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Sitecore vs Adobe

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Sitecore > Adobe

Why pay premium for enterprise complexity?

Our expertise in Sitecore will give you enterprise-grade capabilities without the higher costs of Adobe AEM.

 

 ENTERPRISE AGILITY

Go further, faster with Sitecore XM

The modular nature of Sitecore’s hybrid headless solution with XM Cloud has proven to accelerate your time to market, increase flexibility, and enhance scalability all while reducing your total cost of ownership.

By making the switch to Sitecore, you get the enterprise solution you need to handle complex sites, built with marketer-friendly tools and developer-ready features all to create seamless, scalable experiences.


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HORIZONTAL DIGITAL LEGACY

Our decades of Sitecore expertise

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.

As an original Sitecore Platinum Partner, we hold more MVPs, product certifications, and client Experience Awards than any other firm in the ecosystem. We leverage our deep expertise to ensure our enterprise clients have a future-proof roadmap designed around their unique business objectives, customer needs, team workflows, and budget.

With our pragmatic approach across technology, strategy, data, and design, you’ll experience minimal disruption to your business and customer experiences, and will be set up for success long after implementation.

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SOLUTION COMPARISON

Sitecore XM Cloud 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 hybrid-headless solution of Sitecore XM Cloud built for enterprise solutions.

Time to market

  • SitecoreSitecore XM Cloud significantly reduces time to market for digital experiences, with its composable nature enabling companies to launch new pages and campaigns in hours rather than weeks.

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

Flexibility

  • SitecoreSitecore XM Cloud is rated highly for its composability and flexibility, allowing you to build experiences by combining different services and technologies, making it highly adaptable.

  • Adobe AEMWith Adobe Experience Manager, you’re forced to buy the entire Adobe suite, even if you only need the CMS.

CMS Type

  • SitecoreSitecore XM Cloud is a hybrid-headless composable DXP. 

  • Adobe AEMAEM is a monolithic, traditional CMS.

Cost

  • SitecoreSitecore offers flexible pricing models even as a solution created for complex enterprise companies. Its composable product portfolio can be tailored to specific needs.

  • 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.

Integrations

  • SitecoreSitecore is an enterprise-grade SaaS that provides security, scalability and seamless integrations with your enterprise tools.

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

User complexity

  • SitecoreSitecore was recognized on the Gartner Magic Quadrant as a Leader with a callout for its user-friendly authoring, combining marketer-friendly tools with developer-ready features to create seamless, scalable experiences.

  • 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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LEARN

Our Sitecore expertise in action

Hear from our experts about the way our strategic approach and deep understanding of Sitecore drives successful DXP modernization efforts with our enterprise clients.

  • Calculating TCO and ROI on your path to composable

    Learn how to map your investments to measurable impact.

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  • Unlocking value across your digital content chain

    Transform your team into a high velocity engine.

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  • Deliver better CX with the right DXP

    Your martech stack is a key piece to setting the stage for connected experiences.

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Proven results. Recognized impact.

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

  • 500+certified consultants across leading DXPs

  • 400+successful customer projects

  • 4.8CSAT score