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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 cohesion are some of the products that we use. Site factory helps in spinning up new sites, cloning existing sites, backing them up and reverting backups.
Good thing about site studio is that it provides an intuitive component builder that non Drupal technical individuals can really get started with when creating new sites. Creating components are just like filling form data which makes this process convenient for many non technical users.

Pros and Cons

Customer support
Weekly calls with report analysis
Proactive scale ups
Site monitoring

SLA can be better for lower priority tickets
Should include ssl certs for internal domains
Acquia login should be made with company SSO only

Return on Investment

Better looking websites
More site traffic
Enhanced site performance

Time to Market

Acquia provides a very intuitive and user friendly way of developing content. Our team was able to create full fledged sites within a week of using site studio and site factory leveraged with acquia cloud platform functionalities.
Their customer engagement is really good as we have weekly calls with them that keeps our leadership team happy and forward looking.

Scalability

Acquia platform as a service is really easy to work with. Coupled with their 24 x 7 customer support and inherent advantages of using Drupal sites with it the advantages outweigh its disadvantages. Other platforms supporting Drupal may provide some functionalities that are better, but if we take Acquia as a whole along with its customer support then as a package I would choose this anytime.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Web Services, Pantheon and Azure App Service

Acquia coupled with their easier interface and 24 x 7 customer service can outweigh its competitors anytime.
Acquia provides a full end to end solution for Drupal websites.

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

Drupal, Docker, Postman

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited -

Whenever small teams are present with mumerous amount of sites. This is because the customer support of Acquia is better than many others.
Developers can easily integrate pipelines for deployments.
Code bases, databases and file systems can be transfered between dev, test and prod environment with just a simple mouse drag and drop

Less appropriate -

When team needs root access on an emergency.

All in one solution

Software Version

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Acquia Digital Experience Platform