Enter the Acquia Digital Experience Platform power
February 07, 2023
Enter the Acquia Digital Experience Platform power
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Both Drupal and Marketing Clouds
Modules Used
- Cloud Platform
- Content Hub
- Site Factory
- Personalization
- Search
- BLT
Overall Satisfaction with Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia Digital Experience Platform makes it easier to setup a big state of the art site factory using Drupal's power within an organized and proven package.
The Acquia BLT is at the heart of the stack and improves almost all the development lifecycle to manage and configure your CI/CD efficiently from the local development environment to the production. The learning curve can be steep for junior developers but it's definitely worth it. The documentation is good still with some room of improvement but support is available in case of questions/blockers.
We use mainly Acquia Cloud Platform, Site Factory, Content Hub, Search and Personalization on our projects. In a nutshell:
- Cloud Platform is where everything is hosted. Administrators can monitor, manage the different environments from there (dev, staging, prod...).
- Site Factory is where the websites are created, maintained, managed, deployed...
- Content Hub makes it possible to create centralized/decentralized content repositories to share across a set of subscribing websites.
- Search is based on Solr and integrated by default in the stack so we don't have to bother with the setup and can be activated/setup easily.
- Personalization (Lift) provides a UI to create targeted campaigns with specific content for user segments
- Industrialized platform to manage big site factories
- Speed-to-market
- Flexibility in term of governance and architecture
- Content Hub can be improved on some scenarios
- Would have been great to have more flexibility for provisioning environments
- Stacks should be available by default in Site Factory (2 or 3?)
- Around 60 websites in one year
- Multi brands / countries in a single stack
Acquia Content Hub integrates seamlessly with Drupal's Content Types.
As soon as we started building our Site Factory, the content team was able to start creating content when Content Types were available as build goes by.
Although Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an Enterprise solution like the others, it stands from competition because it relies on Drupal's Open Source community and is one of the first Cloud-native solutions so they're building on experience.
Do you think Acquia Digital Experience Platform delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Acquia Digital Experience Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Acquia Digital Experience Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Acquia Digital Experience Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Acquia Digital Experience Platform again?
Yes