Magnolia is still our go to platform for our clients and ourselves
Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia
We mostly use and recommend Magnolia for enterprise clients who want a lean, easy to use platform for managing their content (not just on the web). However we do also use it internally for our own website as well.
It's not the only solution our clients use as everyone has different requirements. Why do we use it and recommend it to others when we do see a fit ? Quite simply, it's a well engineered product which has always been ultra reliable whenever we've deployed it to the dozens of clients who we've worked with it on. We don't like implementing solutions that we have to constantly prod and patch to keep working, and for us Magnolia saves us time, money and credibility. Our clients are always happy to use it because it is simple to use and takes minimal training.
Pros
- Reliability
- Ease of use
- Rapid development and deployment
- Performance
- Robust and secure architecture
Cons
- Improve coverage in North America and the Middle East
- Arab and Mandarin languages in admin central
- Less reliance on JCR for back end storage interface
- Rapid time to market. We have managed to turn around replatforming projects in a matter of weeks.
- Integration. The API access is really helpful and we've been able to use this with Python scripts to automate some otherwise laborious batch processing tasks and connect Magnolia with other systems. There's also a Groovy interface which can do some of this for certain types of task. The Groovy console is a little unloved in terms of support but it's really handy if you know what you're doing.
- We have onboarded and trained staff to use the platform really quickly. It's friendly and accessible to newcomers so while we often get scared looks from new staff when we first tell them about it, they come round to love it very quickly once they see it!
Magnolia is not as costly as other enterprise grade platforms and is easier to deploy, more reliable and less resource hungry. It's often also easier to use and certainly easier to use than it's Open Source counterparts. It also manages content in a much more structured manner than simply throwing a bunch of HTML in a database meaning that it's not trying to shoehorn web content in to non-web endpoints as some of the others do.
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
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