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Contentstack vs Adobe

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Contentstack > Adobe

Get to execution 10x faster than Adobe AEM.

While Adobe is busy patching legacy systems, you could already be live and scaling with Contentstack. 

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Accelerating the CMS landscape

Contentstack is making waves in the CMS landscape, receiving the highest score possible in innovation, experimentation & personalization, audience analytics, digital experience aggregation, and backend extensibility with its APIs and connectors.

By making the switch to Contentstack, your team gets the flexible, scalable solutions you need to deliver exceptional digital experiences that streamlines your content workflows. 

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Change can be hard. We make sure it isn't.

We’ve been around the block with Digital Experience Platforms and have evolved alongside the DXP landscape to ensure our clients are set up on platforms built to scale.

So while you may shop a new DXP once every few years, we’ve done this every day for the past 23 years - helping our enterprise clients select and switch to the right DXP that delivers the most value and achieves their organizations’ strategic needs.

Our team of experts across technology, data, strategy, and UX consult our clients on the solution that will work best to not only achieve their business outcomes, but also to increase efficiency with the way their teams manage their work.

Our deep understanding in digital experience platforms ensures your team will be living their best lives working in the solutions you have selected long after implementation. 

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SOLUTION COMPARISON

Contentstack vs. Adobe AEM

Adobe has end-to-end functionality, but often is overly complex which leads to an implementation mess in most large, real-world scenarios. Compare what you know with Adobe to the headless scalable solution of Contentstack.

Time to market

  • ContentstackContentstack shortens the time it takes to deliver new digital experiences and applications with its cloud-native SaaS and decoupled backend.

  • Adobe AEMReliance on proprietary technology requires extensive specialist input and delays time to market for content projects.

Flexibility

  • ContentstackContentstack’s headless approach creates a customized tech stack that aligns with your needs. Separating content management from presentation, you can choose the best tools for your business requirements—from a frontend framework to specialized analytics platforms.

  • Adobe AEMReliance on proprietary technology requires extensive specialist input and delays time to market for content projects.

CMS Type

  • ContentstackHeadless CMS that separates content creation from its presentation layer, allowing your developers to build with any front-end technology.

  • Adobe AEMAEM is a monolithic, traditional CMS.

Integrations

  • ContentstackAPI-first open ecosystem purpose-built to distribute content across different systems.

  • Adobe AEMDespite Adobe’s “fully integrated” claim, customers frequently complain of long implementation timelines and complex integrations.

Cost

  • ContentstackContentstack’s flexible pricing structures lower initial investments and upkeep costs to deliver a higher ROI. 

  • Adobe AEMAdobe continues to be one of the most expensive DXP offerings in the market and requires you to purchase the full Experience Cloud suite to access AEM, resulting in higher costs for less features and functionality.

User complexity

  • ContentstackContentstack offers a user-friendly interface, simplifying content creation and management. With a headless CMS and composable DXP, your marketers can find their way around the straightforward dashboard to focus on creating great content without complicated technical details.

  • Adobe AEMAdobe struggles with an increasingly complex product portfolio, resulting in a suboptimal user experience for nontechnical users. The learning curve for Adobe’s technical skill set is steep and is unique to each product under the DXP umbrella.

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Our Contentstack expertise in action

Hear from our experts about the way our strategic approach and deep understanding of Contentstack within the DXP landscape drives successful outcomes.

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Boasting hundreds of certified DXP experts and successful complex client projects, our reputation has secured our top partner status in leading DXP solutions.

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