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Liferay alternatives: a team compares several CMS platforms and selects Jahia

Top 8 Liferay alternatives in 2026

Fabrice Aissah

Liferay is not the only enterprise portal platform. A 2026 comparison of 8 DXP and CMS alternatives, by licensing model, technical stack and portal use case.

Competitors
Content lifecycle: an editorial team and the six stages, from planning to deletion

What is the content lifecycle?

Fabrice Aissah

The content lifecycle is what your content goes through from conception to deletion, in 6 stages. Each type of content, whether it’s a white paper or a video, goes through this lifecycle, but differently.

MarketingContent Management
Design system in the CMS: a design team at work and the component library

Your Design System in Jahia

Gautier Ben Aïm

How to successfully integrate a design system into Jahia through thoughtful technical choices and close collaboration between design system teams, integrators and editors.

UX/CXReact
Digital sovereignty criteria: European institutions and a checklist of eight criteria

The 8 digital sovereignty criteria to put in an IT RFP

Delphine Morisset

84 % of 412 decision-makers surveyed in France have built sovereignty into their RFPs or plan to. Yet it often stays "confined to a criterion weighted at around 10 %", observes Jahia CEO Julian Maurel. The 8 criteria, the evidence to require for each one and how to choose between a weighted criterion and a pass or fail condition.

SovereigntyGovernmentLegal / enterprise
Agentic AI in content management: a brain-shaped neural network

Agentic AI in content management: What your CMS needs in 2026

Delphine Morisset

Agentic AI explained: definition, how it differs from generative AI, content management use cases, and why the CMS governs AI workflows.

AIContent ManagementContent syndicationContent optimizationContent strategyCMS
Headless CMS: a headless business suit topped by a digital brain

What is a Headless CMS? The true Headless CMS definition

Romain Gauthier

A Content Management System (CMS) can be used in headless or traditional mode. In our article that explains how these two modes work, you will discover the limitations of each method depending on the structure of your company.

APIs & HeadlessHeadless CMS

Jahia at CRM Day 2026 in Paris

Delphine Morisset

Jahia will attend Efficy CRM Day 2026 in Paris and host a workshop on customer portals, addressing IT complexity, digital sovereignty, and value creation.

CRM
Top 7 alternatives to Sitecore in 2026

Top 7 alternatives to Sitecore in 2026

Fabrice Aissah

Sitecore alternatives in 2026: Jahia, Magnolia, AEM, Sitefinity, Drupal with Acquia and Joomla, compared on ease of use, cost and support.

Competitors
Earth seen from space by the Artemis II crew, April 2026

NASA is publishing from space. With Jahia.

Delphine Morisset

Artemis II just left Earth’s orbit. NASA is publishing its first images from space. The CMS behind NASA’s digital ecosystem is Jahia.

CMS
Jahia joins La French Tech Grand Paris

Jahia joins La French Tech

Delphine Morisset

Jahia joins the French Tech and strengthens its position in France and internationally. Discover the strategic implications of this move.

Sovereignty
Dynamic website: a homepage whose content is generated on demand

What is a dynamic website?

Fabrice Aissah

Learn what a dynamic website is, how it works, its benefits and limits, and how hybrid and DXP architectures help deliver personalized experiences.

CMS

What is cloud content management?

Clement Egger

Discover how cloud content management empowers teams with scalability, agility, and security and how Jahia Cloud delivers performance and control.

Cloud based CMSCloud
Cloud Computing

Everything you need to know about cloud CMS

Clement Egger

Discover what a Cloud CMS is and how it transforms content management. Explore its benefits and learn how to optimize your digital strategy for the future.

Cloud

What is Digital Asset Management (DAM)?

Fabrice Aissah

Digital asset management (DAM) centralizes, organizes, and secures digital files, helping teams save time, cut costs, and stay brand-consistent.

DAMIntegrations

How to Justify and Measure Investment in a DXP?

Romain Gauthier

Learn how to justify and measure the ROI of a Digital Experience Platform (DXP) with a clear method: business value, hidden costs, KPIs, and long-term benefits.

DXP

Leveraging the Island Architecture in Jahia CMS

Gautier Ben Aïm

Island Architecture enables fast, SEO-friendly, and interactive websites by combining static rendering with selective hydration of dynamic components.

TechnologyJavascript

What is an accessible CMS?

Clement Egger

Learn what makes a CMS accessible, why it matters for your organization, and how to choose or configure one to meet WCAG and ATAG compliance standards.

Web Accessibility

What is a composable DXP?

Romain Gauthier

A composable DXP promises agility and modularity, but often comes with technical and governance challenges.

DXP

DXP vs CMS: Which is right for you?

Clement Egger

CMS or DXP? Find out which best meets your digital challenges, and how to combine them to deliver personalized web experiences on a grand scale.

DXP

What is your customer experience ecosystem?

Jahia Team

Optimize your CX ecosystem with AI, personalization, omnichannel, and data to boost engagement and loyalty. Learn key strategies to stay ahead!

UX/CX

Digital asset management vs document management

Jahia Team

Discover the difference between DAM and DMS. Learn how these tools streamline digital content management to organize creative assets or critical business documents.

DAMIntegrations
Programming new application

What is Enterprise Web Development?

Jahia Team

Discover what an enterprise website is and explore examples. Learn how enterprise web development empowers your business with tools to stay competitive and drive growth.

CMS

What is Content as a Service (CaaS)?

Jahia Team

Content as a Service (CaaS) helps businesses deliver consistent, personalized content across all platforms. Discover how CaaS can enhance your content management.

MarketingAPIs & HeadlessContent strategy
UX UI design process for modish mobile application and website

What is Content Architecture and Why Does it Matter?

Jahia Team

Content architecture is key to efficient content management systems. Learn how it enhances engagement, scalability, and drives success. Read the full article to learn more.

MarketingContent Management

10 Effective Ways to Enhance Web Accessibility

Jahia Team

Learn how to make a website accessible with best practices and features. Discover 10 ways to enhance web accessibility and create an inclusive online experience for everyone.

Web Accessibility

CMS replatforming: strategies, project phases and benefits

Clement Egger

Discover the strategies, project phasing and main benefits of a successful CMS replatforming project. Reducing the number of legacy CMS platforms provides huge benefits to large organizations.

MigrationCompetitorsCMS

Software Security: Best Practices for Securing CMS

Clement Egger

Learn about software security types and examples, and discover 5 best practices for securing your CMS, protecting sensitive data, and preventing cyberattacks.

SecurityCompliance

CMS Security: Why It's Crucial for Your Business

Clement Egger

CMS security is vital to secure your content management system, protect business data, and defend against cyber threats. Read the blog to learn how to safeguard your business.

ComplianceSecurity

Using Digital Asset Management Integrations

Jahia Team

Digital Asset Management (DAM) integrations enhance your CMS platform. Learn how using integrations can streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and improve team collaboration.

IntegrationsDAM

Tools for an evergreen omnichannel strategy

Jahia Team

Adopting an omnichannel strategy relies on well-integrated tools that enable fluid content and data management. Jahia combines a flexible CMS, a Customer Data Platform (CDP), and bi-directional connectors for a unified, scalable experience, offering a balanced middle ground between a software suite and a modular stack

PersonalizationOmnichannel Personalization

Jahia's Portal Management Guide

Jahia Team

Jahia’s portal management system is built on the open source, digital experience (DXP) platform. This headless CMS environment makes managing portals simple.

PortalExtranet

Web projects team: which skills to recruit?

Jahia Team

Identify the essential skills required for a successful web project: digital strategy, UX/UI design, content & SEO, security... But above all, web development.

Corporate / entreprise

Create a digital experience with your CMS

Delphine Morisset

Digital Experience: Transform your website into an interactive, personalized tool. Give your users a unique experience thanks to your CMS.

DXP
Scaleflex Logo

Performance of your website: your images weigh heavily

Jahia Team

When it comes to website performance and optimization, the weight or size of images is what comes most naturally to mind: the lighter the images, the faster your pages will load, the better your users' browsing experience will be, and your search engine positioning with it. Our partner Scaleflex, which offers a specialized solution for this, has agreed to give us a few pointers to help you optimize your website's performance.

IntegrationsDAM

Open Source CMS: What is it and do I need it?

Romain Gauthier

In this post, we’ll examine what an open source CMS is, how it works, and who can benefit from the software the most.

Content ManagementOpen SourceCMS

What is a Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?

Romain Gauthier

A DXP unifies content, data and personalization across channels. Definition, core components, how it differs from a CMS, and what it changes for your teams.

DXP

Jahia is going Cloud first!

Jahia Team

Jahia goes cloud-first to deliver better performance, security, and simplicity, with exclusive features and easier environment management.

CloudCloud based CMS

Customizing pickers in Content Editor 4.1

Jahia Team

When contributing web pages, editors have to create links to other pages of interest for the visitors, use or reference contents which have been created in different locations on the site, add images coming from the DAM, etc. For all of these tasks, they need to go through a “picker” interface, so they can select the desired resources. Jahia provides a set of such pickers out-of-the-box, which are generic enough to address the most common use cases. But did you know that you can customize them to ease the content reference selection for your contributors?

TechnologyJava
Apec Banner

What do our clients say about us? - APEC

Jahia Team

Discover how a french employment agency for executives managed to harmonize its digital environment thanks to a unique CMS developed in Java.

UX/CXCorporate / entreprise
3D Web Vector Illustrations. Computer with open pages. Landing page template for web.

5 steps to set up a site factory

Jahia Team

Discover the 5 steps to set up a site factory and anticipate the functional needs of your future content contributors.

Multisite

5 ways to boost your SEO performance

Jahia Team

You are having trouble achieving your organic traffic goals? It might be time to review your SEO techniques! Discover 5 ways to boost your SEO performance.

MarketingSEO

Jahia’s Open Source DXP Portal Development

Jahia Team

How web portals in java help you integrate digital experiences across different touchpoints to give your customers both personalization and consistency

DXPPortalJava

Java Based CMS Built on Apache Tomcat

Jahia Team

Running Apache Tomcat is an effective way to run a java based, open-source content management system (CMS), and create dynamic content for your readers.

TechnologyJava

Cloud based CMS: the best way to go headless?

Jahia Team

Running a Headless CMS in a PaaS environment is the perfect scalable, cloud-based solution for hosting your content. Jahia’s jContent and Headless CMS solutions combine the best of both.

CloudAPIs & Headless

5 Website Personalization Best Practices (+Free Tool)

Jahia Team

Whether you are just starting your website personalization journey or looking for a tune-up, these 5 best practices for website personalization will help improve your marketing efforts.

Personalization

Data From The Ground Up

Jahia Team

Too often, the conversation about customer data is focused on how it can service content, rather than how it can better serve the long-term goals of your organization. When used effectively, customer data empowers efficient user journeys and strong customer relationships.

CDP

Breaking Down The Three Types of CDP Data

Jahia Team

CDP data assemble! A CDP is built very much like a news team. It consists of multiple different data types and delivery vehicles. When combined, they become a powerful team.

CDP

The Journey of a Design System

Jahia Team

Jahia Solutions is an amazing company that I have had the privilege of being a part of for the last year. We have embarked on the journey many other companies have, the pursuit of a design system. This is my take on our journey so far.

UX/CXDXP

3 ways 2021 will be digitally different

Jahia Team

2020 was a huge struggle for individuals and businesses, but it did also bring progress, as it transformed work-life balance into a work-life blend

Why You Should Assess Your Digital Experience Stack (DXS)

Jahia Team

A company's digital presence is as an integral part of the customer journey and overall business success. From your website to your social media to the very product you sell, every digital channel in which you “touch” your customers is part of their overall Digital Experience (DX). To make planning your digital experience stack simpler, we’ve created a 10 step DXS checklist to help you make the right stack choices.

IntegrationsUX/CXStack

What is a True DXP Software?

Jahia Team

The term “DXP,” or Digital Experience Platform, is tossed out by a lot of companies nowadays. But what exactly defines a DXP can be unclear.

DXP

DXPs and the B2B Lead Funnel

Jahia Team

If you're a B2B marketer, you have a lot of things to worry about. At the top of that list, is generating leads and pipeline for your organization.

MarketingDXPSEO

Is It Time To Re-Evaluate Your Digital Strategy?

Jahia Team

Digital strategies ultimately guide how your organization builds out its technology, adapts to changes in the market, and builds a sustainable engine that delivers real ROI for your digital marketing and organizational efforts.

MarketingSEO

The (High) Costs of DXP Suites

Jahia Team

Whether you’re in the process of buying a DXP or just on the hunt for more information, we’re here to explain the cost difference between the suite and stack approach.

DXP

What Is a Content Management System?

Jahia Team

Have you ever heard the phrase “Content is King?” Well, if you’re a marketer or IT professional, this isn’t just an overused idiom – you are literally servant, maid and serf to the content that your organization produces on a daily basis.

Content ManagementCMS

It's Time to Stack Up, Not Suite Out

Jahia Team

It’s a question that’s dogged the technology world for decades. The crux of this debate revolves around whether it's better to enshrine your marketing technology in the walled-garden of a single Tech Giant or entrust it to the wild west of smaller, more agile Challenger Tech companies.

IntegrationsStack

Innovation Through Iteration

Jahia Team

Jahia’s latest update is built to adhere to the iterative mindset. Instead of going for the big fireworks display that often accompanies a flashy acquisition or new piece of software, we took a step back and answered three key questions.

TechnologyJava
Building a progressive web app with Jahia – part 1

Creating A Progressive Web App In 2 Weeks - Part 1

Jahia Team

At Jahia, we are committed to making digital simpler. To that end, we decided to run an experiment: Could an agency with no prior experience with Jahia create a new web app within 2 weeks, utilizing Jahia's Content & Media Manager as a headless CMS? This is the 1st part of that story

TechnologyJavascript
Building a progressive web app with Jahia – part 2

Creating A Progressive Web App In 2 Weeks - Part 2

Jahia Team

Alex and Lars have developed content definitions and are ready to start linking the app. Will they make the 2 week timeline? Find out in the 2nd part of their story!

TechnologyJavascript
Web

What Is a CDP?

Jahia Team

CDPs, or Customer Data Platforms, have recently become a hot-button topic of conversation. Mentioned usually, but not always, in the same breath as DXPs. Now, while we wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s incorrect to pair these two together, it is important to know that DXPs and CDPs are not the same thing.

CDP

NPS and Jahia

Jahia Team

We’re going to take a break from Headless this week to talk about something near and dear to our hearts – Customer Satisfaction. As in, how satisfied are our current Jahia customers with our performance, our product, and the work we are doing to deliver the best possible customer experience solution on the market? You might also know this as “NPS,” or Net Promoter Score.

CDPCorporate / entreprise

What Do We Mean By “Making Digital Simpler?”

Jahia Team

It’s our slogan. Our motto. Our raison d'être. “Making Digital Simpler” defines the very essence of what Jahia is and what we do, and as such has been a regularly-featured phrase on our products, our websites, our tchotchkes, and even the banners we take with us to tradeshows. But what does it mean?

MarketingSEO

Customer Highlight - BNP Paribas

Jahia Team

As a leading multi-asset provider in all these competitive international markets, BNP Paribas Securities Services needs to effectively stand out. This all starts with their website, the entry point for many of their prospects.

Welcome to Jahia Blog v1.5

Jahia Team

A new year means new changes. Unlike our commitment to hot yoga, though, these changes are exciting in a way that won’t leave you gasping for breath afterwards. Let us tell you a bit about them:

Legal / enterprise

Five tricks to analyze Java thread dumps

Jahia Team

5 tips to analyze Java thread dumps: detect bottlenecks, high CPU usage, and bugs to improve performance and avoid misleading conclusions.

TechnologyJava

Introduction to GraphQL

Jahia Team

GraphQL enables efficient data access by fetching only what’s needed through a flexible API, serving as an alternative or complement to REST.

APIs & Headless
Distribution of the slowest elements in Jahia

The performance of your website is a key element to analyse

Jahia Team

Kissmetrics says that 40% abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. A 1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. Speed really matters. That is why we have created a performance analyser module.

MarketingSEO

Your DXP is a valuable data source

Jahia Team

Continuous monitoring of a Digital Experience Platform is essential to follow the activity and detect problems as soon as they appear in order to have the opportunity to solve them.

CDPDXP

Configuring a web server to secure web sites powered by DX

Jahia Team

In today’s world, where criminals are trying to hijack websites and sessions or infiltrate harmful scripts to cause damage or even gain access to sensitive data, it is very important to reduce risks by implementing available countermeasures. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) provides documentation and tools to help making websites more secure or to detect vulnerabilities.

DXPComplianceSecurity

Digitalization, the challenge ahead for the travel & hospitality sector

Jahia Team

Travel and hospitality is a huge market, its revenue represents billions of dollars or euros. From major passenger airlines to travel agencies, restaurants, museums, theaters and cultural venues and of course multinational hotels groups, this sector is a major player in the global economy.

CMS
Web

Ease your authorization process with Oauth and social login

Romain Gauthier

Registration and authentication steps are a big concern for visitors who have to create a new login and password that they will have to remember. The experience can even get worse when visitors are using their mobile : having to type in their password twice, switch to their email application to confirm their subscription. The complexity of this system often leads to a loss of potential visitors and customers. Using a social login featurereduces registration and authentication to a single click at best and makes the overall experience much easier.

MarketingComplianceSecurity

Jahia DX and AMP smoothly match!

Jahia Team

Jahia DX and AMP enable fast, personalized, and secure pages by combining mobile performance with dynamic content delivery.

How to Ensure Content Integrity

Jahia Team

How to ensure content integrity; read our technical blog to get the latest information and full insight about Jahia technologies.

MarketingContent strategyComplianceSecurity

Working with Properties in Jahia DXP

Jahia Team

In Jahia, there are three main ways to work with properties: OSGi Configuration, Spring Configuration, and Site Settings.

TechnologyDXPJava

Disruption and Unification: The Emerging CMO's Focus

Jahia Team

Make no mistake - digital marketing in today’s omni-everything market is as challenging as it is promising. Marketing funnels are now swipes. Business happens globally on a 24/7/365 (at all hours) basis. Customers expect personalized, relevant content in the way they are searching for it - on their preferred devices (which may change), real-time and geographically appropriate.

New disruption in digital marketing landscape drives innovation in Jahia brand experience

Jahia Team

Digital marketing has evolved; we are now in the seventh generation. No longer is digital marketing a matter of web content management systems or even web experience management with basic analytics. Today’s savvy leaders in digital enterprise know that it is about managing the entire set of interactions a customer has over the course of their lifespan with a brand.

MarketingDXP

Putting the Social In CIO

Jahia Team

Jahia's Blog - Putting the Social In CIO. Click to read our post.

MarketingCorporate / entreprise

Image scaling with Jahia part 1

Jahia Team

In 2013, should you double your resolutions? Read our technical blog to get the latest information and full insight about Jahia technologies.

DAMCorporate / entrepriseIntegrations

Rule Engine Fun in Jahia

Jahia Team

Jahia’s rule engine automates actions using rules triggered by content changes, improving productivity and enabling flexible business logic

Corporate / entrepriseCustomer JourneyPersonalization

Difficulties of content re-purposing

Jahia Team

Publishing content across multiple formats is no small feat, and I will quickly go over the difficulties and review some possible solutions to help improve the situation.

MarketingContent Management

Tips and tricks for analyzing Java virtual machine heap memory dumps

Jahia Team

Memory dumps are usually something that you don’t want to deal with. In a perfect Java application, normally everything should run fine and it will never run out of memory or misbehave. Unfortunately, such a perfect application does not exist, and chances are likely that you will run into “OutOfMemory” exceptions at some point or another.

TechnologyJava

Don't put less content on your mobile sites!

Jahia Team

How often does this happen to you ? You are on the go, you need to check out a web site of a public administration or a company because you need information only available from them directly. You use your mobile phone to browse the site as this is what you have with you, only to discover that the site in question is a mobile version and has only a partial copy of the information available on the desktop site.

CMS

Introducing Jahia OSGi modules

Jahia Team

Introducing Jahia OSGi modules. Read our technical blog to get the latest information and full insight about Jahia technologies.

Innovative open source software

Jahia Team

Innovative open source software. Read our technical blog to get the latest information and full insight about Jahia technologies.

TechnologyOpen Source

Mobile digitization

Jahia Team

When one thinks about digitization, one immediately imagines large scanners, volume processing devices and other high end and non portable equipment. But just as mobile devices have revolutionized other fields, digitization may also benefit from highly portable computers such as smart phones.

Be careful who you trust with your data!

Jahia Team

Nowadays, especially with an on-going global economic crisis, companies are under a lot of pressure to reduce costs, and hope to do so with the many services available in the cloud: such as Facebook, Dropbox, or Amazon EC2. But is it really a good idea to go into the cloud blindly, sacrificing control over your own data ?

ComplianceSecurity

Online reputation second chance

Jahia Team

Whether you’re a Facebook user, a Twitter user or simply a collaborator using an intranet social network, you are now required to manage your online reputation.

MarketingSEO

iPhone 5 for developers and content providers

Jahia Team

The iPhone 5 is mostly an evolutionary release from a content provider point of view, but it does has a few major changes that may have strong impacts in terms of development costs. In this post, we’ll analyse the most important ones and how they may be addressed.

Oshyn - "5 Things About Jahia 6.5"

Jahia Team

Oshyn - "5 Things About Jahia 6.5". Read our technical blog to get the latest information and full insight about Jahia technologies.

TechnologyJava