Acoustic 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.
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eZ Platform
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ezPlatform, 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…
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Acoustic Content
eZ Platform
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Acoustic Content
eZ Platform
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Features
Acoustic Content
eZ Platform
Security
Comparison of Security features of Acoustic Content and eZ Platform
Feature
Acoustic Content
8.4
3 Ratings
4% above category average
eZ Platform
9.0
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Role-based user permissions
8.43 Ratings
9.01 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
API
8.33 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
8.43 Ratings
9.01 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 editor
7.43 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
8.33 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Admin section
8.33 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Page templates
8.33 Ratings
3.01 Ratings
Library of website themes
9.03 Ratings
2.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9.03 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publishing workflow
9.43 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Form generator
9.43 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acoustic Content and eZ Platform
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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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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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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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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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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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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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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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