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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    monday dev

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/Amonday dev is a product to plan, track, and ship software while staying connected to the business, featuring AI capabilities that allow it to analyze bugs as they are submitted, summarize product documents, and automatically assign tasks.

    $36

    per month 3 seats (minimum)

    Pricing
    Magnoliamonday dev
    Editions & Modules
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Basic
    $12
    per month per seat
    Standard
    $14.5
    per month per seat
    Pro
    $25
    per month per seat
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    Magnoliamonday dev
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Plans start at 3 seats. Yearly save 18%
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    Community Pulse
    Magnoliamonday dev
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    Magnolia
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
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    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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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
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    98%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Magnoliamonday dev
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Magnolia and monday dev
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    2% below category average
    monday dev
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Magnolia and monday dev
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    68 Ratings
    4% above category average
    monday dev
    -
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    API8.561 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.761 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Magnolia and monday dev
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.0
    74 Ratings
    2% above category average
    monday dev
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    WYSIWYG editor8.565 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.465 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.070 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates8.972 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.563 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.573 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.958 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Magnolia and monday dev
    Feature
    Magnolia
    7.5
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    monday dev
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    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.663 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.263 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management7.657 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.962 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.951 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Magnolia and monday dev
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    monday dev
    7.8
    11 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings7.610 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings8.49 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.411 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of Magnolia and monday dev
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    monday dev
    7.5
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Code Review00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Code Collaboration00 Ratings6.87 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Magnoliamonday dev
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (78 ratings)
    8.7
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (68 ratings)
    7.9
    (13 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (67 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Magnoliamonday dev
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    monday.com
    I find Monday helpful for lead management. It's great because details like phone, email, and addresses are specific columns from which we can grab data and pull it into other areas. It's great to see who is assigned what and to know what the next steps are for your leads. We use a different scheduling tool with our team, as that calendar view isn't as robust.
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    Pros
    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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    monday.com
    • Managing specific objectives
    • Automation
    • Integration and interaction with GitHub
    • Scheduling and feedback effectively
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    Cons
    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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    monday.com
    • Sometimes, it's a little technical to set up. Someone who isn't particularly savvy will have a hard time setting it up.
    • Sometimes there are glitches in the automations.
    • The comments areas can be confusing- how they nest. Things can get lost in there.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    monday.com
    We are very likely to renew, because it has been really useful
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    Usability
    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.
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    monday.com
    I give a ten for monday dev's usability because it was a really smooth transition coming from Jira to monday dev. All team members also felt that way. When managing projects, the quality and various options I am able to customize views and columns for each task is really a dealbreaker. Approved.
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    Performance
    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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    monday.com
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    monday.com
    Good engagement from account manager
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    Implementation Rating
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    No I wasn't involved
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    monday.com
    It is at least as good as these tools, in many ways, it is better because it is easier to use and setup. It doesn't require a full-time admin like these tools do. It does lack some of the detailed reporting and such that these offer, but the product is still young and growing. These are much more well-developed tools
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    Return on Investment
    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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    monday.com
    • Although the initial operational cost is usually somewhat high, it is really worth considering in an environment with more than 10 employees working together.
    • In project costing (web development) it is quite acceptable and falls within the scope of the final product quote.
    • I don't have exact numbers or percentages (because I'm not in charge of that section) but I can say that it falls within a good to acceptable ROI range.
    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