Acoustic Content vs. Adobe Experience Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Acoustic Content
Score 1.2 out of 10
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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.N/A
Adobe Experience Manager
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Adobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering marketing content.N/A
Pricing
Acoustic ContentAdobe Experience Manager
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Acoustic ContentAdobe Experience Manager
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Acoustic ContentAdobe Experience Manager
Considered Both Products
Acoustic Content
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Acoustic Content stands out mainly in 3 areas, Digital Asset Management system AI Based metatags More secure CDN and REST API to share content All these three features play a huge role in Acoustic Content CMS in terms of finding matching images for our content, categorize …
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I have never had any experience without IBM applications but I can confirm that compared to other content tools provided by IBM, this is one of the complete packages.
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I haven't had experience outside of the IBM applications but can confirm that compared to other content tools provided by IBM, this is one of the more complete packages.
Adobe Experience Manager
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End to end capabilities as well as integrations with upstream and downstream systems to make work flows, easier and faster time to market
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Ams support and great customer satisfaction
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SSO is one fits all, so we don't have to have a separate SSO for each application of Adobe
The integration with Analytics works perfectly and bring directly value really quickly
Target remains more complicated to set up, but can also bring a lot of value once integrated with …
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Drupal and WordPress
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It has great connectivity with Adobe Experience Manager, you send analytics data, OsGi, components, servlets, workflows, personalization.
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WordPress, Joomla! and Notion
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support both headless and traditional content mgmt capabilities
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Adobe Marketo Engage and HubSpot CRM
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Adobe Campaign and Adobe Target
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AEM feels more enterprise ready
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Adobe Experience Manager is what I use most frequently. While the other tools I listed above are important, they are ultimately a secondary tool utilized on a need by need basis where as AEM is what we use daily for content creation, content updates, content optimization, etc.
Chose Adobe Experience Manager
AEM is comparable to Sitecore and less agile than Bynder, but Adobe products were already being used across the org and adding AEM allowed us to link it all together.
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They all do the same thing pretty much, but we are on the Adobe architecture so it made sense to go with AEM
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RWS Tridion Sites
Features
Acoustic ContentAdobe Experience Manager
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.4
Ratings
4% above category average
Adobe Experience Manager
8.4
Ratings
2% above category average
Role-based user permissions8.40 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.4
Ratings
10% above category average
Adobe Experience Manager
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
API8.30 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.40 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.6
Ratings
11% above category average
Adobe Experience Manager
7.5
Ratings
2% below category average
WYSIWYG editor7.40 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.30 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Admin section8.30 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Page templates8.30 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Library of website themes9.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.40 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Form generator9.40 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.8
Ratings
18% above category average
Adobe Experience Manager
7.3
Ratings
1% above category average
Content taxonomy8.30 Ratings7.70 Ratings
SEO support8.40 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Bulk management8.90 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions9.40 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Community / comment management8.90 Ratings7.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
Acoustic ContentAdobe Experience Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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8.2
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Usability
-
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8.0
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Availability
-
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8.6
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Performance
-
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8.0
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Support Rating
-
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7.2
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Implementation Rating
-
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8.7
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User Testimonials
Acoustic ContentAdobe Experience Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
It is advisable to create custom designs that call for specific programs and content without giving direct access to those programs. We still have to meet the proposed use case where it should not be used.
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I'll answer the second one because I mean, the first one I don't have an issue with. The second scenario is we oftentimes have the need to spin off very small campaign style sites or sites that generate leads but are unbranded and that sort of thing. So that's hard to do in AEM because you have to then create another organization within AEM to do that. And we're talking about sites that are maybe five to 10 pages in size. So we've been investigating Edge, but then that's a different workflow, so we'd have to train people on that. So it would be nice if there was something within the AEM structure that could allow you to do something very similar to Edge, where you make some small micro sites that are not necessarily branded, that you could still host within the platform and not have to retrain everybody on a completely different platform.
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Pros
  • Ease of use of the tool
  • Fast results for sales from automated merchandising
  • Great insight into top performers
  • Good support
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  • It allows us to scale so that we can make a change on a global footer. And it applies to all of the different property websites. It allows us to set up components and compartmentalize things in a way. The big thing is that it's scalable. And then it also ties into Adobe Analytics and other Adobe products. So we are a complete Adobe shop. Every Adobe product that we can use, we use. I don't think we do it for marketing so much, but for doing target testing and analytics, data scientists are using the same product and so it all speaks.
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Cons
  • Application is less user friendly as some of the commonly used functions even hidden inside menus.
  • Community support is very low as Acoustic Content is not widely used by many people.
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  • easier way to make universal changes for multiple websites at a time (ie pushing out a new experience fragment to all as opposed to having to individually add to each site)
  • easier way to get site images to look and be sized exactly as I want directly from the site page editor
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Likelihood to Renew
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We had and still have a fantastic experience using Adobe CQ. Lots of flexibility, great integration with other Adobe products we already use and a powerful technology make it a great fit for our corporate environment. Also as the community grows, it makes it easier to network with other developers and users to get new ideas on how to continue to get the best out of the software.
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Usability
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Sure there are a few quirks in the interface, but once you learn them, building and editing pages is fast and efficient. Once you have the content and the planned design decided (how the pages will look and which components you will use), page builds and publishing are quick. I was able to build a 10-page specialized site with cards built using the list component in an afternoon
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Reliability and Availability
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Being part of Adobe Suite means you are already notified when the tool has any outages. However, I have never faced unplanned outages. Whenever you face any issue with the site, it is clearly stated if there were any planned outages and how quickly you will be back to normal. So, I will say that even the outages are planned and managed in a great way like their other services.
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Performance
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With respect to performance, Adobe experience manager is one of the best in the CMS space. We didn't observe frequent slowness on platform, however the systems which are accessing experience manager should be of good specifications without which slowness would be observed. Adobe experience manager works well in integration with other solutions, unless the destination application is designed to trigger frequent calls to AEM.
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Support Rating
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Adobe Experience Manager, in all its capacity, is a great alternative to any other CMS you are using. It helps in rapid development and makes life easier for maintaining the website for multi-language sites. Technical know-how is eliminated at content authoring. Better documentation in terms of live examples with videos would be appreciated.
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Implementation Rating
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Depending on your individual needs, It is really quite simple to create an authoring experience for a website that looks really good. I have been part of many implementations and many teams and have seen many projects that were super successful and others that were not implemented well. AEM has room for a lot of flexibility in the implementation process compared to other CMS like SharePoint
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Alternatives Considered
Acoustic Content stands out mainly in 3 areas, Digital Asset Management system AI Based metatags More secure CDN and REST API to share content All these three features play a huge role in Acoustic Content CMS in terms of finding matching images for our content, categorize and sort our content automatically and finally secure way to publish our content.
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SSO is one fits all, so we don't have to have a separate SSO for each application of Adobe The integration with Analytics works perfectly and bring directly value really quickly Target remains more complicated to set up, but can also bring a lot of value once integrated with the rest of the Adobe platform The fact that the solution is Cloud services is also a big advantage for maintenance
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Return on Investment
  • Freed up user time to call a variety of applications quicker.
  • Allowed developer an easier tool to integrate other applications for end users.
  • Allowed us to have a single method of application implementation and usage that is easier to debug, saving time.
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  • Makes it easy to reuse components across multiple pages and site, which reduces the overhead needed to create all the individual components.
  • Improves business process agility by allowing users to easily create entirely new pages or content by using existing templates
  • Increases conversion rates across our sites by enabling a more consistent experience for users
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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

Adobe Experience Manager Screenshots

Screenshot of AEM Forms - Creates an adaptive formScreenshot of AEM Forms - themes libraryScreenshot of AEM Forms - where to create a templateScreenshot of AEM Forms - the interactive communications editorScreenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - document-based authoring enables marketers to create and publish content with familiar tools.Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - Universal Editor, an advanced visual editor, empowers marketers to edit and publish content.