Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub) vs Plone

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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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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Fulvio Casali

Principal - Soliton Consulting

University of WashingtonComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Plone

Role-based user permissions

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Plone

API

Internationalization / multi-language

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Plone

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)

Plone

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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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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Ronnie Stevens

Owner

Studio ZOOInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 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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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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Kelv Cutler

Software Engineer

Ancestry.comComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Plone 8.3

Based on 10 answers

I no longer use Plone because I got an internship in the web development field and my current place of employment uses their own content management system that they created. After getting to know other CMS's and similar software and comparing them to Plone, I would enjoy using Plone again in the future, but there are more complicated software that I'd like to learn as I progress in my field of study.

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Gracie Wardin

Social Media Intern

BrownBoots Interactive, Inc.Higher Education, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Plone 10.0

Based on 1 answer

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

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Rikupekka Oksanen

IT Specialist

University of JyväskyläResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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Plone 9.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Tom Cameron

Technical Manager

KitovuInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 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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Among the open source CMSs Plone is most reliable to develop large and complex application because is codebase is maintained with an object oriented approach where each parts is strictly independent from the others. So you can deeply customize it and it is still secure and efficient. We have not had the same experience with other CMSs that were great in doing their jobs, but could not be easily customized. At least with the same productivity as Plone.

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Fabrizio Reale

Chief Technology Officer

Redomino S.r.l.Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 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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Before Plone there were couple of dozens of web editors. Now it is in the hundreds. That leads to more information on the websites and more accuracy.
Through the good SEO properties of Plone, our content is more easily found on Google compared to some of our competitors.
Plone being an Open Source product there hasn't been any license payments for a decade.

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Jussi Talaskivi

Information Systems Analyst

University of JyväskyläResearch

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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)

Plone

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Plone

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Plone

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

Plone

Likelihood to Recommend