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Acquia Digital Experience Platform

209 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acquia Digital Experience Platform

    Score7.9 out of 10
    		N/AThe 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 platform, it allows organizations to understand who their customers are and deliver personalized experiences. Acquia's DXP offers variety of other tools including digital asset management,…N/A

    WordPress

    Score8.6 out of 10
    		N/AWordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.

    $3

    per month 6 GB storage

    Pricing
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Personal
    $4
    per month 6 GB storage
    Premium
    $8
    per month 13 GB storage
    Business
    $25
    per month 50 GB storage
    Commerce
    $45
    per month 50 GB storage
    Enterprise
    Contact for pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.
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    Community Pulse
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress
    Considered Both Products
    Acquia
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia Personalization integrates well with Drupal CMS and is more straightforward to implement than Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio (Personalization). WordPress as a CMS hosted on WP Engine is useful, but much more limited than Drupal CMS hosted on Acquia Word…
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    The flexibility aspect of Acquia Site Studio is unmatched and WordPress does not provide it on a large scale. The ability to perform bulk operations and security are also the factors in favour of Acquia Digital Experience Platform as compared to WordPress. They also offer …
    Incentivized
    Antoine Pourron
    Responsable SEO International in Marketing at LumApps (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia offers a much better page builder and personalization tool as native features than WordPress. Translation management is also a good feature from Drupal/Acquia, that is not managed well on WordPress.
    Incentivized
    Jim Sexton
    V.P. Digital in Information Technology at B.A.S.S., LLC (Sports, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia is best for Drupal websites. WordPress VIP is better for WordPress websites.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    WordPress plugins and platforms are easier to use and cheaper but our site is built in Drupal so Acquia [Digital Experience Platform] was the best alternative. WP allows me to do more without technical assistance.
    Incentivized
    Aj Blosser
    Senior Web Developer in Engineering at WVU Foundation (Fund-Raising, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    I still feel WordPress is easier for a simple 4 page website. Anything more complicated than that, and Drupal is your answer. Drupal 8 may change this dynamic though. Acquia Cloud is provides some excellent dev to prod staging that I haven't seen anywhere else.
    Praveen Moses Stephen
    Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Ameex technologies (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    there is no limitation on implementing our own logic by using the modules.
    Incentivized
    Jim MacLeod
    Sr. Director, Marketing Digital Experience & Design in Marketing at EBSCO (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    I wasn't involved with selecting Acquia.
    Incentivized
    Sean Hanford
    Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant in Professional Services at Ellucian (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    I have used Pantheon for almost as long as I have used Acquia. Many colleges and universities will use sub-sites in Drupal either as a separator for each department, or possibly for targeted marketing campaigns. One of the biggest reason we tend to use Acquia over Pantheon for …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia is more fully featured and mature.
    Automattic
    Verified User
    Chose WordPress
    While all these three products have special functions on their own, WordPress has the ability to expand itself to be used in place of any of them. The major advantage with WordPress is the flexibility of creating a simple, low-maintenance, low resource-consuming website as well …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    49 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    131 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.049 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.7
    41 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    107 Ratings
    API7.839 Ratings8.997 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.632 Ratings8.481 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.9
    43 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.3
    137 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor7.331 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.134 Ratings7.0123 Ratings
    Admin section7.942 Ratings8.7135 Ratings
    Page templates8.030 Ratings9.0132 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.226 Ratings6.5134 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.828 Ratings9.0133 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.934 Ratings8.7128 Ratings
    Form generator7.924 Ratings9.0106 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.6
    135 Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.728 Ratings8.9115 Ratings
    SEO support6.029 Ratings8.7121 Ratings
    Bulk management6.931 Ratings7.4102 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.432 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.226 Ratings9.2124 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (93 ratings)
    8.4
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (73 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)