Acquia vs Liferay

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Acquia
Based on 2 reviews.
Liferay
Based on 44 reviews.
Overview
Acquia is a software-as-a-service company co-founded by Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson to provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for open-source web content management platform Drupal. It is financed by venture capital, receiving $118.5 million in six rounds. On May 27, 2014, the company announced closing a $50M Series F funding round, bringing the total investments to $118.6 million. The cash influx will be used to build out sales and marketing, including adding more channel partners.
Liferay Portal is a web platform with features commonly required for the development of websites and portals. Liferay includes a built-in web content management system allowing users to build websites and portals as an assembly of themes, pages, portlets/gadgets and a common navigation. Although Liferay offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.
Sample Customers
Acquia Cloud
Weather.com, Princess Cruises, City of LA, Lush
Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Nestle Purina, SABMiller
Liferay Digital Experience Platform
Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Educational Organization
19%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Educational Organization
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
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