Acquia vs Drupal

2020. Acquia launches Digital Experience Platform



Digital experience company Acquia has announced the launch of its new Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP). This powerful platform combines Acquia Marketing Cloud and Acquia Drupal Cloud, providing organizations with a unified solution to leverage data and content effectively, enabling the rapid creation of innovative digital experiences. With the Acquia Open DXP, marketers and developers now have access to a single, user-friendly platform for building, personalizing, and orchestrating multi-experience customer journeys across various customer touchpoints, including touchscreens, chat, voice, and more. The platform also offers valuable tools such as Developer Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE), and Site Factory, a robust solution for managing and scaling Drupal 9 sites and applications, making it easier for developers to build Drupal sites. Additionally, the inclusion of CMS Migrate simplifies the transition from older versions of Drupal and legacy CMS to the latest Drupal 9 release.


2015. Drupal 8 is released



Drupal has finally released the highly anticipated Drupal 8.0 platform, which introduces a range of exciting features and improvements. These include in-context editing and previews, allowing users to see a real-time representation of their content as they edit it. The platform also provides comprehensive content modeling capabilities, incorporating entities, fields, and views right from the start. Users can easily customize content pages, forms, and administrative pages using the intuitive administrative interface. Additionally, Drupal 8.0 offers built-in support for multilingual content and localization, ensuring that websites can be easily translated and adapted to different languages and regions. The platform includes configuration management, enabling seamless deployment of changes between different environments. It adopts a mobile-first approach, ensuring that websites are responsive and optimized for mobile devices, while also delivering HTML5 output. Drupal 8.0 supports native web services, allowing easy integration with other applications and systems through REST. The platform prioritizes accessibility and compliance with WAI-ARIA standards, ensuring an enhanced experience for users with disabilities. It follows modern PHP standards and practices, incorporating popular libraries like Composer, Symfony2, Guzzle, and Twig. Drupal 8.0 focuses on front-end performance, offering improved caching and seamless integration with CDNs and reverse proxies. Furthermore, the platform is fully compatible with PHP7 and supports both PostgreSQL and SQLite databases. Overall, Drupal 8.0 represents a significant advancement in functionality, performance, and flexibility for web developers and content creators.


2015. Online CMS provider Acquia raised $55 Million



Acquia, a service provider based on Drupal that assists businesses in tailoring their websites for internet browsers and mobile app users, has successfully secured $55 million in a late-stage financing round. With its new product offerings, Acquia aims to enhance the tracking of website visitors' segments and even suggest new segments that businesses may not have previously considered, utilizing the data collected by the tool. This development occurs amidst the intensifying competition to manage the customer experience. Giants like Salesforce strive to dominate the customer experience landscape, encompassing customer records, marketing, and customer service. On the other hand, web content management providers like Acquia focus on shaping how potential customers interact and experience websites and content across various devices. The substantial capital injection positions Acquia on a more level playing field with competitors such as Adobe, Sitecore, Alfresco, and previous industry leaders like OpenText, SDL, IBM, and Oracle.


2015. Acquia makes Drupal more secure and faster with CloudFlare tools



Acquia, a provider of commercial front-end services for the open-source Drupal web content management platform, has partnered with CloudFlare to offer its customers access to CloudFlare's DDoS protection and CDN (Content Delivery Network) services. Acquia equips customers with tools for implementing and managing Drupal, addressing specific needs beyond what the open-source package alone provides, with a focus on personalized customer experiences. This new offering adds an additional layer of security to Drupal and enhances performance by bringing content closer to the end-users, resulting in improved delivery speed. According to CloudFlare, leveraging this tool enables significant reduction in the number of servers required, leading to reduced bandwidth demands and lowered operating costs (assuming the tool functions as advertised).


2014. Acquia enables website intelligent personalization



Cloud-based Drupal CMS provider Acquia has unveiled a new tool called Acquia Lift ContextDB, designed to enhance customer understanding and deliver more personalized content based on their behaviors. This tool offers a cloud-based data warehouse that enables the collection, storage, and analysis of information from both known and unknown customers. Known customers are those who provide personal information, while unknown customers leave valuable digital footprints on your website without explicitly providing information. Acquia Lift ContextDB is part of the Digital Engagement Services suite, which also includes Acquia Lift Target. This feature facilitates content targeting based on visitor attributes such as device, IP address, or geolocation. Additionally, Acquia Lift Recommend utilizes algorithms built upon customer insights to suggest tailored content suitable for specific devices. Together, these tools empower businesses to deliver more relevant and engaging experiences to their audience.