Adobe AEM 6.5 Support Is Ending: Why HCL Mosaic Is a Lower-Cost Migration Alternative

Adobe has officially announced the end of core support for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.5, leaving many organizations planning their next move. If you still run it, you have a decision to make. Stay on an unsupported platform and carry the security and stability risk, or take Adobe's default path to its cloud and budget for heavy customization and a long timeline.

There's another option. HCL Mosaic provides an AI-first, modular digital experience platform that helps organizations modernize faster, reduce infrastructure costs, and simplify ongoing operations without a lengthy cloud transformation project. 

The Hidden Costs of Staying on Adobe AEM 6.5 

Running a legacy on-premises or self-hosted platform means you pay for infrastructure, patch it on your own schedule, and hold disconnected systems together by hand. 

Many self-managed environments cost 30% more than necessary, and. none of those investments contribute to innovation or improved customer experiences. 

When a hardware refresh lands on top of a major platform upgrade, you spend on servers and licenses instead of on the customer experiences that move the business.

Why Consider HCL Mosaic? 

HCL Mosaic is a modular enterprise cloud platform built for digital experience workloads, and it takes over much of the operational burden your team manages today.You skip the months spent wiring tools together and standing up infrastructure, and you start with the pieces already connected.

Key Capabilities Include:

Preconfigured Integration

HCL Mosaic delivers powerful enterprise capabilities by bringing together HCL DX, HCL Volt MX, HCL Leap, and HCL Foundry. Content in the DX repository can trigger Foundry services on the back end, and you can embed low-code apps straight into a digital experience without custom integration work.

AI-first Architecture

AI is part of Mosaic from the ground up. Your team gets AI-assisted content creation and personalization, plus Mosaic Vibe Studio, which builds applications from a plain-language description and cuts development time.

Unified Identity and Governance

One identity model covers the whole platform, so you manage access and governance in a single place rather than reconciling rules across separate systems.

Where Mosaic Saves You Money

Move off legacy deployment and your costs change shape. You pay as you grow instead of carrying unpredictable operational spend. You save on the technology itself and on the time your team spends running it.

Ongoing Support After Your Adobe AEM Migration 

For most teams, the biggest migration worry is what happens after go-live. HCL answers it by pairing continuous software delivery with hands-on customer support.

• Continuous optimization: No more rip-and-replace upgrade projects every few years. HCL tunes security, performance, and cost in the background.
• A named Customer Success Manager: You get a CSM who knows your architecture and reviews it with you on a regular cadence.
• 24x7 technical support: Enterprise support runs around the clock, with severity levels and response-time SLAs for mission-critical applications.

Your Migration Playbook

You don't throw away what you've built. A structured migration lets you audit current skills, move your content over, and use Mosaic's AI to ship better experiences  without disrupting ongoing business operations. 

A vendor's support deadline shouldn't set your technology strategy. Use the deadline you've been handed to put your team back on building experiences and off maintaining servers.

Ready to move beyond Adobe AEM 6.5? Discover how HCL Mosaic can simplify your migration, lower total cost of ownership, and accelerate digital innovation. Schedule a personalized migration briefing with HCL today.