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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

    SAP Customer Data Solutions

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP Customer Data Cloud, based on Gigya (acquired by SAP in 2017) is a product suite that allows users to identify consumers, business customers, or partners across devices and channels to drive registrations and engagement; manage access, permission, and consent; and transform data into unified customer profiles.N/A
    Pricing
    MagnoliaSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Editions & Modules
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    MagnoliaSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MagnoliaSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Considered Both Products
    Magnolia
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    58 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    Features
    MagnoliaSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Magnolia and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Magnolia and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    68 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
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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 SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.0
    74 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
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    Ratings
    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 SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Magnolia
    7.5
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
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    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
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Magnolia and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.8
    27 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Tag library00 Ratings7.826 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Page load times00 Ratings7.925 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging00 Ratings7.524 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings7.623 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Magnolia and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.5
    28 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings4.227 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings9.926 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Magnolia and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    6.4
    29 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Account Scoring00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance00 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    Data Connectors00 Ratings4.329 Ratings
    Data Enhancement00 Ratings5.229 Ratings
    Data Ingestion00 Ratings6.129 Ratings
    Data Storage00 Ratings2.529 Ratings
    Data Visibility00 Ratings8.029 Ratings
    Event Data00 Ratings6.127 Ratings
    Identity Resolution00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    MagnoliaSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (78 ratings)
    9.0
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (68 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (57 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (67 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MagnoliaSAP Customer Data Solutions
    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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    SAP
    It's best suited for business business to turn digital interaction in to richer and high value and experience that reach across computing platform also it offers a holistic and integrated approach to managing customer data and enhancing and personalized experience.it also draw actionable insights.because it offers wide range of products . perfect customer insight data solutions
    Incentivized
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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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    SAP
    • SAP's Customer Data Solutions provide a comprehensive customer view by collecting detailed data, including age, web activity, and buying history.
    • The software's strong analytics features give valuable information about how customers use content and products, so we can enhance our strategies.
    • SAP Customer Data Solutions offers insights to create specific marketing campaigns that sort audiences by preferences, browsing, and purchase behavior.
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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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    SAP
    • I find the interface a bit complex and challenging to navigate. I remember having difficultly grasping it completely especially when I was new to the system. Simplifying the user experience would make it more accessible for everyone, making tasks quicker and more intuitive.
    • integrating it seamlessly with other software and platforms could enhance its functionality. I would really really love an integration between BenchMark email marketing tool.
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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
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    SAP
    On the whole I am really impressed with SAP Customer Data Solutions and would highly recommend that other professionals look at this software to enhance their B2C and B2B sales
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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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    SAP
    We mostly work with the API which is of very good quality and is well documented.However, some of our success is also due to having very talented developers on staff, and also understanding advanced gamification design. The tool supports a talented team! It won't actually do everything for you automatically.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The platform pulls data from multiple sources, cleaning, and restructuring it allowing us to expand our growth opportunities by providing highly tailored suggestions on each page for our visitors which made it tremendously simple for us to provide rich and customized experiences to our visitors in the best way possible.
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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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    SAP
    There are some latency issues. The 24 hour caching problem mentioned earlier is a problem. Sometimes the Gigya system makes two calls instead of a single call if we go directly to the social platform. For this reason, it's sometimes more efficient to go direct rather than use Gigya.
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    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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    SAP
    We have had multiple instances of help from Gigya to get our custom implementation working, including detailed technical assistance to a third party. We have found Gigya to be thorough and timely in their responses to all queries, which are consistently excellent.
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    In-Person Training
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    because it was made directly in the company
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    Online Training
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    They trained me in a train the trainer model. I then trained the internal team. Total training was about two hours, with an additional two hours for system setup.
    Training was maybe a little thin, but the system was fairly easy to learn and this wasn't really a problem.
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    Implementation Rating
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    There was a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, and perhaps we were unclear on some of our requirements. Once they figured out what we wanted though, things went pretty smoothly. Just some minor hiccups in the beginning
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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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    SAP
    Resources and specialized IT personnel is needed for the effective administration and deployment of Informatica Customer 360. This resource-intensive for smaller organizations. Although Informatica has the ability to integrate, the process of setting up and establishing these integrations can be difficult and may call for programming experience.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    because the platform actually allows you to scale at any time if designed following best practices
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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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    SAP
    • Having a single, stremlined point of entry for the customers improves the overall customer experience
    • By the same reason, maintenance costs are reduced because interventions focus on a single object
    • It's versatile in its integration so there is no need to change the surrounding software ecosystem
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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

    SAP Customer Data Solutions Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customer Login in SAP Enterprise Consent and Preference ManagementScreenshot of User Identities report dashboardScreenshot of Search by Custom Fields windowScreenshot of Customer Data DataflowScreenshot of Account InformationScreenshot of SAP Customer Data Platform