We performed a comparison between Liferay Digital Experience Platform and SharePoint 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."The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"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."
"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."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"The security feature is valuable."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"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."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"Make it more intuitive."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"The solution's support services and GenAI could be improved and made faster and more knowledgeable."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"When you are trying to migrate from a different platform to SharePoint for file storage, the upload utility should be more flexible, taking more files and then updating you on the upload status of the files you are trying to transfer into SharePoint."
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Liferay Digital Experience Platform is ranked 4th in Web Content Management with 44 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Web Content Management with 150 reviews. Liferay Digital Experience Platform is rated 8.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Liferay Digital Experience Platform writes "Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Liferay Digital Experience Platform is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress, Magnolia CMS, Drupal and Sitecore Experience Platform, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and Box. See our Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. SharePoint report.
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