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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ion Interactive

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools.N/A

    SAP Business One

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    Ion InteractiveSAP Business One
    Editions & Modules
    Managed Services + SaaS
    Custom
    per year
    Limited
    $99.00
    per month
    Starter
    $110.00
    per month
    Pro
    $132.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ion InteractiveSAP Business One
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$5,500 per customerNo setup fee
    Additional Detailsion’s Build Anything SaaS platform provides organizations with an entirely new and agile interactive content marketing capability. It enables non-technical marketers and designers to create, test and measure an unlimited number of all types of interactive content marketing experiences. It includes unlimited seats, experiences, tests, customization, phone and email support, analytics and more.—
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    Ion InteractiveSAP Business One
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    Ion Interactive LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Ion InteractiveSAP Business One
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    7.5
    105 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SAP Business One
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation10.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration5.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    8.7
    120 Ratings
    11% above category average
    SAP Business One
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub10.0104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content10.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs10.0108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution8.093 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion8.086 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation6.090 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    8.5
    118 Ratings
    14% above category average
    SAP Business One
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting6.091 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.095 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.0116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard10.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.9
    12 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.9
    40 Ratings
    27% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings9.738 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings10.037 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.9
    44 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.736 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.043 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.0
    45 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.940 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.345 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.941 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    5.9
    46 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings9.746 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings9.928 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.831 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings9.638 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings9.436 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.641 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.4
    45 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.745 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings9.931 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings10.041 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.1
    43 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Pricing00 Ratings9.941 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings9.943 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings9.724 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold00 Ratings9.742 Ratings
    Order Orchestration00 Ratings10.033 Ratings
    Subledger and Financial Process
    Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    7.4
    39 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Billing Management00 Ratings9.734 Ratings
    Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings10.030 Ratings
    Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings9.928 Ratings
    Period Close00 Ratings9.535 Ratings
    Project Financial Management
    Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    7.0
    19 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings7.017 Ratings
    Project Costing00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
    Cost Capture00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
    Capital Project Management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
    Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
    Project Execution Management
    Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.1
    17 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings9.612 Ratings
    Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings9.810 Ratings
    Grants Management
    Comparison of Grants Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.4
    16 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Procurement
    Comparison of Procurement features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Contract Authoring00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Contract Repository00 Ratings9.211 Ratings
    Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings9.615 Ratings
    Supplier Management00 Ratings9.614 Ratings
    Risk Management
    Comparison of Risk Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.6
    11 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Risk Repository00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Control Management00 Ratings9.110 Ratings
    Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings9.19 Ratings
    Issue Detection00 Ratings9.110 Ratings
    Remediation and Certification00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Logistics
    Comparison of Logistics features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.1
    25 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings9.515 Ratings
    Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings9.615 Ratings
    Fulfillment Management00 Ratings9.718 Ratings
    Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings9.816 Ratings
    Manufacturing
    Comparison of Manufacturing features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.2
    21 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Production Process Design00 Ratings9.719 Ratings
    Production Management00 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Configuration Management00 Ratings9.715 Ratings
    Work Execution00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Supply Chain
    Comparison of Supply Chain features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    8.0
    27 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings8.625 Ratings
    Inventory Planning00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.121 Ratings
    Product Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Ion Interactive and SAP Business One
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business One
    9.6
    19 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Proposal Management00 Ratings8.115 Ratings
    Product Master Data Management00 Ratings9.317 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Ion InteractiveSAP Business One
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (135 ratings)
    9.1
    (51 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (22 ratings)
    4.6
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (17 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    2.8
    (24 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ion InteractiveSAP Business One
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ion Interactive LLC
    If you want to choose a quick start template and fill in the fields with your content, Ion will be fantastic for you. We've done this with whitepapers and quizzes and it's been great and extremely easy to use. If you have an exact idea of what you want, and a background in web development, you may get frustrated. Ion has some quirks that make it tricky to fully customize - everyone once in a while I really just want to go into the HTML and make some changes, but can't. If you are looking to reuse a piece of content for specific targeting (industry or account-specific), Ion is great. The dynamic substitutions are great and very helpful.
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    SAP
    SAP Business One would be more useful if it contained tools to acommodate the growing need of online sales. A more complete shipping module which handles tracking numbers with the common couriers would be great. A built in warehouse management system would be great designed to be used with barcode scanners
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    Pros
    Ion Interactive LLC
    • Quick Starts make it so easy to get started.
    • Real-time updates are awesome and save a ton of wasteful process.
    • The combination of user friendliness for simple things and the flexibility to do more complex things is great.
    • Chat support is excellent and deeper-dive support has been super helpful.
    • The ability to use these tools in the cloud or embedded has given us tactic flexibility.
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    SAP
    • SAP Business One is more suitable for small and medium scale enterprises
    • SAP Business One is : analytics, mobile technologies, cloud technologies
    • SAP Business One has exceptional performance in handling business functions such as purchasing and operations and customer relationship management
    • An important key features of SAP Business One is Reporting and Analytics.
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    Cons
    Ion Interactive LLC
    • Ion University, while stacked with a wealth of information, is difficult to navigate from a troubleshooting perspective. The tutorial videos are all very helpful, but they are also very long. Sometimes I would want to search for how to address a particular issue I was struggling with and it would be a two-minute segment buried in a 45-minute video.
    • Again, getting back the self-guidance side of things. I think a lot of the tutorials are set up in a way that makes sense to Ion, but not as much to the end user.
    • I think the controls admins use when creating new users could be a bit more straightforward.
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    SAP
    • Following a bench mark process - this seems contradicting to flexibility however we have wished we could follow more of an industry benchmark. Our challenge as a small company has been knowing how to properly use the system. We have discovered that we have set up the system wrong based and are using it improperly which has cause a lot work to correct.
    • Better live reporting options - current we are on prem SQL. Yes SAP is moving to HANA however smaller companies like ourselves are not ready for that. We need to be able to maintain our existing SQL DB. We also have a demand for live BI Reporting. It has been difficult to do this with our current set up.
    • Error handling - have found it very difficult to troubleshoot. Errors are not always clear and answers are hard to find.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ion Interactive LLC
    We use it for every landing page and we plan on only doing more dynamic content creation. We dont see that option coming in-house any time ever in the future. ION has a very robust platform for us to work with that really allows us to do more for our customers in regards to having the one-to-one conversation.
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    SAP
    As I said before, it is a first level tool, well developed, and with very strong development support, although the learning curve, its implementation, the cost-benefit ratio, the price and the user experience is not the most suitable for small and medium-sized companies. It is a company with extensive experience, market positioning, technical support and expanded use
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    Usability
    Ion Interactive LLC
    Usability is straightforward, with extensive documentation and tutorials provided to ensure landing pages are built to specifications and can be optimized for performance. Built-in platform funnels give insight into customer dropoff, success/failures, and conversions (at a glance). Setting up a landing page can be done quickly and easily, with numerous integrations (CRMs like SalesForce, for instance) supported
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    SAP
    I would like to give 8 out of 10 rating for SAP Business One because SAP Business One is a good choice for the mostly used business management solutions for the small and medium-sized companies. SAP Business One can help in optimizing the existing business process and enables streamline business processes for the daily activities for all users across the entire organization. The importance realization of SAP Business One implementation is based on the selection of the good reputation partner and its approach for the entire implementation. SAP Business One is a user-friendly and easy to use Enterprise system that the organization can benefit its features and functionalities by utilizing it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Ion Interactive LLC
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The SAP Business One software is up and running every time
    you need it as it was planned. In more than 6 years that we have been
    using the product, it has never been unavailable and if it ever was, it was because of a planned maintenance window scheduled in the company.
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    Performance
    Ion Interactive LLC
    Sometimes the editor can be a little slow.
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    SAP
    SAP Business One performance depends mostly on the speed of your internal servers, should you have the solution on premise as we do. Sometimes the system tends to be a little slower for some users when others are executing really big reports of performing some batch loads, but generally, the performance is acceptable to all the users.
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    Support Rating
    Ion Interactive LLC
    The ION support team is amazing. There has not been a single issue they they could not solve for me. If there is a feature or request that they do not have, they have even, on occasion, created custom scripts for our team. *Update 6/5/17 - ION has continued to delight on multiple occasions. I appreciate their attention to detail and ability to solve whatever issue I have. After 3+ years of use and support, ION still has my full endorsement.
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    SAP
    I rate my experience with SAP Business One's support team as excellent (10). They are easy to contact and effortless to work with on any issue or concern. I like the support SAP provides for any of their products. SAP has a great backing and I would recommend them to any of my colleagues.
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    In-Person Training
    Ion Interactive LLC
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The training I get was a consultant level training, so it's basically a 6 weeks training covering every aspect and every module of the system. It covered most common use cases and exercise training so you can get along with the software, as well as examples so there culd be a better understanding.
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    Online Training
    Ion Interactive LLC
    They offer a great amount of online training, videos, articles, etc. There is usually an answer available if you run into an issue. I would recommend taking advantage of the online training they offer. I wish I would have done it sooner.
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    SAP
    Over the past two years SAP has added a great deal of new SAP Business One on-line training for version 9.0 and 9.1. Most of the training is very strong, but some is difficult to understand and follow. Additionally, SAP still has a few holes in their on-line training around Production, Bill-of-Materials, MRP and Service.
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    Implementation Rating
    Ion Interactive LLC
    There were a lot of things we learned about the tool once we really got in and got our hands dirty. Being hands-on was essential for our team to be able to utilize ION in the most effective manner.
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    SAP
    These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ion Interactive LLC
    I was not the decision maker to choose this over Uberflip, but the UI is much more appealing to me. It's incredibly easy to use, clean, and from a backend standpoint, it requires little to no tech savvy'ness. Our team has really enjoyed using it and has required no training what-so-ever.
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    SAP
    SAP provides the most robust solution, with modules available for all department managers and even options for customization according to the company's special needs. We especially used the Crystal reports options to provide reports for each module. Overall, even if it's not the least expensive option, it has the best value for money.
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    Scalability
    Ion Interactive LLC
    Separate client portfolios enable scalability, however, some elements are still grouped for all accounts so it's difficult to scale for an ad agency with multiple clients. Would prefer totally separate sections of the platform for all clients with each element housed separately.
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    SAP
    For most small businesses, the only way you outgrow SAP Business One is if the nature of your business changes radically. Going from 1 to 50 users is quite easy with SAP B1. Going beyond 50 may require moving to the Hana SAP B1 platform to maintain or improve performance, but the path is there.
    Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.
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    Return on Investment
    Ion Interactive LLC
    • Though we have not had the service long enough to see any measurable outcomes, we've been able to create interactive web content faster than ever before
    • The speed with which we can build interactive pages and re-use assets has been critical as projects we've done with Ion have made their way around and more and more internal clients have said "me too" for their own projects
    • It is very pricey at $28K for the base annual subscription (dropping to $24k after the first year), so depending on your budgetary situation, that may make no sense for your team--but we had contract money set aside for a company to build us a microsite for around the amount, so we just used it for Ion instead and will now be building the microsite ourselves using it
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    SAP
    • Employee efficiency has definitely increased with SAP Business One. This is attributed in a lot of ways to information visibility. Our employees are able to gather the data they need, quickly, and effectively.
    • Identifying inconsistencies in pricing has also been accomplished through use of reporting off individual tables. Previously, we weren't able to access our data in such a way as to enable us to write custom reports in-house.
    • We have also benefited greatly from having a single source of all business information. We utilize SAP Business One exclusively in-house. All documentation is attached to specific orders and Business Partners, as well as serialized equipment that has been sold.
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    ScreenShots

    Ion Interactive Screenshots

    Screenshot of ion empowers your other marketing technologies to deliver higher fidelity, data-driven scoring, targeting, segmentation and personalization.Screenshot of The types of interactive experiences the ion platform can create is near-endless. These are the most common types used by our customers: Assessments, Calculators, eBooks, Interactive Infographics, Interactive White Papers, Landing Pages, Lookbooks, Quizzes, Resource Library, Solution Finder.Screenshot of See what our customers are saying about our platform and services!Screenshot of Starting at $2,000 per month, you get an unlimited, scalable interactive content platform with our full feature set. Including: Unlimited experiences, unlimited use of Quick Starts, Unlimited Seats/Users, Unlimited A/B/n Testing, Unlimited Sell-Side Experiences, Unlimited Phone, email & chat support, unlimited analytics... PLUS a FREE custom-branded theme that can be applied to all of your experiences.Screenshot of You have the option to start from a template or entirely from scratch. Our Quick Start template library includes more than 100 fully tested, responsive and flexible interactive experiences you can brand, customize and launch.Screenshot of ion is the only interactive content platform that provides the scalable foundation to grow from one interactive experience to one thousand interactive experiences. With ion, interactive content development complexity, long timelines, high costs and maintenance problems are replaced with freedom and agility.