Acquia Digital Experience Platform vs SAP Extension Suite (formerly part of SAP Cloud Platform)

• 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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• There are many pros of this tool. It has proven to be a really good choice for our organization from the day it was introduced. It is one of the best options available for developers when it comes to finding everything on a single platform.
• This tool is great in terms of integrating with non-SAP platforms, which allows you to automatically run different reports of bigger sizes.
• Most of the features present in this product are simplified for configuration purposes and that leads to so much time-saving.

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• 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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• Still in an early stage where you miss some obvious features that any generic IDE would offer
• You would think developers using the previous version of the product would already have their bearings, but SAP changed so much that they have to learn everything again
• Performance varies a lot depending on your pricing plan, especially if you have a growing development team

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• 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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• The processes are well suited for the company and accessible everywhere, anytime by the SAP Cloud Portal for Cloud Foundry.
• It's a paid service for the time you want it, so it's not like an on-premise solution with an initial investment and maintenance.
• You can decide anytime if you want to continue with the service, add new units of any service, or have less.

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