Testimonials

The thing which I think is great about Magnolia is the ease-of-use. Whenever anyone starts, it takes about ten seconds to explain how to create content! And now that it takes much less time, we’ve started generating a lot more content. We have hundreds of pages about products compared to the twenty or thirty we had before.

Alastair Douglas, Head of Marketing & Analysis, Simply Business

Our switch to Magnolia CMS brought tremendous operational benefits under budget, plus its simplicity and ease of use quickly won over the 1,000 faculty and staff with website editing privileges. Its high quality open-source code, including its adherence to Java standards, allows our programmers to easily customize the system to our needs.

Sean McMains, TSU’s Technical Lead for Enterprise Applications.

In more than a decade of developing web applications, I have never met a group of people (apart from my colleagues at C-E), so dedicated to providing excellence in every way. The quality of code, extensibility, flexibility, openness, and ease of use of their product is simply outstanding. As impressive as the Magnolia CMS product is on its own, its nothing compared to the service Magnolia as a partner provides.  Their outstanding customer support, collaboration, commitment to frequent releases, and adherence to Agile development have made Magnolia an invaluable partner.

Matt Dertinger, VP, User Interface Architect, Campbell-Ewald

By choosing Magnolia, we saved about $100,000 USD in licensing alone over the next-best proprietary option.

Mike Blakemore, CTO, LOVEFiLM

Magnolia is a great platform to build CMS based websites. The underlying architecture built on top notch open source components allows the content to live free from the CMS system. The CMS is great to build web based applications such as the Magnolia/KonaKart integration, providing a shopping cart solution to Magnolia and the power of the WCM to manage the pages of the KonaKart shopping solution.

Ruben Reusser, CTO, Headwire

Magnolia is easily the best execution of an open source, enterprise CMS in the marketplace today.

Tom Manos, EVP/CTO, Concursive Corporation

Something I really liked is the ability to publish the same content on different websites. From a programming point of view, we also like very much the openness and flexibility Magnolia gives to us. So we may easily integrate other Java-based applications into Magnolia.

Giles Ducret, Lloyds Bank TSB plc.

I remember that amazing week we had in Basel. I was dreaming to meet you guys again and I really hope this will happen some time. Good luck finding the best people!

Alex "The Mindstorm" Popescu, Chief Architect and co-founder of InfoQ.com

Aperto has implemented more than 15 projects with Magnolia CMS. Our customers are impressed by the comfort and efficiency of Magnolia CMS. For our developers at Aperto it is the extraordinary technical support that characterizes the partnership with Magnolia.

Kai Großmann, Aperto AG, Member of Management Board

It is important that our project teams are not restrained by the CMS and that they have free reign to exercise their own individuality and control of their own web space. At the same time we want a solution that is simple to use and easy to extend. Magnolia is the perfect solution.

Mark Newton, JBoss.org Community Lead

Having a single system with such a refined workflow will dramatically reduce the cost, time and man-hours needed to bring our content to the web.

Augusto Chollet, Head of Multimedia of RSI

We looked at Alfresco and though it seemed to have some very nice features we chose Magnolia for its elegance and simplicity. Magnolia's simple but full featured and elegant approach to web content management is just perfect for our needs. The fact that is based around the JCR specification and Apache Jackrabbit will allow it to scale for our future.

Daniel Honig, IT Director, Escapeer

Magnolia - the CMS - has proved its strategic value to our business by enabling throughput to our website and deployment of content that has delivered a dramatic increase in both traffic and revenue. Magnolia achieved this value through its robustness, reliability, scalability, and service-ability. Its value for money is exceptional. Magnolia - the company - has been equally robust and reliable with the added bonus of also being reasonable, friendly, supportive and effective as business partners. Their responsive communication, flexible assistance, and focus on customer value has enabled a partnership with a business halfway around the world to one of the most effective relationships that we have with a vendor.

Scott Stacey, Chief Technology Officer, www.travel.com.au

We did a user test last week where we setup some templates both in Magnolia and in OpenCMS and had the users walk through creating pages in both … I was the Magnolia trainer and compared to the OpenCMS trainer I hardly received any questions about how to accomplish things, people seemed to just understand Magnolia intuitively. On the OpenCMS side there were lots of questions with people not really understanding what was going on.

Tom Jensen, Boise Cascade

The elegant simplicity of the Magnolia user interface is genius. It helps streamline the production process, speeds up content publishing and keeps our clients and developers satisfied with an easy to manage web presence.

Chems Touati, Student Computing Labs, Marriott Library, University of Utah

Thanks, you guys made my day Magnolia! We just finished up the Amgen Tour of California, and everyone loved it! We were very impressed with how Magnolia handled under the load... we averaged about 580 hits a second, although that was an overall average and we probably had about 4 times that during lunchtime (= 8 million hits per hour). This was all running on a single server per Magnolia instance, an Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz processor with 2 Gb of RAM. Again, thanks for a stellar product that really worked out!

Branden Root, Senior Developer, Portent Interactive

Magnolia has improved our productivity in unexpected ways. Often our editors will produce stunning pages that we previously thought were only possible with a professional web developer. The high usability and flexible page layout process allows us to deliver persuasive content to our website visitors and interact with them.

Christoph Windscheif, Senior Consultant, INSM

After working with Vignette for two years, we decided to switch from their CMS software to Magnolia. We were initially attracted by Magnolia's rich out-of-the-box functionality and the ease with which it could be customized, but were also pleasantly surprised by its performance, which allowed us to use fewer server boxes and still have a more responsive system. Its focus on simplicity and ease of use has quickly won over our users as well.

Sean McMains, Texas State University

Thank you for making such an outstanding project. Every other project available on the market is more complicated, harder to learn, less open ....

Zoran Balkic, Green Studio Ltd.

I just finished up yesterday at the training for Magnolia down in Laguna Beach, CA. I was glad I went and felt it well worth the time and money to go there. It was so nice to have a knowledgeable instructor to help understand Magnolia and how it relates to the JCR. In the past I've thought it a bit odd to have training for an open source project. I thought that I was a wimp if I couldn't just understand the complete concept of the software from reading any docs on it and looking through the code. The training not only will have saved me many hours of head scratching it has helped me to get the vision of what was intended with Magnolia and how to better use it along with the underlying repository.

Tom Jensen, Boise Cascade

For DigitalUK, we needed to deliver a bi-lingual solution, comply with W3C WAI standards and produce semantic XHTML for all pages. Magnolia was a clear winner on all ends. The project has been such a success that it is being presented at this year's Euro Information Architecture Summit at the end of September. We couldn't have managed the project without you.

Graeme Rimmer, Managing Director, Go2ten Ltd.

This is a great product and I'm looking forward to continuing using it. It is not only a simple, intuitive program for end users (content creators) to use but is pretty straight forward in template creation.

Tom Jensen, Boise Cascade

Magnolia - the company - has been reasonable, accessible, supportive, available, and professional in all regards. Each and every person we have run into has been a pleasure to deal with since the start of the relationship. Magnolia - the product - is robust, dependable, sound, efficient, virtually bug-free, upgraded, extolled as excellent by interested parties (Neville Bradbury of Australia Opensoft) and people who have contributed to the Open Source world (Greg Luck of Wotif.com Group). The Services provided by Magnolia have been flexible in scope, reasonable in cost, very applicable, offered excellent value and enabled us to realize the 'advertised' benefits that we sought as a business.

Scott Stacey, Chief Technology Officer, www.travel.com.au

Implementing INSM with Magnolia EE went much faster than anticipated. Another Enterprise CMS would have taken months longer.

Sebastian Frick, Technical Project Manager, Aperto AG

For me Magnolia is a CMS framework and its strength is that it is very open and very easy to integrate with other applications. You have to code the integration but it is very easy and easy to do that in a very standard way.

Gilles Ducret, J2EE Architect, Lloyds TSB IPB

Magnolia CMS allows us to easily meet the specific customization needs of our clients. The integration of Social Network tools gives us the opportunity to merge structured and editorial content. It provides the information they need in a new multimedia, involving, and appealing experience.

Mattia Storni, Managing Director, ticinoinfo sa