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Acquia Digital Experience Platform
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Top Rated
79 Ratings
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48 Ratings
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Feature Set Ratings
Security
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

1.0
Umbraco CMS
10%
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 1/1 features
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 1/1 features
Role-based user permissions
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
11 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

5.3
Umbraco CMS
53%
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 2/2 features
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 2/2 features
API
N/A
0 Ratings

5.5
55%
9 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
0 Ratings

5.1
51%
9 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

1.7
Umbraco CMS
17%
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 8/8 features
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 8/8 features
WYSIWYG editor
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
11 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
11 Ratings
Admin section
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
11 Ratings
Page templates
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
11 Ratings
Library of website themes
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
10 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
10 Ratings
Publishing workflow
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
11 Ratings
Form generator
N/A
0 Ratings

6.0
60%
9 Ratings
Web Content Management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

3.7
Umbraco CMS
37%
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 5/5 features
Umbraco CMS ranks higher in 5/5 features
Content taxonomy
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
11 Ratings
SEO support
N/A
0 Ratings

1.0
10%
10 Ratings
Bulk management
N/A
0 Ratings

5.0
50%
8 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions
N/A
0 Ratings

5.3
53%
10 Ratings
Community / comment management
N/A
0 Ratings

5.9
59%
10 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Acquia Digital Experience Platform is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating, Product Scalability
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
84%
37 Ratings

1.0
Umbraco CMS
10%
11 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
90%
9 Ratings

Umbraco CMS
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

4.0
Umbraco CMS
40%
1 Rating
Availability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
Umbraco CMS
70%
2 Ratings
Performance
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

3.0
Umbraco CMS
30%
2 Ratings
Support Rating
9.1
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
91%
1 Rating

2.0
Umbraco CMS
20%
2 Ratings
Online Training
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

3.0
Umbraco CMS
30%
1 Rating
Implementation Rating
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
Umbraco CMS
70%
2 Ratings
Product Scalability
7.6
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
76%
20 Ratings

4.0
Umbraco CMS
40%
1 Rating
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
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS is the perfect tool for a company that is looking to keep their website updated. The simple to use tools and templates means updating and creating new pages is easy. The WYSIWYG editor is a nice feature, however, for accessibility, there should be some more guidance on what is suitable to be used on the CMS.
Operations Manager
CDSM Interactive SolutionsComputer Software, 11-50 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 employeesUmbraco CMS
- Quick to learn. For most if cases, developer needs to know Razor coding.
- Doesn't require back-end programming.
- Has build in users management (developers, content managers) and members management consoles (users of the site).
- Clear admin tool (especially in version 7)
- Fast.
- Creating code from scratch, so it is easier to create clean code.
Web Developer
TMP WorldwideMarketing and Advertising, 501-1000 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 employeesUmbraco CMS
- Speed for older sites - Umbraco content can load slowly if you have thousands of pages of content. Of course, this would not be a problem for simpler websites
- Complexity - since the product is free out-of-the-box, it will take technical expertise to get Umbraco setup properly
Data Manager
Foundation for Economic EducationThink Tanks, 11-50 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
—Umbraco CMS
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
Umbraco CMS Editions & Modules
On-premise Edition
Umbraco Free | $0 |
---|---|
Umbraco Professional | $5,0002 |
Umbraco Enterprise | 5000+2 |
- none
- per year
SaaS Edition
Umbraco Cloud Starter | $391 |
---|---|
Umbraco Cloud Standard | $2091 |
Umbraco Cloud Professional | $5691 |
Umbraco Cloud Enterprise | 5000+1 |
Umbraco Heartcore Mini | $491 |
Umbraco Heartcore Starter | $2391 |
Umbraco Heartcore Professional | $9991 |
Umbraco Heartcore Enterprise | 1000+1 |
- per month
Additional Pricing Details
The Umbraco CMS and all of its core features are the same across all plans. The paid on-premise plans includes support, onboarding, licenses to add-on products (Umbraco Forms, Umbraco Courier, Umbraco TV) as well as a discount on developer training courses. Umbraco Cloud is the CMS hosted on Azure Cloud servers with automated upgrades, unlimited hosting and smooth deployments. All features can be found on Umbraco.com. Umbraco Heartcore is the managed Headless SaaS version of Umbraco.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
Umbraco CMS
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 4.0
Based on 1 answer
Many end users will be overwhelmed with the admin interface. Some common functions are buried in menus
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Reliability and Availability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 7.0
Based on 2 answers
Occasionally, errors will appear in the admin that make it impossible to work without developer support.
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Performance
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 3.0
Based on 2 answers
Working in the admin panel (adding / reviewing / editing content) is very slow.The public facing site speed is dependent on what the pages are doing and how well the code was written (whether it is optimized for speed).
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 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+ employeesUmbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 2.0
Based on 2 answers
Support for Umbraco-owned paid plugins is nonexistent.
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Online Training
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 3.0
Based on 1 answer
Online training is often based on older versions of the platform. So, you'll have to fill in the gaps on your own.
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Implementation Rating
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 7.0
Based on 2 answers
Spend the time to wireframe the content structure prior to diving in. This helps speed the process of implementation and it serves as documentation for end users.
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 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 employeesUmbraco CMS

Verified User
Professional in Corporate
Internet Company, 1-10 employeesScalability
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
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 4.0
Based on 1 answer
Without significant development, the product does not scale well.
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
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
Umbraco CMS
- Has helped us to create more engaging pages that push people to complete the online forms
- We have seen more people buy from us since we launched our new look website
- We can easily update the content without waiting for the development team to make changes
Operations Manager
CDSM Interactive SolutionsComputer Software, 11-50 employees