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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

    Plone

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.N/A
    Pricing
    Acoustic ContentPlone
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acoustic ContentPlone
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Acoustic ContentPlone
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acoustic Content and Plone
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.43 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acoustic Content and Plone
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    25% above category average
    API8.33 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.43 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acoustic Content and Plone
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Plone
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    18% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.43 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.33 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Admin section8.33 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Page templates8.33 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.03 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.03 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.43 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Form generator9.43 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acoustic Content and Plone
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Plone
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy8.33 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    SEO support8.43 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Bulk management8.93 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.43 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.93 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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    Acoustic ContentPlone
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Acoustic ContentPlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acoustic ContentPlone
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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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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    Plone
    • Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
    • Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
    • Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
    • Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
    • Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    We have critical systems running on Plone so will need it in the future.
    Free to use since its Open source, so we don't have to worry about licence costs.
    We know how to use and develop Plone and it has no limits.
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    Usability
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small.
    The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
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    Performance
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
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    Support Rating
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    There are not too many Plone companies in the world. But the ones who are, are high level professionals
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    In-Person Training
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    I have been participating Plone training and the trainers have always been professional. Materials were good and the instructions clear
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    Online Training
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acoustic
    Added benefit
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone. Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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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
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • The impact Plone has had at the University of Oshkosh is as follows: this software allows student workers to learn about IT departments and CMS's in a user-friendly way. It gives many students great jobs that look great on their resumes.
    • Since there are great training manuals for Plone, there is increased employee efficient in the workplace. Training doesn't take long, and if there's ever a question, the Plone manual is a great tool to refer to.
    • If an employee using Plone quits, its easy to find someone to replace them with quick training and great resources.
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    Screenshot of Cognitive TaggingScreenshot of Flexible, Easy EditingScreenshot of Automatic renditions createdScreenshot of Card-based Asset Library