Good CMS, but hard to maintain & use
June 23, 2021
Good CMS, but hard to maintain & use
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia
We use Magnolia to manage the content on the e-commerce website. Most of the users are marketing, fulfillment and product team launching products and updating content. It provides a seamless e-commerce experience for our customer base to order and track [them].
- Support
- Customized apps to address business use cases
- Modern tech stack
- Migration - Migrations are very painful and never been an easy path, epecially when we have customized app built-in line Tradeprint case
- Validations - say example if I want to stop publishing a page if all the related assets are not in the published state. Now we need to write custom logic in JAVA. Maybe we can have some out of the box functionality where we can configure rules )from different modules) to add these validations would be great
- Building pages with easy using drag and drop components - Now the templates are too restrictive and we need to build each template with some DEV effort
- We are trying to migrate to 6.2 but it is not smooth. We still need to run our old custom apps on 5.7 and then rewrite everything - which has taken a lot of dev effort rather really start to get the benefit of 6.2
- Easy to use makes the life easier from marketing and product teams to manage the content
We were looking at Contentful and Magnolia. But Magnolia price-wise as well and implementation wise was easier when we migrated to AWS.
Do you think Magnolia delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Magnolia's feature set?
Yes
Did Magnolia live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Magnolia go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Magnolia again?
Yes