Acquia CMS¶

Why Acquia CMS is Recommended¶

Acquia customers may experience a slow time to value and a high total cost of ownership when building and operating Drupal applications. Our customers must employ skilled Drupal engineers to assemble Drupal applications largely from scratch, investing heavily in up-front builds to combine Drupal Core, contributed modules, and Acquia Products with custom backend code, frontend code, and configuration.

Acquia customers currently must choose from over 45,000 modules when they want to start building a website using Drupal. This requires extensive knowledge of the Drupal domain and platform builds. In addition, they must also invest considerable time and money to ensure their Drupal website works with Acquia products.

Acquia CMS will provide our customers with an out-of-the-box platform that delivers a tested, fully functional and updatable platform saving 80% of set up costs and 90% of update costs for a typical Drupal website.

Acquia CMS Core Distribution¶

Acquia CMS is a Drupal 9 distribution consisting of several pre-configured, contributed and custom modules, which enable you to create a website without writing code.

You must install Acquia CMS on Cloud Platform and Site Factory environments. Once installed, a site builder will have access to significantly more functionality when compared to that of Drupal on its own including:

• Acquia Site Studio for low code website style and theming. Provides a visual user interface that allows you to build the majority of the theme layer (front-end) of a Drupal website. https://sitestudiodocs.acquia.com/6.5/user-guide/what-you-can-build-using-acquia-cohesion
• Acquia Search for scalable search capabilities. Database powered search is provided by default. Once launched, Acquia Search V3, powered by Solr, will be supported by ACMS. Earlier versions of Acquia Search are compatible but require manual configuration and are not supported.
• Acquia Cloud and Site Factory will make ACMS available as a default installation profile.
• Acquia Edge
• Acquia Admin Theme (Claro sub-theme)
• Open Acquia UI Kit (created in Site Studio) with components following WCAG 2.0 AA guidelines.
• Pages, Articles, Events, Places, People. These content types are already built, with recommendations for how they can be best used in websites.

The following Acquia products are compatible with Acquia CMS, but require installation and configuration:

• Acquia CLI
• Acquia IDE
• BLT
• Acquia Content Hub
• Acquia Personalization

Acquia CMS provides:

• A prescriptive content model and taxonomy system.
• Out-of-the-box configuration for high-availability enterprise sites, such as:
  • Caching and high-performance
  • Security Best Practices
  • Multilingual support
  • Accessibility
• Native integration with Acquia products:
  • Acquia Site Studio
  • Cloud Platform
  • Site Factory
• Acquia CMS Support Module
  • Installed with ACMS but disabled by default, this module helps Acquia Support and our customers find and troubleshoot issues more quickly.