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Acquia is Drupal made simple

Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.

Widely adopted

With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites. Diverse organizations use Drupal as their core social publishing system for external facing websites and internal collaboration applications.

Thoroughly supported

As a member of the global Drupal community, Acquia helps accelerate Drupal usage by contributing to the advancement of the core technology and offering products, services and technical support to simplify the deployment and management of Drupal websites.

Out of the box

Acquia Drupal provides an on-ramp to some of the best, most essential software from the Drupal community, assembled in a convenient package for easy installation. The Acquia Network provides an operations portal to deliver technical support and site monitoring services to maintain trouble-free Acquia Drupal websites. Finally, by offering commercial grade support from Acquia's Technical Assistance Center, we help organizations implement Drupal with confidence.

Next steps

We encourage you to discover how Acquia's products and services can help you build sophisticated Drupal websites to build communities, grow your business and deepen your relationship with your customers. To learn more, please review the Products & Services and Community sections of our site.

The brains and the backing

Acquia was founded by Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead of the Drupal project, and Jay Batson, previously founder and CEO of Pingtel. Our investors include North Bridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.