Acquia vs Umbraco: Cut the Complexity, Keep the Power

Acquia promises enterprise capabilities—but often delivers high costs, complex licensing, and heavyweight infrastructure that slows your team down. If you’re ready to move faster and simplify your digital operations, Umbraco is your modern, open-source alternative.

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Less Platform Overhead, More Control

Acquia wraps a Drupal foundation in a proprietary hosting and tooling layer. While powerful, it comes with a steep learning curve and costly vendor lock-in. Umbraco gives you the same flexibility, with a lighter footprint and editor-first tools that empower your team.

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Complex Enterprise Stack vs. Open Architecture

Acquia: Combines Drupal with proprietary tools that limit agility.

Umbraco: Composable, integration-friendly platform built around open standards.

High Cost of Ownership vs. Transparent Pricing

Acquia: Enterprise licensing, hosting, and support fees add up quickly.

Umbraco: Open-source core and modular pricing let you scale on your terms.

Developer Bottlenecks vs. Editor Autonomy

Acquia: Drupal-based content editing often requires dev support.

Umbraco: Modern back office built for marketers, with simple workflows and structured content.

Proprietary Tools vs. Flexible Integrations

Acquia: Tightly coupled services that may not fit your stack.

Umbraco: Seamless integration with CRMs, analytics, DAMs, and custom APIs.

Benefits

From Vendor Lock-In to Team Empowerment

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Migrating from Acquia to Umbraco helps you reduce platform overhead while giving marketers and developers more room to move. Scandia helps you migrate cleanly, modernize your architecture, and build a CMS your teams will actually want to use.

Why choose Umbraco over Acquia?
You’ll lower costs, reduce friction, and empower teams to work independently without sacrificing enterprise performance.

Break free from expensive licensing models

Umbraco is open source at its core—no annual licensing, no infrastructure lock-in. Use your budget for growth, not contracts.

Streamline content publishing

Stop relying on dev tickets for basic content updates. Umbraco gives editors the tools they need to work smarter and faster.

Build a future-proof foundation

Composable, cloud-ready, and integration-friendly—Umbraco is a platform that grows with your organization, not against it.

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To reduce vendor dependency, simplify CMS operations, and give content teams more control without sacrificing performance.

Yes. Scandia has delivered scalable Umbraco platforms for financial services, manufacturing, and multi-brand organizations. Including cmpanies like Lazard, Standard Motor Products, and Mutual of Omaha, just to name a few.

We handle the entire process—including content modeling, data migration, redesign, and integrations—with minimal disruption to your team. We did the same for TransUnion and contnue to maintain key customer-facing platforms on Umbraco for them.

Absolutely. We carry over metadata, implement redirects, and structure content for SEO best practices.

Yes. With tools like Umbraco Engage and flexible APIs, we integrate your CMS with your personalization and marketing stack.