Item: Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it for our official website. The kind of content management and authoring features they offer is very efficient. Flexibility is the primary advantage of the tools offered by Acquia Digital Experience Platform. Correct documentation and simple UI helps a lot for a new comer to adapt to the environment. The CI/CD pipelines help in quick and easy deployment which in turn lessens the load on developers.

Pros and Cons

Quick and easy deployment
Up to date and clear documentation
Great customer support

There are bugs in Site Studio when developing locally
Drush 11 is not yet supported on ACP
Video tutorials for BLT from scratch

Return on Investment

Better customer tracking
Content moderation workflows
Flexible architecture

Time to Market

I could deploy using Acquia Digital Experience Platform Build Launch Tool very quickly. The CI / CD pipelines work very well and help in reducing the downtime. We are easily able to manage the code, databases, and files across the platform and deploy that automatically. Acquia Digital Experience Platform provides multiple ways to access the different features of the platform like UI, SSH, FTP, etc.

Scalability

Flexibility is the primary reason I would give it a 10 / 10. The business requires quick and flexible architecture to freely design the website as desired and Acquia Digital Experience Platform provides just that. Also, the developers get an easy and quick CI and CD which help them in focussing on the code rather than deployment.

Alternatives Considered

WordPress

The flexibility aspect of Acquia Site Studio is unmatched and WordPress does not provide it on a large scale. The ability to perform bulk operations and security are also the factors in favour of Acquia Digital Experience Platform as compared to WordPress. They also offer building custom components, reusable templates and helpers which ease the tasks of developer.

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

GitHub, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Drupal

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for a website with more flexibility requirements. It also helps if one has an inexperienced / no Integration / CI / CD team. It is also helpful for quick deployments. A website can be easily hosted very quickly using Acquia Digital Experience Platform's tools. It is not suitable for businesses having low flexibility requirements or if content is not updated regularly.

Flexible CMS

Software Version

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Acquia Digital Experience Platform