Liferay Digital Experience Platform Reviews & Product Details

I have been working on the Liferay platform as a Java developer for several years now both in my full time job and as an open source contributor. I like Liferay above all other platforms because of it's flexibility and extensible. Liferay has done a great job providing a solid platform (complete with a strong SDK surrounding users, account management, social integration API's, communication API's, etc) while not restricting the developer or owner in any way.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because of Liferay is very extensible there is a strong learning curve. This is not a bad thing, but the worst thing about the platform (and this can be said for any large platform) is that some of the integrations points are drastically under documented. As a resulted it takes years to truly become a SME and at a certain level you are essentially going to be inventing the wheel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the interface of this application is easy to navigate in it.

I like most about this app is that I help my company to improve the quality of service we offered to our customers through indicators that we managed to adjust on time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the technical support of the service can improve.

what I do not like very much is that it does not offer a very complete free version, as all software on the market should offer a more complete trial version for complex tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liferay DXP improves on the already strong platform we've had with Liferay EE 6. It is very easy to use but offers a ton of powerful features, great integration with existing and proven technologies and is easily extended if needed. We are in the process of upgrading now and are looking forward to continuing with Liferay for the forseeable future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We had a problem with a custom stylesheet based on the delivered style that was causing a lot of problems for mobile users and any platform with a touchscreen device. It took several months to solve, although to Liferay's credit they hung with is and worked though the issues and were able to deliver a patchset just for us that addressed and corrected the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's open source, All source code is available.

We can customize the portal to our needs.

Easy to integrate third party technology.

In build it has latest technology.

Good support for the EE.

Easy to install portal patches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Less documentation and what ever it has not for the beginners.

No code level comments.

CE has less features than EE.

No books in the market to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scalability and reliability. Admin roles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the difficulty of integrating new features or plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We run Liferay as a headless CMS and the thing I like best about it is that is able to do this. It provides us with very powerful CMS management but we can develop in whatever tech we want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately Liferay is not as stable as I would like. We've had instances were we are troubleshooting and it turns out that Liferay had gone down again and that there was no bug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

excellent as it is a portal content management open source written in Java and is so good that has over 60,000 downloads per month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

everything is excellent , nothing I dislike this app because it is an open source editor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a quite good product, I am using Liferay since 4 years and i implemented several solutions for several customers now.I like installation of Liferay is also pretty easy, Just we can download zip and unzip it than use.

The most liking thing is it is an opensource so that we can customize up to our extent and requirement. Themes are very powerful so that we can change lot of UI stuff and most impressive for user to see.By hooks we can change lot of default behaviour.Multi site web application with administrator delegated is awesome one in Liferay Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest caveat is documentation. It's getting better, but it is still difficult to find info on lots of things. Technically still it is some what lagging providing secure transaction. There is potential conflict in third party library versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's open source portal and comes with lot of out of box portlets.

Documentation is very good from Liferay 6.2.

It has very large community.

It comes with CMS tools also it let's you to integrate alfresco.

It provides SSO integration like LDAP, CAS.

It has great flexibility to organize Users, Roles, Sites.

It allows you to create website in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Developers need to have good skills which increases cost.

Few resources are available.

You have to purchase the license for enterprise edition which gives extra features as well as support.

Documentation still can be improved, it's difficult to do some things which should be easily achieved.

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1. User personification and portal level customization, Liferay maintains public forums for bug fixings and technical support.

2. Frequent version upgrades from Liferay is a developer friendly sign, Migration from one version to another is easily done with couple of steps.

3. Supports reuse-ability through out portal from UI to service layer.

4. Supports user defined permission system with respect to organisation specific requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Need technical knowledge in customizing the portal.

2. Apart from html need to have good knowledge on AUI to work on user interface.

3. Liferay need to extend its support for Community Edition.

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