Acquia Digital Experience Platform vs. Arc XP

It made it super easy to upgrade 300+ Drupal sites to the latest major version in 12 weeks, end to end. It is easy to deploy legal changes and updates to components at scale. Turnkey service to deploy new environments and to clone sites. There are no ecosystem lock-in principles for Customer service/success services and professional services for new approaches.

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Arc XP is the state-of-the-art cloud based CMS for news publishing. It's well suited for large to medium organizations that want a robust, secure and scalable platform. Depending on the use case, it may still require a development team to maintain and make changes to the sites the CMS powers.

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• 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.

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• Enables content creation and curation
• Content distribution. Web and APIs
• Easy to use development framework with good documentation and support

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• the support portal can be hit and miss. sometimes there are very helpful people who get back to you in a timely manner, but more often there's a lot of lag time for the ticket to get picked up and in between responses, which can also be less than helpful.
• it seems like the different departments within acquia (support, management, build teams) don't communicate with each other.
• because features are so dense and granular, sometimes the workflow or how they are connected can be really complex to access.

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• The CMS lacks a responsive design web interface or a good native app alternative.
• It's heavily dependent on the AWS infrastructure and a disruption of the AWS service can cause serious problems

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We're moving away from Drupal as a platform. Drupal 8 and 9 were simply too overburdened and difficult to maintain compared to other offerings. PHP seems like a dying language so we are currently in the process of migrating all of our Drupal 7 functionality and custom modules to a Python/Django/Wagtail platform. This doesn't mean Acquia isn't a great service, they are professional and top-knotch, but the only way we'd say with them is if I didn't complete the migration.

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It's a great user interface. It's always being updated and I've never noticed a bad update that increased the complexity or reduced

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Every time we have had an issue, Acquia support has responded promptly and worked with us as a team to solve the problem. The Acquia support team is global and we have literally had interactions with all of their support offices, yet the experience has been the same - top notch

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It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.

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We chose Acquia for a much better UI that gave non-analytical marketers and easy to use tool where they could create their own reports. The campaign side of things also had an easier to use UI as well, that made the targeting of audiences much easier.

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The DXP tools can handle millions of requests and can scale automatically to fit your needs. We have clients that use only part of the DXP tools and have a small usage, but even in these cases they see great value in using tools like personalization and CDP.

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• A reliable platform = happy user base!
• Ours is a non-profit service, we are happy that people appreciate and recommend the site for its content.
• FLEXspace.org rapidly grew to over 6,000 users from 1,400 educational institutions across 75 countries - it is a joy to watch educators contributing content and sharing ideas.

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• After the implementation of the CMS, the development team started focusing more on developing new features for the site than maintaining the CMS and the infrastructure. 100% of the work is now focused on creating value to the customer.

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