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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acquia Digital Experience Platform

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AThe Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability a modern organization needs. With its customer data platform, it allows organizations to understand who their customers are and deliver personalized experiences. Acquia's DXP offers variety of other tools including digital asset management,…N/A

    Adobe Marketing Cloud

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Marketing Cloud is a suite of products including analytics, social, advertising, targeting and web experience management. It comprises foremost the popular integrated web content management and digital asset management (WCMS / DAM) solution Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Campaign's cross-channel campaign management and marketing resource management capabilities (based on technology acquired with Neolane in 2013), the Adobe Audience Manager data management platform, analytics, and other…N/A
    Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformAdobe Marketing Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Acquia
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    74 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    48 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
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    Features
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    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    49 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.7
    41 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
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    API7.839 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.9
    43 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
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    WYSIWYG editor7.331 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.942 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.226 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.828 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.934 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
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    Content taxonomy7.728 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support6.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.432 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.226 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformAdobe Marketing Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (93 ratings)
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (73 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acquia
    It made it super easy to upgrade 300+ Drupal sites to the latest major version in 12 weeks, end to end. It is easy to deploy legal changes and updates to components at scale. Turnkey service to deploy new environments and to clone sites. There are no ecosystem lock-in principles for Customer service/success services and professional services for new approaches.
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    Adobe
    If you have a rather large budget and/or several clients to take advantage of the AMC, you would likely benefit from its all-in-one solutions. There are a myriad of excellent tools for digital marketing professionals to take advantage of within the suite, and creating a campaign becomes much more manageable for collaboration and execution through to reporting thanks to the suite's vertically integrated nature.
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    Pros
    Acquia
    • It's fast, no lag time
    • Exceptionally good support. When there's a problem, you reach out to your account manager who either fixes the issue or gets you to the right person. We've had no downtime.
    • Platform is very accessible to those who know how to manage the back end software.
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    Adobe
    • Content Analysis - Between the Pages report and the participation metrics which show what percentage of conversions a page was involved with, you get an excellent analysis of what content is important and effective, and what is not. With the ability to add up to ten metrics side by side, drill downs, and power tools like Ad Hoc Analysis, you will know exactly where you need better content.
    • Pathing - Adobe Analytics captures every single path of every single visit of every single visitor and puts it at your fingertips. There are tools to aggregate common paths so you find out how frequent they are, lots of good page flow reports, and tools to pick out specific paths that will keep you from being overwhelmed. This has been absolutely invaluable to us as we have learned about how our customers are using our sites and which paths are leading to exits rather than converions.
    • Customization - There are so many custom metrics and dimensions you can add and you can create segments based on all of them, along with the out of the box metrics and dimensions. You truly get an implementation that is specific to your company, your needs, your strategy, and your site.
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    Cons
    Acquia
    • Support responds pretty quickly to critical tickets, but they can be slow to respond on non-urgent items. Some of what we experienced may have been related to a newer ticketing system recently implemented.
    • Standard support covers business days/hours but only critical support is available outside those times. We typically schedule our website updates for the weekend or "off" hours when only critical support is available.
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    Adobe
    • Customer services could be improved for smaller clients. Adobe Marketing Cloud provides great support for most of its customers, however, it may not work well enough for smaller engagements.
    • Adobe could offer multiple price options based on the usage, which is missing at the moment.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acquia
    We're moving away from Drupal as a platform. Drupal 8 and 9 were simply too overburdened and difficult to maintain compared to other offerings. PHP seems like a dying language so we are currently in the process of migrating all of our Drupal 7 functionality and custom modules to a Python/Django/Wagtail platform. This doesn't mean Acquia isn't a great service, they are professional and top-knotch, but the only way we'd say with them is if I didn't complete the migration.
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    Adobe
    Although a powerful tool, Google Analytics has been catching up in capabilities and is much simpler to use. As analytics move to the spotlight, more sections in a company want to have access to it. However, creating straightforward reports/dashboards and sharing them with different groups is not a strength of Adobe Marketing Cloud.
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    Usability
    Acquia
    It's a great user interface. It's always being updated and I've never noticed a bad update that increased the complexity or reduced
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    Adobe
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    Support Rating
    Acquia
    Every time we have had an issue, Acquia support has responded promptly and worked with us as a team to solve the problem. The Acquia support team is global and we have literally had interactions with all of their support offices, yet the experience has been the same - top notch
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    Adobe
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    Implementation Rating
    Acquia
    It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.
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    Adobe
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acquia
    We chose Acquia for a much better UI that gave non-analytical marketers and easy to use tool where they could create their own reports. The campaign side of things also had an easier to use UI as well, that made the targeting of audiences much easier.
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    Adobe
    I would say it is the leader in the industry and was easily the number one choice in two of the three places I have implemented a marketing automation platform. Hubspot is its closest competitor and ended up being the better choice for a membership association but the Adobe product can doo all the things and do them well. Just make sure you get all the discounts available before closing the deal.
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    Scalability
    Acquia
    The DXP tools can handle millions of requests and can scale automatically to fit your needs. We have clients that use only part of the DXP tools and have a small usage, but even in these cases they see great value in using tools like personalization and CDP.
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    Adobe
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    Return on Investment
    Acquia
    • Acquia has helped us to stabilize and optimize our website performance, lowering page load times and dramatically decreasing the frequency of issues experienced by end-users.
    • Acquia SOLR search provided a much-improved search experience on our website.
    • Acquia's PCI-compliant hosting has helped us to remain compliant and cyber-secure.
    • We are working to implement Acquia Site Studio and Acquia Personalization now and expect those to improve our operation agility and ability to drive more relevant experiences to our various website visitors.
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    Adobe
    • It has helped us track our ROI better and see costs versus revenue coming in directly from emails.
    • A/B testing is very helpful to ensure the best email is being chosen to get sent out.
    • Our deliverability has improved a lot.
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