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Adobe Experience Manager vs OctoberCMS: What are the differences?
Adobe Experience Manager: A comprehensive content management solution for building websites, mobile apps and forms. It is a Web Content Management System that allows companies to manage their web content (Web pages, digital assets, forms, etc) and also create digital experiences with this content on any platform web, mobile or IoT; OctoberCMS: Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied, we want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.
Adobe Experience Manager and OctoberCMS can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Adobe Experience Manager are:
- Content Storage
- Creative Cloud Integration
- Tags and Metadata Management
On the other hand, OctoberCMS provides the following key features:
- Page Components
- Extensible Platform
- Simple AJAX Framework
OctoberCMS is an open source tool with 8.88K GitHub stars and 1.98K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OctoberCMS's open source repository on GitHub.
Technicaliti, Styla, and Usabilla are some of the popular companies that use OctoberCMS, whereas Adobe Experience Manager is used by Unleashed Technologies, Sapient Consulting, and Development Heroes. OctoberCMS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 18 company stacks & 64 developers stacks; compared to Adobe Experience Manager, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Adobe Experience Manager
Pros of OctoberCMS
- Get back to basics21
- Highly customizable17
- Open-source, decent documentation15
- Laravel based12
- Easy to use12
- Production ready high speed backend development11
- Perfect frontend developer tool9
- Configurable backend5
- Perfect backend UI5
- Great community2
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Cons of Adobe Experience Manager
Cons of OctoberCMS
- Expensive recurring licence cost2
- Closed source2