Magnolia is among the best!
June 21, 2021

Magnolia is among the best!

Tom Duffey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia

Crescendo is a Magnolia partner based in the US but with a global footprint. We implement Magnolia for larger enterprises across the world.

When Crescendo is asked to implement Magnolia, it is usually because the overall project gets done faster, cheaper, and at a higher level of quality than what has been experienced in the past. Magnolia itself is a good fit for us and our clients because it allows everyone to move faster on both the implementation and then the ongoing content operations, digital marketing, and platform efforts.
  • Fast
  • Flexible
  • Good for integrations
  • Cost effective
  • Scaling to very large implementations
  • Author instance redundancy
  • Faster time to market
  • Fast page delivery speed
  • Relatively simple technology footprint
Version six revamped the whole authoring experience. Not bad but still some room for improvement.
Magnolia rarely slows things down and it plays well with other systems like Fastly and CloudFront. Magnolia almost never gets in the way of performance or important integrations that need speed.
AEM, epiServer, SiteCore, etc.

I don't think any of them are perfect, but Magnolia has competitive advantages against all of them. Magnolia offers a nice balance of features, price, and speed along with extreme flexibility.

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

Magnolia is good for all medium to large size enterprise content management implementations, especially where speed and time to market are important. It's also one of the best for flexibility and integrations with other systems.

I cannot recommend Magnolia for smaller scale content management projects where other tools like WordPress or HubSpot could make more sense.

Magnolia Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
7
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
7
Page templates
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
7
Publishing workflow
6
Form generator
5
Content taxonomy
7
SEO support
8
Bulk management
6
Availability / breadth of extensions
6
Community / comment management
5
API
9
Internationalization / multi-language
9
Role-based user permissions
7