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Acquia Digital Experience Platform vs Umbraco CMS

Acquia Digital Experience Platform
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79 Ratings
Umbraco CMS
48 Ratings

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Score 8.3 out of 100

Based on 79 reviews and ratings

Umbraco CMS

48 Ratings
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Score 5.2 out of 100

Based on 48 reviews and ratings

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.

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    Olivier Parriche | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Olivier Parriche
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    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.

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    Debbie Marshall | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    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

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Umbraco 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.

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    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.

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Umbraco 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

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    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

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    Acquia Digital Experience Platform Editions & Modules

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    Additional Pricing Details
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    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 Enterprise5000+2
    1. none
    2. per year
    SaaS Edition
    Umbraco Cloud Starter$391
    Umbraco Cloud Standard$2091
    Umbraco Cloud Professional$5691
    Umbraco Cloud Enterprise5000+1
    Umbraco Heartcore Mini$491
    Umbraco Heartcore Starter$2391
    Umbraco Heartcore Professional$9991
    Umbraco Heartcore Enterprise1000+1
    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

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    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

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    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.

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    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).

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    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.

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Umbraco CMS

    Umbraco CMS 2.0
    Based on 2 answers
    Support for Umbraco-owned paid plugins is nonexistent.

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    Matthew Hardesty | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    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.

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    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.

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    Matthew Hardesty | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    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.

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Umbraco CMS

    Umbraco's templating is far superior than WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but it's update process is WAY behind those platforms. The release schedule of Umbraco is way to often and most releases are to fix something missed in the previous release and not an improvement or new feature of the CMS

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    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.

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    Maria Greene | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Umbraco CMS

    Umbraco CMS 4.0
    Based on 1 answer
    Without significant development, the product does not scale well.

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    Matthew Hardesty | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Matthew Hardesty
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    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.

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    Zach Ettelman | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Zach Ettelman
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    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

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    Debbie Marshall | TrustRadius Reviewer
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