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Liferay Digital Experience Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Liferay

4.0 out of 5

45 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Liferay Digital Experience Platform Pros review quotes

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E-Governance Head at Creant Technologies

Sep 3, 2025

Liferay Digital Experience Platform has helped us optimize our digital presence and deliver rapid application development, every customer is happy, and they are giving us repeat orders for whatever we have delivered on Liferay Digital Experience Platform.

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reviewer1391445

Communications head at a university with 51-200 employees

Sep 29, 2020

The look and feel and the user interface are great.

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RB

Software Factory Manager at RealT Technology

Feb 23, 2020

The solution is easy to install.

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RM

IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 22, 2020

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.

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reviewer1255050

Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jan 7, 2020

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.

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JL

Owner at Revenue

Oct 13, 2019

I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector.

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HK

Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 24, 2018

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.

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Senior Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 1, 2017

Liferay was mainly selected by me due to its collaboration and the digital features that help to make the digital platforms very strong for the customers.

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Full Stack Software Developer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 18, 2017

It has a built-in WCMS (web content management system) and provides the ability to develop complex portlet-based web applications, which is valuable because it is Java/Java EE-based and open source.

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Sr. Technology Architect / Senior Mgr at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 2, 2017

Considering the overall drive towards providing a digital experience to clients, to provide a connected experience, federated touchpoints, dynamic personalization, customer context and interactions, the product has evolved very strongly from just being a horizontal portal system into a digital experience platform.

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E-Governance Head at Creant Technologies

Sep 3, 2025

The current version is good, but one problem is with objects where the load takes much time if the records are increasing.

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reviewer1391445

Communications head at a university with 51-200 employees

Sep 29, 2020

The plugins should be more affordable.

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RB

Software Factory Manager at RealT Technology

Feb 23, 2020

The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse.

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RM

IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 22, 2020

The integration and configuration need to be simplified.

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reviewer1255050

Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jan 7, 2020

It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box.

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JL

Owner at Revenue

Oct 13, 2019

Social area and capabilities need improvement.

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HK

Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 24, 2018

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.

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Senior Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 1, 2017

For new installations, the setup is simple; but again migrations for the old version are a nightmare.

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Full Stack Software Developer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 18, 2017

The documentation could be better.

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Sr. Technology Architect / Senior Mgr at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 2, 2017

However, it is not very strong yet to be used for completely marketing-oriented implementations.

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Web Content Management

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