Compendium (discontinued) vs. Kapost

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
Kapost
Score 7.1 out of 10
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Upland Kapost helps you create and distribute meaningful content to support the buyer journey for B2B companies.N/A
Pricing
Compendium (discontinued)Kapost
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Compendium (discontinued)Kapost
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
7.2
6 Ratings
11% below category average
Kapost
8.2
9 Ratings
2% above category average
Ideation6.36 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Approval workflows9.16 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Content collaboration7.66 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Content calendar7.56 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production5.54 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
6.6
6 Ratings
20% below category average
Kapost
8.0
9 Ratings
1% below category average
Content hub6.56 Ratings7.18 Ratings
Forms / Gated content6.14 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Embedded CTAs7.15 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Content distribution7.25 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Content promotion6.14 Ratings8.34 Ratings
Content automation6.75 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Compendium (discontinued)
6.6
6 Ratings
16% below category average
Kapost
8.0
7 Ratings
3% above category average
Audience profiling and targeting6.15 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting6.14 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Content performance analytics8.26 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard6.45 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Competitive analytics6.35 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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User Ratings
Compendium (discontinued)Kapost
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
(6 ratings)
7.0
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Compendium (discontinued)Kapost
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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Kapost has potential to be a great asset in small and large orgs. If you're not producing a great deal of content, or coordinating across a large team, there's still tremendous value, but it scales as your org scales because it makes it easier to coordinate and manage large teams and large content archives.
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Pros
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  • 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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  • Filtering: If you make the most out of your custom details and custom fields, you can gain newfound access to materials that may have long been lost in the ether. It's really easy for us, for instance, to see all of our videos at once. Or everything targeting a certain buying stage. Or you can keyword search to see everything on one topic.
  • Workflows: It's really nice to lay out "who sees what when" in a digital way, because everyone involved on an asset can easily see what stage things are at. You can also set deadlines to tasks, which seems a bit more firm than a casual email, because you can visually see how meeting your deadline fits within the whole timeline.
  • Calendars: The calendar feature is nice for us because we have a blog, so we can see when everything is (supposed) to go live. It's easy to see when I, as a copy editor, should be expecting work, so I can align my day accordingly. Way better than the old-fashioned "mental note" system.
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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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  • Social media distribution needs improvement. Specifically a calendar for planned Tweets and a better way to schedule multiple shares of the same content.
  • System performance is somewhat slow.
  • Should be an easier way to make changes, like adding custom fields or publication destinations, to all content types, rather than one at a time.
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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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Upland Software
We are using some other systems that might have replaced Kapost, but none of them had the workflow functionality we were looking for. So, we're sticking with Kapost for now.
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Usability
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It has never been down since we have used this software.
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The calendar view is a great feature and so are the custom views. It is relatively easy to see a clear view of what content the user is responsible for and then the due dates associated to it. The ability to create and update workflows for the team is easy to navigate and keeps us on track.
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Support Rating
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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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Upland Software
The reputation of the product matches up to its reputation as one of the leaders in the space. I love that you can share and access content at your fingertips from anywhere. The downside is that it does not have the prettiest interface but you can get over this with its functionality.
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Implementation Rating
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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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Upland Software
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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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Workfront has a lot of great features, but Kapost was the right tool for what we needed at the time. With a team of our size, we had to make sure we weren't biting off more than we could chew and the project never got off the ground. We had to be thoughtful with how we rolled it out.
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Scalability
Discontinued Products
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Upland Software
It's easy to expand across an organization and the software is continuously being improved with new features rolled out to all users
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • 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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  • It allows us all to compare other email campaigns to each other. We are also able to get almost instant results.
  • By having a working one system - we all can expect the same quality newsletters versus using an outside designer.
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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.