Today Acquia was named a leader in the The Forrester Wave: Web Content Management Systems, Q1 2017. This report is especially exciting because for the first time ever Acquia was recognized as the leader for strategy and vision, ahead of every other vendor including Adobe and Sitecore.
I take great pride in Acquia's vision and strategy. As I wrote in my 2016 retrospective, I believe that the powerful combination of open source and cloud has finally crossed the chasm, and will continue to drive change in our industry.
Today, cloud is the starting point for any modern digital experience project, but this wasn't always the case. Acquia was one of the first organizations to explore Amazon Web Services in 2008 and to to launch a commercial cloud product in 2009.
At the time that was a bold move, but we have always seen the cloud as the best way to provide our customers with the necessary tools to build, deploy and manage Drupal.