Overview
What is Acquia Digital Experience Platform?
The Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability…
FLEXspace.org Appreciates Acquia!
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Digitize Go to Market with Acquia Digital Experience
All in one solution
An agency look at Acquia DXP
Cloud Platform Review
Acquia Digital Experience Platform is a Good Fit for Application Management
Excellent platform - premium tier pricing
Small Biz perspective
Acquia CDP
Thank you Acquia!
Easy, Fast, Scalable: Thank You Acquia
Acquia Cloud
A Top-Performing Solution for Delivering Personalized Customer Experiences
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Popular Features
- Role-based user permissions (49)8.383%
- Admin section (42)7.979%
- API (39)7.676%
- Code quality / cleanliness (34)7.575%
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What is Acquia Digital Experience Platform?
The Acquia Digital Experience Platform is an "Open DXP" with its two core pillars being content and data. Built on top of one of the largest open-source content management systems, Drupal, it aims to provide the flexibility and interoperability a modern organization needs. With its customer data…
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Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 8.3Role-based user permissions(49) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Platform & Infrastructure
Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.
- 7.6API(39) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 7.7Internationalization / multi-language(32) Ratings
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Web Content Creation
Features that support the creation of website content.
- 7.6WYSIWYG editor(31) Ratings
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
- 7.5Code quality / cleanliness(34) Ratings
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
- 7.9Admin section(42) Ratings
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
- 7.8Page templates(30) Ratings
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
- 7.4Library of website themes(26) Ratings
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
- 7.8Mobile optimization / responsive design(28) Ratings
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
- 8.1Publishing workflow(34) Ratings
The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.
- 7.8Form generator(24) Ratings
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Web Content Management
Features for managing website content
- 8Content taxonomy(28) Ratings
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
- 7.2SEO support(29) Ratings
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
- 7.4Bulk management(31) Ratings
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
- 7.8Availability / breadth of extensions(32) Ratings
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
- 7.8Community / comment management(26) Ratings
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
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What is Acquia Digital Experience Platform?
Acquia Digital Experience Platform Features
Web Content Creation Features
- Supported: WYSIWYG editor
- Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
- Supported: Content versioning
- Supported: Admin section
- Supported: Page templates
- Supported: Library of website themes
- Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
- Supported: Publishing workflow
- Supported: Form generator
- Supported: Content scheduling
Web Content Management Features
- Supported: Internal content search
- Supported: Content taxonomy
- Supported: SEO support
- Supported: Browser compatibility
- Supported: Bulk management
- Supported: Page caching
- Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
- Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
- Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
- Supported: Community / comment management
- Supported: Import / export
- Supported: Website analytics
Platform & Infrastructure Features
- Supported: API
- Supported: Internationalization / multi-language
Security Features
- Supported: Role-based user permissions
- Supported: Version history
- Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities
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Acquia Digital Experience Platform Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-25 of 93)The platform to freely and easily scale Digital Experiences.
- Multisites management.
- Implementing modularity and composable components to easily build experiences at scale.
- World class infrastructure services.
- Highly optimized pipelines and more for Drupal.
- Simpler approach to capacity management.
FLEXspace.org Appreciates Acquia!
- It's fast, no lag time
- Exceptionally good support. When there's a problem, you reach out to your account manager who either fixes the issue or gets you to the right person. We've had no downtime.
- Platform is very accessible to those who know how to manage the back end software.
Acquia Products and Services Review
- Low code, no code ability for business teams to build and maintain their own basic sites and content
- Enables us to have a single source of truth for all our digital assets via the DAM, manage and distribute them across the enterprise and to other third party partner applications
- Allow for rapid creation, spin up, publishing of critical digital content without releases, both intranet, and internet
- Acquia platform and its operational support is outstanding, extremely reliable
- We like the DAM but it needs improvements in its availability of APIs and plug in integrations. ex. the Brightcove plugin does not support 508c asset accessory files, the DAM does, our understanding is there is no API access to the asset aux files.
Digitize Go to Market with Acquia Digital Experience
- Rich User Experience
- Ease of creating and manging contents
- Fully compliant and secured
- Robust platform
- Better SEO and In-built features
- More focus on SEO
- AI driven search capabilities
- Layout builder in built support for translation capabilities
All in one solution
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.
- 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
- 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
- When team needs root access on an emergency.
An agency look at Acquia DXP
We've used Acquia Site Studio together with Acquia Cloud Site Factory to achieve these goals. This combo lead us develop all websites in a record time, allowing our customer to launch them before summer.
- Source Code Management
- Deploy pipelines
- User management
- Hosting plans fit for smaller websites
On websites that don't have this purpose, the Acquia Cloud Platform hosting plans are a better fit.
Cloud Platform Review
- Git Management
- Cloud Hosting
- Development Enviroments
- Help docs need updating
- Code/Database/Files deployment
- Database backups
- Version control interface
- Ability to access application files within UI
Excellent platform - premium tier pricing
- Instant response
- Competent tech support
- Reliable hosting
- Documentation is a bit hard to follow
- Responsiveness on Cloud IDE is slow enough that we've used another solution
Small Biz perspective
- Ability to manage multiple environments well
- The Cloud IDE, which is a recent innovation
- Security has been great. Never had a problem thus far.
- Acquia is very innovative with the platform. No suggestions
Acquia CDP
- Targeting of customers
- Quick analysis of customer transaction behavior
- Aggregation of customer metrics for dashboard reporting
- Campaign segmentation. Limited attributes are available for segmentation. All the attributes for targeting should also be included in segmentation
- Ability to replicate dashboards
- Ability to report on events that are tracked in metrics
Thank you Acquia!
- Cloud IDE
- Customer Service
- Cloud Platform
- Site Studio
- Testing
Easy, Fast, Scalable: Thank You Acquia
- 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
Acquia Cloud
- Customer service
- Drupal integrations
- Pipelines / deployments
- Documentation is scattered
- Non critical issues are handled by less knowledgeable staff
- Pricing could be improved
- Customization of components based on the website design.
- No more relying on developers to make layout and content changes.
- Smooth process of creating Site Studio components, be it custom or native components.
- Edit process within the CMS is smooth for the content author with content workflows.
- I believe they could increase the availability of their documentation for Site Studio. A lot of things remain a mystery till you work on it for a considerable amount of time.
- The implementation of CI/CD using BLT is a process which seems to be a bit complicated. Again, no accurate documentation explaining the whole process.
- Custom component creation is a thing that is required very much from our end for designs with animations/content flows. That becomes difficult sometimes without inbuilt features.
- The animate on view does not work well in Site Studio. The animations are choppy and hence require external JS for it to work.
- Components which do not require great amount of animation.
- Customizable components with layout changes and content changes.
- Low knowledge of coding - SS makes it easy to implement things for such users.
Not well suited
- Custom components - No proper documentation for it.
- Animations based on website designs.
try it ! at least once
- a real good CI from dev to stage
- good performance fast and reliable
- as reactive support when i have some issues
- continuous integration
- cache performance
- permanent working services
- customer support
- content hub
- real time show logs on each environment
Making development and deployment easy
- Code deployment
- Sending emails
- Managing SSL certificates
- Database backups
- Team management
- Acquia migrate accelerate could be improved
- Some documentation is hard to find
- Adding more Hints in the GUI could help find documentation faster
Would not recommend for small teams who do not utilise a VCS solution and do not need multiple environment.
Acquia - Quick and Easy way to run your drupal projects
- Site studio is a good no-code solution
- Acquia cloud is a must have if you need reliability and security
- Their service is good
- Site studio in it's newer versions has to check issues and provide faster feedback
- Need more updated documentation
- Application Management
- Content Management
- Built-in security
- Customer support
- View application source code directly in the portal (e.g. Modules, configuration files, etc.) similar to GiHub.
- 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
- 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.
I would say for small sites it may not be useful to use such a vast eco system of tools.
Acquia is a great partner for hosting and supporting Drupal-based websites and experiences!
- Administering SSL certificates.
- Backing-up databases.
- Scheduling jobs.
- Admin UI reporting details on visits and views.
- Better transparency into database and file storage and optimizing each.
- Monitoring and alerting (new relic integration is nice, but native capabilities would be great).
Nearly Turn-key, out-of-the box solution
- I am very impressed with CloudIDE that allows to install and manage Drupal codebase without installing it on my local machine. Very convenient!
- I am also impressed with Acquia cloud infrastructure that is provisioned and comes equipped with CI/CD pipelines out of the box.
- Acquia DAM (Document Management) System is also very impressive. I love that basic solutions come pre-configured and ready to go out of the box.
- Knowledgeable support is also very impressive with Acquia.
- Some of the documentation on using new features feels a bit scattered with some obvious questions not readily answered in the documentation at times. But Acquia Support usually fills this gap pretty quickly.
Solid Platform
- Acquia keeps the site up and available. I don't think we've had a second of downtime caused by Acquia.
- Their administration UI makes it pretty easy to manage the websites at a high level. Check stats, change key configuration values, backup code and databases, manage SSL, create support tickets and manage development teams (users).
- Their support team can do performance reviews of your website and give you tips for improving performance.
- Support responds pretty quickly to critical tickets, but they can be slow to respond on non-urgent items. Some of what we experienced may have been related to a newer ticketing system recently implemented.
- Standard support covers business days/hours but only critical support is available outside those times. We typically schedule our website updates for the weekend or "off" hours when only critical support is available.
Acquia Cloud should be an option only if the a projects needs specific standards to fulfill.
- Managing environments
- Easy to use UI for non technical people
- Documentation changes always and seems to be inconsistent
- Deprecating systems and tools very often
- Price is too high depending on the services offered
- Minor UX improvements (eg adding names to backups, backup database within the code etc)
Less appropriate for the 90% of the Drupal projects out there.
Also, not suitable for decoupled Drupal projects since you may have problems to host the frontend (usually JS oriented) on the same platform.
Flexible CMS
- 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