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About Magnolia
Magnolia CMS is the fastest way for mid-market and large organizations to launch world-class digital experiences. Integrating with your existing applications and frameworks is seamless thanks to Magnolia's API-based architecture, which also makes it possible to deliver content to any screen or device. A sleek, powerful interface helps authors and editors work more quickly, while still letting them personalize and re-use content across different channels.
Magnolia pricing
Magnolia has a free version and offers a free trial. Magnolia paid version starts at £50,000.00/year.
Starting Price:
£50,000.00/year
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
Yes
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Magnolia Reviews for UK Users
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Andrew
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 17/04/2020
Our go-to CMS platform
Our primary goal is unifying data and making it easy for clients to manage their various pieces of data and assets which are often scattered across various systems. Having a centralised interface with one set of logins and where applicable one set of design templates makes it easier to extend applications and keep things tidy. We also don't have to put a lot of effort in to infrastructure as the system performs pretty well without having lots of additional reverse proxies and caches in place. It just works. That's all we and indeed our clients want.
Pros
We implement a number of different CMS platforms and the team have been doing this for over twenty years. Magnolia is a system we keep coming back to because it's reliable, easy to work with and contains the right balance of features to help us give clients the functionality they want without adding extraneous features. For an enterprise grade system, it's also pretty good from a budget point of view. Our clients respond positively to the intuitive interface and that means a lower support overhead for us.
Cons
Up until the last year or two, the company were not particularly customer or indeed integrator friendly. Thankfully this has since changed.
Joaquin
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 14/06/2020
Clean and high performance open source CMS
I met Magnolia because I was required for a company to evaluate it. I started from the commercial website of Magnolia and it was enough to create the POC and deploy the product in a few time.
Pros
From the point of view of a software engineer what I like more is the architecture and design of the product - it is simple and brilliant - and also the cleanliness of the code and the usage of design principles and recommendations for Java developing.
The above pros allows Magnolia to be robust, reliable and at the same time dynamic and flexible because it is really easy to customize and adapt the product to the requirements of the installation.
As standard java product it is really easy to deploy it in any IT infrastructure: cloud, cluster of dockers, on premise etc.
Another feature I like is headless that allows you to integrate Magnolia with other services to consume and expose contents from/to other services or systems.
As a user, Magnolia is simple to use and easy to learn - it remembers me the "Kiss" principle - and full of features that helps content editors.
Cons
The community of Magnolia is active but It is small, there is a lot of help and docs from official community but non-official or partners are not so involved.
Alternatives Considered
Liferay DXPReasons for Choosing Magnolia
The following issues with the current product: low performance, lack of documentation, bugs and poor support. It was a proprietary product and it was not possible to customize or even improve it.Reasons for Switching to Magnolia
Main reason was that it is Open source and easy to customize. The usage of java as programming language was also important. The modular design of magnolia allowed to integrate Magnolia better inside the infrastructure. Headless skills. Magnolia had better performance than alternative products.
Le Vin
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 23/07/2021
Few issues over the years
Pros
As someone who had used other CMS before, Magnolia is very easy to grasp and use. over the past 6 years, there have been almost no occasions where we needed the helpline - we always solved the problems internally.
Cons
Our website is coded such that use beyond standard settings requires a developer to create new templates or adjust settings.
Leigh
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 08/06/2020
Why Magnolia
Running an Agency Magnolia stands out because of the ease of use, empowerment and speed of development, 3 things which are important in ensuring client deliveries and retaining customers.
Pros
When evaluating CMS's it is important to consider the end user needs, the people that will be using it on a day to day basis. Whilst having all of the Enterprise features Magnolia wins on ease of use, logically laid out the user interface empowers content editors, and authors to get on with telling stories and day to day marketing/merchandising of the website whether Ecommerce or B2B. Add to ease of use features like campaign management and personalisation along with open integration and tools then the platform becomes very powerful.
Cons
Like most Enterprise CMS platforms there is a lot of functionality under the bonnet and it requires expertise to ensure that the approach taken for a particular part of a site development is the right one, but once selected provides a firm foundation to build upon.
Ricardo
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 15/01/2021
Magnolia CMS provides a great digital experience
Magnolia CRM was a great complement on our current content management infrstructure. Thanks to its highly modular structure we could implement it with ease.
Pros
Magnolia has an extremely modular structure that enabled it to be integrated to our current business management infrastructure. Magnolia helps us to deliver our central content any end user distribution channel.
Cons
Magnolia is really an extemely huge CRM that requires a considerable amount of time and efford to have an expertise on all features of the platform.
