Contentful vs ion, by Rock Content (formerly from ScribbleLive)

• Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
• Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
• Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).

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• The Ion support team - both during implementation and as we've been building experiences - has been exemplary. They are always available, engaged and enthusiastic.
• One aspect of the platform that we've loved from the beginning is the customized design template that is built into the platform. Our in-house designer particularly loves this feature as it saves her hours of time when it comes to designing individual assets. She can go in and add polish and style without having to start from scratch every time.
• The metrics are also incredible. You can really examine and analyze them from several different angles. Automation, Content and our business lines each view the metrics from a different perspective so this has been an especially helpful feature.

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• Preview of changes prior to publishing
• The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly)

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• The organization of the catalog leaves something to be desired. It's not very straight forward and it looks dated.
• The editing tool can sometimes be wonky, zooming instead of opening an edit box.
• Matching styles requires a paste to match style. From what I can tell there's not a direct button or a global style push.

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• It speed up our content creation process
• We've freed up dev and design resources for more important projects
• Given freedom to people to create new pages, while keeping some control so they wouldn't make serious mistakes

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• I believe this has been a positive ROI for our company - one of our clients pays the subscription and we can use it for multiple clients
• We've diversified our offerings to clients and have an extra component that separates us from competition
• We as a team have become more digital savvy

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