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We performed a comparison between Acquia Cloud and HCL Digital Experience based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Top Answer: Unlike many digital experience platforms, Acquia Cloud Platform actually separates its two main actions and their many features so it's easier for users. Maybe you were browsing their site and got… more »
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Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
March 2024
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IBM Digital Experience Manager, IBM WebSphere Portal
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Overview

Acquia is a digital experience platform that allows companies to build, optimize, and operate websites, apps, and other digital experiences through specialized software and services. Their products include Acquia Cloud, Cloud IDE, Acquia DAM, customer data platform, campaign studio, site studio, Edge CDN, site and campaign factories, and personalization.

Through Acquia DXP, companies and their developers, marketers, and IT teams can create and broadcast digital products and services to maximize the exposure of the brand by reaching a broad customer audience. Organizations can rely on the features Acquia offers as a digital experience platform and provide their clients with the experience they require. Acquia’s features allow businesses to engage customers and establish a prominent digital presence. This DXP understands the need for companies to be able to reach their client base through many online channels and provides them with the right tools to build their digital experience platform.

Acquia Cloud Features

Acquia digital experience platform provides companies with two main features: the Drupal Cloud and the Marketing Cloud. Through Drupal, organizations can assemble the digital experiences that their clients need. The marketing cloud is created to break down data and help companies manage their digital marketing more easily.

Here is a summary of the features that a company can use if they chose Acquia as their DXP.

  • Drupal cloud: Acquia CMS, a cloud platform and cloud IDE, migrate, accelerate, as well as replatform, content hub, site factory and site studio, code studio, and Edge WAF and CDN. The features of the Drupal cloud allow companies to build digital experiences even with only beginner knowledge about coding. The visual page builder provides an easy way to implement a DXP. Acquia also offers developers and professional IT teams ways to follow the building processes. Companies can distribute the digital experience on existing and emerging channels while using a secure platform.

  • Marketing cloud: Acquia CDP, personalization, Acquia DAM, campaign studio, campaign factory, and Acquia PIM. The marketing cloud helps companies connect with their customers and potentially raise the ROI of their businesses. Organizations can use Acquia cloud to highly personalize the way they reach customers while simultaneously increasing effectiveness. The marketing features of this DXP also grant businesses  intelligence insights about their performance and help to manage their data effectively.

Acquia Cloud Benefits

The Acquia Cloud digital experience platform offers different features through a single DXP, making it easier for companies to reach their customers through a simplified site-building process. Some of the benefits of this DXP include:

  • Accessible multi-channel content delivery
  • Detailed customer data 
  • Personalization of content for different target groups
  • Potential saves costs when migrating from another CMS

HCL Digital Experience software empowers you to create, manage and deliver engaging omni-channel digital experiences to virtually all audiences. Offer an engaging customer experience with responsive content, targeted offers and consistent branding across channels (web, mobile web, and hybrid mobile/web applications). Provide outstanding service to your channel partners with integrated applications. Bring in powerful, flexible tools that allow business users to easily manage and create better content - and free IT staff to focus on other projects. Key features includes: Boost engagement with a streamlined digital experience, Offer a flexible and responsive design, Easily craft and manage your content, Leverage the power of Watson technology, Build your brand with an integrated DX platform and Embed social capabilities to help you connect.

Sample Customers
Weather.com, Princess Cruises, City of LA, Lush
Skypicker, Inventive, Factor-y S.r.l., Meander Medical Center, Intesa S.p.A., Deutsche Lufthansa AG, CinePostproduction, UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A, Jyske Bank, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Top Industries
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Educational Organization22%
Computer Software Company14%
Government9%
Financial Services Firm7%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Computer Software Company13%
Financial Services Firm13%
Retailer11%
Manufacturing Company7%
Company Size
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Small Business18%
Midsize Enterprise27%
Large Enterprise55%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Small Business11%
Midsize Enterprise15%
Large Enterprise74%
Buyer's Guide
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
March 2024
Find out what your peers are saying about Adobe, Liferay, Salesforce and others in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP). Updated: March 2024.
768,857 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Acquia Cloud is ranked 9th in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) while HCL Digital Experience is ranked 10th in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP). Acquia Cloud is rated 9.0, while HCL Digital Experience is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Acquia Cloud writes "It provides a consolidated platform to manage content for the content editors. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL Digital Experience writes "It's easy to customize security access for all resources or content". Acquia Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Pantheon, Amazon AWS, Adobe Experience Cloud and Salesforce Platform, whereas HCL Digital Experience is most compared with IBM WebSphere Application Server, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Drupal, Sitecore Experience Platform and SharePoint.

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