Acquia Digital Experience Platform vs. Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Score 7.9 out of 10
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The 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
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Liferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Security
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Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
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Role-based user permissions8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
7.7
Ratings
8% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
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API7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
7.9
Ratings
4% above category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
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WYSIWYG editor7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
7.0
Ratings
3% below category average
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
-
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Content taxonomy7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.9
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10.0
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Usability
7.7
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Support Rating
9.0
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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Product Scalability
8.3
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Lifeary Digital Experience Platform(DXP) is well suited for long meeting, personalisation of data , customer data and customer management in any circumstances. The things in here that are less appropriate are that the picturiastion will be much better. Have individual databases for individual programs and the list of client should be listed systematically.
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Pros
  • 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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  • User management
  • Security and access management
  • WYSIWYG
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Cons
  • 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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  • It requires technical expertise and the right people to achieve customization.
  • There is little documentation available for certain functions that make them a bit complex to master.
  • The SSL function for login.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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Usability
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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Support Rating
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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Implementation Rating
It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Alfresco: Very good CMS but not good for presentation or front end technology. Portofino: Not much scalable and high available CMS. eXo Platform: Slowly growing in market but not mature community like Liferay and less support from community. Microsoft SharePoint: Proprietary Software from Microsoft. Nuxeo ECM Platform: Picking up the market but not mature community and support from the community.
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Scalability
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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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Can reduce IT costs eventually.
  • Increases upfront costs due to technical knowledge needed for initial setup and maintenance.
  • Hard to analyze ROI until after it's totally implemented.
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ScreenShots

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

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