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.

• Check in: lets you update a document that you have edited. Its version number will be increased and the previous version document will be saved for reference.
• Check out: lets you check out a document for editing. This prevents anyone else from accessing the file while someone is working on the checked out document.
• Document library (repository): Liferay provides a document management system (CMS). It not only keeps the document but also manages the document with proper versioning and permissions for accessing the document.
• Multiple-file upload: allows uploading multiple file at one time to the document library.
• Workflow: allows using Keleo for workflow, which manages a module’s flow within specific roles of the hierarchy.
• Document conversion tool (file format conversion): allows document conversion for common extensions such as Word to PDF and vice versa, with OpenOffice.
• Multiple sites in one Liferay portal: One can create multiple sites with a single Liferay installation.
• User-role management: Liferay manages its own users and roles with its control panel that consists of a rich UI that is very user friendly.
• LDAP Support: Helps with single sign on in Liferay.

It reduces development time as well as requires less maintenance.

I would like to see it require fewer configurations from the properties file, and provide more GUI options to configure changes.

I’d also like to maybe see virus scanning for file uploads.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I have never taken technical support from the vendor.

I did not previously use a different solution.

The initial step is way too easy.

Before choosing this product, I also evaluated BackBase.

Use this product wisely.

The Liferay team has made this product to the mark. As of now, the technology is up-to-date and fulfills all essential requirements.

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. 

• 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.