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    Overview
    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

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A
    Pricing
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Acquia
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    74 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    48 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.049 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.7
    41 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    API7.839 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.632 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.9
    43 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.331 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.134 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Admin section7.942 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Page templates8.030 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.226 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.828 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.934 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Form generator7.924 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Content taxonomy7.728 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO support6.029 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Bulk management6.931 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.432 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.226 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Test reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Campaign management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Cloud enablement00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Content aggregation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Content classification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customer data analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multi-website management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Digital asset management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
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    User Ratings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (93 ratings)
    10.0
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (73 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformSalesforce Experience Cloud
    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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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud is well-suited for organizations that have clients who periodically or routinely need to access historical data or documents. The product also offers an exceptionally effective tool to engage with customers around support/service issues and the entire Case management functionality built into the Salesforce platform. The product might be less well-suited in environments where there is exceptionally high staff turnover within customer accounts, or where there is a substantial lack of very basic computer skills.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Complete integration with the Salesforce ecosystem. Data displayed in your Community portal reflects records from a Sales Cloud organization
    • Highly customizable. A Community Cloud portal can be totally customized both visually and with different funcionalities with little to no coding skills required
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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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    Salesforce
    • The documentation for implementing Experience Cloud can be a bit confusing as their rebranding hasn't made it's way into all articles, resulting in different terminology being used to refer to the same thing
    • Some things are not as intuitive regarding their customizability, so there's a bit of a learning curve (i.e. Lightning apps can't be used to customize layouts in Experience Cloud)
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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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    Salesforce
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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
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    Salesforce
    Usability is pretty streamlined, especially if you're familiar with other Salesforce products, but even if not, take it from me, as I just entered the technological space about two years ago, that this product is pretty simple to learn. You don't have to jump in with your head underwater. Small wins and learnings along the way are what foster long-term understandings and enable your evolution alongside the product. I definitely recommend Salesforce Trailhead along with it
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    Performance
    Acquia
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    It's delivered on our original requirements and we've found ways to grow its usage. We continue to build on our original success and we can report our data out to leadership to show a true return on investment which is great for growing support and expanding uses for the system.
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    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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    Salesforce
    We have weekly calls with our Salesforce reps. They bring new ideas to the table and help with taxonomy builds. They have also answered many questions and connected us to the right people for us to grow our knowledge and utilization of the platform. They are a good partner overall in comparison.
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    Implementation Rating
    Acquia
    It was implemented when I got there. I don't know how it was prior.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Salesforce
    I have used Datatel/Colleague/Recruiter before. There were issues because only one person at the institution was able to have the student's record open at a time. This was problematic when collaboration between departments was necessary especially in the case of admissions, financial aid, and registration. We also had to do our work and then log out before asking a questions of another department. Sometimes simultaneous use was necessary. However, this was years ago and they may have since updated the program.
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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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Salesforce
    • Improved online admission application completion rates from mid-60%s to mid-80%s.
    • Positive user experience from start-to-finish to leverage one data system for all prospective student data
    • Fewer data integrations transforming and loading sensitive student data by leveraging Salesforce Community Cloud to access already existing data
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