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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

    Sprinklr Social

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASprinklr Social is a Social Media Management platform for enterprise teams managing social publishing, scheduling, engagement, and employee advocacy. It centralizes social operations across more than 30 social and messaging channels for distributed marketing, communications, and customer-facing teams. The platform also supports Social Media Publishing, Employee Advocacy, and Social Media Analytics through content scheduling, approved employee content sharing, and…N/A
    Pricing
    MagnoliaSprinklr Social
    Editions & Modules
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Custom Social Media Management Solution
    Custom, quote-based pricing
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MagnoliaSprinklr Social
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Pricing is completely custom, quote-based upon request.
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    Community Pulse
    MagnoliaSprinklr Social
    Considered Both Products
    Magnolia
    No answer on this topic
    Sprinklr
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    58 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    MagnoliaSprinklr Social
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Sprinklr Social
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    68 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Sprinklr Social
    -
    Ratings
    API8.561 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.761 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.0
    74 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Sprinklr Social
    -
    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 Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    7.5
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Sprinklr Social
    -
    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
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.7
    57 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings7.753 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings7.354 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.253 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.8
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.854 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.249 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.647 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings7.851 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    8.4
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings8.348 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.454 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings8.552 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.1
    49 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.035 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings8.241 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings5.936 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.243 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    6.8
    60 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings9.457 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings7.458 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings6.344 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings6.230 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings7.257 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings5.930 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings5.242 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    8.1
    59 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.055 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.458 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.041 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Magnolia and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.556 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings6.750 Ratings
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    Score7 out of 10
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    Score7.1 out of 10
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MagnoliaSprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (78 ratings)
    9.0
    (85 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (68 ratings)
    7.3
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (67 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (34 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MagnoliaSprinklr Social
    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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    Sprinklr
    In my perspective, I would say Sprinklr Modern Sales &
    Engagement is best suited for teams and organizations who are more involved in
    automating social media activities, getting a great analytical report on
    activity engagement, and generating lists and bolds that helps determine the
    trends and events, etc. One of the best tools that one could use for clients
    with every information they would need.
    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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    Sprinklr
    • Customization - Through Sprinklr's rules and robust custom field creation, you really can create a lot of customization for every facet of your business.
    • Listening - Their Listening Engine and Explorer are fantastic ways to proactively find engagement-friendly conversations, in addition competitively research your brand.
    • Care - Using their case formatting, messages and customer contacts can be routed and assigned easily to available reps, and their bot builder can help to automate your contacts without sacrificing a personal touch.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    • Overall, Sprinklr rewards users to do a lot of digging on their own to get to the more in-depth functionalities. For instance, the asset manager feature leads you to a dashboard with all the content you ever published but doesn't tell you what to do next or how to organize it
    • Sprinklr offers basic social listening features, but it is much more limited than other pure social listening players like Crimson Hexagon or Brandwatch. It is perfectly usable for a quick search but I wouldn't recommend it as your sole social listening platform
    Incentivized
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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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    Sprinklr
    I really do feel that Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media program. It covers everything you would need to do to run a strategic social media program. On top of that, the success managers are really the best. Our success manager goes above and beyond for us and has been so helpful to us with setting up some very specific repots and profiles. Paul (our CSM) has been great about keeping us up to date on the latest features and functionality as well as helping us set up innovative dashboards as need
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    The user interface, training via Sprinklr university and detailed articles on almost every topic in the knowledge portal make Sprinklr a complete package. This is also GDPR compliant, helping us stay good with the info security. The layout of the navigation is easy and anyone new to the tool won't be overwhelmed
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Our account partners at Sprinklr are not only responsive to out needs, both domestically and internationally, but have consistently approached us with ideas on how to improve our communication and collaboration in a proactive manner.
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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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    Sprinklr
    Perfornace is not aan issue. The issues/bugs with this software are few and far between. And when one pops up the 24/7 support team is helpful, quick and informative.
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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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    Sprinklr
    Support is amazing. We have had to reach out [to] them only a few times in the past few years. Each time, they were back in touch with us within the hour or two, no matter the time. We've always had our issues addressed quickly and promptly corrected. They are a great team to work with.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    I don't recall our training in detail. I know we met in person a few times, and did some over-the-phone product walk-throughs. It may have been somewhat informal -- I don't recall having any takeaways to refer to.
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    Online Training
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Through multiple webinars, easily accessible training documents, and ad-hoc sessions with my account manager I am never left in the dark when I have a question.
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    Implementation Rating
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    The implementation personnel at Sprinklr are top-notch. They will work with you to make sure they setup Sprinklr in a way that best aligns with your structural needs
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    As much as I get frustrated with Sprinklr, Sprinklr is a much cleaner platform than others I have used and I do obtain good data from the reports due to my custom filters, allowing me to pass along education onto product teams in regards to their specific lines.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Always start simple with Sprinklr, e.g. one client. You can easily grow over time adding products/units/regions, etc
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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
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    • Reports can be customized and exported easily in many different formats. I especially like the PowerPoint version of reports. It quickly and professionally creates a custom slideshow to show the metrics of the platforms and time periods you choose. This is a great way to keep your company's C-level executives informed on your team's progress and investing in your efforts. This is especially true for executives that do not personally use or understand the value of social media.
    • Brand reputation management is always a great investment. The dashboard alerts you in real-time when your brand or product is mentioned across any of the platforms and offers a quick and efficient way to respond. The Sprinklr customer experience cloud can be implemented across your entire organization, including CRM and email systems.
    • If you're not growing you're dying. That alone helps me with the ROI of using Sprinklr for my client's business objectives.
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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