How to choose the best AEM alternative
Choosing the right CMS for your needs can feel overwhelming. Here’s how CoreMedia Content Cloud differentiates from Adobe Experience Manager.
Pricing
Adobe AEM sits in the premium price tier of enterprise CMS solutions, with costs starting in the six-figure range. Customers frequently pay for features they don’t use while facing unexpected costs for implementation, training, migration, maintenance, and optimizations.
CoreMedia offers a flexible, fair and transparent pricing model. Pay only for the features and services you need—no unnecessary expenses. Our composable architecture ensures a cost-efficient solution tailored to your business, without overpaying for unused features.
Unlike Adobe, where advanced capabilities come with skyrocketing costs, CoreMedia’s cloud-native CMS includes essential features like personalization right out of the box—delivering a powerful, cost-effective system.
Choose the best solution for your needs, don’t overspend just for the biggest name.
Integrations
Adobe AEM’s approach locks you into a rigid tech stack, limiting your options and requiring costly custom development for essential integrations like eCommerce. With no out-of-the-box integrations available, you’re forced into expensive, time-consuming custom builds.
With CoreMedia, you stay in control of your tech stack. Leverage a composable offering of personalization, optimization and testing tools or choose from 150+ pre-built connectors to seamlessly integrate the best tools for your business - whether it’s eCommerce, marketing automation, analytics, DAM, CDP, or other solutions.
Keep what works and easily replace what doesn’t to keep your tech stack future-proof.
Flexibility
Adobe’s all-in-one legacy DXP requires multiple products to be successful, limiting your ability to adapt to changing business needs.
With CoreMedia, your teams gain the freedom to innovate. Our fully extensible, customizable platform evolves with your business needs. Developers can integrate with leading third-party apps. Marketers can easily coordinate global campaigns from a single interface. Editors can reduce time-to-web from weeks to hours—or even minutes.
No more unnecessary lock-ins or developer dependencies. Just the flexibility to grow at your own pace.
Onboarding and support
Adobe AEM is known for its steep learning curve, need for specialized training and developers, costly professional services, and limited support.
We know that the right support when you need it makes all the difference. With CoreMedia, you get a dedicated account manager, experienced professional services and access to a global network of certified implementation partners. Our 700+ trained consultants bring real-world industry experience to every project, ensuring a smooth migration, fast deployment, and personalized support every step of the way.
Migrating from one CMS to another requires a structured approach but is easier than you might think. Our smooth migration process and expert-led team ensure all your content, users, metadata and assets get migrated with zero disruptions and maximum efficiency - so you can focus on elevating digital experiences.
Deployment and development
Adobe mandates the use of the latest version in AEM as a Cloud Service, and forced updates can sometimes break deployed code in production environments.
With CoreMedia’s Content Cloud Deployment Self-Service, you can streamline your deployments and be assured that you are always deploying to a stable working version of your production environment.
Smooth migration in less than 90 days
Migrating content from one CMS to another requires a structured approach. Our smooth migration process and expert-led team make migrating hassle-free, ensuring all your content, users, metadata and assets get migrated with zero disruptions. By employing a smart agile methodology, Enterprise Ireland migrated to CoreMedia within just 90 days.
Kickstart your migration with a thorough assessment of your AEM content and map it to the CoreMedia content model. We recommend a discovery phase at the beginning of the project to determine what needs to be migrated. From a technical perspective, this involves extracting the content, using AEM's built-in tools to export and transform the content into CoreMedia's format, and using CoreMedia's ingest service to import it. Our experts help guide your development teams in the best way to get you up and running in weeks not months.
