What users are saying about
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
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Top Rated
79 Ratings
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95 Ratings
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Attribute Ratings
- Kentico Xperience is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew
- Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Kentico Xperience are tied in 1 area: Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
84%
37 Ratings

9.1
Kentico Xperience
91%
44 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
90%
9 Ratings

9.1
Kentico Xperience
91%
22 Ratings
Usability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
Kentico Xperience
90%
3 Ratings
Support Rating
9.1
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
91%
1 Rating

9.1
Kentico Xperience
91%
8 Ratings
Implementation Rating
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Kentico Xperience
100%
2 Ratings
Product Scalability
7.6
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
76%
20 Ratings

Kentico Xperience
N/A
0 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
Kentico Xperience
Kentico is a robust and flexible CMS platform that is great for managing multiple websites and multiple environments (dev, stage, and production for instance). It makes content management very easy and makes it easy to keep the environments synced with the same content.However, the Kentico CMS does require a bit more technical understanding to get it set up properly and requires a bit more effort and support than, say, free open-source options.

Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
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 employeesKentico Xperience
- I love the intuitive top and left navigation within the content management platform. I can easily find what section, sub-section, and page I'm looking to edit
- For creating content, the WYSIWYG editor is so intuitive; it feels like you're working on an MS Word doc!
- The tab for adding metadata in simple fields takes away the headache of having to hunt and peck through code to add H1 tag, page description etc.
- The image library is easy to edit and manage

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Wholesale Company, 501-1000 employeesCons
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 employeesKentico Xperience
- Kentico needs to invest in more enterprise class environment management utilities -- example: global CDN support via the CMS is sorely lacking. There are work-arounds, but it should be more elegant.
- The Kentico staging module could be improved to support the concept of bundled releases. Current staging module functionality is good, but could be improved.
- Kentico ecommerce support is a touch immature. While content management is superb, Kentico lags in this area when compared to many open source ecommerce engines.
- Kentico is lacking MVC support. 99% of the time this isn't an issue for the end-user or business user, but can be a hurdle for technology teams depending on the team's makeup.
Vice President, Technology
RockfishMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 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
—Acquia Digital Experience Platform Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Kentico Xperience
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0 Perpetual license
Kentico Xperience Editions & Modules
Edition
Kentico Xperience Business | $14,9991 |
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Kentico Xperience Enterprise | $29,9991 |
Kentico Xperience Corporate | Upon request |
Kentico Xperience Business | $9,999 / year3 |
Kentico Xperience Enterprise | $17,999 / year3 |
- Perpetual license
- none
- Subscription license
Additional Pricing Details
—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
Kentico Xperience
Kentico Xperience 9.1
Based on 22 answers
We are locked into Kentico for the long haul. It provides us with an easy and flexible solution for a very non technical company to create a site and have the features they want, especially with the inclusion of EMS into our license. Now we have a true platform to build and grow our solutions.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 51-200 employeesUsability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Kentico Xperience
Kentico Xperience 9.0
Based on 3 answers
It seriously is one of the best interfaces I have ever used. I also love the fact that I can use UI personalization to secure any functionality by user or role that I don't want that role to have access to. The best part is the customization of the UI, I can add in any button, tab, or menu item I want through it, no code required.
Partner
BizStreamComputer Software, 11-50 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+ employeesKentico Xperience
Kentico Xperience 9.1
Based on 8 answers
Their support staff is friendly, knowledgeable, and will work with you until your issue is fixed. This could take a few phone calls back and forth, but they are very diligent in helping you.
Web Designer and Developer
Michael Baker InternationalCivil Engineering, 5001-10,000 employees
Implementation Rating
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Kentico Xperience
Kentico Xperience 10.0
Based on 2 answers
The system provides many opportunities to integrate and enhance the platform and makes it easy to do so.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesAlternatives 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 employeesKentico Xperience
I've used Sitecore, Ektron, Joomla!, WordPress, and SharePoint (if you want to count that as a competitor for CMS). Kentico 8 blows them all out of the water. Nothing is more intuitive in the way that content is created, the way the site is setup, and how efficient rollouts can be with Content Staging.
Web Developer
BizStreamComputer Software, 11-50 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
Kentico Xperience
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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
Kentico Xperience
- Kentico has enabled faster speed to market for SMEs. They are empowered to enter content them selves while still having that content go through editorial review to ensure tone of voice and brand are maintained.
- Deploying Kentico has freed up web developer resources from manual content entry enabling them to build more useful solutions to support the business efforts
- Tapping into the Kentico event pipelne allows us to trigger external system events when product content is published.
Technical Director
POPMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees