Acoustic Content vs. MODX

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
MODX
Score 9.0 out of 10
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The MODX Digital Experience Platform provides everything you need to build, host, and maintain amazing websites your way. The vendor says that with MODX CMS and cloud hosting, users have complete control over their creative vision and the experiences they deliver, without restriction or compromise. They can focus more on building great digital experiences, and less on hosting and maintaining. If you ever need help, MODX Professionals are available worldwide and direct support from…
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Pricing
Acoustic ContentMODX
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
Base
$39
per month
Pro
$99
per month
Business
$349
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Acoustic ContentMODX
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsPAYMENT FORMS MODX Cloud accepts major credit cards and PayPal for your hosting subscription. We can only accept check (cheque) payments on the Enterprise Plan, annually. CANCELLATION You may cancel your MODX Cloud account at any time. Before you cancel you'll be reminded to backup and remove all your live websites and then follow the instructions for cancellation. If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. REFUNDS If you cancel within the first month, we'll provide you with a full refund. All other cancellations will be effective at the end of your current billing period. We do not provide refunds for remaining days or months on monthly or annual billing.
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Community Pulse
Acoustic ContentMODX
Considered Both Products
Acoustic Content
Chose Acoustic Content
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 …
Chose Acoustic Content
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.
Chose Acoustic Content
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.
MODX
Chose MODX
After having built sites with wordpress, joomla, drupal, october cms, craft cms, magento, presstashop, opencart, os commerce and more it is my number 1 (october cms is 2).

Chose MODX
The other company that we looked into was Wordpress and all of the features that it offered our organization. What MODX offered to us from development to everyday use just made more sense for our organization as a whole. Wordpress is still a great CMS platform, just not exactly …
Chose MODX
As said before, MODX is a coder's dream because of the flexibility it provides to own your code and has true creative freedom. Because of that, there is a bigger learning curve when it comes to a non-developer trying to iterate on the CMS with content additions and changes. To …
Features
Acoustic ContentMODX
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.4
Ratings
4% above category average
MODX
9.9
Ratings
20% above category average
Role-based user permissions8.40 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Acoustic Content
8.4
Ratings
10% above category average
MODX
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
API8.30 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.40 Ratings9.90 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
MODX
9.4
Ratings
20% above category average
WYSIWYG editor7.40 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.30 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Admin section8.30 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Page templates8.30 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Library of website themes9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.40 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Form generator9.40 Ratings9.90 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
MODX
9.5
Ratings
26% above category average
Content taxonomy8.30 Ratings9.90 Ratings
SEO support8.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Bulk management8.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions9.40 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Community / comment management8.90 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Acoustic ContentMODX
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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9.9
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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10.0
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Usability
-
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10.0
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Availability
-
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10.0
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Performance
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
-
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10.0
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Configurability
-
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10.0
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Ease of integration
-
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10.0
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Product Scalability
-
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10.0
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Vendor post-sale
-
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10.0
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Vendor pre-sale
-
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Acoustic ContentMODX
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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In my opinion, MODX is usually the choice of a developer who wants to build out custom designs that create really interesting web pages, but when it comes to being easily used and edited by your marketing team, you can run into a lot of issues and end up making simple changes a more involved process.
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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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  • Custom design capabilities.
  • Works well with plugins.
  • Permission systems for users.
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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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  • Content Blocks - I mentioned this as a strength, but it also has its quirks. There are times that things do not function properly within the content blocks we have set up.
  • More Customization - The ability for the average user to customize more without having to know a ton of code.
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Likelihood to Renew
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It is the CMS we use the most, not because we know it well but because we literally tried many of other CMS and this one did it for us.
However having said we really do not like the one shoe fits all approach. E..g for eCommerce we usually use PrestaShop etc. if a specialized CMS can do a task rather use that.
However for a general CMS [MODX] is hard to beat.
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Usability
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Great and easy to use for both the coder and the end user. Especially if setup correctly by the coder.
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Reliability and Availability
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We have not had it go down due to bugs etc. especially when comparing it to other cms out there.
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Performance
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Damn its fast. really good page speed out of the box.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Great community support on slack.
If you have a paid plugin great support also esp from modmore
If you have cloud hosting MODX support is fast and all servers are optimized for MODX
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Implementation Rating
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Good system
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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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The other company that we looked into was WordPress and all of the features that it offered our organization. What MODX offered to us from development to everyday use just made more sense for our organization as a whole. WordPress is still a great CMS platform, just not exactly what we were looking for.
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Scalability
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Very scalable. e.g. in the [MODX] manager you can manage multiple websites at once without having to login else where. it is very convenient and this way resources and be easily managed and shared.
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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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  • The positive impact that MODX has had on our organization is that it has allowed us to generate more organic traffic to our site.
  • We are also able to push more paid advertisements to our site on our lead generation landing pages.
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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

MODX Screenshots

Screenshot of MODX Manager InterfaceScreenshot of SEO Management - page levelScreenshot of Screenshot of Easy editing landing pageScreenshot of Edit files directlyScreenshot of Create & edit custom fields