Adobe Experience Manager vs. WordPress

Adobe Experience Manager

295 Reviews and Ratings

WordPress

3,255 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Experience Manager	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering marketing content.	N/A
WordPress	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.	$3 per month 6 GB storage

Pricing

Adobe Experience Manager

WordPress

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Personal: $4
per month 6 GB storage
Premium: $8
per month 13 GB storage
Business: $25
per month 50 GB storage
Commerce: $45
per month 50 GB storage
Enterprise: Contact for pricing

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Experience Manager	WordPress
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Pricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe Experience Manager	WordPress
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager Overall, I prefer AEM as an enterprise site management tool. It allows levels of access control and delegation, while leaving the server management and updates to a specialized team. I do miss the flexibility of being able to search and replace that I have in a WordPress site, … Incentivized Helpful? Katelyn Wong Senior Digital Operations Analyst in Marketing at Canadian Tire Financial Services (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager At Canadian Tire Financial, in the time I've been there, we've always used AEM, but in past places I've used WordPress, I've used Squarespace. Things that are more general user-friendly where you're like building your own blog or you're creating a small business website where … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Manager has more robust features than WordPress or Oracle. It also has powerful integrations with other Adobe products in the Experience Cloud and Creative Cloud, which make it a very comprehensive marketing tool solution. Its ability to handle communities of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager WordPress is easier to understand and use than AEM, and the cost is less compared to AEM. WordPress is better with iOS and Android, but AEM is better for larger applications. Incentivized Helpful? Anil Dhull CEO in Engineering at Kav Interactive (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager Ease to use, Component development is easier if you have Java knowledge Incentivized Helpful? Katie Davis Adobe Practice Lead in Marketing at Southern Company (Utilities, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Manager is above the rest. Best in business Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Manager is a lot stronger platform able to handle larger swaths of customizations and extension. The cost may be higher for AEM, but if your business scale justifies it, the overall management and product integrations will more than pay for itself. You can do … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Manager is more secure and robust so we moved to it but its more complex and costly as well, need lot of resources Incentivized Helpful? Juan Acosta Communications Specialist in Marketing at WESCO (Business Supplies & Equipment, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager You don´t need to constantly update or add new "plugins" to editor. You just need to set up the style of your page and then you can start to populate content. The integration with e-commerce was made by It team but it works fine with other internal systems on the company. Incentivized Helpful? Anshum Malhotra Sr. Software Developer in Information Technology at Grazitti Interactive (Information Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Manager has more features than any other CMS. Incentivized Helpful? Anshum Malhotra Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Grazitti Interactive (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager It's has more features and interesting to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager I think AEM is more robust for an enterprise-sized company. It has more security around it, and then definitely you have to have enough knowledge to be able to use it and then interact. It enables a lot of the integration with other third-party tools. So we use Salesforce and … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Cutts VP, Digital Marketing in Marketing at Corebridge Financial (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager Easier to get Adobe products approved. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager I can’t even compare. You pay for what you get, and Adobe has a wealth of knowledge and features that separate it from its competitors. All their products easily integrate and support their ecosystem. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager AEM provides a sustainable quality of work that goes long-lasting, and we don't need to worry about future updates as AEM gives time-to-time security, patch, and platform updates. Not only updates, AEM introduces new features every now and then, which not only encourage its … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Manager proofs to be the right solution for large corporations with multiple business units and brands, since most of the functionalities are oriented to that. Other similar tools are more basic with regards to the available options and are also not that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager eZ Platform was found to be open while having set template structure but the costs soon ramped up while scaling it to enterprise level, while integrating other platforms including a number of Adobe products proved difficult with compromises to be had along the way - Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Sandeep Virmani Solution Architect in Marketing at HCL America Inc (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Experience Manager is an enterprise digital marketing platform that has an edge over other CMS platforms in multiple ways 1. Easy content authoring 2. Pre-defined authoring and publishing workflows 3. In-built multi-site authoring 4. Support for multi-lingual websites. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Experience Manager Flawless management of digital assets and content supporting personalized content delivery. Seamless navigation and user experience on AEM platform WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor makes AEM stands out from the crowd which is not available in the Drupal Headless … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Reckelhoff Marketing Analyst in Marketing at eCampus (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager This tool was not very helpful. We switched to unbounce since Experience Manager was not a complete solution. Our team members have worked with several of these tools and found this one to be the least comprehensive. Incentivized Helpful? Gary Poppe Data Analyst in Information Technology at Twin Valley (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Experience Manager The main reason why we acquired Adobe Experience Manager with a lot of peace of mind is that it has very good recommendations from other people, we took the exhaustive task of investigating very well its operation, advantages and disadvantages and from all the descriptions we … Incentivized Helpful?	Automattic Verified User Chose WordPress WordPress is much more user-friendly than systems such as AEM and Oracle, and thus more accessible and easy to onboard people to. It is also much more budget-friendly. WordPress is the most widely-used CMS on the market for a reason. WordPress does lack the power and other … Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Hale Digital Marketing Analyst in Marketing at Orbis Education (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose WordPress We selected WordPress because of the community, flexibility, and cost. With the main reason being the community and support system that exists. This means we can find talent to make custom plugins, customize themes, and maintain the website easily and on a reasonable budget. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Adobe Experience Manager

WordPress

Comparison of Security features of Adobe Experience Manager and WordPress
Feature	Adobe Experience Manager 8.4 38 Ratings	WordPress 8.7 131 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	8.438 Ratings	8.7131 Ratings

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Experience Manager and WordPress
Feature	Adobe Experience Manager 8.0 33 Ratings	WordPress 8.7 107 Ratings
API	7.829 Ratings	8.997 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	8.129 Ratings	8.481 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Adobe Experience Manager and WordPress
Feature	Adobe Experience Manager 7.5 38 Ratings	WordPress 8.3 137 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	7.433 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	6.734 Ratings	7.0123 Ratings
Admin section	7.034 Ratings	8.7135 Ratings
Page templates	7.637 Ratings	9.0132 Ratings
Library of website themes	7.326 Ratings	6.5134 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	7.835 Ratings	9.0133 Ratings
Publishing workflow	8.135 Ratings	8.7128 Ratings
Form generator	7.629 Ratings	9.0106 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and WordPress
Feature	Adobe Experience Manager 7.3 37 Ratings	WordPress 8.6 135 Ratings
Content taxonomy	7.731 Ratings	8.9115 Ratings
SEO support	7.133 Ratings	8.7121 Ratings
Bulk management	7.236 Ratings	7.4102 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	7.534 Ratings	8.7124 Ratings
Community / comment management	7.130 Ratings	9.2124 Ratings

User Ratings
	Adobe Experience Manager	WordPress
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (85 ratings)	8.4 (173 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (6 ratings)	10.0 (37 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (50 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Availability	8.6 (5 ratings)	9.5 (3 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (5 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	7.2 (11 ratings)	10.0 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.7 (2 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	9.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)