Liferay Digital Experience Platform Reviews

This product has large a number of out-of-the-box features for collaboration, social integration, audience targeting, and personalization.

This product built a capability to provide enterprise based solution to the client with more agility and flexibility.

Liferay requires more room to provide ease of use for the content contributors.

I have used this product for over seven years.

Stability was an issue at some point of time when the higher versions were released. However, Liferay rectified it quickly and provided the patch releases to make it more stable.

We had no scalability issues.

I rarely required any technical support apart from the patch releases.

The setup was straightforward. It comes with a bundle and provides a setup wizard for the initial setup.

Choose the best option for your business.

We looked at Joomla!, Drupal, and Adobe CQ5. We felt that they covered more in the content management area, instead of in the enterprise solutions.

If you need to build enterprise solutions with digital experience, then this product fulfills all the requirements from customization, custom development, integration, and configuration.

I really value the out-of-the-box features (portlets/application), OSGi modularity (in the last version), and tools for developers.

We needed to rewrite a legacy application written from scratch with much less developer resources. Liferay was a great choice. It had a big learning curve in advance, but it had great results in the end.

I would like to see better documentation. Updates in the documentation do not follow updates in the code and functionality.

I have used it since version 5.2, in 2008.

There were some scalability issues. Finding a good infrastructure setup is not an easy task. Some scalability issues can arise when changing database engines, since Liferay supports different databases.

I didn't use technical support.

It might sound trivial, but plan all the project phases, in terms of infrastructure and performance testing, well.

Liferay starting from DXP redesign the full software architecture using OSGI (actually since 6.2 is integrated but just for small integration points). With this new design, they gain the possibility to updates released version more frequently and also "components by components." From a point of view of a developer this is a great improvement by the way after first general available release. Liferay also released public documentation, allowing developers build custom plugin and general customization. This documentation gets outdated in different parts after some new release (GA2 ,etc).

• Social networking
• Document sharing

We get better communication between team members and faster access to documents.

There is always is something to improve. I welcome improving the DMS camp and more easy collaboration with Microsoft Active Directory.

I have used Liferay for three years.

We have not had stability issues.

We have not had scalability issues.

I didn’t use technical support.

I used more Microsoft solutions and Liferay is a more complex, “all in one” solution.

Setup was not straightforward. The Community Edition was a bit complicated and they should fix the code.

I use the GNU license.

I chose between Liferay, Drupal and Microsoft products.

Liferay is highly scalable and more complex than Drupal. For the same quality, you need more Microsoft solutions, so more servers and more capacity.

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. It also allows us to actively receive data from different systems and publish it into the portal.

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.

It is a bit expensive.