Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub) vs TemplateToaster

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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TemplateToaster has the best features which include: BOOTSTRAP 3 support, W3C compliance, all devices and all browsers compatibility, clean and concise code generation, and extensive designing options. A big pack of sample templates comes free with software installation, and all the designing options have been provided as per the latest web design trends. Templates made in TemplateToaster make clients say, “wow, it’s amazing”. TemplateToaster is a designing tool as well as a development tool. In short words, it provides a GUI for designing templates, after the accomplishment of designing, the template can be exported into a fully-fledged web template, which is ready to use as a website design.

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Davis Brown

Digital & Social Media Manager

ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

TemplateToaster

Role-based user permissions

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

TemplateToaster

API

Internationalization / multi-language

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

TemplateToaster

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)

TemplateToaster

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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Advanced designing features and using these advanced features very easily e.g. Bootstrap 3 support that makes flawless responsive templates.
Encapsulated all the major designing trends with respect to particular CMS.
Optimized code is produced for every theme/template as such the coding standards are perfectly followed by this software.
All WordPress themes made with this software pass the Theme Check test.
Because of W3C compliance it ensures consistency of websites over the web.
HTML5 and CSS3 also ensure better look of designs on small screens.
Apart from making web templates, one can make full fledged websites too. TemplateToaster allows making static websites with YouTube video inclusion. It has inbuilt FTP, so that user can easily move its website to the server.
An amazing and exclusive feature it provides is the option to draw custom widget/module/ block area.

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Davis Brown

Digital & Social Media Manager

ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 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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It is not available for MAC operating system.

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Davis Brown

Digital & Social Media Manager

ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 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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Advanced features, lesser price and ease of use. For designing perspective, it has many options in accordance with latest web designing trends.

Most prominent is- custom positions can be made for widgets or plugins to be included

Slideshow can be included.

Images browsed from the system can be transformed using its image editor.

Texture-effects-shadow can be applied wherever required.

margin-padding settings can be done easily.

And many more options are provided by this software on its interface.

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Davis Brown

Digital & Social Media Manager

ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 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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TemplateToaster returns full value of money.
It helps in finishing my projects ahead of time, hence I can finish more projects in less time. In other words, it helps in increasing my efficiency, which brings monetary benefits to me.

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Davis Brown

Digital & Social Media Manager

ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub) Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

TemplateToaster Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard Edition	$49¹
Professional Edition	$149

Annually

Additional Pricing Details

After one year, some concession is given on the specific edition.

Rating Summary

Acoustic Content (formerly IBM Watson Content Hub)

TemplateToaster