Acquia Digital Experience Platform vs AtomicWriter

Likelihood to Recommend

Acquia is well-suited for any Drupal web platform. I think it best plays in the enterprise space, either for B2B or nonprofit/higher ed/government. Acquia is a great solution for smaller web platforms, as well, but the price is typically prohibitive in these scenarios.

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Zach Ettelman

Business Development Strategist

Elevated ThirdMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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AtomicWriter is especially suitable for blog writing and for this type of work. It also gives different formats and restructures it with a great view. I think that's it.

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Verified User

Executive in Marketing

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acquia Digital Experience Platform

AtomicWriter

Role-based user permissions

Acquia Digital Experience Platform

AtomicWriter

API

Internationalization / multi-language

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AtomicWriter

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Acquia Digital Experience Platform

AtomicWriter

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

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AtomicWriter

Ideation

Approval workflows

Content collaboration

Content calendar

Network for content licensing/production

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AtomicWriter

Content hub

Forms / Gated content

Embedded CTAs

Content distribution

Content automation

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AtomicWriter

Audience profiling and targeting

Closed-loop tracking and reporting

Content performance analytics

Campaign optimization dashboard

Competitive analytics

Pros

The Acquia Cloud Hosting (enterprise) provides a three-server solution. You have a Development, Staging (or UAT), and Production servers with a clear path of deployment straight up the chain. You may use Acquia's own Cloud Hooks, or their web admin UI interface to deploy to any or all of the servers.
Git is one of the foundation services built-in to the management of the website codebase. Allowing a developer, or well-trained end user (university employee) to easily deploy a tag or branch to any one of the servers, makes it very easy for us to offload the server / account management to the school, while we focus on improving their site.
Not only does Acquia Cloud provide a multi-datacenter failover disaster recovery solution, but they also maintain a multi-region failover as well, which allows for a fully redundant enviroment to be maintained in two geographic regions. No fear of losing any database changes or form submissions from students.
Lastly, the onboarding process is constantly being improved, and as I have been a third-party vendor involved in many of our hosting negotiations, I have seen it firsthand. Each enterprise client is assigned a small team of engineers, technical leads, and a pseudo-project-manager to explain the process in layman's terms to the client (university / college for my example), but they also perform a number of code reviews and best-practice analysis of a site prior to launch.

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Sean Hanford

Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant

EllucianHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Makes my writing awesome.
Restructures it.
Gives me different writing formats.

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Verified User

Executive in Marketing

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Responses from tickets aren't always from the same person, and can vary in effectiveness of solving your problem
While documentation is robust, it can be difficult to find exactly what you need
Provided forums are not monitored frequently, and are not as useful as they could be

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Eric Steinborn

Web Developer ITS3

NYS Office of Information Technology ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Nothing too bad.
Needs more features.
Should be less expensive.

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Verified User

Executive in Marketing

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acquia Digital Experience Platform 10.0

Based on 8 answers

As a Drupal Web Developer, I have not encountered or been exposed to any other hosting solution that could surpass the benefits of having a site hosted on Acquia Cloud. Although, for any side-project or low-cost freelance gigs, I cannot expect that I'll always have the option of recommending Acquia Cloud, and that's okay. While I am at work and trying to help our team gain more exposure to my companies' extensive list of clients, when we have the fortune of adding another Drupal-based client to our roster, getting those clients on Acquia Cloud makes every other aspect of building or modifying their school website that much easier

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Sean Hanford

Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant

EllucianHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

If you're project requires a multisite architecture with scalable site deployment, and your budget allows, I would recommend Acquia. Acquia pricing sits more on an Enterprise level, so it is overwhelming if you're hosting a smaller site. Pantheon is much more suited for smaller, one-off, independent sites, and they provide similar tooling, availability, and free SSL with every site. If you need to control every aspect of your server environment and you have a server admin on staff, then Rackspace can provide you with an open hosting environment for you to configure yourself.

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Kyle Taylor

Senior Drupal Developer

FFWInternet, 11-50 employees

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No answers on this topic

Return on Investment

Our website isn't a revenue generator, so we don't have specific ROI calculations.
The new website is helping us move off of a legacy on-prem server environment. The reduction of cost in maintaining those will be beneficial.
We have had to invest in some training for our developers to learn Drupal.

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Jim MacLeod

Sr. Director, Marketing Digital Experience & Design

EBSCOInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Nothing at all
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Verified User

Executive in Marketing

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

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Rating Summary

Acquia Digital Experience Platform

AtomicWriter

Acquia Digital Experience Platform

AtomicWriter

Likelihood to Recommend