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    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 VIP

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
    Pricing
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    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 PlatformWordPress VIP
    Considered Both Products
    Acquia
    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
    Chose Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    Acquia is best for Drupal websites. WordPress VIP is better for WordPress websites.
    Incentivized
    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
    Automattic
    Chose WordPress VIP
    I was not involved in the selection process of this product as that decision was made at a higher level. Though, as previously stated, security and scalability were definitely some of the top factors from the limited amount of interactions I had with those making the decision.
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    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 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
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    8.0
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    WordPress VIP
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Role-based user permissions8.049 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.7
    41 Ratings
    8% below category average
    WordPress VIP
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    API7.839 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.632 Ratings5.52 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.9
    43 Ratings
    4% above category average
    WordPress VIP
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.331 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.134 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Admin section7.942 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Page templates8.030 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.226 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.828 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.934 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Form generator7.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acquia Digital Experience Platform and WordPress VIP
    Feature
    Acquia Digital Experience Platform
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    3% below category average
    WordPress VIP
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Content taxonomy7.728 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    SEO support6.029 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Bulk management6.931 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.432 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.226 Ratings9.12 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (93 ratings)
    8.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.4
    (21 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.3
    (73 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acquia Digital Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
    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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    Automattic
    WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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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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    Automattic
    • Keeps us informed of upcoming releases/patches associated with the Wordpress Platform.
    • Introduces us to products/companies/Wordpress plugins as necessary when new business needs arise.
    • Amy and Allie are excellent at managing the relationship; speaking with them on our monthly calls is a pleasure.
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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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    Automattic
    • Too many different dashboard formats
    • Everything should have the same look and feel.
    • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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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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    Automattic
    It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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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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    Automattic
    There is documentation for everything you might need.
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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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    Automattic
    The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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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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    Automattic
    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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    Automattic
    Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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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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    Automattic
    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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    Automattic
    • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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