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    Acoustic Content

    Score1.2 out of 10
    N/AAcoustic Content (formerly Watson Content Hub) gives business owners the power to create, robust and consistent brand experiences using cloud-based, cognitive content management capabilities. Marketing and merchandising professionals can quickly select content to create relevant offers delivered across multiple channels, such as mobile, web-based or email. Acoustic is an independent spun off from IBM Watson Marketing in 2019.N/A

    eZ Platform

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AezPlatform, formerly ezPublish is a content management solution from eZ Systems. The vendor says their solution provides organizations with the technology and framework to build a suite of digital experiences including news and media sites, brand sites, multichannel apps and the Internet of Things, intranets and web portals. This solution is multichannel, multilingual and multisite ready. ezPlatform features user defined content and classes, version control, templates, workflow…N/A
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    Acoustic ContenteZ Platform
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    Pricing Offerings
    Acoustic ContenteZ Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Acoustic ContenteZ Platform
    Security
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    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    eZ Platform
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.43 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acoustic Content and eZ Platform
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    10% above category average
    eZ Platform
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    API8.33 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.43 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acoustic Content and eZ Platform
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    11% above category average
    eZ Platform
    5.4
    1 Ratings
    35% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.43 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.33 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Admin section8.33 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Page templates8.33 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.03 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.43 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Form generator9.43 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acoustic Content and eZ Platform
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    eZ Platform
    5.6
    1 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Content taxonomy8.33 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO support8.43 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Bulk management8.93 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.43 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.93 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Acoustic ContenteZ Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
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    User Testimonials
    Acoustic ContenteZ Platform
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    Acoustic
    We can organize all our content easily by uploading content files and other digital assets. CMS smart AI generates metadata by tagging them automatically which helps us to sort our content into different categories. CMS content modeling feature helps us to visualize our content structure, assemble them in an intelligent manner and reuse the content whenever we want to for different purposes.
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    eZ Systems
    For a new site: 1. Are there any hosting requirements? eZ Publish works best on a traditional LAMP stack. 2. What is the expertise of the development and systems administrations individuals? There should be some PHP development experience and a solid level of Apache and MySQL hosting. 3. Who will be managing the content of the site? What is their bandwidth for training? For ongoing content changes?
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    Pros
    Acoustic
    • Creating separate pages is easy and straightforward and only requires basic basic knowledge to get started
    • Advanced API calls can be easily built.
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    eZ Systems
    • Content Taxonomy: Content is managed in a tree. Though taxonomy vs folksonomy is a near-religious debate among professionals, clients seeing the system for the first time just seem to "get it" more often.
    • Content Flexibility: Common content types such as blog posts and articles are available out of the box. However, customizing these and creating new content types is very easy.
    • Developer Friendly: Developers need only a little PHP experience to get started. Of course being an expert doesn't hurt and opens the door for the development of custom modules.
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    Cons
    Acoustic
    • The organization of the application is poor and some elements could be more easily accessible not buried in menus.
    • There is little to no community around the application and what does exist is out of date.
    • Does not work well with our IBM applications as well as you would expect, which seems a common issue with IBM products.
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    eZ Systems
    • The template language: Outputting content or doing something special with it requires use of the templating language. Myself along with other developers I have trained, found this to be one of the biggest hurdles.
    • Layout of physical files: The system decides what settings files and templates to use based on a hierarchy of modules. The same file can exist in multiple modules and you can find yourself deep within very similar looking folder structures, causing confusion during debugging.
    • Community: eZ has a solid set of community contributors but the gap between it and Drupal or Wordpress is pretty large.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acoustic
    Added benefit
    Incentivized
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    eZ Systems
    eZ Publish isn't as large in community size and number of installations as other content management systems. However, it's just as capable and met our needs:
    • Developers, system administrators, and project manager can all speak the same language during the development and maintenance cycles of a site.
    • End-user training is very straight-forward.
    • Vendor support is available.
    • Client IT departments can access if need (developers/designers/sysadmins).
    • The community is there (forums) and there are solid contributions (extensions) from both the vendor and the community.
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    Return on Investment
    Acoustic
    • With the AI based content organizer in place, we can focus more on the content creation.
    • Acoustic Content makes sure your content is safe and secure with its Content Delivery Networks and we can easily pull out the right content into our channels with the help of its REST APIs.
    • With their rich Digital Asset Management capabilities, we can find most suitable images to go with your content
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    eZ Systems
    • Common knowledge: By making eZ a core offering, developers, system administrators, and project managers were able to communicate with each other effectively.
    • Training: Due to its content taxonomy, end-user training often went well.
    • Support: In our case, we had Gold support from eZ Publish which saved time and helped with customizations.
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    ScreenShots

    Acoustic Content Screenshots

    Screenshot of Cognitive TaggingScreenshot of Flexible, Easy EditingScreenshot of Automatic renditions createdScreenshot of Card-based Asset Library

    eZ Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of Editors and marketers create content.Screenshot of Content strategists model their content.