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CoreMedia vs. Adobe Experience Manager

No more limitations. Get to market faster – at better value.  

Tired of forced cloud upgrades, skyrocketing hidden fees, and rigid systems that can’t keep up? Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) comes at a premium cost, but its all-in-one suite can be limiting as your needs evolve, leaving you overpaying for a set-up that no longer suits your needs. 

It’s time to regain control. Innovate, scale, and succeed with CoreMedia – on your terms: 

  • Your tools, your choice - Total flexibility to integrate with everything from your legacy tools to the latest AI. 

  • Lower risk Forced to suddenly pay 3x more? Not with us. We stand for transparent and predictable pricing, tailored to your unique business needs. 

  • On-cloud or on-prem, your choice – And if you choose to migrate to the cloud, do it when it suits you, without inflated costs. 

Composable at heart, CoreMedia integrates seamlessly into your existing and future tech stack, so you can move faster, work smarter, and get better results - without the overpriced limitations of a one-size-fits-all platform.

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Why migrate to CoreMedia

You choose the tools you need

No need to commit to an all-in-one suite. Stay flexible and pick from our composable solutions that support your business needs. 

Grow-as-you-go integrations

Connect your CMS to leading tools for CRM, DAM, PIM, and more. Keep what works and replace what doesn’t to keep your tech stack future-proof.

Industry leading eCommerce connectors

Leverage the deepest pre-built integrations for platforms like Salesforce, Commerce tools, SAP, Elastic Path, and others to reduce implementation time. 

No hidden costs - ever

Ensure you only pay for what you truly need with our flexible, transparent pricing model. No expensive forced cloud migration or surprise licensing costs.

Cloud or on-premises - your choice

Ensure your data and content stay secure and protected in every scenario with our flexible cloud or on-premises deployment options. We won’t force you into the cloud or hit you with unjustifiably high costs if you choose to move.

Let your tech work for you

Stay agile with tailored content workflows, adaptable layouts, and dynamic experiences. Build what you want, the way you want it. 

Fast content delivery – anywhere, anytime

Empower content teams to preview, adapt, and launch campaigns across more channels than any other DXP. Fast and easy omnichannel content management, even without technical skills.

Out-of-the-box personalization

Connect your CRM and eCommerce data into your CMS to deliver personalized content across channels, devices, and locations - all from the same interface.

Smooth migration

Simplify migration with our streamlined process and expert team, ensuring a low-risk, low-complexity transition of your content in as little as 90 days. Migrating to a new enterprise CMS has never been easier.

Benefits

Don’t get stuck with a costly, complex, specialist-heavy set-up.

CoreMedia’s flexible CMS gets you up and running fast—without the heavy lift and need for costly Adobe specialists. Our modern hybrid headless architecture, seamless third-party integrations, and out-of-the-box eCommerce connectors are trusted by leading multi-brand, multilingual, and multiregional organizations.

Launch in weeks, not months, or even years.

No need to purchase a full suite of products. Say goodbye to the surprise costs of accessing essential features or maintenance. 

With CoreMedia, you’re not locked into an expensive suite. Choose the tools that drive your success, pay only for what you need, and scale fast when you're ready. Choosing a CMS is a big decision, which is why trusted brands like Deutsche Telekom, Henkel and Claas have relied on CoreMedia for decades - avoiding costly transitions. Get ultimate flexibility to boost your ROI today, next year and beyond.

Adobe AEM comes as a bundled suite, making it hard to integrate external tools and forcing you to pay for features you may never use. 

CoreMedia takes a different approach. Our composable portfolio lets you pick only the tools you need - whether it’s personalization, analytics, DAM, or marketing automation. With 150+ pre-built connectors, you can easily integrate the best solutions for your business. Break free from vendor lock-in and customize your tech stack with the best tools, regardless of vendor. 

Freedom to innovate isn’t just about technology—it’s about enabling the people who drive your digital success. With CoreMedia, your developers have full control over customization and extensions, leveraging our open API framework and cloud-native capabilities. 

Give marketers the power to create, edit, manage, publish and repurpose personalized content across all your digital channels from a single content management platform. Leverage smart editing tools to increase revenue with content that engages at every touchpoint, in every region and language - with minimal development resources. With integrated analytics, testing and optimization capabilities, CoreMedia is built to deliver experiences that convert.

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.

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