Magnolia: The Fastest Enterprise CMS

At Magnolia we’ve doubled down on the best-of-breed approach, front-end development, and capabilities that accelerate large projects and lower the total cost of ownership for enterprises.

Let’s look at why implementation speed is crucial, value in open source solutions, how best of breed is faster, and why Magnolia is the fastest enterprise headless CMS.

When it comes to implementing enterprise-grade projects, speed is crucial for meeting tight budgets. Whether software development work is done in-house or by implementation partners, it’s usually the most significant cost of migrating to a new CMS platform.

Implementation tasks also disrupt the normal workflows of developers, marketing teams, and other stakeholders. The longer IT teams spend working on an implementation project the less time they have to work on innovative projects that have a greater impact on company success. Slow CMS implementations, therefore, put a substantial burden on enterprise organizations.

There are tools for building websites fast but they lack the features necessary for large enterprises such as omnichannel publishing, personalization, and data analytics. Many enterprise CMSs on the other hand lack modern architecture and developer tools for fast implementations. In most cases, this means that open best-of-breed CMSs are faster than proprietary suite solutions.

The cost of development is high, especially when highly specialized technologies and proprietary CMS software knowledge is required. That makes securing buy-in at large organizations more difficult and makes finding the developers necessary for the project more costly and time-consuming. That’s perhaps why, according to a survey of 950 executives conducted by Red Hat, 68% of organizations have increased their use of enterprise open source and another 59% plan to continue that growth.

Finding an enterprise CMS that has a fast time to market is challenging, and this means software that relies on common technology and open standards may be the best option for many organizations. Java and popular front-end frameworks have larger and more affordable talent pools than other less common programming languages. That means it takes less time and fewer resources to build an in-house development team or outsource the implementation development work.

Further reading: Why choose an open source headless CMS?

The typical enterprise suite solution takes months or even years to implement. That’s because they’re meant to be comprehensive solutions that meet the needs of all departments across the enterprise. CMS implementations usually require additional customization to fit business requirements, and most suite systems don’t have streamlined tooling for integrations. They’re meant to fulfill company-wide needs out of the box.

The best of breed approach with smaller individual components leads to faster implementations because you can stage the rollout over time. Companies can prioritize the systems they need most and integrate less essential applications later. In addition, best of breed CMSs rely on APIs and other tools that reduce the development requirements for systems integrations. Magnolia, for example, has a multitude of Connector Packs that significantly reduce integration costs.

Magnolia is built for speed. Its decoupled architecture and low-code approach lead to fast installations, shorter development times, and easy deployments.