Magnolia Erfahrungen

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.

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.

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.

Our website is coded such that use beyond standard settings requires a developer to create new templates or adjust settings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The best features of Magnolia besides it's great content editor experience is the ability to use the product in a traditional CMS approach by rendering web pages and as a headless CMS. It provides great flexibility on both fronts. Enterprise integration capabilities are also superb with available pre-built integration modules to popular applications like Salesforce and Google Analytics as well as Ecommerce. Overall a great platform to build and grow an Enterprise wide Digital Experience.

The platform is extensive and can be challenging from a development learning curve perspective.

Our team is comprised of Java and Web Developers. We had been using WordPress which was a big task for us as our expertise didn't lie in PHP. Then we stumbled on Magnolia and it wasn't that it was just a Java based product. The ease at which we were able to build the custom modules we needed and plug it into our other solutions like Salesforce. Helped us reduce our time spent in implementing and provide a quicker turnaround for new features to our business team. Which in turn sped up our ROI on Magnolia.

The only issue we seem to have at this point is there are not a lot of OOB integrations to popular solutions like NetSuite or Salesforce and everything pretty much has to be custom built. I think if Magnolia did that there would be very few competitors for them.

From end users onboarding to platform enablement, Magnolia is proven to be one of the front runner. Our team loves the extensibility of the platform. Definitely one of the most well rounded WCM out there from features to pricing.

Desired features: More robust translation workflow / connector, A/B/N Testing (in roadmap already)

Mi piace molto l'interfaccia, che all'inizio può sembrare dispersiva e difficile da capire, ma che poi diventa facilmente fruibile. E' facile poter caricare le immagini e contenuti multimediali nella sezione "Media" ed è facilissimo poter cambiare il merchandising del proprio ecommerce nella sezione "Pages".Inoltre, si integra bene con altri strumenti come Hybris, il che lo rende un software affidabile e conosciuto.

Non ho apprezzato il fatto che durante l'aggiornamento del catalogo del proprio sito, per trascinare un contenuto dal basso verso le prime righe, ci si impiega troppo tempo. Allo stesso modo si può trascinare solo un contenuto alla volta e se si hanno tanti prodotti da aggiornare, il tutto può diventare macchinoso e lento.

Le logiciel offre de nombreuses fonctionnalités et est très intuitif.
Pour créer de nouvelles pages, de nouveaux components et les éditer ensuite, tout est très facile (aussi facile qu'avec des programmes de type Elementor) et user-friendly, tout en apportant plus de possibilités qu'avec les programmes plus "basiques".
Il est possible d'intégrer des programmes externes très facilement pour faire communiquer le CMS avec les autres softwares que l'on utilise déjà (CRM, eShop, etc.)
J'ai été sur Magnolia 2 ans, quasi quotidiennement en tant qu'utilisateur.

Seule la version Enterprise offre l'ensemble des features, donc pas fait pour les plus petites PMEs avec un budget Digital limité, cependant une version Community est disponible.

Ability to combine content management, digital marketing and ecommerce onto a single platform was a really good feature. The Visual SPA editor , was really user friendly for non-technical content authors, who had got back their ability to author digital experiences in the new era of web development tools and frameworks.
Evolution of the product to evolve itself into a headless platform that can be hosted both on premise and on cloud made it easy to be placed on the new DXL (Digital Experience Layer) platform that we are building for one of our clients.
Upgrades to latest editions 6.X were also seamless without any major hurdles.

Modular architecture made it easy for us to build a new ecommerce connector at fast pace.

Light module based development was a real boon , when it came to setting up feature teams comprising of FrontEnd and Java based BackEnd developers.

We would like the product to become for more cloud friendly and looking forward to see support for GraphQL based apis .

Wonderful CMS to develop on. Ease of development lets me focus on empowering content managers to deliver amazing end results.

Admin can feel a bit clunky at times. Especially in version 6 and later.

It is a complete solution that has allowed us to migrate from a previous platform easily and quickly. In addition, the learning curve is excellent.

At the moment I have not found anything outstanding in lack.

Very easy to use from an admin perspective. Non-technical resources can easily pick up admin functionality. Built in workflows are very impressive. Perfect enterprise DXP that both marketing and IT will love to use.

At this point I have no negative issues with Magnolia. Very happy with platform.

Magnolia excels in its ability to be adapted to specific enterprise content management needs. Everyone wants roughly the same core features but fine tuned to their business. Magnolia's flexibility makes this possible.

The underlying JCR technology is solid and stable but has not been updated in a while. Would be good to see more updates in this area and/or future vision.

The product is easy to configure and use, yet scalable and able to grow as business grow.

None so far, I've found it easy to use and flexible enough to address our requirements.