Compendium (discontinued) vs. VistaCreate

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Compendium (discontinued)
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Formerly Oracle Content Marketing of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, Compendium was a content marketing solution to create and distribute compelling content across multiple channels to a targeted audience. Users could plan, produce, and deliver content across multiple personas and channels throughout the customer life cycle. Oracle acquired the product in 2013. A legacy product, Compendium is now end of sale.N/A
VistaCreate
Score 8.2 out of 10
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What is VistaCreate (ex-Crello)? VistaCreate is an online visual editing tool for creating videos, animations, graphic designs for social media, print, websites, or virtually any kind of static and animated design for commercial, business, or personal needs. On October 27, 2021 Crello joined the Vista group of companies and changed its brand name to VistaCreate. It includes 50,000 professionally designed templates that are already preformatted and…N/A
Pricing
Compendium (discontinued)VistaCreate
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Compendium (discontinued)VistaCreate
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Compendium (discontinued)VistaCreate
Features
Compendium (discontinued)VistaCreate
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
7.2
6 Ratings
8% below category average
VistaCreate
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Ratings
Ideation6.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval workflows9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Content collaboration7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Content calendar7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production5.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
6.6
6 Ratings
17% below category average
VistaCreate
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Ratings
Content hub6.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Forms / Gated content6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Embedded CTAs7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Content distribution7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Content promotion6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Content automation6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
6.6
6 Ratings
12% below category average
VistaCreate
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Ratings
Audience profiling and targeting6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting6.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Content performance analytics8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard6.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitive analytics6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
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Compendium (discontinued)VistaCreate
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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OutboundEngine
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Score 10.0 out of 10
GIMP
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Compendium (discontinued)VistaCreate
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
(6 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Compendium (discontinued)VistaCreate
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Oracle is great for a very basic blog. The look of ours was designed and built on the back end/code side, so I'm not sure if there are a lot of clean, modern templates like you see in a lot of blogs today to choose from or not. It has been great having a number of authors who can write content directly in the platform and then submit it to our content managers for scheduling and publishing. I think the biggest issue people may have with it is the look of the interface. It needs an update.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
For creative and captivating presentation slides where you are pitching your ideas to the team, for quick and well-presented pamphlets for the event board, irrespective of university or workplace. I would definitely recommend using existing templates from VistaCreate instead of AI-generated images that are messy and crowded, so you connect with the audience better, and also, of course, people will take it seriously as well..
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Permission levels are also nice so a random user cannot just post without a certain level of access.
  • I also like being able to update the code if necessary.
  • It's easy for users to access and write, and there's a nice workflow to review any content before it gets published.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
  • Certificate design
  • Social media communications
  • Conversion of designs into various file formats e.g. mp4, jpg, pdf
  • PowerPoint designs
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Cons
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  • Templates are a good thing, but hard to set up and require a lot of work. (Other Oracle tools are more user-friendly when it comes to template design.)
  • While they did a good job updating the interface, I still believe more work can be done to make it more user-friendly.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
  • Difficult to design content on mobile phone
  • Mobile designs do not sync with desktop app
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
Easy to use, and supporting several permutations, the CM suite is an excellent solution for a mid to large size business. It's meant to be used by a team, and the functionality can work across websites and landing pages. There's also the high benefit of translation management, providing support for localized products.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
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Usability
Discontinued Products
It has never been down since we have used this software.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
It's a fantastic tool, be it the free or paid version. You can choose different templates from many listed categories and change styles with palettes, add music to your images, and choose from a variety of fonts. All these features are for free users. You unlock gold if you have a paid version of VistaCreate. Some additional useful features like background remover, AI writer, object remover, resize, and many varieties of templates are only for premium users. I give 9 because additional premium useful features are not available for free users
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
To be perfectly honest, every one of my concerns and problems has been handled by the support team in a very timely manner. If they could not fix my issue they assured me it be addressed in future updates.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
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Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
Don't forget about customer service once you have a closed the sale with a customer. Oracle seemed to not care about our needs/timeline after we gave them our Purchase Order
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
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Alternatives Considered
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While OCM was a lot more money, they were able to prove to us that they are a much better solution to use and worth the extra cost. The reporting, capabilities along with the analytics that was easy to download was a big discussion factor for us.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
I like to give a chance to other products and try them out. As far as my experience is concerned, I liked the feature of VistaCreate, with palettes, which totally changes the mood and tone of the image. That's something I didn't find in Canva. Additionally, the simplicity and user-friendliness of VistaCreate instead of being crowded with too many features. It's simply the best.
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Return on Investment
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  • Everyone had their own plan and executed them without taking into consideration the impact of another ongoing project. Compendium has created communication between teams that were not communicating before.
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VistaCreate (ex- Crello)
  • Improved communication with staff
  • Improved brand presence on social media
  • Ability to appeal to all age groups
  • Improved staff morale
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ScreenShots

Compendium (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Content marketers can see every aspect of their content production process at a glance, which is essential for a successful content marketing strategy.Screenshot of Leveraging Oracle Content Marketing’s Business Units feature results in improved marketing alignment by empowering marketing leaders to view one unified content calendar, content repository, and analytics dashboard across the entire organization. Corporate executives can drill down on content creation, distribution, and impact for individual business units in order to make necessary changes to drive success at the divisional level.

VistaCreate Screenshots

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