Item: Magnolia
Rating: 9
Author: Marvin Kerkhoff

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Magnolia is used in Marketing and IT Department to manage user journeys on all digital clients. As a customer of Magnolia you can build up a complete content strategy to fulfill a consistent experience and behaviour on all channels. If you want to use it as an easy to use CMS or as content pool for apps or services is up to you.

Pros and Cons

Ease of use / Usability
Flexible for all kinds of integrations
Modularity - not a heavy lifted suite

Technology stack has a steep learning curve
Could improve mass data management
Speed of Performance

Return on Investment

We could provide our users the best experience with a easy to use CMS

Alternatives Considered

WordPress, Contentful and Adobe Experience Manager

Magnolia is the most flexible, with the best ease of use in all cases. It just has the best of both worlds. It is significantly more than just a CMS. And you have a good foundation for building up your platform without losing possibilities to change parts in the future.

Key Insights

Do you think Magnolia delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Magnolia's feature set?

Yes

Did Magnolia live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Magnolia go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Magnolia again?

Yes

Usability

Magnolia has a very easy to learn interface. For some people it might look a bit old fashioned but on the other hand it is extremly easy to use and most people understand it without ever used it. You have your tree of content data, you click edit and get your site in a nice WYSIWYG Editor. It doesn't need much experience.

Support Rating

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Magnolia is a very flexible and great way for a couple of system landscapes. But I wouldn't recommend it for small single site building projects. It's just too much for the small companies and finding good java developers is not that easy as it is probably on other technology stacks. But besides that, I highly recommend it because it is easy tp use and the flexible integrations.

Use it! It's what you want!

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia