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Magnolia

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

Magnolia CMS

10 out of 10
March 30, 2024
Incentivized
Magnolia is our front end CMS serving the content for our B2B website serving 24 countries and 18 different languages. The Magnolia CMS …
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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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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Page templates (73)
    8.9
    89%
  • Role-based user permissions (70)
    8.1
    81%
  • Admin section (71)
    8.0
    80%
  • Publishing workflow (74)
    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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  • 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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Reviews

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Andrew Elia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a lean and performant platform. You don't need to put reverse proxy servers in front of it to speed it up (although that does make it go even quicker) as there are various layers of caching built in to the application. While it's a little cryptic, the internal caching system is actually quite configurable and can be tuned to the right sort of content.
Often what tends to surprise many an IT manager is that you can run it on relatively modest hardware. We've often been met with "are you sure ?" but the reality is that it doesn't need a whole lot of horsepower.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Magnolia's performance is on par with other enterprises CMS/DXPs. The only performance issues we've run into have been on the client's end (content/migrated existing code) and were easily solved. I've been pleased with performance the entire 3+ years I've been using it.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Certain pages can take some time to load and some publish requests get hung up due to size or perhaps other factors.
Works with Angular sites, but we had to design some of our own solutions, like creating a more usable preview link than the one within Magnolia. We’ve also had trouble upgrading to V6 with our sites that are integrated with Angular.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I put this score, since most of the time, loading content with large images takes a long time [in my experience]. In addition, [I feel that] the content loading of nodes in Magnolia is very slow when there are [a lot] of these nodes. [In my opinion,] the same [can be said] for assets, [as] there are times when loading images takes a long time to render.
December 24, 2022

Meh

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We often have over 100 sites in 1 instance, and Magnolia does not handle this well—lots of issues w/ authoring performance in general, publishing, and multiple editors at once.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While I do get occasional "freezes" where the page takes long pauses in loading apps of trivial size (only a handful of entries), I cannot definitively say whether this is caused by Magnolia or the AWS instance on which it's deployed. Most of the time, pages load quickly.
Manuel Alejandro Lupión Jiménez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The pages generated with the content manager itself are rendered quickly, if these pages have many images to render, we make use of the imagin module which compresses these images with little loss of quality, loading quickly. The response time of the rest api is fast, even if the data to be returned is retrieved from an external system.
January 12, 2022

Magnolia is cool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When sharing content through api rest if the content app that shares content has many elements hanging from the same node, this makes performance a bit slow. However, the rendering of pages is very fluid and when it is a little slower it is due to the loading of large images, and an imaging module is created to manage this.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Magnolia is efficient in loading pages and content as long as the content is structured in folders of less than 2000 items. Above these elements and with content that requires many properties, efficiency drops and can become slow. This is a limitation that has more to do with the JCR nodes than with the product itself.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pages load very quickly. It's the fastest solution in the market. But having a huge content makes us experiment a very slow time of charge that makes unhappy our clients. That's because we use over 500k nodes in some content apps, [which's] very difficult to handle with a structural type database
January 10, 2022

Magnolia review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall, Magnolia's performance is good in terms of speed (Load times are low, both when serving pages to end-users and when editing content) However, being a Java application, memory consumption is sometimes high, which can end up affecting the general performance of the system on which it is installed.
David Caviedes Márquez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We experiment well performance in webs based on Magnolia. In fact, some of these webs have maintained high loads with thousands of end-users connected at the same time, and with transactional operations, without problems. Also, in editor mode, we can work with multiple administrators and publications and can manage thousands of contents with a good performance
Jonas Lesy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
By being a composable DXP, Magnolia really delivers when it comes to speeds and integration. If there's any module that you don't need, you can just exclude it from your instance. Behind the scenes, [there is also optimization] mechanisms available, like caching to boost page loading speeds. Integration with other systems is easily done by the use of APIs. When this is needed for multiple projects, a simple Magnolia module can be created for it.
Kelvin Gregory | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The functionalities provided by this package are the best experience for me. Magnolia tools reach with stability which enables faster services generation like the process reports creation with Magnolia is very quick. Magnolia data connectors are effective and strong enough to pull any data size for easy and quick data analytics via cloud services.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Magnolia is lightning fast even when heavy codes are being rendered. When the module is hosted on the cloud, it does lag a tad bit, but I think it depends on the bandwidth. Data backup and recovery [are] very quick and Magnolia has a built-in solution for that as well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Most of the Processing is done over the cloud and as a result, each task is completed fast with native Visual Studio compatibility, so we can develop custom codes without having to export the project. Debugging and rendering also take less time, which improves overall efficiency.
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