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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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Popular Features
- Role-based user permissions (49)8.383%
- Admin section (42)7.979%
- API (39)7.676%
- Code quality / cleanliness (34)7.575%
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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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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.
- 8.3Role-based user permissions(49) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Platform & Infrastructure
Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.
- 7.6API(39) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 7.7Internationalization / multi-language(32) Ratings
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Web Content Creation
Features that support the creation of website content.
- 7.6WYSIWYG editor(31) Ratings
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
- 7.5Code quality / cleanliness(34) Ratings
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
- 7.9Admin section(42) Ratings
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
- 7.8Page templates(30) Ratings
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
- 7.4Library of website themes(26) Ratings
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
- 7.8Mobile optimization / responsive design(28) Ratings
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
- 8.1Publishing workflow(34) Ratings
The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.
- 7.8Form generator(24) Ratings
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Web Content Management
Features for managing website content
- 8Content taxonomy(28) Ratings
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
- 7.2SEO support(29) Ratings
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
- 7.4Bulk management(31) Ratings
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
- 7.8Availability / breadth of extensions(32) Ratings
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
- 7.8Community / comment management(26) Ratings
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
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What is Acquia Digital Experience Platform?
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
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Acquia Digital Experience Platform Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-4 of 4)Thank you Acquia!
- Cloud IDE
- Customer Service
- Cloud Platform
- Site Studio
- Testing
- WYSIWYG editor
- 90%9.0
- Code quality / cleanliness
- 100%10.0
- Admin section
- 90%9.0
- Page templates
- 90%9.0
- Mobile optimization / responsive design
- 80%8.0
- API
- 90%9.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 90%9.0
- Technical continuity
- streamline development
- outstanding customer service
- e-commerce
- marketing
- b2b sales
- We lost a developer not long after switching to the Acquia platform, which left us with 1. The Acquia platform allowed our single developer to manage everything needed for our ecommerce business to continue successfully.
- CI/CD and/or the pipelines feature. We are a small shop and can use as much help as possible from automation.
- Customer support has helped us tons! We will continue to abuse their good nature for the foreseeable future. :-)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Don't know
- 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
Acquia Digital Experience Platform for the win!
- 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
- My developers have periodically complained of a lack of environment
- I've always appreciated the uptime dashboards - moving for New Relic seems to be at odds with what I've come to enjoy and appreciate about Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- ROI is hard to specifically measure, but it goes without saying that our two primary websites both drive Leads and E-Commerce solutions that are enabled greatly by our Drupal build, which are hosted on Acquia Digital Experience Platform.
- Negative ROI experiences with Acquia Digital Experience Platform have come in the form of a three-year subscription to Acquia Lift - a solution that didn't necessarily fit our business model, in part due to a lack of resources to drive the tool. Also, that solution was difficult to use due to some of the Drupal-based solutions that we used on our websites at the time. I've since heard that Lift has been greatly improved, so there may also have been some issues with the platform, to begin with, that might have hindered our utilisation.
- Website hosting
- Website uptime
- Performance
- Security
- Enabling business priorities through website activities such as Organic Traffic growth, Lead Generation and Ecommerce
- Acquia Digital Experience Platform allowed my organisation to fix a whole raft of pre-existing issues with the Drupal website and allow for easy and rapid deployments of new features
- Considering looking into Personalisation
Acquia Cloud Hosting in my own words
My organization sells its own software solutions that do not compete in any way with Acquia. In-fact, the company's business model is solely geared towards cloud-hosting higher-ed CRM solutions; from a basic, simple implementation of one of our entry-level solutions, all the way up to a managed solution with on-site support staff for the duration of the contract.
Web Services, the team I belong to, is normally an add-on item in the contract to provide website support and maintenance. Many of the schools we works with, like having a single company help them manage all of their Information Technology solutions. As a result, we are just a team of developers. no dedicated dev-ops or network infrastructure billets.
- 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.
- This is a difficult question for me to answer, as I have seen the platform mature over the past few years and they recently, 3-6 months ago revamped their admin UI web interface that addressed some of their previous shortcomings. I don't ever have any difficulty finding what I need, when I need it on the admin UI. My first suggestion would be to review their documentation in some areas, which are still linked to the previous iteration of the web interface.
- The majority of the services offered by Acquia Cloud Hosting are built on top of Amazon Web Services. As a result, some SSL certificates do not work well, or at all if they originate from Network Soutions (which have never worked), or GeoTrust (Equifax), VeriSign, and DigiCert, which on occasion produce SSL certificates that fail to work on Acquia Cloud.
- Recently I have found that team management has a couple of limitations when the client is the "Organization administrator," and the role of "Team administrator" is assigned to myself or a member of my team. There are some links and page options that should be available to those of us assigned the role of Team Lead or Senior Developer within the Team Management structure, but we have had to contact support to update our permissions to be granted the appropriate access. It may be a result of their recent upgrade to the site, and regardless, support was able to fix our issue the same day we submitted a request.
- Code quality / cleanliness
- 100%10.0
- Admin section
- 100%10.0
- Publishing workflow
- 100%10.0
- SEO support
- 100%10.0
- Availability / breadth of extensions
- 100%10.0
- API
- 100%10.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 100%10.0
- With Acquia Cloud, I no longer need to implement my own home-grown deployment system and stay up-to-date on the latest LINUX security vulnerabilities or upgrade my web server software, as all of that is managed by Acquia. That in itself can save a single developer 50% of their time when compared to self-hosting.
- Again, as I recommend the platform, I have no direct involvement in the actual cost of the hosting solution, I still benefit as a developer by using a solid mature software solution that delivers exactly what is promised.
- My team offers Drupal and Wordpress solutions for Higher-Education institutions. Over the past couple of years, we have put together a list of recommended hosting providers for both Drupal and Wordpress. On the Drupal side, we only recommend Acquia and Pantheon and as-such, we are able to share our knowledge with other team-members using the same vendor. As a result, we have compiled a number of tips and artices we publish on the team's wiki. Put in the perspective of ROI, working with a known entity, the consistency reduces the time-to-market of many of our site builds as we have established relationships with our counterparts at Acquia and we know its strenghts and limitations.
The admin UI for Pantheon is similar to Acquia's, but they take a more hands-on / hands-off approach when it comes to core Drupal upgrades. Pantheon uses their own software called Terminus to help interface between the developer and the server. By them managing the Drupal core files, you, as a developer just need to understand that you can not update your copy of the site locally, when an updated version of Drupal is released. All of your custom and contributed modules are your responsibility (as they should be), but you just need to be aware that your commits will be rejected if they contain core Drupal updates.
- I wish I could put a list of use-cases here, but in my case, there is only one: Any client that has a Drupal site.
- Even though many of us have been using Acquia Cloud Hosting for three or four years, we are just now beginning to really take advantage of the Acquia API and including Cloud Hooks in to our development and deployment process. This simple 'refactoring' in the way we deploy and manage sites allows us to continue to streamline our processes and continue to work towards a fully TDD development and deployment workflow.
- Acquia offers free development account / sites, that we often use for proof-of-concept demos when making a pitch to a new client, as well as an environment we can spin up easily as a sandbox when trying out new Drupal modules or theme frameworks.
- Many of the members of our team use Acquia's DevDesktop, which is an all-in-one development environment for MacOS, or Windows. It pulls down all of the necessary Git repository branches, databases, and public files, from an existing Acquia Cloud website. For us, as a growing team, it has been very easy to onboard new developers and get them up to speed and working on our client sites in a very short amount of time.
- As Acquia Cloud, and Acquia Cloud Free are very specific services, there no other uses for the site aside from its intended purpose.