Item: Magnolia
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Magnolia is our front end CMS serving the content for our B2B website serving 24 countries and 18 different languages. The Magnolia CMS allows our content author to verify, approve , test and publish contents to public instances serving the website contents. It serves both CMS content pages and eCommerce related pages.

Pros and Cons

Content authoring
Content publication
Workflow
OOb components
accelerators

performance
headless offering
probably time to go for microservices architecture

Return on Investment

improved user experience
improved sales
improved and easy content management

Alternatives Considered

Broadleaf Commerce

The Broadleaf CMS was quite basic and was not a full fledged CMS and hence we had to chose Magnolia to address the business requirement for our B2B platform

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Magnolia go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Magnolia again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Sitecore Experience Manager, WordPress

Likelihood to Recommend

Magnolia is well suited for both B2B and B2C enterprise sites covering multiple geographies and languages. The platform has evolved over the period of time and offers extensive customization options. The inbuilt applications e.g. pages app etc are a very good starting points. With so many oob components and options to create or customize existing is a good offering from CMS point of view. Magnolia might not be suitable for smaller sized website where you just need few static/dynamic pages with limited capabilities.

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Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia