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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Experience Manager

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering marketing content.N/A

    Magnolia

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Founded in Switzerland in 1997, Magnolia is a CMS used to build composable digital experiences. Magnolia helps create fully integrated customer experiences and speeds up digital delivery of content. Magnolia boasts 480 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world. They further state that their enterprise customers include Sanofi, Generali, the Atlassian, The New York Times, Harley Davidson, and Union…

    $3,500

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe Experience ManagerMagnolia
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Experience ManagerMagnolia
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Experience ManagerMagnolia
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Experience Manager
    Because it is sponsored by Gartner
    Incentivized
    Magnolia
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia DXP offers similar or more capability compared to the other platform, while much easier to implement. For example, Adobe Experience Manager tend to be more monolithic in nature, heavier footprint compared to Magnolia. Hence when implementing a DXP, it is much faster to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    I need to specific and say I've had experiences of these platform from previous roles, they were not considered by Good Things Foundation.

    My experience is that Magnolia delivers the power of these high end platforms but is generally more accessible to get going and develop …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Of all the ones we looked at that met our requirements Magnolia was clearly the best value for money and had a solid background that you could trust and that could take care of you in case of problems.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    One of the most important points that magnolia has over other products is the possibility of extending its functionalities. Being open-source, it is possible to inspect how everything is done and replicate it to change functionalities. In this way, many features that customers …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Good documentation and examples Online demos to mess with and test functionalities Easier to install Better knowledge about the product Ability to centralize content of the same type in apps Better performance in some scenarios Better usability: In the newest versions, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is a good competitor in the DXP scenario: Reduced costs License costs are contained, what brings customers the ability to develop their business with a minor impact Open source platform It helps customers to adapt the platform to some special needs DXP …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is amazing and compared to the alternatives available, it is affordable and I find it more resourceful and a performer and hence the reason we have it our primary CMS solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    It does not nearly do what AEM does, but the again, it is much easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is a java based CMS system and the features it comes with satisfied the needs of the project.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is the most flexible, with the best ease of use in all cases. It just has the best of both worlds. It is significantly more than just a CMS. And you have a good foundation for building up your platform without losing possibilities to change parts in the future.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    126 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    99 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    129 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    58 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    85 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Experience ManagerMagnolia
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Adobe Experience Manager and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.4
    38 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Magnolia
    8.1
    70 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.438 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Experience Manager and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    8.0
    33 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    7% above category average
    API7.829 Ratings8.562 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.129 Ratings7.762 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Adobe Experience Manager and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.5
    38 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Magnolia
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    4% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.433 Ratings8.566 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.734 Ratings8.466 Ratings
    Admin section7.034 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Page templates7.637 Ratings8.973 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.326 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.835 Ratings8.564 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.135 Ratings7.574 Ratings
    Form generator7.629 Ratings6.959 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Adobe Experience Manager and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Experience Manager
    7.3
    37 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Magnolia
    7.5
    70 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Content taxonomy7.731 Ratings7.664 Ratings
    SEO support7.133 Ratings7.264 Ratings
    Bulk management7.236 Ratings7.658 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.534 Ratings7.963 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.130 Ratings6.952 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Adobe Experience ManagerMagnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (85 ratings)
    8.1
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (50 ratings)
    8.0
    (69 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Experience ManagerMagnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    I'll answer the second one because I mean, the first one I don't have an issue with. The second scenario is we oftentimes have the need to spin off very small campaign style sites or sites that generate leads but are unbranded and that sort of thing. So that's hard to do in AEM because you have to then create another organization within AEM to do that. And we're talking about sites that are maybe five to 10 pages in size. So we've been investigating Edge, but then that's a different workflow, so we'd have to train people on that. So it would be nice if there was something within the AEM structure that could allow you to do something very similar to Edge, where you make some small micro sites that are not necessarily branded, that you could still host within the platform and not have to retrain everybody on a completely different platform.
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    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
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    Cons
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We had and still have a fantastic experience using Adobe CQ. Lots of flexibility, great integration with other Adobe products we already use and a powerful technology make it a great fit for our corporate environment. Also as the community grows, it makes it easier to network with other developers and users to get new ideas on how to continue to get the best out of the software.
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    Magnolia
    We have invested a lot of time and energy into tailoring a solution that works for the company.
    We think the new features in v6.2 will help us get to the next level
    We also don't have the resources to rebuild a website platform from scratch even if we wanted to
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    Usability
    Adobe
    It depends if it is from an administrator point of view or from a business content author point of view. I think from business author point of view the solution is good and with the GEN AI capabilities coming it is doing better and better, however from an administration point of view there are still a lot of improvements to ease the maintenance of user access management and as well as the integration configuration aspect.
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    Magnolia
    We've shown it to a number of users both clients and our own team and despite initial apprehensions, they "get it" very quickly. It's intuitive and friendly and quick to perform daily tasks. We once had a client tell us "Using Magnolia makes me smile" which says it all for us.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    You always get an answer based on your SLA. But you always get a solution. That's the successfactor in this case. To often i was frustrated about people in a company without even a clue what there product is about or how to solve a problem. Magnolia's Support Team does a very good job and try to help you in most of the cases
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    Depending on your individual needs, It is really quite simple to create an authoring experience for a website that looks really good. I have been part of many implementations and many teams and have seen many projects that were super successful and others that were not implemented well. AEM has room for a lot of flexibility in the implementation process compared to other CMS like SharePoint
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    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    I've used several CMSs like AEM and EpiServer, and comparatively, they all excel at different things. Magnolia is the best to develop for/against. Episerver has the best/most fluid UI in terms of content editing, and the overall admin experience AEM is just all around sucks.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    ScreenShots

    Adobe Experience Manager Screenshots

    Screenshot of AEM Forms - Creates an adaptive formScreenshot of AEM Forms - themes libraryScreenshot of AEM Forms - where to create a templateScreenshot of AEM Forms - the interactive communications editorScreenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - document-based authoring enables marketers to create and publish content with familiar tools.Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager Sites - Universal Editor, an advanced visual editor, empowers marketers to edit and publish content.

    Magnolia Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Magnolia App Launcher, used to switch between workspaces and manage pagesScreenshot of the customer experience. This brings together content and audiovisual digital assets to form more compelling digital experiences.Screenshot of global search that brings relevant content, no matter where it resides.Screenshot of customizing the ecommerce experience.Screenshot of Magnolia Orchestratem where users can manage and track campaignsScreenshot of the WYSIWYG page editor