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# Magnolia Reviews
**Vendor:** Magnolia  
**Category:** [Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)](https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-experience-platforms-dxp)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 57
## About Magnolia
Magnolia combines the power of composable DXP with emerging AI to help enterprises move faster, adapt with ease, and drive long-term success. With its open, flexible, and intuitive CMS, global organizations can bring all their digital experiences—websites, portals, intranets, and applications—together on one centralized platform. Magnolia gives developers the freedom to build, marketers the tools to create, and businesses the confidence to grow. With over 450 enterprise customers and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners globally, Magnolia is the CMS of choice for leading companies worldwide, including American Express, JetBlue, T-Mobile, Sanofi, and Generali.




## Magnolia Reviews
  ### 1. Simple and helpful

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021

**What do you like best about Magnolia?**

Easy to learn and work .. especially for beginners

**What do you dislike about Magnolia?**

Cross platform is little slow in loading

**What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Integrating with any other database  . It is required

  ### 2. A CMS FOR ALL

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kumar R. | Software Development Advisor, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019

**What do you like best about Magnolia?**

Managing content is super easy with Magnolia. It's makes easier to create a website with the basic computer knowledge. At the same it fulfill the complex requirements like multilingual support, URL redirection and many more features. And best part is a developer can easily extend the core feature and customised as per his reqirement.

**What do you dislike about Magnolia?**

Upgrading to 5+ version was a tough task.

**What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Right now we are in process to create a websites, which uses the data from different out of box content app and some custom content app. Since data are stored in app and not on the pages, changing at one place reflects across the website.

  ### 3. Very useful content management system 

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Amberly S. | Software Engineer, Computer Networking, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019

**What do you like best about Magnolia?**

It delivers a categorized explanation to the users having the characteristics for sending an interesting digital experience to all the networks, products, and markets. Java API, SOAP, REST, XML, CMIS, etc. can be used to do the association of other software with Magnolia CMS. This platform is an open, high quality, secure, reachable, flexible, extendible, and safe and it differentiates the performance form the public things. This is well-suited for enterprise IT systems that is inscribed in Java.       

**What do you dislike about Magnolia?**

This tool is only limited to laptops and is not mobile or tab friendly. When you are publishing a new form of your self-made module, there is no way to go back if the issues happen. Uninstallation process of the module is very unorganized. Implementation of the customization in the organizational UI of Magnolia demands the developer to know how to use Vaadin. The organizational control panel in the Magnolia is deficient.

**What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Magnolia is extensively used for the expansion of advanced websites, extranets and intranets. You can easily customize your content and pages through its easy to use web-based apps. It is very supportive in the launching of new apps or sites even without creating new content. You can restructure and reutilize your current content into small, reusable segments. In this way, visitors find interesting content relevant to their needs.       

  ### 4. Highly intuitive for use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jurij K. | Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019

**What do you like best about Magnolia?**

In the latest version UX is highly intuite so building a site is easy and fast. It also offers a lot of predefined templates which one could use. 

**What do you dislike about Magnolia?**

I have faced a problem where I needed a detailed explanation of a particular module, which was not covered enough in the documentation. 

**What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It supports our Business needs and also covers easy deployment in customers environments.

  ### 5. Enables organizations to create their digital content

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Anna S. | Software Engineer, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2019

**What do you like best about Magnolia?**

Magnolia CMS is a compact solution which provides a digital experience to the organizations to have a better experience at marketing. You can even execute a whole project without the use of Java, which is a great edge.

**What do you dislike about Magnolia?**

With a lot to offer, it has been seen that Magnolia requires a proper learning before being able to operate well. It also lacks in proper documentation and consistency. It is also not well suited for small businesses.

**What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It presents a great system to organize all your work, where you can reuse the blocks and add tags on them, which is easy.

  ### 6. Organized, but inefficient when uploading multiple files

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018

**What do you like best about Magnolia?**

The server is well organized, so it's easy to track chapters/files quickly. 

**What do you dislike about Magnolia?**

When I have to upload and publish a file, I have to do so individually every single time. It would be nice if I could select multiple files and upload them at once. 

**What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am uploading updated/edited files (textbook chapters) to update our teacher toolbox server. I like how it gets published right away, but it's very time consuming having to upload every single file (especially because I have to upload hundreds).

  ### 7. Fantastic product 

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2018

**What do you like best about Magnolia?**

This product is fantastic. It’s very user friendly 

**What do you dislike about Magnolia?**

There is not one thing that I dislike about this product. It is a great product to use and is very quick 

**What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Magnolia helped my company run better and more sufficiently 


## Magnolia Discussions
  - [What is Magnolia technology?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-magnolia-technology) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes
  - [What is Magnolia CMS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-magnolia-cms-used-for) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes

- [View Magnolia pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/reviews?page=2&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-08+21%3A04%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7497bd30-94f0-40c1-8b24-3b5b1e312437&secure%5Btoken%5D=7aa1394af819b675a74c888e24940c3beede3c25e97fd2460a40b85780c0edbd&format=llm_user)
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## Magnolia Features
**Content**
- Content Authoring
- Rich Text Editor
- Versioning
- Plug-ins/Widgets/Apps
- Approval Process
- Content Scheduling
- Asset Management
- Internal Search
- Content Repository
- SEO Management
- eCommerce Management
- Forms Management
- Campaign Management
- Media Management
- Drag & Drop Editor
- Audio Editor

**Analytics**
- Web Analytics
- Campaign Tracking
- Audience Insights
- Reports & Dashboards
- Personalization
- Marketing Automation
- Activity Tracking
- Reporting/Analytics

**Publishing**
- Automated Publishing
- Multi-language
- AR/VR Capability

**Agentic AI - SAP Store**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Design**
- Breadth of Pre-Built Templates
- Mobile
- Branding/Themes
- Customization

**Content Management**
- Customizable Templated Workflows
- Asset Management
- Portals and Sites
- SEO Management
- Campaign Management
- Metadata Management
- Calendar Management
- Audio File Management
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Content Management
- Brand Management
- Document Management
- Template Management

**Development**
- Image Management
- Reuseable Content
- Unlimited Environments
- Form Builder
- Web Forms
- Customizable Forms
- User Management
- Workflow Management
- Template Management
- Compliance Management
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Website Management
- Document Management
- SEO Management
- Content Management
- Multi-Channel Management
- Integrated Development Environment
- File Management

**Platform**
- User Community
- SEO
- Flexible Navigation Structures
- User, Role, and Access Management
- Enterprise Scalability
- Internationalization
- Dashboards and Reports
- API

**Design & Development**
- No-Code App Development
- Low-Code App Development
- Self-Service Capabilities

**Analytics**
- Personalization
- Content Performance
- Interactive Content

**Agentic AI - Web Content Management**
- Cross-system Integration
- Natural Language Interaction
- Social Media Integration

**Agentic AI - Headless CMS**
- Cross-system Integration
- Third-Party Integrations

**Agentic AI - Digital Experience Platforms**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making
- Third-Party Integration

**Additional Functionality**
- AI/Machine Learning
- Reporting/Analytics
- Collaboration Tools
- Image Editing
- Website Publishing Options
- Chatbot
- Content Publishing Options
- Text Editing
- Access Control
- Website Accessibility Tools
- Content Delivery
- Content Personalization
- Configurable Workflow
- Generative AI
- Alerts/Notifications
- Video Editing
- AI Copilot
- Performance Testing
- Activity Monitoring
- Multi-Channel Distribution

**Additional Functionality**
- Search/Filter
- AI Copilot
- Commenting/Notes
- Content Publishing Options
- Reporting & Statistics
- Content Library
- Document Classification
- Drag & Drop
- API
- Multi-Channel Distribution
- Customizable Templates
- Customizable Forms
- Alerts/Notifications
- A/B Testing
- Generative AI

**Additional Functionality**
- A/B Testing
- Full Text Search
- Two-Factor Authentication
- SDKs
- Content Publishing Options
- Multi-Channel Marketing
- Image Editing
- API
- Content Library
- Mobile Access
- Reporting/Analytics
- AI Copilot
- De-Coupled Front & Back Ends
- Collaboration Tools
- Activity Dashboard
- Generative AI
- Customizable Templates
- Text Editing
- Drag & Drop
- Rich Text Editor
- Scheduling
- Tagging
- Single Sign On
- Configurable Workflow
- Categorization/Grouping
- Preview Functionality
- Multi-Channel Distribution
- For Marketers
- Version Control
- Approval Process Control
- Filtering
- For Developers
- Website Analytics
- Role-Based Permissions
- Historical Reporting
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Email Marketing
- Loyalty Program
- Customer Touchpoints
- Customer Segmentation
- Web/Mobile App Development
- Product Catalog
- Inventory Optimization
- Multi-Location
- Data Synchronization
- Inventory Tracking
- Customer Database
- Activity Tracking
- Multi-Currency
- Shopping Cart
- Reporting & Statistics
- Customer Accounts
- Conversion Tracking
- CRM
- Search/Filter
- Barcode/Ticket Scanning
- SSL Security
- Alerts/Notifications
- Secure Login
- Document Review
- Content Delivery
- Customizable Branding
- Secure Data Storage
- Document Storage
- Mobile Capture
- Offline Access
- Templates
- File Sharing
- Data Capture and Transfer

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