What users are saying about
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
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Top Rated
79 Ratings
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278 Ratings
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Based on 278 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Security
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.0
Joomla
80%
Joomla! ranks higher in 1/1 features
Joomla! ranks higher in 1/1 features
Role-based user permissions
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
44 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.7
Joomla
77%
Joomla! ranks higher in 2/2 features
Joomla! ranks higher in 2/2 features
API
N/A
0 Ratings
7.4
74%
39 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
40 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.7
Joomla
77%
Joomla! ranks higher in 8/8 features
Joomla! ranks higher in 8/8 features
WYSIWYG editor
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
70%
46 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
N/A
0 Ratings
7.9
79%
44 Ratings
Admin section
N/A
0 Ratings
8.1
81%
44 Ratings
Page templates
N/A
0 Ratings
7.6
76%
45 Ratings
Library of website themes
N/A
0 Ratings
7.3
73%
43 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
N/A
0 Ratings
7.3
73%
43 Ratings
Publishing workflow
N/A
0 Ratings
8.2
82%
43 Ratings
Form generator
N/A
0 Ratings
7.8
78%
39 Ratings
Web Content Management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.5
Joomla
75%
Joomla! ranks higher in 5/5 features
Joomla! ranks higher in 5/5 features
Content taxonomy
N/A
0 Ratings
7.8
78%
44 Ratings
SEO support
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
70%
44 Ratings
Bulk management
N/A
0 Ratings
7.2
72%
42 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions
N/A
0 Ratings
7.5
75%
45 Ratings
Community / comment management
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
43 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Acquia Digital Experience Platform is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- Joomla! is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Support Rating, Product Scalability
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
84%
37 Ratings
7.6
Joomla
76%
68 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
90%
9 Ratings
10.0
Joomla
100%
28 Ratings
Usability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
9.9
Joomla
99%
7 Ratings
Availability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
9.9
Joomla
99%
4 Ratings
Performance
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
7.8
Joomla
78%
4 Ratings
Support Rating
9.1
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
91%
1 Rating
10.0
Joomla
100%
8 Ratings
Online Training
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
Joomla
80%
2 Ratings
Implementation Rating
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
8.7
Joomla
87%
6 Ratings
Product Scalability
7.6
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
76%
20 Ratings
9.9
Joomla
99%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Well suited for rapid development of applications and sites, ease of maintenance, security enhancements, and ease of patching. Drupal for global enterprise content strategy i.e. industrial robustness. DevOps is there but needs to be easier to integrate with other vendors. In my experience, Acquia Digital Experience Platform doesn't support well data-driven process definition, setup, and management from an application standpoint. In production, we expected the production environment to be separated from the non-production environnement, which was only possible at the logical level and not at the network level.
IT Manager in charge of Digitalization
La Mutuelle GénéraleInsurance, 1001-5000 employees
Joomla
It seems with the release of Joomla! 4 that the weak areas have all been covered. Its always been good for the mid-level small to large business, the blogging was WP, and the large-scale enterprise was probably bespoke. But the new interface is so simple it seems pointless using WP when Joomla! is as easy and can then grow as big as you like.The Workflows feature which allows you to set up work pipelines easily is going to be a boom to any larger enterprise sites.Couples with the new API which I got to see at one of their user groups, is amazing. They were creating articles on one site then another site was taking the feed directly for just certain categories. Really blows your mind what you could do with that and the new workflows.
Owner
SoftForgeInternet, 1-10 employees
Pros
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- Easy to manage multiple environments and a team of Site Developers and Site Administrators
- Easy and intuitive to conduct deployments, back-ups, rollbacks of code, databases, and files
- Useful add-ons such as Solr Search, Security, Site Monitoring, Migration tools, etc.
- Excellent and responsive support

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Professional Training & Coaching Company, 51-200 employeesJoomla
- We use Joomla to build our websites and web applications because of its incredible intuitiveness and tools to make everything more manageable.
- Its working environment is quite comfortable for my development team, and its web design resources significantly speed up our work when carrying out web development projects.
- It allows you to use blocks to create and visually manage websites and divide them into different categories without programming knowledge.
Sales Manager
CleveroadComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Cons
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- Using the platform is not for the faint of heart. It takes some understanding of how a back-end system technology works to be able to get anything done or even know where to go.
- Being able to verify DNS services is not easy to do. A digital market is required to do this with Facebook or Google from time to time but it is hidden from the non-tech user. I need to find a tech expert to do a simple task that is holding up the quality of our digital advertising. This is the way the digital world works and these capabilities need to be exposed and easy to verify by non-tech users quickly without the possibility of disrupting the system.

Verified User
Executive in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesJoomla
- Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
- Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
- Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
- Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
Owner | Principal
LMK Web Design & ConsultingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Joomla
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia Digital Experience Platform 9.0
Based on 9 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
Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant
EllucianHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Joomla
Joomla 10.0
Based on 28 answers
I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
Owner
Lionsites Web DesignInternet, 1-10 employees
Usability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Joomla
Joomla 9.9
Based on 7 answers
Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
Freelance Web Designer and Content Strategist
Words To Web, Inc.Online Media, 1-10 employees
Performance
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Joomla
Joomla 7.8
Based on 4 answers
Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona
Jaymersun Website ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Support Rating
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia Digital Experience Platform 9.1
Based on 1 answer
The team is always there to support any issue. We had an issue around adding more code into the system and they supported us all the way through.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employeesJoomla
Joomla 10.0
Based on 8 answers
Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer
Programmer JenInternet, 1-10 employees
Online Training
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Joomla
Joomla 8.0
Based on 2 answers
It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
Owner
SA WebhostsInternet, 1-10 employees
Implementation Rating
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Joomla
Joomla 8.7
Based on 6 answers
Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona
Jaymersun Website ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Alternatives Considered
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia [Digital Experience Platform]'s offering is much for extendable, flexible, and scalable. The security is far beyond WP and it is much easier to extend than Magento was. Being able to have access to all these tools at an enterprise level, but still have them remain open source is really a huge advantage in my mind.

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Marketing & Advertising Company, 51-200 employeesJoomla
We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS.
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial
SENAI-DNNon-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees
Scalability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia Digital Experience Platform 7.6
Based on 20 answers
We do not use any of the proprietary features from Acquia [Digital Experience Platform], like Site Factory, that enable this. (I am allergic to proprietary.) But Drupal is inherently scaleable via multisite, and things like Single Sign On via contrib modules.
Sr. Manager, Web/Technical Lead
Insulet CorporationMedical Device, 1001-5000 employees
Joomla
Joomla 9.9
Based on 3 answers
No answer on this topic is available.
Return on Investment
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- Acquia has a positive impact on our internal ROI for our own website.
- Most of our clients also see a positive impact on ROI when using Acquia for their web platform. This does change based on the cost of the Acquia instance.
- Acquia allows us to save time and money on client projects, allowing us to increase our margins.
Business Development Strategist
Elevated ThirdMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Joomla
- Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
- Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
Web Content Manager
VertMarkets, Inc.Publishing, 51-200 employees