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Adobe Experience Manager
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Adobe Experience Manager Features

Features Summary

Functionality

4.3

/5

102

Total features

66

7 categories

Adobe Experience Manager features

AB Testing
API
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Analytics
Approval Process Control
Asset Categorization

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API
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Approval Process Control
Asset Categorization
Asset Library
Asset Sharing
CMS Integration

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Functionality

4.3

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102

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Total Features

66

Unique features

  • Electronic Signature

  • Form Builder

  • Video Management

  • Activity Dashboard

Functionality

4.5

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14.5K

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Total Features

49

Features in Common

26

Unique features

  • Text Editing

  • Subscription Management

  • Auto Update

  • Layout & Design

Functionality

4.4

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Total Features

32

Features in Common

14

Unique features

  • Web Forms

  • Customizable Forms

  • Visual Analytics

  • Multi-Channel Distribution

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Cesar K.

Food & Beverages, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Powerful and complete Digital Experience Platform solution.

Reviewed a year ago

Enables great customer engagement. Web Contents Management.

Pros

It's simple to create and manage personalized customers experience across multiple channels.It's simple to create and manage contents with AEM.This tool enhance digital marketing and commerce.

Cons

I lack anything in particular that I dislike about this tool.It's performance is amazing.

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Diana W.

Higher Education,

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AEM isn't easy but it's a workhorse

Reviewed 8 years ago

When we decided that we needed to redesign our college's websites (over 100 of them), we looked for a tool that was robust and versatile, and one that had recommendations from others in higher ed. We found Adobe's Experience Manager (Called CQ5 back then). And although it's been a bumpy road, we are starting on our third large redesign with no regrets.

Pros

Whatever you want to do, AEM will let you do it. Customization is key, and the ability to create multiple sites with one product is a bonus. There are tools to help you get started, and the ability to create a template where our authors can just enter content without worrying about format is a blessing.

Cons

AEM is not an easy program to install or to administer, not if you are going to go beyond an all-in-one server. The configurations are headache inducing, and the documentation isn't always current. Sometimes it behaves in inexplicable ways until you get your hands into its guts to look at the underlying configuration - then it becomes fairly simple to diagnose. But finding experts who are doing what you are with the software (my favorite way to solve an issue) can be difficult.

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51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Useful Content management system

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

Very user friendly with the WYSIWYG interface and easy to learn components and templates. Regular workers can author their own content.

Cons

With most content management systems they each have their own nuances. Things can arise depending on what browser youre using, how your components were made, what kind of network restrictions your company has. All things to consider when setting up this application.

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Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Adobe Experience manager, The Best Content Management System

Reviewed 2 years ago

Features like msm, tagging, workflows makes this best content management system.

Pros

The ui of AEM is so much user friendly and touch optimized. It makes website development easy and quick.

Cons

Some of the feature screen are still in classic ui which must be changed as per touch ui in order to support mobile.

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Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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One of the best content management systems

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

A Sophisticated tool that is easy and quick to develop and addresses digital marketing needs, super easy to use for a marketer.

Cons

Adobe docs do not provide comprehensive development help. Learning is more community driven than authenticated by Adobe

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Pharmaceuticals, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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enterprise tool to help your marketing

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

Thanks to easy content authoring you can cut your need for developers and time to market but keep quality.

Cons

To keep it running thre is a need for constant administrators support.

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Apparel & Fashion, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Reliable enterprise content management

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

The flexibility that we get with AEM is great. The types of template and pages options that we get provide us with great features to be able to build custom content and pages well.

Cons

The learning curve of AEM can be a little overwhelming due to the myriad of options that it provides.

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Cami K.

Apparel & Fashion, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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An enterprise content manager that acts like visual studios

Reviewed 6 years ago

I've used a few content managers, but this one has been the best for author customization and communication. I like that you can leave other authors notes. I compare it to visual studios because authors have the ability to drag and drop to modify pages. Authors have a lot of freedom potential for settings, obviously depending on permissions. Their tag manager is also a great asset to our architects.

Pros

Tag manager, digital asset manager, and nontechnical admin abilities.

Cons

Permissions take a lot of effort to lock down and authors could potentially do prod damage. A lot of I's to dot and t's to cross to make sure they don't have damaging access.

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Matt D.

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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This is our content platform and it is robust

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

We use this as a single source of truth for all our content. It houses a lot of content that can be pushed to different sources.

Cons

I don't like the functionality we have set up. There are constraints on what we're able to do with certain pages. That can lead to a lot of busy work and cleanup for users.

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Chris L.

Computer Software, 10,001+ employees

Used other for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Best of breed CMS solution

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

Fantastic CMS solution, which is the best I have seen for content authoring/management. Fantastic array of features and functionality.

Cons

Difficult to integrate with other platforms. Expensive solution, as best of breed - but clear leader in the market

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Pharmaceuticals, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Experience Asset Management - You can count on !

Reviewed 2 years ago

To set up an online business - this is one of the best tools which can be used since most businesses are now going online - I would highly recommend Adobe Experience Manager.

Pros

The Adobe experience manager is a must, especially the experience asset management which uses the Artificial Intelligence (AI) power to get the best results for your business. It allows for business specific texts which makes your work easier. From the viewpoint of the user, you do not have to crop images, that is done automatically for you which projects the image under the best light for a better imapact.

Cons

It can be quite challenging at times to use. However, once you start using it, it gets easier.

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Aysan R.

Computer Software, 10,001+ employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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A very rich form development platform

Reviewed 2 years ago

As an end-user (a business user) I had a positive experience as it was very straightforward to design rich forms. However, as an engineer I struggled to find trustworthy technical documents.

Pros

It has many controls to be added to the form. It is very easy to use by business persons. It also has good integration with other Adobe products.

Cons

It does not seem it support containerization. I could not find good documents on how to create containers from AEM.

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Dennis S.

Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Best form builder

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

Obtaining neatly filled forms that are filled elecfronically rather than handwritten.

Cons

Inability to save the document with data in it for future reference. It can only be printed

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Andrew B.

Computer Hardware, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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The Cadillac of CMS

Reviewed 4 years ago

We used AEM at the very first company I worked with. I dont think I realized how great it is until I moved on in my career to several other companies that do not use it. There is truth to the saying that sometimes you dont appreciate things until you no longer have them! The company I am with now uses AEM, and anytime I get frustrated with not understanding how to do something, I remind myself of the alternative.

Pros

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is the cream of the crop when it comes to CMS. The functionality that it offers - from its backend configuration to its capabilities for 'everyday' users - is unmatched from the other products I have worked with. If I were to single out my top pros for the CMS, I would say its component building blocks, and it's flexible workflow integration. These two things in particular set it apart from other competitors (for me, at least).

Cons

As with most products that pack a ton of functionality and features, AEM is not always the easiest CMS to work with. That being said, it is also definitely not the most difficult. But, most of the advanced configurations and integrations require an adept development team. And, to make changes to existing functionality also usually requires a lot of interaction with dev (again, not a bad thing, but something to take into consideration).

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Bhanu K.

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Adobe Experience Manager

Reviewed 4 years ago

Positive, Good tool to build enterprise level websites

Pros

Adobe Experience Manager is one of the best content management system for building enterprise level websites. Though it is a bit expensive to low level businesses, it makes it the best web content management tool for big businesses. AEM makes it easy if you want to migrate from other platforms. Its cross channel content customization options are awesome and takes care the digital experience for all...

Cons

It is a bit expensive for low level businesses.

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Denise W.

Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Digital content authoring and delivery tool

Reviewed 6 months ago

Since Marketo is part of the CRM, and individuals are increasingly migrating away from a dispersed Martech stack in favor of a more unified strategy, the connectivity between the two has been really helpful.

Pros

As the manager of marketing operations, I am responsible for reporting on campaign statistics, website traffic, and key performance indicators (KPIs), as well as making choices based on this data. The metrics were presented in a way that was easy to understand and use, which aided me greatly in my daily reporting.

Cons

Although the tool's insights and reports are sufficient, they can be improved by allowing users to create their own segments and therefore allowing them to zero in on the channels that are of greatest importance to them.

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Retail, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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An expensive option for the content management

Reviewed a year ago

In my previous company, I developed two big projects. Both of them was done for the big companies of Belgium. For one of them, we developed 17 websites with different language options.

Pros

Backend is full Java and for the frontend, you use any modern frontend frameworks. By dragging and dropping, an editor without any development knowledge, can easily the content. Its asset management is strong.

Cons

Development is a little bit difficult and there are a lot of unknown limitations and bugs. If your target is just content management, this solution is so heavy and expensive.

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Janina K.

Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Robust CMS system for enterprise website management

Reviewed 6 months ago

Adobe Experience Manager allows for rapid content deployment and is well suited for the scaling that larger organizations need.

Pros

There are many things to like about AEM: product integration with adobe products and asset management, modular page building, ease of use for teams to take over in house authoring.

Cons

Tagging, content fragments, and experience fragments process can take a little to get use to. However, nothing a little training cannot overcome.

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Ananya N.

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best User Friendly CMS Tool

Reviewed 5 years ago

I have been using Adobe Experience Manager as a developer for almost 4 years now and every version out does itself. As a developer, I will be recommending AEM for everybody out there.

Pros

Adobe Experience Manager is one of the most sort after CMS tool in the world currently. It's modular design, and it's ease of integration with both other Adobe products as well as other third party products makes it unique. It's OOTB features are so easy and well developed that it decreases the effort required in overlaying them. Seamless integration with Java in the back-end and almost all the high rated front-end tools makes it a best product to design a website on. And the customer or business support is the best in the market.

Cons

Nothing as of such. It's almost a near perfect product.

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Pavan I.

Marketing and Advertising, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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The best CMS tool for carrying out website updates

Reviewed 2 years ago

This is the best CMS tool that we use for performing day to day website updates for our clients websites. Using this software we customize our clients webpages, we publish new content on our clients websites using this tool. Also it's integration with Adobe Analytics helps us to easily extract our Analytics data for our clients websites.

Pros

The websites of our clients could be easily customized using Adobe Experience Manager. All the website updates could be easily done for our clients using Adobe Experience Manager. Also the images for our clients websites could be easily customized using this software. The analytics tagging on this software enables us to easily integrate this software with Adobe Analytics so that all our Analytics data can be easily extracted for our day to day use.

Cons

Sometimes to make some website tweaks using this software will require the assistance of an AEM developer.

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Guido G.

Furniture, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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The "Ferrari" of CMS and DAM

Reviewed a month ago

It's a great suite, but it requires an incredible effort and a well structured team to make it work at its best.

Pros

The real power of this software is its overall suite, not the single software itself: only if you leverage on the CMS, the DAM, etc you can get the real benefits of this software.But a lot depends on the system integrator: this software is a Ferrari, but if you do not set it up properly, it's like driving it only with the 2nd gear.

Cons

It requires a lot of work, especially in the set up. The DAM could be a nightmare if you do not have a good data structure, good processes and well organized folders.The CMS could be a nightmare as well, especially when you use it in a headless commerce perspective.Again, a lot depends on the system integrator partner.

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Afzal S.

Insurance, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Best content management and web development platform out there!

Reviewed 2 years ago

Overall, AEM is a very powerful platform and probably the best one out there for building enterprise level responsive sites.

Pros

For web content authors, this is the best tool out there for creating a responsive website. AEM comes with OOTB components that make it easy to build pages with various layouts

Cons

Basic authoring is simple but anything more requires a steep learning curve and the documentation and tutorials available are lacking

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Kaleena L.

Insurance, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Adobe Experience Manager gets the job done!

Reviewed a year ago

Our virtual team enjoys using AEM for our internal communication publishing needs.

Pros

AEM is relatively intuitive. We are able to edit and publish content quickly and without many issues.

Cons

Sometimes formatting doesn’t work well or the program operates slowly. It can be frustrating to waste time when these things happen.

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Diane K.

Insurance, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Powerhouse

Reviewed 2 years ago

This is a robust program for operations that need to manage a large number of digital assets and pages, or with complex site maps. Edits to existing content are relatively intuitive and new page setup is straightforward.

Pros

I had to make updates to existing pages that others had set up. AEM was fairly intuitive and easy to work with. It's not always easy to walk in to someone else's setup, and we have a large number of pages and different departments with their hands in the program. My experience with that kind of situation in the past would be that it was an act of futility, but it's been super easy to jump into.

Cons

The help and training is not always that easy to navigate. When I run across an issue I can't resolve, I usually have to ask someone with more experience. If he wasn't around, I am not sure how I would find the answers I need.

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Allison T.

Consumer Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Good content management system

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

Adobe Experience Manager makes it easier to organize and manage the data needed as per the company's needs. It has a hassle free set up and it's overall a stable tool.

Cons

A bit pricey, but totally worth every penny.