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Likelihood to Recommend
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia is well-suited for any Drupal web platform. I think it best plays in the enterprise space, either for B2B or nonprofit/higher ed/government. Acquia is a great solution for smaller web platforms, as well, but the price is typically prohibitive in these scenarios.
Business Development Strategist
Elevated ThirdMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 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
Feature Rating Comparison
Security
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.3
Umbraco CMS
7.2
Role-based user permissions
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.3
Umbraco CMS
7.2
Platform & Infrastructure
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
6.2
API
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
6.9
Internationalization / multi-language
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
5.6
Web Content Creation
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.5
Umbraco CMS
6.9
WYSIWYG editor
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
10.0
Umbraco CMS
5.4
Code quality / cleanliness
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
Umbraco CMS
7.0
Admin section
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
Umbraco CMS
7.5
Page templates
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
7.1
Library of website themes
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
4.7
Mobile optimization / responsive design
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
Umbraco CMS
7.7
Publishing workflow
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
Umbraco CMS
7.8
Form generator
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
6.0
Umbraco CMS
7.8
Web Content Management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.4
Umbraco CMS
6.9
Content taxonomy
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
Umbraco CMS
7.5
SEO support
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
8.1
Bulk management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
6.2
Availability / breadth of extensions
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
Umbraco CMS
6.7
Community / comment management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Umbraco CMS
5.9
Pros
Acquia Digital Experience 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.
Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant
EllucianHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Umbraco CMS
- Plugins - as an open source CMS, Umbraco is very customizable and flexible to the needs of the organization
- Publishing - Umbraco has powerful tools for publishing
- Media hosting
Data Manager
Foundation for Economic EducationThink Tanks, 11-50 employees
Cons
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- 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
Web Developer ITS3
NYS Office of Information Technology ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Umbraco CMS
- Umbraco can initially be challenging for new users with limited or no development experience. After initial installation, there is a lot more work required to 'see' a site.
- Umbraco isn't stable. For example, even on a fresh new site sometimes you'll get errors when trying to save something in the admin panel. It's not common, but it happens often enough to be annoying.
- No out of the box contact forms. Umbraco sells their forms plugin that we've used in the past, but the plugin is disappointing. It isn't well maintained and it's very buggy. Making a new contact form with the paid plugin can take a lot of time to get everything right (fields, validation, confirmation emails, etc). This is especially frustrating for new users.
- Documentation / resource links frequently 404. Umbraco seems to change their site URLs often enough that, when you encounter an issue, you're likely to find a number of bad links in Google's search results. This makes it difficult to research solutions to a problem.
- Posts often go unanswered or without resolution in their community support forums. Hopefully this will improve as the community grows.
- The update process is clumsy at best. Many people are familiar with the simple WordPress upgrade button for the core and plugins. This doesn't exist at all for Umbraco. Instead, you'll need to select specific files to overwrite and potentially update any old code references.
- Migration between development environments is clumsy. Umbraco offers a premium plugin to address this because, as they state on the premium plugin page, deployments are "complicated, headache-inducing"
Founder
UpticaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia Digital Experience Platform 10.0
Based on 8 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 1 answer
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 1 answer
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
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Umbraco CMS
Umbraco CMS 2.0
Based on 1 answer
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 1 answer
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
If you're project requires a multisite architecture with scalable site deployment, and your budget allows, I would recommend Acquia. Acquia pricing sits more on an Enterprise level, so it is overwhelming if you're hosting a smaller site. Pantheon is much more suited for smaller, one-off, independent sites, and they provide similar tooling, availability, and free SSL with every site. If you need to control every aspect of your server environment and you have a server admin on staff, then Rackspace can provide you with an open hosting environment for you to configure yourself.
Senior Drupal Developer
FFWInternet, 11-50 employees
Umbraco CMS
There is not really an alternative when it comes to CMS based on ASP.Net (MVC4 with Razor). There are a few frameworks, like Booststrap; however framework is not content management system. I will compare it to Drupal, because the second one is well known. Against Drupal, Umbraco is very clean and fast framework/CMS. It does not have as much of big community, support or range of plugins as Drupal.
Web Developer
TMP WorldwideMarketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees
Scalability
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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
- 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.
Sr. Director, Marketing Digital Experience & Design
EBSCOInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Umbraco CMS
- It's a .net solution and we program in .net so it was faster
- thanks to their good SEO, we have more leads
President & Co-Founder
EnovatioComputer Software, 1-10 employees
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Pricing Details
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Acquia Digital Experience Platform Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Umbraco CMS
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Umbraco CMS Editions & Modules
On-premise Edition
Umbraco Free | $0 |
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Umbraco Professional | $5,0002 |
Umbraco Enterprise | 5000+2 |
- per year
SaaS Edition
Umbraco Cloud Starter | $391 |
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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