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Magnolia perfectly manages our digital experiences
December 08, 2022

Magnolia perfectly manages our digital experiences

Chris Chard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia

Magnolia is our designated Content Management System for all internet and extranet facing websites.
  • Creating & Managing Web-Content
  • Flexibility for custom requirements
  • Developer friendliness
  • Suitable for enterprise use
  • Usability for editors should be improved
  • Java module developement is only suitable for experienced developers
  • Ease of deployment into third party Cloud infrastructure
  • Since we are using Magnolia DX Core with multi-site support we have improved our time to market for new websites tenfold
Usability is ok and is currently being improved. However, compared to the newest state of the art CMS, it is lacking. Page editing experience needs to be improved.
Magnolia works like a charm. The JCR structure is probably not the most efficient but perfectly suitable for our needs
For us, Magnolia is the best option for our needs. FirstSpirit by eSpirit is missing on the list. We are moving away from FirstSpirit as it feels outdated. Wix has better usability, but is not suitable for enterprise. WordPress I would only recommend for private projects. Umbraco feels very outdated.

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 very well suited for enterprise grade Content Management and digital experience portals.
It is not suited for casual users, small company or private websites.

Magnolia Feature Ratings

8.0
WYSIWYG editor
7
Code quality / cleanliness
6
Admin section
9
Page templates
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
10
Publishing workflow
7
Form generator
7
8.2
Content taxonomy
9
SEO support
8
Bulk management
6
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
10
8.0
API
8
Internationalization / multi-language
8
9.0
Role-based user permissions
9
CMS programming language or framework ()
Not Rated

Using Magnolia

100 - Editors for different lines of business
25 - Developers, product owners, test managers, business designers, devops engineers
  • Web Content Management
  • Headless rendering of website content
Magnolia is set as our strategic Content management system

Evaluating Magnolia and Competitors

Yes - A proprietary system and FirstSpirit by eSpirit
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product