Acoustic Content vs. Contentful

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Acoustic Content
Score 4.9 out of 10
N/A
Acoustic Content (formerly Watson Content Hub) gives business owners the power to create, robust and consistent brand experiences using cloud-based, cognitive content management capabilities. Marketing and merchandising professionals can quickly select content to create relevant offers delivered across multiple channels, such as mobile, web-based or email. Acoustic is an independent spun off from IBM Watson Marketing in 2019.N/A
Contentful
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
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Pricing
Acoustic ContentContentful
Editions & Modules
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Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Acoustic ContentContentful
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Acoustic ContentContentful
Features
Acoustic ContentContentful
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.4
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Contentful
8.5
10 Ratings
3% above category average
Role-based user permissions8.43 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.4
3 Ratings
8% above category average
Contentful
9.5
12 Ratings
20% above category average
API8.33 Ratings9.311 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.43 Ratings9.79 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.6
3 Ratings
10% above category average
Contentful
7.8
13 Ratings
0% above category average
WYSIWYG editor7.43 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.33 Ratings9.58 Ratings
Admin section8.33 Ratings9.311 Ratings
Page templates8.33 Ratings7.64 Ratings
Library of website themes9.03 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.03 Ratings4.57 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.43 Ratings9.312 Ratings
Form generator9.43 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.8
3 Ratings
17% above category average
Contentful
9.4
12 Ratings
23% above category average
Content taxonomy8.33 Ratings10.011 Ratings
SEO support8.43 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Bulk management8.93 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions9.43 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Community / comment management8.93 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Acoustic ContentContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(4 ratings)
8.3
(13 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Acoustic ContentContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
Acoustic
We can organize all our content easily by uploading content files and other digital assets. CMS smart AI generates metadata by tagging them automatically which helps us to sort our content into different categories. CMS content modeling feature helps us to visualize our content structure, assemble them in an intelligent manner and reuse the content whenever we want to for different purposes.
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Contentful
It's a great all rounder for content projects. It's easy in the basics and powerful in the complex, data heavy scenarios. Extending the platform is straightforward and the SDK gives you everything you need. If you have many many varying content types , it gets expensive and perhaps not the best choice .
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Pros
Acoustic
  • Creating separate pages is easy and straightforward and only requires basic basic knowledge to get started
  • Advanced API calls can be easily built.
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Contentful
  • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
  • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
  • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
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Cons
Acoustic
  • The organization of the application is poor and some elements could be more easily accessible not buried in menus.
  • There is little to no community around the application and what does exist is out of date.
  • Does not work well with our IBM applications as well as you would expect, which seems a common issue with IBM products.
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Contentful
  • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
  • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
  • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
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Usability
Acoustic
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Contentful
It is a very easy to use and configure application. I find that it is on the user to manage the content after the models have been created, yet I still do not encounter issues finding or creating new components for our site. It is easy to set up and easy to navigate.
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Contentful
Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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Return on Investment
Acoustic
  • With the AI based content organizer in place, we can focus more on the content creation.
  • Acoustic Content makes sure your content is safe and secure with its Content Delivery Networks and we can easily pull out the right content into our channels with the help of its REST APIs.
  • With their rich Digital Asset Management capabilities, we can find most suitable images to go with your content
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Contentful
  • Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
  • Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
  • Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.
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ScreenShots

Acoustic Content Screenshots

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Contentful Screenshots

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