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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Engage121

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AEngage121 Enterprise is a social media management, monitoring, publishing and reporting application serving multiple users across an enterprise – from brand managers, community managers, and the marketing team through to individual outlet owners.N/A

    Magnolia

    Score9.9 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
    Engage121Magnolia
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Engage121Magnolia
    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
    Engage121Magnolia
    Considered Both Products
    Engage121
    No answer on this topic
    Magnolia
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    58 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    Features
    Engage121Magnolia
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    7.2
    3 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Boolean keyword searches3.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Content planning and scheduling8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    7.9
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Lead generation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    4.3
    3 Ratings
    64% below category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Twitter6.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+5.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    6.8
    2 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign success analytics6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions & privileges8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    68 Ratings
    4% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.561 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.761 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.0
    74 Ratings
    2% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.565 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.465 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.070 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings8.972 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.563 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings7.573 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings6.958 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Engage121 and Magnolia
    Feature
    Engage121
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    7.5
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.663 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings7.263 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings7.657 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.962 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings6.951 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Engage121Magnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.1
    (78 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (68 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (67 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Engage121Magnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Engage121
    Who is using the platform? How many users might you have? How often would you be using the platform?
    Incentivized
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    Magnolia
    Magnolia is a very capable DXP, that provides client with lots of flexibility in composing its own stack. While the core of the platform is a content management system, the open architecture of Magnolia DXP allows it to connect to any platform, allowing client to extend the capabilities. One scenario would be a centralized content hub - where through a single platform, content authors can choose which channel to distribute what content. For example, long form content for consumers viewing on a laptop, short form content for those using a mobile browser. This allow the client to personalized the experience based on channels. Another scenarios would be leveraging on GenAI - using Magnolia's built-in connector to ChatGPT. If that is not the service that one desire, you can always connect to another AI service such as Google Gemini. With GenAI, connected, content author can use AI as co-pilot to help them scale up their content production.
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    Pros
    Engage121
    • It does a good job of allowing for scheduling social media posts in advance.
    Incentivized
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    Magnolia
    • Speed of development - time to delivery from zero to MVP was excellent
    • Ease of use - the authoring experience is very easy to build and train
    • PAAS/SAAS - the managed service platform removed the traditional overhead of running in-house technologies, meaning we could focus on value add, with less time spent keeping the lights on.
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    Cons
    Engage121
    • Uploading images after you start a post
    • Analytics could be better
    Incentivized
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    Magnolia
    • The documentation provides samples that are often out of context, and difficult to know where the provided example code should be implemented. More tutorials providing the full project or step-by-step instructions on how to implement subject material would help greatly. Baeldung is a resource I would consider the gold standard in how this is done in other spaces.
    • The use of JCR and Nodes makes object serialization/deserialization painful. Jackson compatibility or similar would be a welcome enhancement to the developer experience. Maybe leveraging code-gen from light modules to build model classes when possible could help accomplish this.
    • Modifying the home layout from light modules is frustrating. It seems that any configuration overrides made merge with the default rather than overwriting, which makes for a difficult combination of guess-and-check while referencing the documentation to see what should be in each row/column when making changes.
    • Including "mark all as read" or "delete all" in the notifications app would be a great quality of life improvement. It seems that by default, users have to individually select messages and operate them.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Engage121
    We are choosing a new platform to go with. It is not my choice to leave Engage121, but it has the majority of the capabilities that we need to get things done. That said, if needed, I would choose to use it.
    Incentivized
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    Magnolia
    We have invested a lot of time and energy into tailoring a solution that works for the company.
    We think the new features in v6.2 will help us get to the next level
    We also don't have the resources to rebuild a website platform from scratch even if we wanted to
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Engage121
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    We've shown it to a number of users both clients and our own team and despite initial apprehensions, they "get it" very quickly. It's intuitive and friendly and quick to perform daily tasks. We once had a client tell us "Using Magnolia makes me smile" which says it all for us.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Engage121
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    I gave [it] 7/10 only because of the loading time of pages. Otherwise, I think it deserves an 8. Normally this is not an issue per [se] but considering the rating matrix and as I have been asked to honestly write about it. Yes, the page loading times could be improved.
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    Support Rating
    Engage121
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    You always get an answer based on your SLA. But you always get a solution. That's the successfactor in this case. To often i was frustrated about people in a company without even a clue what there product is about or how to solve a problem. Magnolia's Support Team does a very good job and try to help you in most of the cases
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    Alternatives Considered
    Engage121
    Manalto is a platform that's identical to E121. One good thing about Manalto is the uploading images function. You can upload them anytime in the posting process
    Incentivized
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    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
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    Return on Investment
    Engage121
    • Scheduling posts ahead
    Incentivized
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    Magnolia
    • Magnolia has brought about positive impacts. For instance, we need not outsource web design and marketing services because thanks to this software, we can handle most work inhouse
    • The software is affordable with no compromises on capabilities and therefore it is gives us value for money.
    • The templates makes the whole process easy
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Magnolia Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Magnolia App Launcher, used to switch between workspaces and manage pagesScreenshot of the customer experience. This brings together content and audiovisual digital assets to form more compelling digital experiences.Screenshot of global search that brings relevant content, no matter where it resides.Screenshot of customizing the ecommerce experience.Screenshot of Magnolia Orchestratem where users can manage and track campaignsScreenshot of the WYSIWYG page editor