| Vendor | Acquia | Adobe Inc. |
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| HQ | USA (Boston, MA; DAM team rooted in Madison, WI) | USA (San Jose, California) |
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| Founded | 2007 | 1982 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Acquia (majority-owned by Vista Equity Partners) | public (NASDAQ: ADBE) |
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| Target market | Mid-market to enterprise | Enterprise |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | US, EU | Not public |
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| Pricing model | quote-only tiers (Workgroup, Mid-Market, Enterprise) + add-ons | quote-only; packages Assets Prime / Assets Ultimate with user types (Limited, Collaborator, Power, Admin); Dynamic Media Prime/Ultimate add-ons (DM billed on aggregated page views/visits) |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA-ready, GDPR | HIPAA-ready, CMMC L2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Strong Performer · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2024: Strong Performer · Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q1 2022: Leader (as Widen) | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | Partial |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | YesAdobe I/O Events; AEM as a Cloud Service only |
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| Official MCP server | YesMCP Server for Acquia DAM, read-only | YesAEM MCP Server, https://mcp.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/mcp/aem |
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| API base URL | https://api.widencollective.com/v2 | https://author-p{program}-e{env}.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/assets |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 authorization code, Personal token | OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, JWT |
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| Token lifetime | OAuth: non-expiring, or 8 h access + 6-month single-use refresh | ~24 h (IMS access token, expires_in; refresh rules for user flows Unknown) |
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| Rate limit | 50 req/s per access token (HTTP 429); monthly call allowance by plan | Not public (429 + exponential backoff; thresholds via support ticket) |
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| Pagination | offset (limit max 100, offset max 10,000) or scroll_id for large sets | cursor (limit 1-50 + opaque cursor) |
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| Webhooks (API) | API-managed, 9 asset events, optional HMAC signing; retries Not public | Adobe I/O Events: webhook (RSA-SHA256 signed), journal, EventBridge |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1: v2 (78 operations) + v1 (49 operations) | OpenAPI 3.0.3 (6 archived spec files, 2026.07) |
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| Official SDKs | TypeScript/JavaScript (official, npm acquia-dam-sdk) | No generated SDK; Node.js upload/events libs and Java AEM SDK (official) |
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