Contentful vs. Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Contentful
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
$300
per month
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Liferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.N/A
Pricing
ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Editions & Modules
Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.
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Community Pulse
ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Features
ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
Ratings
API8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Likelihood to Recommend
Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs.
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Lifeary Digital Experience Platform(DXP) is well suited for long meeting, personalisation of data , customer data and customer management in any circumstances. The things in here that are less appropriate are that the picturiastion will be much better. Have individual databases for individual programs and the list of client should be listed systematically.
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Pros
  • Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
  • Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
  • Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).
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  • User management
  • Security and access management
  • WYSIWYG
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Cons
  • Preview of changes prior to publishing
  • The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly)
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  • It requires technical expertise and the right people to achieve customization.
  • There is little documentation available for certain functions that make them a bit complex to master.
  • The SSL function for login.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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Alternatives Considered
Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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Alfresco: Very good CMS but not good for presentation or front end technology. Portofino: Not much scalable and high available CMS. eXo Platform: Slowly growing in market but not mature community like Liferay and less support from community. Microsoft SharePoint: Proprietary Software from Microsoft. Nuxeo ECM Platform: Picking up the market but not mature community and support from the community.
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Return on Investment
  • There was no negative impact as such.
  • Positive impact is increase in sales.
  • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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  • Can reduce IT costs eventually.
  • Increases upfront costs due to technical knowledge needed for initial setup and maintenance.
  • Hard to analyze ROI until after it's totally implemented.
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ScreenShots

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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) features a unified look and feel that makes site administration a breeze.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) comes with blogs out-of-the-box, designed to give enterprises a slick blogging experience similar to what they're used to with consumer platforms.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.