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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) vs. Magnolia

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ALiferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.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
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.—
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    Community Pulse
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
    Considered Both Products
    Liferay, Inc.
    Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) feels more professional than other similar products I tried or used. With this, I mainly mean the look or aspect when you are editing, setting or configuring anything in the platform, wether you are setting users, roles, creating new …
    Incentivized
    Magnolia
    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
    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 well placed ahead of the competition thanks to its price points, features and usability ratings.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Magnolia
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    70 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Magnolia
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    API00 Ratings8.562 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.762 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Magnolia
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.566 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.466 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings8.973 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.564 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings7.574 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings6.959 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Magnolia
    Feature
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    7.5
    70 Ratings
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.664 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings7.264 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings7.658 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.963 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings6.952 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (69 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)