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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    OpenText WEM

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText's Web Experience Management is part of the Customer Experience suite and is based on the Vignette product that OpenText acquired in 2009.N/A

    Percussion CMS

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/APercussion Software's content management system is used by higher education, government agencies, and business organizations - SMB to Enterprise. Marketers use Percussion CMS to create, publish, and share multi-channel content.N/A
    Pricing
    Acoustic ContentOpenText WEMPercussion CMS
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acoustic ContentOpenText WEMPercussion CMS
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Acoustic ContentOpenText WEMPercussion CMS
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acoustic Content and OpenText WEM and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    OpenText WEM
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    3.0
    1 Ratings
    93% below category average
    Role-based user permissions8.43 Ratings8.52 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acoustic Content and OpenText WEM and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    7% above category average
    OpenText WEM
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    155% below category average
    API8.33 Ratings8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.43 Ratings8.01 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acoustic Content and OpenText WEM and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    9% above category average
    OpenText WEM
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    3.0
    1 Ratings
    89% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.43 Ratings7.42 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.33 Ratings8.02 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Admin section8.33 Ratings8.02 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Page templates8.33 Ratings7.52 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.03 Ratings8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.03 Ratings7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.43 Ratings8.02 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Form generator9.43 Ratings8.52 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acoustic Content and OpenText WEM and Percussion CMS
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    16% above category average
    OpenText WEM
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Percussion CMS
    1.6
    1 Ratings
    130% below category average
    Content taxonomy8.33 Ratings8.52 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    SEO support8.43 Ratings7.42 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Bulk management8.93 Ratings9.02 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.43 Ratings9.02 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.93 Ratings9.02 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Acoustic ContentOpenText WEMPercussion CMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acoustic ContentOpenText WEMPercussion 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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    OpenText
    Areas where OpenText WEM is well suited 1. Improved digital/web presence of the organization's leaders globally. 2. Established the leaders as go-to experts for thought leadership and domain knowledge among C-level executives of related industries. 3. Amplified the client’s marketing and branding efforts. 4. Customer engagement reflected by interaction count on social media—likes,comments and conversations.
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    Best suited for large organizations where everyone knows how to deal with Java in an increasingly Java unfriendly world. Said organization should be willing to pay a huge price for a piece of dinosaur technology
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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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    OpenText
    • Easier management of websites.
    • Integrates well with Portal to deliver news, working like a blog.
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    Percussion Software
    • Separate CMS environment publishes to remote server environment - great for security
    • Highly scalable
    • Full scale workflow allows for custom routing, approving, etc..
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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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    OpenText
    • It's unable to connect user accounts so that accounts are set and utilize a single sign-in.
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    • One word: JAVA! We don't live in the 1990's anymore! An AJAX/DHTML environment seems a long time coming.
    • Horrible end-user experience, learning curve. Our end users' inability to easily use the archaic, Java-based interface, means they send the web developer their content requests. This creates a huge bottleneck and completely defeats the purpose of a CMS.
    • Image mangement and integration with content is aweful and time consuming. An image processing tool called ImedImage was developed for Percussion at one point, and left completely stagnant with very little support.
    • Implementation is extremely complicated, given the complexity of the system. Sure, scalability is a good thing, but there is very little out-of-the box function. Don't expect to implement a site as quickly as with other CMS platforms.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acoustic
    Added benefit
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    OpenText
    We have choosen OpenText WEM against other vendors because : 1. Helped client reinforce brand image
    through unique design language and templatization of collaterals, consistent
    messaging, and regular competitor benchmarking. 2. Enables lead generation through
    high-quality gated collateral, product videos, etc. 3. Senior management and sales lead meet
    client regularly for project review meetings and feedback on engagement
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    Percussion Software
    No contest. I can't wait to get off of Percussion CMS.
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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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    OpenText
    • Improved online engagement.
    • Speeds up our digital transformation my the day.
    • Modernizing our web content management system.
    Incentivized
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    Percussion Software
    • We are locked into Percussion CMS simply due to the expense and complexity of migrating to another solution (and the lack of time and budget to do so). I long for the day when I am no longer required to support Percussion CMS, to say the least.
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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
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