Item: Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Acquia for a number of our clients which is dependent on the clients needs and what capabilities they require. For most use-cases, however, Acquia is the perfect fit. Our clients can trust the service and since my company has been working with them for so long we also have a partnership with Acquia.Some of the benefits are scalability, environment management, easy user management, simple backup services, easy cloud access via admin panel or via command line, and the included SOLR service (this is a huge plus for our clients).

Pros and Cons

Environment Management
SOLR Service Integration with Drupal
Easy publishing via webhooks or drag-n-drop

UI is pretty easy to navigate, but could be updated

Return on Investment

Majority of our clients are on Acquia so being platform specific speeds up dev time
Easy to give client access for them to be able to gather their own data

Time to Market

This has been pretty simple, but our company already has a pretty solid process in place for this. We have built in continuous integrations and automations that assist with this, but I would have to say that having this capability to begin with has been a huge plus for us.

Scalability

This happens to be one of the most important things for us. Being able to move between environments, ability to make those environments visible (or hidden) from the outside, and also being able to manage security for each of them. We believe this not only helps speed up other internal processes, but makes it easy for even the development team to manage those environments as needed.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Acquia Digital Experience Platform go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Acquia Digital Experience Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Drupal, WordPress, WordPress VIP, PhpStorm, Airtable, Netlify Platform, Brave, Slack, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Likelihood to Recommend

Being a primarily Drupal developer, this service is amazing. So much of the integrations are ready to go out of the box. I have not hosted anything other than Drupal on there, but I have heard of some issues using other CMS platforms or front-end applications where things could be improved. It's not worth me going into detail as I would lean more onto a review where someone has direct experience in those areas.

Easy, Fast, Scalable: Thank You Acquia

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Overall Satisfaction with Acquia Digital Experience Platform