Al Khaleej & Vardot Win the 2021 Acquia Engage Award

Awards recognize global organizations for creating transformative digital customer experiences

Premier provider of enterprise digital experience and web solutions, Vardot announced it has won the 2021 Acquia Engage Award in Media & Entertainment for redesigning and rebuilding Al Khaleej website, one of the largest news websites in the UAE. The Acquia Engage Awards recognize high-impact digital experiences that organizations around the world are building with the Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP), including Drupal Cloud and Marketing Cloud. Winners demonstrate an advanced level of functionality, integration, performance, and user experience.

Through Al Khaleej's continuous efforts to provide their readers with a cutting-edge digital news experience, personalized across all devices, Al Khaleej has identified Drupal as the best fit to support their transformative ambitions. 

Al Khaleej has sought out Vardot’s award-winning Drupal web design and development services to build a modern digital news website using Drupal and Varbase CMS.

“Showcasing the most impressive digital experiences, across industries and geographies, is a highlight of Acquia Engage,” said Lynne Capozzi, Chief Marketing Officer at Acquia. “Each customer’s story demonstrates the impact that creatively designed and thoroughly executed digital experiences can have on customer engagement and organizational performance.”

"We’re proud to have been selected as a winner in this year’s Acquia Engage Awards and we look forward to further growing Al Khaleej digital experience and to delivering more similar success stories, using best-of-breed, open-source solutions and professional services from Vardot and our premier partner Acquia," said Mohammed Razem, Vardot's CEO.

About Vardot 

Vardot is a dedicated Drupal agency providing digital experience solutions from inception to production. With global presence and offices in Santa Clara, California, Amman, Jordan, and Cairo, Egypt, we take pride in being one of the largest Acquia certified and Drupal specialized teams in the world. Vardot covers the whole digital experience projects life cycle, from strategy to post-launch maintenance, support and growth to guarantee continuity and dynamicity.

Since inception in 2011, Vardot delivered over 200 open-source digital experience and transformation projects in more than 20 countries. Vardot services are trusted by several United Nations agencies, Doctors Without Borders, Boston Consulting Group, Georgetown University, Fitness First, King Khalid University, and many others.

About Acquia

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open-source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions and help businesses stand out.

About Dar Al Khaleej

Al Khaleej is a daily Arabic-language broadsheet newspaper published in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates by Dar Al Khaleej. The daily is the first newspaper published in the country, which was established in 1970 with the launch of the daily Al Khaleej newspaper. Al Khaleej is now one of the most popular Arabic-language newspapers in the UAE.