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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

    Contentful

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AContentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.

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    Pricing
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformContentful
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Lite
    $300
    per month
    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformContentful
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformContentful
    Considered Both Products
    Acquia
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    74 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    48 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformContentful
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Contentful
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Contentful
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Role-based user permissions8.049 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Contentful
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.7
    41 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
    API7.839 Ratings8.38 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.632 Ratings7.76 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Contentful
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.9
    43 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Contentful
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    0% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.331 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.134 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Admin section7.942 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Page templates8.030 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.226 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.828 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.934 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Form generator7.924 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Contentful
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Content taxonomy7.728 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    SEO support6.029 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Bulk management6.931 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.432 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.226 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformContentful
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (93 ratings)
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (73 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformContentful
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acquia
    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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    Contentful
    Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
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    Pros
    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.
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    Contentful
    • Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
    • High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
    • Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
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    Cons
    Acquia
    • 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.
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    Contentful
    • The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
    • The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
    • It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acquia
    We rated our renewal likelihood an 8 because Acquia DXP delivers solid reliability, strong enterprise security, and an infrastructure built specifically for Drupal that takes the burden off our internal hosting management. The developer tooling and cloud stability are exceptional. The only factors keeping it from a 10 are the premium licensing costs and the learning curve for non-technical users, which requires ongoing budget justification during annual renewal discussions.
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    Contentful
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    Usability
    Acquia
    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
    Incentivized
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    Contentful
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Acquia
    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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    Contentful
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Acquia
    It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.
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    Contentful
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acquia
    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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    Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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    Scalability
    Acquia
    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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    Contentful
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    Return on Investment
    Acquia
    • Acquia has helped us to stabilize and optimize our website performance, lowering page load times and dramatically decreasing the frequency of issues experienced by end-users.
    • Acquia SOLR search provided a much-improved search experience on our website.
    • Acquia's PCI-compliant hosting has helped us to remain compliant and cyber-secure.
    • We are working to implement Acquia Site Studio and Acquia Personalization now and expect those to improve our operation agility and ability to drive more relevant experiences to our various website visitors.
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    Contentful
    • There was no negative impact as such.
    • Positive impact is increase in sales.
    • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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