Benefits of the Magnolia Enterprise Edition compared to the Magnolia Community Edition

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Benefits of the Magnolia Enterprise Edition
compared to theMagnolia Community Edition
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Why two Magnolia Editions?

• Why Community Edition?
• to easily test Magnolia and look beyond an Online
  demo or flashy sales brochures
• to run no-budget, non-critical systems
• Why Enterprise Edition?
• supported, certified systems
• host of additional features (JSR-168, LDAP, RSS,
  Template-Designer)
• run enterprise-class systems
• out-of-the-box ease-of-use

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Community vs. Enterprise EditionNon-Functional
Differences

• Certified Stack
• We test combinations of hardware and software and
  guarantee that Magnolia is working as expected.
• Migration Path
• We make sure your data can be migrated between
  the releases and provide migration tools to do
  so.
• Support
• The Community Edition is NOT supported, i.e.
  whatever your problem we dont care unless you
  buy a license.
• Lack of support is transitive across our partners
  we do not support them unless it is for a
  licensed installation

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Community vs. Enterprise EditionFunctional
Differences

• Enterprise Integration Features
• JSR-168 Support
• LDAP/ADS Connector
• Enterprise Deployment Features
• Deployment-Module
• Repository Independence
• CRX Connector
• Template Designer
• Advanced Meta-Data Search

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Magnolia Enterprise EditionEnterprise
Integration Features

• JSR-168 Support
• Allows you to connect to Magnolia from within any
  JSR-168 compliant portal server.
• LDAP/ADS Connector
• Connect to your LDAP or ADS server for
  company-wide single-sign-on authentication
  mechanisms.

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Magnolia Enterprise EditionEnterprise
Deployment Features

• Deployment-Module
• Easily install updates and add new functionality,
  create and manage packages and deploy changes to
  your magnolia servers without risk - thanks to
  the built-in uninstall.
• Repository Independence
• choose the repository based on your business
  demands
• CRX Connector
• Run Magnolia on the industry-leading CRX
  repository for highest demands on security and
  scalability.

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Magnolia Enterprise EditionTemplate Designer

• Simply create your custom layout directly in the
  browser - no templating necessary.
• Layout changes are configuration, not programming
• Reduce time to create sites or micro-sites to
  minutes
• easy migration and reuse of content thanks to the
  standardized data model
• built-in support for RSS, Podcasts,
  video/multimedia display, news items, custom
  menus (incl. dropdown), iFrames (external content
  inclusion), content inheritance, search-engine
  optimization, mail-forms and many many more

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Magnolia Enterprise EditionAdvanced Meta-Data
Search

• The advanced meta-data search makes it very easy
  to find anything you are looking for.
• automatically provide all the meta-data fields
  you need across the entire application
• reuse content within your site by meta-tagging
  your content

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Community vs. Enterprise EditionSummary

• The Enterprise Edition provides outstanding value
  at a fraction of the cost of traditional Content
  Management Systems
• The Question is not Community Edition vs.
  Enterprise Edition it is Do I want the best
  value at the best price?
• Magnolia Enterprise Edition lets you focus on
  your business you are not in the business of
  developing, customizing and maintaining your own
  Enterprise Content Management System.