Adobe Experience Manager vs Jive comparison

Adobe and Jive Software are both solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category. Adobe is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6, while Jive Software is ranked #31. Adobe holds a 3.3% mindshare in ECM, compared to Jive Software’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Jive Software users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Adobe Experience Manager and Jive compete in digital experience management and collaboration. Adobe Experience Manager seems to have an advantage in advanced content management, while Jive stands out in community-building and engagement.

Features: Adobe Experience Manager offers robust content management with flexible workflows and integrations with other Adobe products, effective personalization tools, and advanced digital asset management. Jive is known for its strong collaboration features, providing discussion forums, communication channels for team engagement, and full integration with tools like MS Office and Outlook.

Room for Improvement: Adobe Experience Manager could improve user accessibility and reduce the complexity of its setup process, as well as enhance the cost-effectiveness for smaller projects. Jive may benefit from expanding its integration capabilities beyond Microsoft suites, enhancing the user interface, and offering more advanced analytics tools to measure engagement effectiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adobe Experience Manager offers both on-premise and cloud deployment options with strong support for enterprise scalability but requires substantial time for implementation due to its complex infrastructure. Jive provides a straightforward, cloud-centric deployment, supported by community-driven resources, allowing quicker start-up and ease of use.

Pricing and ROI: Adobe Experience Manager involves a higher initial setup cost and significant investment that promises considerable ROI for complex content strategies. Jive's pricing is generally more affordable, offering a quicker ROI by optimizing team collaboration benefits, making it suitable for businesses focusing on social collaboration with less upfront expenditure.

To learn more, read our detailed Adobe Experience Manager vs. Jive Report (Updated: January 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

5th

Ranking in Web Content Management

1st

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)

Jive

Ranking in Enterprise Content Management

31st

Ranking in Web Content Management

31st

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

13th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Knowledge Management Software (16th), Enterprise Intranet (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Enterprise Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 3.3%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jive is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Adobe Experience Manager	3.3%
Jive	0.7%
Other	96.0%

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reviewer2771634

Senior Technical Program Manager /Senior Lead Solution Architech- Product Technology & Gen AI at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Have faced challenges with setup and pricing but have found flexibility and support helpful

Adobe Experience Manager needs more optimization. The frequency of components where we have vitals of a page or an app needs to be optimized because these are heavy Java codes along with some AEM developments. The code language should be optimized or they should have some string functions or web plugins to create a lighter version rather than implementing large amounts of code lines. They should start implementing industry best practices which are not currently offered. We perform our internal development for customization at our own pace. We have multiple frameworks that help us in various ways. We are advancing in terms of AI integration. We have already started our own POCs before Adobe implements these features.

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Gian DE Bernardi

VP - International Business at Amtex S.A.

A flexible solution that improves our administrative efficiency

We use Jive-n for followups on details regarding purchase orders, shipping documents, and other information We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge. This solution provides great flexibility of permission…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"Adobe Experience Manager is one of the best enterprise-level content management and digital experience platforms available."

"The most valuable features of Adobe Experience Manager include its capability to manage content and create reusable fragments."

"The search capability in Adobe Experience Manager is superior, as search capabilities are determined by the metadata, and it also has metadata automation using AI."

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"I like the native applications such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform. Because of these, it's very easy to connect and obtain reports on how my website is doing, how many have visited it, how frequently, etc. The multiple publisher concept is one of the best parts of this solution."

"I like the profiling and segmentation."

"Easy to work with the solution."

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"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."

Cons

"Adobe Experience Manager could improve by allowing the reuse of components like a progress bar across multiple pages to make the development process more efficient."

"Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user face issues in AEM as a Cloud Service."

"There is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be transferred or synced to the production environment, there is no direct way of doing the sync."

"I assigned a rating of eight because there are certain limitations we must consider, and there are restrictions in Adobe Experience Manager that we cannot resolve."

"Adobe Experience Manager is not so simple to use, so others should have some experience with similar programs."

"In comparison to other CMS products, Adobe Experience Manager is missing some capabilities such as proper versioning or a better versioning system and backend connectivity. If something is deleted in AEM, the user cannot recover it. You have to call technical support, and they will need to recover the whole instance. So, it's really difficult. For example, if you delete a page, you cannot recover it. There should be an option to recover it. In AEM, you have to go to the previous state of the instance itself or the virtual machine, and you have to restore everything, which is not good."

"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."

"Many people complain about the price as it's one of the most expensive tools."

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"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."

"It's really costly."

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."

"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?

It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.

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What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?

Moving forward, if Adobe implements AI tools wherein a vendor or a stakeholder comes in and gives instructions, they could develop a page or a whole site accordingly in a few minutes or a few days,...

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What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

Adobe Experience Manager is used for developing components, content management, and developing experience fragments and content fragments. Assets are used for the DAM for storing files and document...

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Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud, Adobe CQ5

Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n

Overview

Adobe Communique 5 (Adobe CQ5), currently manifested as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a web-based content management system which is developed to help businesses in offering high-end digital experience to their customers.

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The workplace has changed. It has become more mobile, and has become a place where communication and collaboration across all spheres of the business is key to success. This is where Jive comes in with its cutting-edge mobile portal, its enterprise social network, and its integrative platform that is compatible with current infrastructure and modern cloud applications.

As a portal, Jive brings colleagues, content, and current news straight to your desktop or mobile device at the touch of your fingertips. The enterprise social software aspect of Jive connects business colleagues as never-before across geographical locations and throughout the organizational structure. The Jive platform is completely flexible and integrative, and will seamlessly integrate with current systems such as SharePoint and CRM tools, as well as cloud apps like Google Drive and Okta

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Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.

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