Acoustic Content vs. Craft CMS

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
Craft CMS
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Craft 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)
Enterprise
Contact Sales
for when a project has specific licensing requirements
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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Community Pulse
Acoustic ContentCraft CMS
Features
Acoustic ContentCraft CMS
Security
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Acoustic Content
8.4
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Craft CMS
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.4
3 Ratings
8% above category average
Craft CMS
-
Ratings
API8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.43 Ratings00 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
Craft CMS
-
Ratings
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 Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.8
3 Ratings
17% 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)
10.0
(1 ratings)
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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Alternatives Considered
Acoustic
Added benefit
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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.
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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.
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ScreenShots

Acoustic Content Screenshots

Screenshot of Cognitive TaggingScreenshot of Flexible, Easy EditingScreenshot of Automatic renditions createdScreenshot of Card-based Asset Library