Acquia Digital Experience Platform vs. Leadspace vs. Zaius (discontinued)

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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No matter how specialized the integration or how much support for internal services was provided throughout the creation of the solution, Leadspace support was always available and extremely prompt in helping to smooth out any issues that developed during the setup process.

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Optimizely Data Platform is a great tool for teams who look to use open-source tools over tools with white glove service. You do get a dedicated customer success manager and access to their (almost) 24/7 support team via chat, but the real benefits of the platform stand to be unlocked by teams who enjoy getting their hands dirty.

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• 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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• It is simple to use and comprehend.
• It enables data collection and analysis.
• It leads to growth and development. It applies to both contacts and accounts.
• It can enrich data based on company and individual, allowing businesses to better plan and execute.

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• It's relatively simple to use
• Segment building is quick and can be easily customized with field data
• Chat support is generally fast to respond

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• 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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• In the form selection, if a company name does not exist in the database, the lead can choose "not me" then that actual data value overwrites what they originally put. In the future, if they choose not me to default to the lead entered data value. This is something they know and I'm told they are working on it.

• Automation of data from other platforms such as our ERP.
• The approval process needs work. I should be able to flag fields that have issues and give users feedback if a product is rejected.

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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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Nothing else to add

There's so much that needs to be improved and it seems like not much has happened since Optimizely first took over. When Optimizely did take over, they reduced the UX of campaign reporting.

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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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• Creating reports can be difficult and they aren't very visual.
• There is not much control you can have with your imported product catalog. Product filters can be difficult to use.
• Manually importing customers is a more difficult process from when I was using Mailchimp 10 years ago.
• Figuring out how to inject a module onto a page is difficult.
• Figuring out how to get off an email blacklist is near impossible even with ip warming. Very little help here.

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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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Positive - Onboarding was quick and easy. Positive - Access to a Zaius data analyst has been wonderful. Negative - I don't know who our CSM is if we even have one.

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It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.

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We have a home built CRM. From start to finish our implementation was a nightmare loaded with problems that destroyed my initial trust with the platform.

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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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1. This tool and database trumped others because of the flexible way in which they reported the data. 2. The team is helpful in figuring out our needs to give us the information we were looking for. 3. Their Account team is very helpful, responsive & fun to work. 4. It helps us create lookalike profiles and provide us with account and contact data that fit

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Oh my goodness, there were many, including:

• Klaviyo
• Salesforce Email Marketing Cloud
• Bronto
• Marapost (the worst experience we ever had. We used them for the longest year on earth).
• Silverpop (IBM)
• I forgot their name but they are based in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania.
• Exact Target
• Active Campaign
• Get Response
• Drip
• SendInBlue
• And more I cannot remember. We spent over six months looking at everything.

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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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• 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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• We were able to capture new leads for our sales team and also new subscribers of our e-newsletters through email marketing campaigns. We also noticed an increase in our web traffic (corporate website) after we started using Reachforce.
• More customers took notice of our digital marketing efforts after we started using Reachforce.

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• We hit record numbers this year in regards to sales which is attributed to the launch of our new e-commerce website.

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