Item: Magnolia
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our digital platform consists of different parts: SAP commerce for products and their details, Magnolia DX CMS as the main part to add content and some microservices. Magnolia fits perfectly in our system architecture and enables us to invent all necessary organism our editors need. It is easily possible to connect the CMS to other services via interfaces in order to establish communication in all directions. Our editors have to add a huge amount of marketing pages (more then 10000) and also further information to products to the websites. Therefore we need a powerful CMS that fits our requirements.

Pros and Cons

Headless
Connector Packs
Support and Consulting
Freedom in development

Easier drag and drop functions
Form module inflexible
find the right structure to overwrite given functions
documentation could be more detailed for new user

Return on Investment

increase the sales because of clear mapping of the right information
high availibilty
low barrier to connect with other services

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

Jira Software, Atlassian Confluence, Bitbucket

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a business CMS that brings along a good amount of features and also give you the chance to develop features on your own, Magnolia would be a good choice. Even if you have not the fitting infrastructure around, Magnolia provides you different ways like SAAS oder PAAS. If you have to review your code our have any problems the team behind will helps in a short time.
Without using the connectors it is not so easy to connect special functionalities like Marketing tools or optimization tools. The DAM is very slow if you have an huge amount of documents and pictures to store for your website - you have to add an external DAM.

Magnolia - a convincing business CMS

Overall Satisfaction with Magnolia