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    Acoustic Content

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AAcoustic 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

    Craft CMS

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACraft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web. Craft can support design portfolios, multinational marketing sites, and other kinds of sites, and integrates with tools like Salesforce, Mailchimp or Hubspot to offer a full business solution.

    $130

    per month per project

    Pricing
    Acoustic ContentCraft CMS
    Editions & Modules
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    Team
    $130
    per month per project
    Pro
    $240
    per month per project
    Team
    $279
    per year includes one year of updates ($99 for support each subsequent year)
    Pro
    $399
    per year includes one year of updates ($99 for support each subsequent year)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acoustic ContentCraft CMS
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsHosted Craft CMS option available with a discount for annual pricing.
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    Features
    Acoustic ContentCraft CMS
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acoustic Content and Craft CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Craft CMS
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acoustic Content and Craft CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Craft CMS
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    API8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acoustic Content and Craft CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Craft CMS
    -
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    WYSIWYG editor7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acoustic Content and Craft CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Craft CMS
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Acoustic ContentCraft CMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Acoustic ContentCraft CMS
    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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    Pixel & Tonic
    Suitable for mid-size to large websites (20 pages+). If you have a massive project with dozens or hundreds of content contributors, complex editorial process/workflow, are tied to a non-Linux platform (Microsoft Server), you may want an enterprise CMS like Episerver. If you need a small, cheap, theme-based, basic website with 5-15 pages, you'll probably go to WordPress.
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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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    Pixel & Tonic
    • Design-agnostic templating system. No themes. This means you can use whatever HTML, CSS, JS you want, and integrate it with Craft.
    • Versatile field types, with 3rd party plugins providing a bunch more. Everything from plain text to address, color picker, date/time, file assets, one-to-many relationships, and more.
    • Control panel with clean, responsive UI makes content updates easy for clients.
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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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    Pixel & Tonic
    • Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
    • Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
    • It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.
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    Acoustic
    Added benefit
    Incentivized
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    Pixel & Tonic
    Craft was originally developed in response to ExpressionEngine's shortcomings. While ExpressionEngine has caught up in some regards, it still looks and feels a bit unpolished by comparison. Additionally, ExpressionEngine's vendor has never gotten UI right - not on their website, nor in their CMS. Craft remains easier to use, more polished and provides a wider feature set in its base install (without needing plugins). As for WordPress - while I recognize its massive popularity, I find its reliance on themes, third-party plugins, along with security shortcomings, make it a poor fit for the larger custom projects we build. On the other hand, if you want to throw up a passable website in a day, you can't beat WordPress.
    Incentivized
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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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    Pixel & Tonic
    • We don't have hard numbers on Craft's impact on our ROI, but we recognize that its feature set, ease of use, and integrated ECommerce allows offering a superior product to clients.
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Cognitive TaggingScreenshot of Flexible, Easy EditingScreenshot of Automatic renditions createdScreenshot of Card-based Asset Library