Adobe AEM alternative

Brightspot offers a powerful integration-ready solution for the complexity and technology constraints faced by businesses that are dependent on Adobe Experience Manager.

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Real outcomes for previous Adobe AEM customers

Brightspot was designed to fit into your publishing process, freeing content creators to quickly distribute content to every channel without the need for IT. Your development team gets to focus on innovations; creators get to create.
Now you can replatform faster than the time it took for you to decide to redesign and relaunch your site—in less than six months.
We’ve outlined the top challenges companies encounter when working with Adobe Experience Manager and how we can help you overcome them.
Find out how we’ve helped numerous Adobe customers either make the most of their Adobe AEM investment or transition entirely to Brightspot.

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) vs. Brightspot

Brightspot CMS is publisher-informed, with ease of use customers crave when seeking an Adobe Experience Manager alternative. Built with a modern, flexible architecture that enables companies to publish decoupled, headless or hybrid all from the same environment, Brightspot provides solutions that customers need from digital experience platforms.

If you’re in the process of vetting enterprise content management systems, you’re likely familiar with Adobe Experience Manager. While Adobe Experience Manager is certainly a formidable CMS, it’s often too expensive, cumbersome to deploy, and extremely difficult to adopt. None of this is conducive to developing a high-volume, multichannel content production workflow.

A major challenge of Adobe Experience Manager is how complicated it is to set-up and adopt.

Developers will need to build everything—from templates to buttons and anything in between. It also has a reputation for being difficult to adopt by anyone who isn’t familiar with HTML. Brightspot is the opposite. It fits seamlessly into virtually any publishing process, enabling rapid content creation across multiple channels without the need for IT.

Major differences between Adobe Experience Manager and Brightspot

Some of the major differences between Adobe Experience Manager and Brightspot include deployment time and cost, integration availability, and required developer intervention.

Agile 90-day deployment vs. 9-to-18-month-long projects

Unlike Adobe Experience Manager—whose archaic foundation almost always requires heavy IT involvement and sometimes year long (or more) implementation cycles—Brightspot is designed to be up and running in 90 days or less, so your team can start creating content as soon as possible at half the cost.

Hundreds of native integrations and out-of-the-box analytics

Brightspot was designed to be API first. Brightspot also includes a comprehensive analytics dashboard that integrates with Google Analytics (among others) for more timely and actionable decision making.

User-friendly vs. developer-heavy

A major challenge of Adobe Experience Manager is how complicated it is to set-up and adopt. Developers will need to build everything — from templates to buttons and anything in between. It also has a reputation for being difficult to adopt by anyone who isn’t familiar with HTML. Brightspot is the opposite. It fits seamlessly into virtually any publishing process, enabling rapid content creation across multiple channels without the need for IT.

Key features & benefits of Brightspot as your Adobe AEM alternative

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Flexible and adaptable
Focus on the content and not on the platform restrictions. Brightspot includes tools on which content-focused teams rely, from monetization to authentication to analytics.
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Integrations
Integrate with your proprietary data as well as any third-party data sources, including the Adobe AEM platform. Brightspot provides two-way sync for published and integrated data sources.
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Custom workflows
Create real-time custom workflows that streamline how you create, manage, edit and publish content. With Brightspot, content teams as can adapt in real-time to the requirements of the business.
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AI and ML
Brightspot CMS already includes integration of new and emerging technologies in machine learning and artificial intelligence that streamline the content creation and editing process. Think of the time savings from auto-generated tags, transcription of video and audio content, and more.
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Powerful search
Brightspot’s superior approach to search with federated search makes the content creation and editing process intuitive and fast. Build engaging content quickly with access to gifs and images from your own database or third-party sources like Getty Images or Giphy, all from within Brightspot.
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Purposeful partnership
We start working with you on day one to build life-long relationships that drive better, faster and more successful results. We focus on building tailored solutions that check every box for your unique business challenge.

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