Item: Magnolia
Rating: 10
Author: Ivan De Paz

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Magnolia in our day-to-day business in several different ways

As a content management system for pages in which we display useful information to our customers.
We also have several headless systems in which we send different information dynamically from banners to regions of the home page to display depending on the type of device that connects (Desktop browser, Mobile browser, Native App).
ContentApps in which we send literals according to languages selected by the user.

Pros and Cons

The flexibility it offers us to be able to implement all the needs we have.
To be able to perform Front development in the technology that best suits your needs, VueJS, ANGULAR, ReactJS.
Constant version upgrades make Magnolia a 100% reliable product.
The active community behind it to provide support and help.
Flexibility and simplicity of creating ContentApps that can be attacked via APIs

As a developer the learning curve is long, you can start developing relatively quickly but getting to know the platform in depth takes time.
Having a history of modifications not only at the page level but also at the Content Apps level would be very useful.

Return on Investment

Management and implementation times have been drastically reduced.
Marketplace management with the LifeCopy plugin has reduced the time to create new marketplaces in an existing language by more than 90%.

Usability

In terms of usability, the new version 6 has been a major change, reducing the learning curve for new users in the application.

Performance

At the performance level, we have seen drastic reductions in loading times, being much better than the old application we were using.

Alternatives Considered

Drupal, WordPress and Adobe Experience Manager

Of all the ones we looked at that met our requirements Magnolia was clearly the best value for money and had a solid background that you could trust and that could take care of you in case of problems.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Magnolia go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Magnolia again?

Yes

Other Software Used

AngularJS, OpenJDK, Datadog

Likelihood to Recommend

I firmly believe that Magnolia is a very flexible tool so it can be adapted to any situation, both as a pure static content manager, as well as providing content through APIs according to defined rules.

Once you try it, you don't want to change it

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia