yammer?
We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer.
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What needs improvement with Yammer?
Yammer should offer flexibility to allow branding without writing any code. It should also provide seamless integration with other products, utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
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What is your primary use case for Yammer?
I have transitioned to using Yammer in the cloud for about six to seven years.
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Also Known As

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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:

Liferay

Yammer is an enterprise social network that allows employees,managers, executives, teams and different office branches to engage,collaborate and innovate over one interactive virtual network.

Yammer creates a social workplace that drives innovationthrough the sharing of ideas and business intelligence, boosts productivity inteams and projects, and encourages communication and connectivity betweenemployees, no matter where they are located.

Microsoft
 

Sample Customers

Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
Verizon, Rakuten,Nationwide, DHL, Westfield, Telefonica, 7-Eleven, Red Robin, Intuit, eBay,Darden, Suncorp, Tyco, Xerox, and ModCloth.
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