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Acquia Cloud vs Adobe Experience Manager comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
7.7
Adobe Experience Manager efficiently scales for large enterprises, handling load stress, easy customization, and smooth cloud migration post-transition.
 

Valuable Features

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8.3
Adobe Experience Manager offers ease of use, integration with Adobe Marketing Cloud, and robust tools for digital asset and content management.
The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive.
 

Room For Improvement

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4.1
Adobe Experience Manager faces criticism for its high cost, complexity, limited documentation, inefficient support, and challenging integration with Microsoft.
Technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies.
 

Stability Issues

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8.2
Adobe Experience Manager is stable and secure, with cloud version benefits, despite some setup and integration issues.
 

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
9.0
Adobe Experience Manager support is skilled but slow, varying by company size, focusing on base issues over custom code.
They are attentive to big companies but tend to be negligent towards mid-sized companies.
 

Setup Cost

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Adobe Experience Manager is expensive with variable licensing, but efficient for large websites and offers a one-month free trial.
For large enterprises, the cost is often comparable with other major CMSs.
 

Categories and Ranking

Acquia Cloud
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
10th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Adobe Experience Manager
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (8th), Web Content Management (3rd), Enterprise Social Software (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) category, the mindshare of Acquia Cloud is 4.9%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 17.4%, down from 18.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

it_user674091 - PeerSpot reviewer
It provides a consolidated platform to manage content for the content editors.
Hosting support is the most valuable feature. Acquia provides a standard for the support and the incident requests. Their knowledge of Drupal as a CMS has enabled us to focus on developing business outcomes rather than focusing on the IT operations. Acquia has provided a resilient hosting infrastructure that allows our people to focus on delivering value to our customers.
Prince Shivhare - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing content is very user-friendly, AEM makes maintenance simple and auto-scalable
Area of improvement for Cloud Service: For the last four years, I've been working on AEM as a Cloud Service. I feel the tool has all the features needed for production, but the problem is with skills. Depending on the skill level of the developers building the components within Adobe Experience Manager, you can have a very streamlined implementation or a very difficult one. Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user faces issues in AEM as a Cloud Service. If I reach out to Adobe for something, they create a ticket, and then I might wait three to four days for a response. When I have issues, I want an immediate response. On AEM as a Cloud Service, this is the one thing I think Adobe needs to improve. They should resolve issues within a day so everything runs smoothly for the user. Area of improvement for on-premises: For on-premises AEM, everything is managed by us, but since Adobe Experience Manager was not a very big market earlier (though it's growing now), there are limited clients. The cost of the tool is high, and maintenance is heavy – it's very costly. So, the developers working in AEM development might not always have the proper skills to develop the components. For example, in a normal website, we often see carousels which represent your website in a very dynamic way. Now, suppose you have two carousels on the page – one at the top and the next at the bottom. They have different purposes. If I'm a skilled developer, I'll create one component and serve both banners with the same component – a single, dynamic component. This makes it easy for content editors in the production environment to drag, drop, and change the content. But, if I'm not an experienced developer or I don't have knowledge of AEM, I might create two components – one for the top and one for the bottom. Maintenance becomes heavy, and it's harder for the content team to understand which component to use. A less experienced developer might create multiple components for the same function, increasing complexity and challenges. Over the last three to four years, this lack of resources and skilled AM developers has created these kinds of issues.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
26%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Educational Organization
45%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is the structure of Acquia Cloud DXP?
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...
Can Acquia Cloud be used to migrate from another CMS?
I've been actually looking for an answer to this question, as my organization has been using another CMS and wants to explore the option of migrating to Acquia because it offers much more features ...
Do you think Acquia Cloud is expensive?
So the price of different Acquia Cloud services doesn't really differ that much based on locations, though, of course, it's cheapest in the US. But my opinion on the matter is, the personal and the...
What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?
It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.
What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?
Adobe Experience Manager could improve by allowing the reuse of components like a progress bar across multiple pages to make the development process more efficient. Currently, changes have to be ma...
What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?
I am a full stack developer, focusing more on the front end. I work with frameworks like React and JavaScript. I would like to give a review about Adobe Experience Manager, which I have used for ma...
 

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Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud
 

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