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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drupal

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ADrupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A

    Magnolia

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Founded in Switzerland in 1997, Magnolia is a CMS used to build composable digital experiences. Magnolia helps create fully integrated customer experiences and speeds up digital delivery of content. Magnolia boasts 480 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world. They further state that their enterprise customers include Sanofi, Generali, the Atlassian, The New York Times, Harley Davidson, and Union…

    $3,500

    per month

    Pricing
    DrupalMagnolia
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DrupalMagnolia
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DrupalMagnolia
    Considered Both Products
    Drupal.org
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    Magnolia
    Chose Magnolia
    I've used a number of Content Management Systems in the past that have similar features to Magnolia including custom ones that aren't widely used or can be listed, but Drupal is probably the most comparable. I would say that Drupal is more kind to custom code and overall …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is not as costly as other enterprise grade platforms and is easier to deploy, more reliable and less resource hungry. It's often also easier to use and certainly easier to use than it's Open Source counterparts. It also manages content in a much more structured manner …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Cost was prohibitive for SiteCore. We liked the support that Magnolia gives us in terms of being an actual Company. We love open-source, but have had problems with Umbraco in the past in terms of upgrade paths etc.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Of all the ones we looked at that met our requirements Magnolia was clearly the best value for money and had a solid background that you could trust and that could take care of you in case of problems.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Putting all together: capabilities, support, community and price... Magnolia is the best combination, maybe not the best on each aspect, but for sure in the combination
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia has an automatic, and speedy social media publication extension, which spread content to all social sites. Also, the insertion of extensions and plugins is more effective when on Magnolia against the opponents. Magnolia admits and adopts diversity, hence, it is a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Our enterprise selected Magnolia.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is a java based CMS system and the features it comes with satisfied the needs of the project.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    I evaluated many CMS products and I’m continuing to evaluate them to verify the new functionality introduced.

    I evaluated these products: Alfresco, Apache Lenya, DotCMS, Drupal, Liferay, Hippo, Joomla, OpenCMS. I chose Magnolia because Magnolia offers two licensed community …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DrupalMagnolia
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Drupal and Magnolia
    Feature
    Drupal
    2.0
    66 Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    70 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions2.066 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal and Magnolia
    Feature
    Drupal
    7.7
    63 Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    API9.358 Ratings8.562 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.054 Ratings7.762 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal and Magnolia
    Feature
    Drupal
    5.3
    69 Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor1.062 Ratings8.566 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.366 Ratings8.466 Ratings
    Admin section3.069 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Page templates4.068 Ratings8.973 Ratings
    Library of website themes3.059 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design10.063 Ratings8.564 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.367 Ratings7.574 Ratings
    Form generator3.064 Ratings6.959 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal and Magnolia
    Feature
    Drupal
    5.0
    68 Ratings
    Magnolia
    7.5
    70 Ratings
    Content taxonomy10.063 Ratings7.664 Ratings
    SEO support1.063 Ratings7.264 Ratings
    Bulk management10.059 Ratings7.658 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions2.062 Ratings7.963 Ratings
    Community / comment management2.062 Ratings6.952 Ratings
    User Ratings
    DrupalMagnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.0
    (78 ratings)
    8.1
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (18 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    3.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (69 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)