Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub) vs Jadu CMS

Likelihood to Recommend

It is advisable to create custom designs that call for specific programs and content without giving direct access to those programs. We still have to meet the proposed use case where it should not be used.

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Madusanka Balapitiya

Senior Executive ( IT & Administration )

PIBT - Pioneer Institute of Business & TechnologyInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees

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Jadu CMS is not currently geared toward the academic side, but more of the business/government types of organizations. Things can be tweaked to suit your needs, but sometimes there are limitations. The programmers are very helpful in assisting with that.

If you have some in house programmers, and you can get developer training, they will be able to program their own custom widgets to use on your website. We did not have programmers but managed to create a few simple widgets.

There's also a marketplace to look for other widgets that you could use on your site.

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Rachel Hannie

Service Desk Specialist

Tyler Junior CollegeHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Jadu CMS

Role-based user permissions

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Jadu CMS

API

Internationalization / multi-language

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Jadu CMS

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Jadu CMS

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

It has a wide variety of built-in API calls.
Building unique pages is simple and straightforward and requires only basic fundamental knowledge to get started.
More advanced API calls can be developed simply.

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Ben Williams

Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap)

Admiral Group plcFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Reliability. The LAMP-powered server/software rarely has any problems and can handle hundreds of concurrent users without issue. It was developed with scalability in mind.
Ease of Use. Our users find the backend GUI very easy to use. The layout is intuitive and follows the same format throughout the entire control panel.
Powerful. Even if it doesn't do something you would like it to out of the box, the code is well formatted and easy to customize.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

It doesn't work well with our IBM systems and as you might expect, that seems to be a common problem with IBM products.
Application settings are bad and some items are easily accessible and can be buried in menus

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Madusanka Balapitiya

Senior Executive ( IT & Administration )

PIBT - Pioneer Institute of Business & TechnologyInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees

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The custom HTML editor can be frustrating
Does not provide advanced controls and looks as well as some competitors
Menus to add media content are litigious and require many clicks

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Reed Horanburg

Digital Media/Marketing Lead

McKonly & AsburyEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

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Jadu CMS 9.5

Based on 2 answers

I decided not to give it a 10 because I don't know what else is out there in terms of CMS products, and there's a bias when you've only been exposed to one product. At my current job, I used Jadu sparingly but it's easy to get reacquainted with the software and the look and feel of the CMS

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Rachel Hannie

Service Desk Specialist

Tyler Junior CollegeHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Jadu CMS 10.0

Based on 1 answer

For the common user, Jadu is very easy to use and to understand. For the more complex user/administrator, there's a lot of power to be harnessed in HTML editing, creating widgets, editing styles, creating workflows, and other advanced features Jadu can work up for the customer.

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Rachel Hannie

Service Desk Specialist

Tyler Junior CollegeHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I haven't had experience outside of the IBM applications but can confirm that compared to other content tools provided by IBM, this is one of the more complete packages.

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Ben Williams

Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap)

Admiral Group plcFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Jadu is miles behind these and many other CMSs. The others are much more up to date with their code and ease of use. The ability to customize other CMSs is much easier and the code structure actually makes sense. Jadu was selected because it had a portal out of the box.

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Verified User

Professional in Marketing

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Approved developer is a simple tool for integrating other end-user applications.
It has allowed us to have one-stop-shop and easy-to-use debugging, saving time.

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Madusanka Balapitiya

Senior Executive ( IT & Administration )

PIBT - Pioneer Institute of Business & TechnologyInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees

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More modern design compared to our old website software solution.
Much easier to navigate and find content, as well as searching.
More reliable and efficient in terms of server resources.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Jadu CMS

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Jadu CMS

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Jadu CMS

Likelihood to Recommend