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Contentful vs. Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentful

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AContentful 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.

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    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ALiferay 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
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Email sales@liferay.com for pricing information.
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    Features
    ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Contentful and Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentful and Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    API8.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentful and Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentful and Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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    User Ratings
    ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ContentfulLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentful
    Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
    Incentivized
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    Liferay, Inc.
    Liferay Portal is a framework which comes with a fine grained security/permission model, (Web) Content Management, Authentication and Authorization, outbox portlets with different features to manage content or users. So if any business application has below questions then I can recommend not to use Liferay as a platform.
    • Application is big but not content or user driven.
    • Application with few static contents.
    • Application with batch transactions(DB) i.e. insert , update db records in batch.
    • Application with ERP capabilities.
    • Application with Big Data support.
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    Pros
    Contentful
    • Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
    • High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
    • Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
    Incentivized
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    Liferay, Inc.
    • Personalization
    • Business to client relationship
    • Customer management is better.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Contentful
    • The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
    • The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
    • It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
    Incentivized
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    Liferay, Inc.
    • Harder to get started
    • Enterprise level of options can cause confusion
    • Development documentation could be better
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Contentful
    No answers on this topic
    Liferay, Inc.
    We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
    Incentivized
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    Liferay, Inc.
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) feels more professional than other similar products I tried or used. With this, I mainly mean the look or aspect when you are editing, setting or configuring anything in the platform, wether you are setting users, roles, creating new pages, adding components to them, or even configuring server or instance related configurations.
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    Return on Investment
    Contentful
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Liferay, Inc.
    • Its high scalability and flexibility has allowed us to include all essential solutions to meet our business needs while preserving the originality of the brand and helping us to improve the quality of our processes and services within the same friendly and unified environment.
    • This powerful platform has allowed us to keep the efforts of all our units aligned, from sales, marketing, operations, support and customer service, in a solid collaborative environment.
    Incentivized
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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.