How Acquia Digital Experience Platform helps us to be more scalable and productive
April 05, 2023

How Acquia Digital Experience Platform helps us to be more scalable and productive

Mohammed Arshad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Drupal Cloud

Modules Used

  • Cloud Platform
  • Site Studio
  • Content Hub
  • Personalization

Overall Satisfaction with Acquia Digital Experience Platform

We use Acquia cloud for hosting drupal sites of small to large sizes. We use other products like site studio for design and personalization for building a personalized experience for users. Acquia cloud provides an easy interface for managing the sites from deployment to taking backup and it saves lots of time for the team to focus on the actual work.

Pros

  • Easy to manage deployment and automatic backups
  • Great support team that is happy to help on any issue specially on critical issues
  • Regular updates about sites and service on Acquia during maintenance
  • Account manager support to always make sure how the site is performing

Cons

  • The Acquia personalization does not have clear documentation, It is a bit difficult to find what you are looking for in the documentation
  • The product should have a sandbox account for developers to learn and recommend it to their customers
  • Site studio a has very less option to customise, as we came across few scenarios where we needed to alter the behaviour of site studio component but could not find any documentation about it.
  • Helped building personalised experience
  • Better development productivity
  • Helped with high availability
Acquia cloud is pretty scalable as in one of the scenarios we came across during the high traffic time Acquia support easily scaled the infrastructure requirements to support it which was really good helping us to be available during those times. Acquia personalization as well can cover a large range of use cases to deliver a personalized experience.
we have used Pantheon in the past for some use cases but now we prefer Acquia over it the reason being the availability of different products to allow us to provide a complete digital experience. A product like a site factory, Acquia personalization, site studio, etc has really made a big impact on the overall experience.

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

I believe for hosting a drupal application, especially a large application I would recommend using the Acquia platform, Also Acquia provides a list of products that covers the complete digital experience like personalization and site factory for managing multisite.
I would say for small sites it may not be useful to use such a vast eco system of tools.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform Feature Ratings

Digital Experience Platform ()
Not Rated
9.4
WYSIWYG editor
9
Code quality / cleanliness
10
Admin section
9
Page templates
10
Library of website themes
8
Mobile optimization / responsive design
10
Publishing workflow
10
Form generator
9
9.4
Content taxonomy
10
SEO support
8
Bulk management
9
Availability / breadth of extensions
10
Community / comment management
10
Customer experience management ()
Not Rated
Results and Analysis ()
Not Rated
10.0
API
10
Internationalization / multi-language
10
9.0
Role-based user permissions
9

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