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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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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • 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.

8.3
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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia is our SASS solution for Drupal 7 powered websites, landing pages and webtools. Our prospect facing website and internal facing websites both utilize the Drupal 7 framework that Acquia hosts. In addition our SEM efforts, RFI forms and other marketing communication is on the platform. Acquia has performed consistently well.
  • Dependable Update
  • Knowledgeable Customer Service
  • Functionality seems designed for larger enterprise organizations
  • Interfacing tools are sometimes more complex then similar cloud hosted services such as Azure or AWS
Acquia has a very large offering of services that cater to larger enterprise clients. Smaller single-domain clients like our website seem like a loose fit for what Acquia provides.
  • I'm not sure if the money spent on Acquia couldn't have been saved on a less expensive hosting platform. Some of our contracts seem backed with features and extras we never used.
The website infrastructure was already implemented prior to my arrival. I'm unsure what impact it made in comparison to our prior host. Other services they have provided since my arrival have made no signification improvement. In fact we reduced our service expenses upon my arrival.
We don't use scalable solutions.
Acquia was chosen for its expertise in Drupal hosted websites. Our website however is either so simple, so dependable or both that we've never leaned on that specific trait to solve issues or iterate new website improvements.
2
Marketing manager who approves purchase and myself who suggests hosting platforms.
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I'm the only one managing the Acquia Platform. One must be familiar with manipulating hosting management consoles such as GoDaddy, Huroku or the like in order to manage the Acquia platform. It's certainly not as complicated as Azure or AWS devops.
  • Hosting external Drupal websites
  • Hosting internal Drupal websites
  • Managing SSL certificates and domain names
  • Nothing unexpected, it's just web hosting.
  • Nothing innovative, it's just web hosting.
  • Nothing unusual, it's just web hosting.
  • We're not going to use it in the future.
  • We're moving away from Drupal 7
  • We've decided to go with Python/Django/Wagtail because it was simpler to develop in.
We're moving away from Drupal as a platform. Drupal 8 and 9 were simply too overburdened and difficult to maintain compared to other offerings. PHP seems like a dying language so we are currently in the process of migrating all of our Drupal 7 functionality and custom modules to a Python/Django/Wagtail platform. This doesn't mean Acquia isn't a great service, they are professional and top-knotch, but the only way we'd say with them is if I didn't complete the migration.
Yes
We looked at AWS, Azure and Heroku as well as hosting the Drupal 7 build on our own internal servers. There simply wasn't enough internal expertise to setup and maintain this at a professional level our company was comfortable with.
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
I think I would try Azure with OpenLitespeed as a server. The server has a built in reverse proxy which would have simplified our experience trying to maintain a Docker container structure.
  • Don't know
Change management was minimal
It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.
They are absolutely fabulous and have never dropped the ball in 8 years of us being on the platform. If it wasn't for Drupal 8/9 being unrealistically complicated compared to other offerings like Django/Wagtail we'd be still with Acquia and Drupal.
Yes, we have several hours of premium consulting as well. This has helped us in the past make decisions about hosing blob content and finding solutions for a media server.
No
Yes, our website was slow having a difficult time processing SQL statements that we didn't know where causing issues. They suggested multiple was to increase performance as well as helped rule out other issues that we thought maybe contributing to website lag.
It's a great user interface. It's always being updated and I've never noticed a bad update that increased the complexity or reduced
  • Moving instances of Dev/Test/Prod
  • Downloading database backups and files for testing on local builds
  • Managing SSL and Domains
  • The internal folder structures of the Linux distro they are running has a lot of confusing aliases - but that's deep beyond the platform in SSH
Yes, but I don't use it
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