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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 the fastest 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, the vendor states a new wave of companies in industries ranging from automotive to telecommunications have made Magnolia their DXP of choice to move fast, using the DXP's enterprise power 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
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Magnolia Downloadables
- Magnolia Feature Catalog: Get a full overview of Magnolia's capabilities and connector packs for a flexible, yet durable digital platform.
- Blueprints for Deep Personalization: Learn the key steps towards building personalized customer experience.
- Head to Headless Report: Visual headless: 1,000 CMS users share their thoughts on the next level of content management and digital experience design.
- Magnolia for the Enterprise: Find out what you can achieve with Magnolia’s enterprise-grade capabilities.
- Magnolia in a Can - Containerization with Magnolia: Learn how to deploy Magnolia as a Docker container based on best practices from our professional services team
Magnolia Integrations
- commercetools
- SAP Commerce Cloud
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- BigCommerce
- Bynder
- CELUM ContentHub
- Cloudinary
- Matomo Analytics (formerly Piwik)
- Adobe Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Adobe Marketo Engage
- Adyen
- Siteimprove
- Elasticsearch
- RabbitMQ
- Apache Solr
- Oracle WebLogic Application Server
- WebSphere Application Server
- GraphQL
- REST APIs
- Magento Commerce
- part of Adobe Commerce Cloud
- CommerceKit
- S3
- Movingimage
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Across Translation
- Microsoft Translator
- Translations.com
- Google Translator
- Biocryptology
- Netlify
- Spring Framework
- Bootstrap
- JBPM
- CAS
- LDAP
- Ehcache
- Memcached
- SiteMesh
- Wildfly
Magnolia Competitors
Magnolia Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 10% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 57% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 33% |
Magnolia Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | Global |
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Magnolia, more than a cms
- Multisite management
- Page translation module
- API Rest
- Message and workflow management
- Improve performance on heavily loaded contentApps
- Generation of contentApps with different nodetypes
Magnolia is cool
- Api Rest
- Page translation
- Multisite management
- Management of informative messages to the user
- Improve performance on heavily loaded content apps
- Information and control of the livecopy actions carried out
Magnolia Interview
- Functional development in Magnolia
- Technical development in Magnolia
- Maintenance at Magnolia
- the interface
- The usability in creating folders and pages
- Information storage
Magnolia, That Great Unknown
- Shows page content
- Easy development
- Intuitive
- Content loading times
- Documentation in the absence of examples
- Content that applies [across] different types of nodes (Example: 2 types of nodes within a content app)
Magnolia is a product that allows a high degree of customization for both publishers and developers
- Ease of page setup for user editors
- Personalization of content based on the characteristics of the visiting user
- Open source makes developers' lives easier
- Intuitive interface
- Use of JCR limits the amount of content that can be handled efficiently.
- The latest version has made it more complicated to customize content apps than in previous versions.
- It has a steep learning curve for new developers.
Large amount of possibilities with low learning time
- API Rest calls
- Organising contents
- Usability by non-technical people
- User interface
- Administration site performance
- More consistency when indicating if a content is published or not
the easiest way to create multiple websites
- fast data search
- fast assets provide
- huge structural data
- UX
- form interface ussage and composition
- logotipe
Magnolia review
- Custom workflows
- Headless capabilities
- Different Author / Public instances
- Traits
- Multi-site capabilities
- Publishing mechanism is slow if the number of elements to be published is high
- Allows only one content type per content app in the newest versions
- Common problems with Lucene indexes
Magnolia: open source platform with the best DXP capabilities
- Headless approach
- Easy to use (minimum learning curve)
- Reduced time-to-market
- DXP capabilities
- Open source
- Documentation
- Support
- Modular architecture
- e-commerce capabilities
- Cloud services
- New major versions upgrade process
- Customer support
- Communication
- Innovation
- Documentation
- Training
- A few more options for image manipulation in their DAM would be nice.
- Perfect for easy audio file management.
- Documentation through Magnolia is nice.
- Easy marketing content management with Magnolia.
- The digital asset provides easy management.
- The Magnolia cloud setting is confusing.
- Data migration through cloud deployment is not easy for any operator.
- For Magnolia to perform well, you will need a stable computer machine in my opinion.
A Feature-Packed DCX Solution!
- It's easy to use and custom reports can be generated.
- Once the initial configuration is done, anyone without technical knowledge can manage the digital content.
- Search Engine Optimization can be done with extra filters configured from within the main console.
- The initial setup does take a bit of time to complete.
Great CMS Solution for Enterprise Users!
- Interfaces and dashboards are easily customizable.
- Multiple External Plugins can be easily integrated.
- After-sales support is phenomenal.
- I think some detailed descriptions of the features and functionalities would be good.
- The compatibility to fit any site
- Strong backup
- User-friendliness at its best
- Notifications of all kinds
- Content compatibility
- Customer management and engagement
- Easier and smoother migration
- Admin authority and level of clearance
- Pricing
Magnolia is a Really Nice CMS.
- Update content quickly
- Introduction of the new site
- Template engine (FreeMarker easy to use)
- Split content into workspaces
- Publishing
- Move content from one environment to another
Magnolia: Authoring & Development High Level Overview
- Easy to start authoring (simplicity during editing pages/ components) as the UX is straightforward for newcomers.
- Flexibility by proving light modules that helps front-end developers work independently compared to backend/Java modules' developers.
- The personalization mechanism is easy to use (the variants/traits logic is really simple to familiarize yourself with).
- The multiple site mechanism is easy to set up (for EE version) even for non-developers.
- YAML configuration flexibility is easy to change on the fly (for developers).
- There is a need for out of the box ready & reusable components (customizable components, e.g. banners).
- Resource (js) loading mechanism (resources can be added at multiple levels: e.g. pages, components, files, etc.) is very hard to manage sometimes in real projects.
- The drag 'n drop of components in UI author is not supported.
- Documentation needs a lot of improvement, especially for migration to the newest version (Magnolia 6.2).
- It would be nice to add integrations with other CMS systems (e.g. Adobe AEM, Hybris, etc.) or other systems in general.
- I would appreciate more dynamic renditions for images/assets (e.g. now there are only predefined dimensions - thumbnails/medium, etc.).
- I would appreciate improved functionality for publishing & unpublishing during a specific date & time.
Magnolia is Much More Than a Normal CSM Platform!
- It helps to create and manage multiple web pages at a time and content management is very easy.
- We can easily integrate third-party plugins and tools to get detailed analytics of web data and content.
- The CSM platform tool is user-friendly and platform tabs are easy to handle and understand.
- The automated management and pre-built templates are great.
- Initial loading time is much more than it should be.
- Sometimes, it is hard to understand the tools and plugins integration processes through codes for new users.
Developing Web Apps with Magnolia
- SEO management is quite automated and powerful. I lacked knowledge of SEO as a backend developer but the tool made my life much easier.
- The headless CMS is awesome. It allowed me to use Magnolia as a central data warehouse for my web app.
- Analytics and traffic monitoring offers great way to research which components are gaining traction a and what needs to be improved.
- It also has payment systems built in. I did not use it but it shows how complete of a software suite it is.
- Feature deprecation: There have been cases where some of the features I used were gone or changed in newer releases. This made updating website code mandatory and hence increasing the cost.
- Difficult for beginners. Especially not from technical background.
- Magnolia is sufficiently configurable/flexible, allowing us deploy our plugins and content.
- Besides, Magnolia supports numerous language, giving us the global presence.
- The substantial and powerful editing approaches from the application advances our companies communications process.
- Lastly, through e-commerce support, the company obtains a worldwide competitive edge.
- The process of designing some web page content requires an expertise in ICT field.
- Besides, the learning process of Magnolia is hectic and time consuming.
- Lastly, the problem of uploading and publishing files that are enormous/large is felt from Magnolia.
First-rate, easy-to-use CMS
- Includes intuitive posts and content management options.
- It provides a powerful editor that allows us to format our content with ease.
- It is highly customizable, thanks to the thousands of plugins and themes.
- It has a strong and very active community.
- Includes support for multilingual websites.
- It allows us to manage multiple sites from a single installation.
- It makes it possible to share data and tools between our websites.
- In any case, it is more focused on users with experience in web development and in the design of complex web pages.
- High learning curve.
Best CMS Software For Business
- Magnolia is an all in one CMS software - it houses many features making it very capable.
- The software is easy to understand and use.
- Magnolia is secure and this ensures only people with clearance can access it.
- Magnolia makes web design page fast and easy thanks to page templates. In addition, for customization needs, there are coding options as well.
- Magnolia works well until you try publishing/loading big files. It can be problematic.
The admin panel offers better control.
Page template makes adding and designing pages easy.
The security features ensures no unauthorized access.
There are also some basic collaboration features which I like.
Very Resourceful and Robust
- Magnolia is great when uploading small files.
- Customizing pages and designing new ones is easy.
- The page templates save time.
- The software is relatively easy to use.
- While it can publish content seamlessly, it is not always great when handling large files.
The publishing capabilities are also at par.
The design features such as the editor and page templates are also amazing.
- Helps in decision making, content can be replaced with new or edit content, based on few configuration changes in Magnolia.
- Customization is done based on the business needs and that will improve the business process.
My Experience With Magnolia
- Designing web pages is easy with Magnolia.
- Handling web optimization and ensuring that every page is responsive (mobile friendly) is easy with Magnolia.
- The software is also amazing when it comes to publishing - (small files - large files takes forever).
- The publishing workflow capabilities are also top notch.
- Magnolia can be annoying when publishing huge files for instance photos and videos.
- While it is easy to use, the UI could be better and needs improvement.
Form generator.
Security features.
Web page template.
An All Inclusive CMS Software - Magnolia
- There is a lot to celebrate about this software. First, it is so easy to use thanks to the amazing UI and well outlaid features.
- Magnolia offers many features making it easy to handle design, SEO, and publishing.
- Magnolia also wins when it comes to security. It is very secure and this is an important feature.
- I haven't experienced any other problems besides the issues of slow loading when publishing large files.
Another great features is the editor.
Not to mention the Page Templates which makes designing pages easy.