Item: Magnolia
Rating: 8
Author: Sunil Mugalavally

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Magnolia is used as an enterprise-wide content management application for a number of public-facing websites in our organization. It helps to create and manage content for our website using a user-friendly interface, rather than needing to work directly with the code. Basically, it makes managing a website much easier for users of all technical levels.

Pros and Cons

Its developer friendly
The customizations that can be done on top of the product is definitely a plus
The interface is user friendly
Magnolia comes with a standard set of extensions/third party libraries that can be easily integrated to provide business users the functionality they need.
The publishing of content is driven by workflows and is highly extensible.
The product can be used in various forms for different business needs for example it can be used as a runtime engine serving the website to customers or be it used as a headless CMS via rest.
Magnolia comes with a dedicated product support and technical help.
Most importantly, its easy to use and comes as a fully functional CMS.