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Acquia Digital Experience Platform

Overview

What is Acquia Digital Experience Platform?

The Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability…

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Recent Reviews

All in one solution

10 out of 10
October 17, 2023
Incentivized
We use Acquia to host our sites. We have been using it in my current organisation for the past 3 years. Site factory and site studio or …
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Small Biz perspective

10 out of 10
July 12, 2023
Incentivized
We have been using the Acquia platform for all our customer website projects for the last 12 years. Our projects are large, complex, busy …
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Acquia CDP

9 out of 10
July 03, 2023
Incentivized
We use the CDP to drive campaign selection and segmentation, and then for the closed loop analysis to understand the performance of our …
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Popular Features

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  • Role-based user permissions (49)
    8.3
    83%
  • Admin section (42)
    7.9
    79%
  • API (39)
    7.6
    76%
  • Code quality / cleanliness (34)
    7.5
    75%

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Pricing

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What is Acquia Digital Experience Platform?

The Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability a modern organization needs. With its customer data…

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.3
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7.7
Avg 8.1

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.7
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.6
Avg 7.1
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Product Details

What is Acquia Digital Experience Platform?

The Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability a modern organization needs. With its customer data platform, it allows organizations to understand who their customers are and deliver personalized experiences. Acquia's DXP offers variety of other tools including digital asset management, personalization, campaign management and more that complement the core content and data solutions.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

Acquia Digital Experience Platform Videos

Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia provides the only open Digital Experience Platform. Our Drupal cloud and Marketing Cloud offer best in class products that enable organizational Velocity, Intelligence, and Governance. Our Platform uniquely combines True 360 customer insight with rapid Content Creation...
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Acquia Digital Experience Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Sitecore Experience Manager, Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP), and WordPress are common alternatives for Acquia Digital Experience Platform.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of Acquia Digital Experience Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Lisa Stephens, PhD | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I appreciate that their staff is very proactive in reaching out for account renewal, managing the bureaucracy of our accounts system, and being generally good humored during all interactions. It may sound like a little thing, but when you're grinding away all day at a desk, it's a welcome relief (particularly if related to some kind of technical challenge) to have a friendly, well humored, empathic account manager!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited for constructing, enhancing, and operating mission critical websites with a modern UI that meets branding needs well. Able to have low code - no code content and site management with no to minimum development. Able to manage assets well and generally distribute them automatically to numerous digital properties. We are looking at creating a secure logged-in portal with our Acquia products
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia Digital Experience Platform is well suited for website driven experience to showcase your products and services in a highly designed UI experience. It is lacking in performance and site speed where we struggle to make the web pages load faster.
October 17, 2023

All in one solution

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited -
  • Whenever small teams are present with mumerous amount of sites. This is because the customer support of Acquia is better than many others.
  • Developers can easily integrate pipelines for deployments.
  • Code bases, databases and file systems can be transfered between dev, test and prod environment with just a simple mouse drag and drop
Less appropriate -
  • When team needs root access on an emergency.
Luiz Petri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia DXP is well suited in projects that the website, or websites, are key to the business revenue. The DXP platform helps business to know their customer and create tailor made campaigns leading to a better user retention, conversion rate and more.

On websites that don't have this purpose, the Acquia Cloud Platform hosting plans are a better fit.
Charles Sanders | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pulling applications down to my local machine via the Lando Acquia recipe. It is very intuitive and straightforward. When it is time to push changes up to the Acquia Digital Experience Cloud, I like being able to switch code branches and tags via the interface, where they can be restored to previous versions just as quickly.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's been great for our hosting as we require top-notch security on locally-located servers (inside Australia). I wouldn't recommend them for smaller businesses who can't afford 4-figure monthly hosting bills, of course. In order to economise, we chose the lowest level of support but it has still be top notch. No complaints.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a bit pricey compared to alternatives but we found it be well worth the premium. We use it for our customers and so obviously the customer needs to be agreeable to the higher cost. However, the extra cost is still a small fraction of the overall operating cost.
July 03, 2023

Acquia CDP

Brian Murphy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are looking for a tool that can help you uncover customer segments and then market to said customers and report on the outcome of the campaign in a single tool, the CDP can do all of that. The reporting capabilities help you to answer questions in a very fast manner. No relying on IT to create queries, etc. All the data is in the marketers hands.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Being a primarily Drupal developer, this service is amazing. So much of the integrations are ready to go out of the box. I have not hosted anything other than Drupal on there, but I have heard of some issues using other CMS platforms or front-end applications where things could be improved. It's not worth me going into detail as I would lean more onto a review where someone has direct experience in those areas.
June 22, 2023

Acquia Cloud

Ethan Teague | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have a large, Federal agency / University Drupal site, and/or require FedRAMP hosting, Acquia is the most turnkey option available. For smaller sites that don't require 99%+ uptime, and have less complex deployment and testing strategies, Acquia is probably overkill, and (potentially) prohibitively expensive. Acquia does big Drupal sites.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well Suited
- Components which do not require great amount of animation.
- Customizable components with layout changes and content changes.
- Low knowledge of coding - SS makes it easy to implement things for such users.

Not well suited
- Custom components - No proper documentation for it.
- Animations based on website designs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Hosting a Drupal website on fast and reliable servers when you have a whole team working concurrently on the project where you need to deploy code multiple times a day. Integration with Bitbucket pipelines works great and saves tons of time when reviewing code and merging branches.

Would not recommend for small teams who do not utilise a VCS solution and do not need multiple environment.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As I just have one experiencie with acquia, I have to say that is enough flexible for most cases that involves large setos of information, as corporate web sites and so on, not recommended for e-commerce platforms, as drupal doesn't have a feasible solution for this scope, and the current solutions don't meet enough requirements for this.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am convinced that Acquia is a perfect platform for hosting and a provider of multiple services regardless of industry, or company size. It can help anyone establish a quick digital presence regardless of the complexity involved.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe for hosting a drupal application, especially a large application I would recommend using the Acquia platform, Also Acquia provides a list of products that covers the complete digital experience like personalization and site factory for managing multisite.
I would say for small sites it may not be useful to use such a vast eco system of tools.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you use Drupal CMS, whether a simple or complex site, Acquia seems like a great partner. If you are considering moving to Acquia and Drupal, I would probably only go this route if you have Drupal development support. While the simple sites are easily maintained through Acquia's RA branch, I think that there are cheaper options for basic sites. Acquia is strong at supporting Drupal hosting, but since there will likely be a separate development team, it creates a bit of a challenge when something goes wrong to figure out if it is an Acquia problem (typically not) or a development problem (usually the case for our issues).
February 21, 2023

Solid Platform

Greg Morris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia specializes in Drupal, so they are experts at maintaining the necessary infrastructure and code base for Drupal. They are a step above just a pure hosting company where you would be responsible for keeping the Drupal core up-to-date. Our IT team is relatively small and simply does not have the resources to stay on top of these updates as well as making sure the infrastructure is robust and "up".
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited for large scale projects (with a lot of users and sessions) where you don't have the resources or knowledge to support.

Less appropriate for the 90% of the Drupal projects out there.
Also, not suitable for decoupled Drupal projects since you may have problems to host the frontend (usually JS oriented) on the same platform.
February 08, 2023

Flexible CMS

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited for a website with more flexibility requirements. It also helps if one has an inexperienced / no Integration / CI / CD team. It is also helpful for quick deployments. A website can be easily hosted very quickly using Acquia Digital Experience Platform's tools. It is not suitable for businesses having low flexibility requirements or if content is not updated regularly.
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