Item: Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Pritam Sarkar

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Acquia Digital Experience Platform in my organization as Deployment Manager, responsible for Development and Support of Global Unified, Multisite, Multi Language Enterprise Content Management System on the Acquia Cloud Factory and Drupal Technologies. Defining Technical Implementation approaches. Design and Development Migration Tool and liaising with our strategic vendor Acquia on development and deployment related activities.

Pros and Cons

Architecting and managing multisite multilingual environment
CMS experience at ultimate level
Cutting edge CDN

Devops Pipeline build to speed up the CI/CD workflow
CDN availability in Mainland China region
More Customer friendly offering on Headless Architecture

Return on Investment

All the positive impacts we had so far from Acquia Digital Experience Platform on our overall business objectives
Increased the ability to better engage new customers
Conduct better personalization and targeting

Time to Market

Once we started using Acquia Digital Experience Platform, using the content hub and workbench module, very quickly and efficiently we were able to start deploying content across digital channels. Great positive impact this has had on our personalization and customer engagement efforts. Thanks to the Acquia Digital Experience Platform and its latest offerings

Scalability

Acquia Digital Experience Platform provides flexible and scalable software which can be deployed across multiple departments and sites as needed, but sometimes we have been experienced complex scenarios to accommodate tricky Customer requirement which needed more scalability with respect to the customization required by the Customes time to time per their need

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare

Actually, Acquia Digital Experience Platform did not stack up against them, rather it was a great combination to implementing and configuring Cloudflare, the next generation Content Delivery Network (CDN) and different caching Architecture to embed with the Drupal Platform such as, Boost module, Memcache API and Integration, Varnish Reverse proxy caching mechanism to minimize loading time

Key Insights

Do you think Acquia Digital Experience Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Acquia Digital Experience Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Acquia Digital Experience Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Acquia Digital Experience Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Acquia Digital Experience Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Cloudflare

Likelihood to Recommend

Acquia Digital Experience Platform is well suited for Developing unified platform for global unified content management system on Cloud to handle content for multi-site and multilingual. The platform will implement high security standard, different caching Architecture, Enterprise Search, GeoIP, Web analytics, Social Integration and the responsive design to support multiple resolution devices – Desktop, Laptop, TV & Handhold devices

The NextGen thing to experience digital freedom - Acquia DXP

Software Version

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Acquia Digital Experience Platform