Acquia DXP

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.

My main use case for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  is to manage our public-facing global website at both Bio-Rad and a previous company.

I use Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)  to manage our global website by utilizing its primary hosting environments for Drupal , which is an open-source CMS, partnering with Drupal  to provide not just hosting but also additional peripheral services, solutions, and tools. At both companies where we used Acquia, they were our primary host and provider of CDN  capabilities in addition to other tools such as heat mapping and marketing automation tools.

Currently, I use Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) as our main host for our content management system as well as our CDN .

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP ) offers the ability to provide a managed services cloud hosting environment for Drupal CMS, which is an open-source platform and can be a challenge to maintain independently due to the frequent updating and security patching required. This is a strong use case for us as we handle it internally, ensuring uptime and utilizing their caching capabilities with various CDN partners.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) positively impacts our organization by providing the tools and capabilities needed for a successful digital presence and digital footprint. However, the real challenge comes down to ensuring we have the right strategy and the right team to drive and enable that strategy on their platform, since they give us the tools but we have to handle the strategy and building.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) can be improved by enhancing their service and support capabilities and continuing to build partnerships with strategic solution providers.

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

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is stable most of the time, approximately eighty percent of the time, though there are issues.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is scalable, but you have to pay for it.

In practice, those features work for us, but it is a double-edged sword because while they provide the tools, depending on the support tier paid for, we find ourselves pretty much on our own to configure the environment.

I have been involved with Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) in two different roles. In a previous experience at a different company, we faced many challenges with their service and support, requiring frequent contact for issues where responsiveness was sometimes lacking. I am not in the same role here, so I cannot speak directly to how challenging it might be for our IT team who manages the tool physically, but I have not heard anything negative, although I know I had a more challenging time previously.

My experience with customer support for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was terrible. I would have rated the customer support a five based on my previous experience before joining Bio-Rad.

I have used various solutions, but the decision to switch to Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was made before I arrived at the companies where we used it.

I did not choose Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), as the decision was made before I arrived. However, I did evaluate other options, and Acquia was not on my list of recommendations.

In the past, I found the pricing of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) to feel somewhat steep despite using an open-source platform, but setup and licensing were handled by other groups.

It is difficult to quantify a return on investment with specific metrics, such as money saved or time saved.

Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) seems to have improved some features. They have purchased a few smaller companies and rolled those capabilities in, such as Monsido , which has been beneficial for us.

When using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), the outcomes I notice include cost savings since using an open-source platform such as Drupal, which saves us money compared to enterprise options such as Adobe AEM or Optimizely . However, we still face challenges with uptime and page performance.

My advice to others looking into using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is that if you are looking to save money without investing in a large-scale enterprise DXP, it is probably a good option. However, you need to understand that the customer service you expect might not meet your expectations even if you pay for the top tier of support. I would rate this review a seven overall.