Item: Magnolia
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Magnolia as a content management system for our public website. We also have several headless implementations and we are serving content to other apps.

Pros and Cons

Managing content
Personalization
Headless CMS
Light development - use of YAML to define apps

More documentation needed, more examples
Search could be improved
Tasks app is rather slow

Return on Investment

Accelerated launch times
Scalability for growing websites
Reduced number of systems for our content management stack, headless integrations

Usability

Quite a complex setup. Starting a local copy is not as hard but content import / sync is PITA.
The platform needs a server with a relevant amount of memory to run properly.

Performance

As long as it has the resources the page load time is very good. Magnolia integrations with other systems did not have a negative impact. It keeps the pace with our top performant systems.

Other Software Used

WordPress, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics

Magnolia is a versatile and robust enterprise grade Content Management. It is not as well suited for regular users or small companies as it requires rather a complex setup. The customer support is providing quick guidance on most of the areas, but you will still need a pretty big team to manage it.

Good value for money - highly extensible

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Usability

Performance

Key Insights

Do you think Magnolia delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Magnolia's feature set?

Did Magnolia live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Magnolia go as expected?

Would you buy Magnolia again?

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

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