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Enterprise content management system
Functionality
4.3
/5
102
Total features
66
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Adobe Experience Manager features
Common features of Digital Asset Management software
Functionality
4.3
/5
102
Price starts from
No pricing info
Total Features
66
Unique features
Electronic Signature
Form Builder
Video Management
Activity Dashboard
Functionality
4.5
/5
14.5K
Price starts from
4
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Functionality
4.4
/5
10.1K
Price starts from
Free
Total Features
32
Features in Common
14
Unique features
Web Forms
Customizable Forms
Visual Analytics
Multi-Channel Distribution
Cesar K.
Food & Beverages, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Enables great customer engagement. Web Contents Management.
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.
I lack anything in particular that I dislike about this tool.It's performance is amazing.
Diana W.
Higher Education,
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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.
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.
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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Very user friendly with the WYSIWYG interface and easy to learn components and templates. Regular workers can author their own content.
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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Features like msm, tagging, workflows makes this best content management system.
The ui of AEM is so much user friendly and touch optimized. It makes website development easy and quick.
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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A Sophisticated tool that is easy and quick to develop and addresses digital marketing needs, super easy to use for a marketer.
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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Thanks to easy content authoring you can cut your need for developers and time to market but keep quality.
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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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.
The learning curve of AEM can be a little overwhelming due to the myriad of options that it provides.
Cami K.
Apparel & Fashion, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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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.
Tag manager, digital asset manager, and nontechnical admin abilities.
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.
Matt D.
Used weekly for 2+ years
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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.
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.
Chris L.
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used other for 2+ years
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Fantastic CMS solution, which is the best I have seen for content authoring/management. Fantastic array of features and functionality.
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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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.
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.
It can be quite challenging at times to use. However, once you start using it, it gets easier.
Aysan R.
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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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.
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.
It does not seem it support containerization. I could not find good documents on how to create containers from AEM.
Dennis S.
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for 2+ years
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Obtaining neatly filled forms that are filled elecfronically rather than handwritten.
Inability to save the document with data in it for future reference. It can only be printed
Andrew B.
Computer Hardware, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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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.
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).
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).
Bhanu K.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Positive, Good tool to build enterprise level websites
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...
It is a bit expensive for low level businesses.
Denise W.
Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Janina K.
Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Adobe Experience Manager allows for rapid content deployment and is well suited for the scaling that larger organizations need.
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.
Tagging, content fragments, and experience fragments process can take a little to get use to. However, nothing a little training cannot overcome.
Ananya N.
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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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.
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.
Nothing as of such. It's almost a near perfect product.
Pavan I.
Marketing and Advertising, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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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.
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.
Sometimes to make some website tweaks using this software will require the assistance of an AEM developer.
Guido G.
Furniture, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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It's a great suite, but it requires an incredible effort and a well structured team to make it work at its best.
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.
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.
Afzal S.
Insurance, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall, AEM is a very powerful platform and probably the best one out there for building enterprise level responsive sites.
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
Basic authoring is simple but anything more requires a steep learning curve and the documentation and tutorials available are lacking
Kaleena L.
Insurance, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Our virtual team enjoys using AEM for our internal communication publishing needs.
AEM is relatively intuitive. We are able to edit and publish content quickly and without many issues.
Sometimes formatting doesn’t work well or the program operates slowly. It can be frustrating to waste time when these things happen.
Diane K.
Insurance, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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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.
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.
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.
Allison T.
Consumer Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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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.
A bit pricey, but totally worth every penny.