Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) vs. Magnolia

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Liferay 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
Score 8.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Founded in 1997 with a vision to create the first truly open content management system, Magnolia is presented as a fast way to launch digital experiences. With a mission to help clients move fast and stay flexible and boasting users among brands like Atlassian and The New York Times, Magnolia DXP supports industries ranging from automotive to telecommunications, offering enterprise features and headless agility to help them stay ahead. From humble beginnings in Basel, Magnolia's…N/A
Pricing
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
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 Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

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Magnolia
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Chose Magnolia
Magnolia well placed ahead of the competition thanks to its price points, features and usability ratings.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Ratings
Magnolia
8.1
66 Ratings
1% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.166 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Ratings
Magnolia
8.0
64 Ratings
4% above category average
API00 Ratings8.457 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Ratings
Magnolia
8.0
70 Ratings
4% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.561 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.561 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings7.966 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings8.968 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings7.669 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.356 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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Ratings
Magnolia
7.6
65 Ratings
3% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.660 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.259 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings7.954 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.158 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings7.448 Ratings
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User Ratings
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
(4 ratings)
8.1
(74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(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)
User Testimonials
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)Magnolia
Likelihood to Recommend
Liferay, Inc.
Liferay Portal is a framework which comes with a fine grained security/permission model, (Web) Content Management, Authentication and Authorization, outbox portlets with different features to manage content or users. So if any business application has below questions then I can recommend not to use Liferay as a platform.
  • Application is big but not content or user driven.
  • Application with few static contents.
  • Application with batch transactions(DB) i.e. insert , update db records in batch.
  • Application with ERP capabilities.
  • Application with Big Data support.
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Magnolia
Magnolia is very well suited to scenarios where there are multiple end points for content eg. apps, remote devices, websites etc. and with multiple users. Magnolia is very good at working with different "shapes" of content so it's not necessarily all about HTML content for the web which tends to be the default for a number of other products of this nature. This means that it's more logical for people to work with structured data and easier for the applications to sort and manage that content when they receive it.
This works really well when you have multiple team members (often in multiple locations). We've had clients who've had people in twelve European locations with sixteen languages and they can share skills and resources between them but still manage their own content.
Magnolia is less appropriate for SMEs who have fewer digital assets and content. It's not to say that it can't be done but it's more that the budget would not necessarily fit.
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Pros
Liferay, Inc.
  • Personalization
  • Business to client relationship
  • Customer management is better.
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Magnolia
  • Use of YAML to define content models with code.
  • Versatility of defining actions for custom handlers.
  • Reloading classes when code is modified in a local dev environment is nice. While it doesn't seem to work when changes extend beyond the method body (i.e., adding methods), it remediates the pain of long startup times.
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Cons
Liferay, Inc.
  • Harder to get started
  • Enterprise level of options can cause confusion
  • Development documentation could be better
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Magnolia
  • As a developer the learning curve is long, you can start developing relatively quickly but getting to know the platform in depth takes time.
  • Having a history of modifications not only at the page level but also at the Content Apps level would be very useful.
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Likelihood to Renew
Liferay, Inc.
We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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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
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Usability
Liferay, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Magnolia
There are a ton of small things that could make this CMS great Off the top of my head... 1) Better navigation between a component and its corresponding node in the jcr ( devs often have to flip between a page and a spot in the jcr even though there could be a button to take you from a page/component in the pages app to its location in the JCR) 2) Why does a content editor need to open the page to edit the page properties? They could just as easily edit the dialog from the tree view if they have many pages to touch, and it would save them time by not having to render the page.
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Performance
Liferay, Inc.
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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
Liferay, Inc.
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
Liferay, Inc.
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Magnolia
Prior to using Magnolia as an enterprise CMS solution, different teams leveraged different website platforms including WordPress, Weebly, and others. While these other platforms may be slightly more user friendly to the content editor, they don't offer nearly the same amount of customization and digital best practices out of the box that are customizable by web development teams like Magnolia does. The other solutions may work better for a quicker/simpler web implementation without technical resources but don't have the depth and breadth of capability and functionality that Magnolia has and fall flat.
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Return on Investment
Liferay, Inc.
  • Create a good environment
  • Resolution is not so much better.
  • Have a long things to do.
  • Content management is better off.
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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
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ScreenShots

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) features a unified look and feel that makes site administration a breeze.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) comes with blogs out-of-the-box, designed to give enterprises a slick blogging experience similar to what they're used to with consumer platforms.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.

Magnolia Screenshots

Screenshot of the customer experience: Brings together content and audiovisual digital assets to form more compelling digital experiences.Screenshot of the Magnolia App Launcher, used to switch between workspaces and manage pagesScreenshot of Magnolia's native analytics integration framework, used to take advantage of data directly in the authoring UI, coupled to content.Screenshot of global search that brings relevant content, no matter where it resides.Screenshot of customizing the ecommerce experience.