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Overview

What is Magnolia?

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…

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Recent Reviews

Personalisation is key

7 out of 10
October 16, 2023
About 3 years ago we looked at updating our CMS solution to something that was more adaptable and allow us to be more personalised with …
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Popular Features

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  • Page templates (68)
    8.9
    89%
  • Role-based user permissions (66)
    8.1
    81%
  • Admin section (66)
    7.9
    79%
  • Publishing workflow (69)
    7.5
    75%

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Pricing

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What is Magnolia?

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…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.1
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.5
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Magnolia?

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 footprint is now global with offices on five continents and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners strategically located around the world.

Magnolia Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: User-level audit trail
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework Features

  • Supported: Java

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.

Magnolia Videos

The strengths of Magnolia in 100 seconds.
How to manage content in Magnolia more efficiently
Magnolia headless with no limits
Introducing the Magnolia Visual SPA Editor
Magnolia - Built for speed

Magnolia Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal

Frequently Asked Questions

Reviewers rate Page templates highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Magnolia are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Magnolia Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)57%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)33%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Andrew Elia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Rapid time to market. We have managed to turn around replatforming projects in a matter of weeks.
  • Integration. The API access is really helpful and we've been able to use this with Python scripts to automate some otherwise laborious batch processing tasks and connect Magnolia with other systems. There's also a Groovy interface which can do some of this for certain types of task. The Groovy console is a little unloved in terms of support but it's really handy if you know what you're doing.
  • We have onboarded and trained staff to use the platform really quickly. It's friendly and accessible to newcomers so while we often get scared looks from new staff when we first tell them about it, they come round to love it very quickly once they see it!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Dramatic reduction in run-the-business content updates being made by our developers.
  • All sites managed in one system with standardized processes for all business partners.
  • Content updates are made and published in a fraction of the time you before we used Magnolia.
Manuel Alejandro Lupión Jiménez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Planning through content release scheduling
  • If the data to be displayed on the page is retrieved from a content app with a lot of data load, the page load is affected
  • The multisite management of the web is much simpler by making use of the live copy module, it reduces the management of the content in the different sites.
January 11, 2022

Magnolia Interview

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Negative: Storage sizes are too bulky
  • Negative: Cleaning processes without deletion of information
  • Positive: simplicity when editing content
  • Positive: Possibility of simple development
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Headless solutions without the need for development
  • Extensive configuration depending on the environment in which it is to be deployed
  • Problems with node corruption, disk space and JCR usage issues
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