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Acquia Digital Experience Platform

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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…

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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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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

8.2
Avg 8.2

Platform & Infrastructure

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

7.8
Avg 8.3

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.4
Avg 7.2
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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

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Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.2.

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

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Acquia - the only answer for a Drupal website

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 15, 2017
We currently use the Acquia platform to manage the hosting for our own Drupal website, as well as for our several of our client sites. Our agency and our clients use a variety of Acquia's suite of products including Acquia Cloud, Acquia Lift, Acquia BLT, and Acquia Lightning. Our agency is a Preferred Partner of Acquia and we work with several of their sales reps, account managers, and technical architects to manage our client projects. Acquia's offerings are top notch for Drupal websites and provide the best platform, uptime, and performance for our site and our client's sites. Using Acquia allows us to get our client's sites up running much quicker and smoother, allowing us to focus on the more custom implementation for a project, without the worries around having a secure, scalable platform to support our work.
  • Acquia has a variety of products and services that serve a variety of clients that span across many industries. The wide variety of use cases, supported by hundreds of case studies, make selling Acquia to our customers very easy.
  • Acquia's platform is secure, scalable, and designed specifically for Drupal allowing us to get projects started much smoother and quicker.
  • Acquia is always innovating and providing new products for their entire suite. Acquia's LIFT product is a game changing platform that is starting to provide a personalization solution meant for any size client and project website.
Cons
  • Acquia's pricing is sporadic across each product offering and for each industry vertical. Making pricing more standard across the board would help alleviate some of the doubt from our clients when they go to Acquia's site to see different products.
  • Acquia's BLT is a new and innovative product, but still lacks a lot of use cases. This comes with more implementation examples which will definitely come with time.
  • There is sometimes an inconsistency among different Acquia sales people and account managers. This results in a vastly different experience when bringing clients to Acquia. Mixed with Acquia's strange salesperson geographic/industry allocation, this has caused confusion for us and our clients. We'd love to see Acquia reps be more consistent across the board.
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.

Making development and deployment easy

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 24, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
2 years of experience
We use Acquia Cloud as a hosting service and their supplied tools in our Continuous Integration pipeline in order to be able to manage and deploy code on different environments fast. The whole team can then focus their efforts on development rather than deployment. The code switch button allows the team to quickly switch between different VCS branches so they can test different features without the need of spinning up another environment.
  • Code deployment
  • Sending emails
  • Managing SSL certificates
  • Database backups
  • Team management
Cons
  • Acquia migrate accelerate could be improved
  • Some documentation is hard to find
  • Adding more Hints in the GUI could help find documentation faster
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.

A great platform for mature organizations with complex, global, digital needs

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 09, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
5 years of experience
We use the Acquia Digital Experience Platform across our whole global organization. It enables and supports our multi-site set up allowing us to share a codebase and resources. This streamlines [the] governance and product management of our digital platform. Since moving onto Acquia, we've reduced the number of different websites and systems in use.
  • Reliable hosting
  • Technology to support complex website
  • 24/7 support
Cons
  • Drupal developers working on Acquia [Digital Experience] need to learn how it works.
  • Systems can be complex.
  • Support can be limited in what they assist with.
  • Account management can be patchy.
Acquia Digital Experience Platform is well suited for organizations with complex digital needs. It is ideal for medium to large global organizations that have multiple websites and microsites. They have a range of technology solutions for different needs and levels of digital maturity. You can scale up and down based on what you need and budget.

The best service to deliver Drupal applications

Rating: 7 out of 10
November 11, 2021
GG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
3 years of experience
We are currently using it to provide our corporate website over the internet. It's used mainly by the marketing department, but it's also used to publish and manage different services and aspects for different departments: HR, partners, alliances, etc. Acquia [Digital Experience Platform] helps to manage one (or multiple) websites or applications built on top of Drupal. Acquia [Digital Experience Platform] allows me to have [three] different environments for managing the website: development, staging, and production. This can be helpful for managing a website with particular logic or defined publishing flow.
  • Development, staging, production
  • Built-in GIT flow
  • Drag & drop code deploy
  • Easy-to-use interface
Cons
  • Database access
  • Cloud IDE
  • The support
It's appropriate for a big company that wants to publish its website on the internet, and this website is built on top of Drupal. The publishing flow is great because you can have a preview of the website in the staging or development website before put[ting] it live. It doesn't provide support for other CMS, and this could be a problem. We use other CMS for other purposes that are better than Drupal, and we had to host it elsewhere.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform - The platform to rule them all.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 02, 2022
JN
Vetted Review
Verified User
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8 years of experience
Launched 172+ Drupal websites across 5 different departments for pharmaceutical client: Corporate Affairs, Regulatory Compliance, Pharmacovigilance, Marketing, Investor Relations. There website were released across 39 countries in 25 different languages.
  • Launch support
  • Technical troubleshooting
  • System upgrades
Cons
  • Acquia CloudFlare support
  • Acquia DAM support
  • Acquia Purge support
Large scale, enterprise web presence with large content for multicountry, multilingual sites. Medium sized companies that need comparable solutions to large companies.
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