Acquia DXP [Private Offer Only]

Our main use case for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  is hosting our Drupal  projects, covering a range from Drupal  7 to Drupal 10 or even 11. We used it for hosting and ensuring that our services are available 24/7 all over the world.

We work with a rather big engineering company presented in about 50 countries with thousands of people in their workforce. We focused on their main marketing site that provides information on their services and products, which has been hosted on Acquia for quite a long time.

I should clarify that I probably was not using directly Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  in the way it is marketed at the moment on Acquia's site, which seems to be a no-code, low-code solution. We have been hosting our own Drupal websites that were specifically built for Acquia platform hosting, and we have extensively used Acquia services, which were rather good in general. However, at some point, we had to shift to another platform.

At some point, the pricing was higher than what our customer was willing to pay for the quality of service at that moment.

Based on my experience with their services, Acquia Cloud  that we have been using, or Acquia hosting, is next to a native solution for Drupal projects, making it probably one of the best hosting solutions available, even though it has its flaws and we eventually had to shift to another one.

What makes Acquia hosting next to native for Drupal projects is basically the ease of integration, as Acquia and Drupal are very densely interconnected.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) has positively impacted my organization primarily by ensuring that our services based on Drupal were available 24/7 in all countries that are a priority for our customer. I believe they provided a really good service, with some exceptions.

We have had almost all the metrics in the dashboard to measure this positive impact, including how many visitors we have over time, how big the load is on the infrastructure, and how the whole thing works. We have been monitoring this.

The support usually worked quite well, but the problem that led us to shift to another platform was also in support, as the quality of service degraded at some point, which became a bit of a problem. Initially, we received really good support in various cases, but it became unsatisfying when we couldn't find clues on particular issues, repeating multiple times. That was the reason to move away at some point, or at least one of the reasons.

Our customer project had to be moved from Acquia Cloud  to another service, which was dictated by multiple reasons, with one being the price and another being a degrading quality of service. I wish that this quality wasn't falling down and that we would continue the partnership.

I am talking mostly about Acquia Cloud and I am not quite sure if it overlaps with Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) because when I see what is mentioned as DXP on Acquia's website, it seems to be a bit different kind of thing, reminding more of no-code, low-code solutions. For Drupal, I believe it is one of the best solutions you may have if you have a considerable contract with Acquia and you agree on the price.

We have been using Acquia services for quite a long, at least with the current project. The partnership started with Acquia long before I joined the project. So basically, it's been there for years.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is mostly stable most of the time.

I believe that Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has scalability that is quite good, maybe not perfect, but really quite good.

The customer support used to be good, but as I mentioned earlier, this was one of the problems we had with our project. Maybe it was just some temporary issues with the team, but we had problems with the support, and that was the reason to move to another platform.

For the projects that have been in Acquia, I believe it was initially built in Acquia, and we moved to another service. I have also been using other services that provide the same kind of service, usually requiring a bit more custom work on our side. Acquia itself is basically a kind of native solution for Drupal projects.

The project started before me, so I am not quite sure exactly what options were evaluated.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) overall around eight, as I said before, as it is mostly about Acquia Cloud, not DXP as it is marketed at the moment. The results on our project affected the grade quite a lot, making it lower, but for a Drupal site, it is still a very good solution.

I choose the number eight because we had to move from this platform, which was something that convinced us to make that decision, and this is why I cannot say 10. Considering all other projects that succeeded on their platform, I believe that it is still a good solution, specifically for Drupal-based projects.

My overall rating for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is 8 out of 10.

My main use case for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  is as the founder of intelligency.ai, where we build AI-driven integrations across CMSs and digital experience platforms, and we have evaluated Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) , particularly in the context of Drupal-based enterprise environments.

A quick, specific example of how I used Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) in one of my projects is that we built an instance of it that is marketing-specific and then we used some of our applications to interact with that particular instance.

My applications interacted with Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) in that marketing-focused instance by sending content and images that we have generated from one platform to another.

In my experience, the best features Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) offers include being a strong enterprise platform, especially if you are already in the Drupal  ecosystem, with solid governance, scalability, and structured content capabilities, particularly for organizations with multiple teams and sites, and I really enjoyed the multi-use aspect of it, as that is where it really comes into its own.

What I appreciated most about the multi-use aspect is that you can work on the same project together and collaborate, which is really useful.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has positively impacted my organization primarily through its ease of use, making it easier to generate content and pages, especially from a marketing perspective, so entry-level people can access it and utilize it as well as advanced users, appealing to a range of people.

That ease of use translated into tangible benefits for my team in terms of improved productivity because you can create a whole marketing campaign really quickly, making marketing happen very effectively.

The main improvement needed for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is related to its complexity, as it is not that lightweight with a surfeit of features, requiring users to read up on all the myriad of features, and while it is a sophisticated enterprise product that necessitates that complexity, the learning curve can be a bit steep for less experienced users needing quick task completion.

The needed improvements for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) include that the product is evolving in the right direction, and the AI aspect probably needs a bit more improvement, especially where it aligns with AI-driven content orchestration.

I have been using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for about three years.

I find Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) to be fairly stable, with no problems at all.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)'s scalability is excellent because it works with small teams and small enterprises, which is one of its core advantages.

The company has actually had multiple solutions previously, experimenting with WordPress, Magento , Joomla , and others.

Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, since we are using an evaluation rather than full versions, the pricing is obviously quite high, so we are not making that commitment because of the pricing aspect.

Before choosing Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), I evaluated other options such as WordPress, Magento , and Joomla .

My main use case for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  is that I have primarily used Acquia Site Studio and Site Factory. Site Factory is an Acquia product itself, where we manage the sites, including creating the site, managing the site URL, clearing the cache, logging, user addition, and everything related to the site. In one place, you can manage a lot of sites. It is easy to manage many partner sites, especially when a company has a lot of them. My client had many partner sites, which is why I use Site Factory to manage those. For each site, we use Site Studio. Site Studio provides default components and templates, allowing you to have many options and features to create, customize components, and templates, and reuse them to build pages across other sites as well. This makes site creation faster and easier to maintain. Because of these reasons, we opted for those, and I have delivered two projects with these tools.

Acquia Site Factory and Site Studio helped my team manage multiple sites by allowing us to build a corporate site entirely, after which we reused the components from the corporate site in the partner sites. We reused everything, which is how Acquia Site Factory helped us. You can create a new site with the same profile; for a corporate site, you can use a different profile, and for a partner site, you can use another. The user interface in Site Factory allows you to see those options. Once the corporate site was ready and the profiles were divided, we just clicked to create a new site, named it, set the URL, and selected the needed profile. With that, many predefined components and templates associated with that profile came along. We then revamped the site using the style guide, which specifies a specific logo and colors for each partner site. The site will be ready in about twenty to thirty minutes using these profiles and components.

The best features Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  offers include good documentation, which provides a lot of guides to help when you are new. If my company partners with Acquia, they offer training and sessions. If I encounter issues, they will quickly resolve them and give feedback regarding what went wrong, which is helpful support. The predefined components and templates make it easier to maintain the site, and the style guide and style guide managers are also really helpful.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) has positively impacted my organization by enabling us to create sites pretty quickly. We are able to deliver many clients swiftly. Before using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ), we might manage two projects a year, but now we can deliver four to five projects and provide more features for each client. Previously, time restrictions were a constraint, but now we can deliver much more within a limited time.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is improving in various ways, particularly with AI, as everything is now related to AI. The Drupal  community is also contributing to AI. Acquia primarily uses Drupal , so they are also making moves in that direction.

I have used Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for roughly around two and a half years.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is stable.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has good scalability. They provide end-to-end support, managing everything from the database to load management and caching services, allowing for quick scaling. When we delivered thirty-two sites, the increased load was managed effectively, making for a good experience with scalability.

The customer support of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is good. Whenever we have issues or questions, we raise a ticket, and they quickly respond with helpful links to explore.

I used to work with a different solution, specifically plain core Drupal, where we used Paragraph modules or normal PHP templating, which took a lot of time. When I switched to Acquia Site Studio and Site Factory, the process simplified significantly; I can perform most tasks without coding by utilizing the user interface. This improvement has been very effective.

I have seen a return on investment from using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Delivering thirty-two sites in a year directly saves a lot of money. The management of sites and everything involved reduces the number of engineers needed to build it as well, so it has definitely been beneficial. They provide end-to-end services, including hosting, caching, cloud, database, and asset management, which are significant advantages.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing with Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is limited, as I am not too involved in the pricing aspect; a separate team handles it due to our partner status. I have heard it was a little high, but I do not have the specific details.

Before choosing Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), I was not the decision maker, but other options evaluated included Adobe Experience Manager  and Sitecore.

My advice for others looking into using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is to first go through the official documentation. If you are a partner, take advantage of the training provided before diving in. I would rate Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) an eight out of ten.

My main use case for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  includes code deployment using Acquia Cloud . I have used it for Acquia DAM  to manage my assets and Site Studio to manage my multiple sites.

A specific example of how I used Acquia Cloud  for deployment is that Acquia Cloud handles code deployment. We have dev, stage, and prod environments. To deploy properly from local, we deploy to dev, and then we manage it across these environments. In that way, we use the pipelines. It becomes quite easy when you use Acquia Cloud that way.

My main use cases with Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  are DAM , Acquia Cloud, and Site Studio.

In my opinion, one of the best features Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) offers is Site Studio. Because for every new site that I have to spin up, it uses the same governed components. It makes it faster, launches with zero brand drift, and editors never need a developer for day-to-day page building.

Site Studio helps my team launch sites faster because, for example, when I have a new site from the client that needs to be added as a sub-site into the main branch, I don't have to do much. I can use the existing base and speed up the process by using it. It makes it really easy for me to do that with Site Studio. Sometimes it can be a little tricky, but in my case, it makes the process a little bit faster.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) has positively impacted my organization because it eased the process.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) can be improved because sometimes it takes a lot of time. It needs a little bit of optimization. That is what I have faced some of the time, and that can be improved.

Regarding the needed improvements, I would say speed and page load time. Page load time is an area that can be improved.

There are other improvements I think Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) needs. Regarding optimization, there is room for improvement. The UI can be improved at the end-user end as well.

I have been using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for around three to four years.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is stable 90 to 95 percent of the time.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is scalable.

The customer support for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is good. Most of the time they are really easy to approach. Sometimes it gets a little tricky.

I have not previously used a different solution because we are using Acquia for the time being. I was not a part of it when it was selected, so I cannot say much.

With Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), I can say that it definitely saved time. With time, it saved our money.

Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, I will say I don't have experience with that because I think the sales team and the higher-ups were mostly looking into it. I was not a part of it and joined much later.

Before choosing Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), I evaluated other options because there were options, such as Pantheon  and others. However, I think Acquia was a good choice, so we opted for that.

The advice I would give to others looking into using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is that it's a positive experience. If you have large, enterprise-based websites, you can opt for it, and it will be a good purchase. However, if you have a very small site or a smaller solution, I don't think it's optimal given the price, as it's a little steeper. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.