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    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
    Magnolia
    Editions & Modules
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Magnolia
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Magnolia
    Considered Both Products
    Magnolia
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia DXP offers similar or more capability compared to the other platform, while much easier to implement. For example, Adobe Experience Manager tend to be more monolithic in nature, heavier footprint compared to Magnolia. Hence when implementing a DXP, it is much faster to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    The Broadleaf CMS was quite basic and was not a full fledged CMS and hence we had to chose Magnolia to address the business requirement for our B2B platform
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    I need to specific and say I've had experiences of these platform from previous roles, they were not considered by Good Things Foundation.

    My experience is that Magnolia delivers the power of these high end platforms but is generally more accessible to get going and develop …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is in a league of it's own vs the other platforms I have previously used. Rather than being a turnkey solution Magnolia puts the power into the hands of your company and developers allowing you to build anything you can imagine. Being a DXP rather than a CMS Magnolia …
    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
    I've used several CMSs like AEM and EpiServer, and comparatively, they all excel at different things. Magnolia is the best to develop for/against. Episerver has the best/most fluid UI in terms of content editing, and the overall admin experience AEM is just all around sucks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Similar to how one might choose a specific programming language to solve a specific problem, Magnolia has its place among the rest, depending on the use case. While it does not have the most pleasant user experience compared to others, its customization options are streets …
    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
    For us, Magnolia is the best option for our needs. FirstSpirit by eSpirit is missing on the list. We are moving away from FirstSpirit as it feels outdated. Wix has better usability, but is not suitable for enterprise. WordPress I would only recommend for private projects. …
    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
    I choose Magnolia in front of everyone since it is one of the content managers that best adapts to all the modifications that are required by businesses
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia gains in ease of content creation but loses in documentation and practical examples for developers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    One of the most important points that magnolia has over other products is the possibility of extending its functionalities. Being open-source, it is possible to inspect how everything is done and replicate it to change functionalities. In this way, many features that customers …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    When developing, I find Magnolia is better in many different ways, mainly in the consistency of how to create new components and page templates.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    I use magnolia because my client asked for it in the beginning because he had a long history of using magnolia for years. I think magnolia is middle-hight rated in the stack of similar products. Maybe it's not very well-publicized and it needs better marketing techniques or …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Good documentation and examples Online demos to mess with and test functionalities Easier to install Better knowledge about the product Ability to centralize content of the same type in apps Better performance in some scenarios Better usability: In the newest versions, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is a good competitor in the DXP scenario: Reduced costs License costs are contained, what brings customers the ability to develop their business with a minor impact Open source platform It helps customers to adapt the platform to some special needs DXP …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia has all flexible capabilities that offer the user the best cloud marketing experience and great functionalities for effective data analytics generation. Reporting through Magnolia tools is also another important aspect since it allows the production of effective …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Pricing was the major concern for us and we found this to be our option.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Proximus was using Magnolia when I started working.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Used CMS: Hybris CQ5/Adobe CMS AEM
    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
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    Would buy again
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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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    Features
    Magnolia
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Magnolia
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    70 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.170 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Magnolia
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    API8.562 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.762 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Magnolia
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.566 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.466 Ratings
    Admin section8.071 Ratings
    Page templates8.973 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.564 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.574 Ratings
    Form generator6.959 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Magnolia
    Feature
    Magnolia
    7.5
    70 Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.664 Ratings
    SEO support7.264 Ratings
    Bulk management7.658 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.963 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.952 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Magnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (69 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)