Alfresco or Liferay, which is better for WCM?

Question

I’m studying the CMS tools Alfresco and Liferay, but I can’t decide which is better for managing web content. Please help me decide which tool to use for the Internet. Opinions and suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

Just use your favorite search engine and voila. I have topics dedicated to this issue:

eg. here

Answer 2

If you cannot decide, go for a pragmatic solution and just select it.

You will need to decide whether you like the content-oriented or portal-oriented approach, for example, what else, besides the CMS, do you expect from your chosen solution. When you ask for opinions: I prefer the portal (but then I have to refuse that I work for Liferay), because it can integrate much more functionality - and the extension is done through the well-known standard interface (portlets). And I usually see requirements that require more than just content management.

Integration of both products is possible, but these are additional efforts that must be completed - and you will need to understand both. There are many people who do this, but if one solution is 95% of what you need, you can save on integration.

But if you really want to find useful answers here, you may want to provide more information about what you really want to use them for, since personal opinions and suggestions may not help you with your personal requirements if you leave them unknown.

Answer 3

This blog post should be useful enough for WCM in Liferay. Speaking of WCM (not Document / Enterprise content management), I would go with Liferay because it is very simple and quite powerful, especially recently, after it introduced a few new features (very cool setting up web content and version control) . Alfresco is suitable for managing corporate content, but I would not have chosen it for WCM, Spring Surf and Spring. The scripts on the Internet that he used were quite difficult to get used to.