we use Magnolia at last seen in two
different ways we use it for our main
website which is WWE which is basically
our entire sales channel all of our
software is sold online through the
website and so it's a pretty important
web property for us we also use Magnolia
for university Atlassian comm which is
an online interactive training system
that we sell as an add-on to JIRA
comforts and green hopper where
end-users can actually go get training
on how to use our products interactively
in the product and the entire system is
built on top of Magnolia when we set out
to find a content management system our
requirements were pretty clear we were
expanding into Europe and we wanted a
translator website so that the first
impression of people in these other
countries was their local language so
translation was really the driver of the
project but we had a lot of other things
that we really wanted to achieve one of
you to see a CMS as well not the least
of which was having delegated authoring
so the people closest to the content
were the ones making changes as it was
before
every spelling error was falling
funneling through a developer and that
just wasn't scaling before we moved to
the CMS we didn't have a QA process so
we didn't have a way to go from
development to QA to production so we
were actually pushing stuff out to
production hoping it worked and if it
didn't we would have to rollback we were
also looking for something that fit into
our company's architecture pretty well
and that basically meant Java because
that was what our IT and sis admins
already knew how to administer so Magna
magnolia was a pretty clear fit for all
of those requirements
so before Magnolia was in place we
actually had our entire website
developed as JSP pages running on top of
Tomcat and it was an aging system it was
about 9 years old it had about 2000 JSP
files that created about 1200 different
web pages so there was a lot of cruft in
there a lot of stuff we needed to clean
up since moved to Magnolia we gained
having delegated authoring
we're able to have people who are
closest to the contact actually making
changes which allowed us to not have
spelling errors going through a
developer anymore which is how things
were back with the old JSP site it's
made us more efficient and how we get
content out and allows the developers to
focus on the things that they're best at
which is creating code what I really
like about Magnolia is its flexibility
in terms of when we're designing
something interactive for example we
have a interactive screen shot that
where you can specify where the
clickable and hover bulerias are on the
screenshot and then a tooltip or some
other action occurs with Magnolia I'm
able to create a dialog that has all the
parameters needed height and width and
location and the content editors are
able to enter the those values
themselves and create very rich
interactive pieces on our website which
normally would have to be coded by a
JavaScript developer so it's very nice
to have that flexibility since we moved
to the CMS system we have pretty much
made that self-service for the people
closest to the content the product
marketing managers they simply go copy
the previous release change the version
number edit the text to reflect the most
recent features ask for a few images
from the designer and once they're ready
and they want their content release they
simply activate it and we have a
workflow built in where they check a
checkbox that says send us off for
translation
everyone's notified goes on to QA the
translators look at it the PM's look at
it and when everyone's satisfied with
the content we push it out live so it's
basically streamlined the entire entire
process and give hasn't given us a way
to look at things before we push it out
live having more agile marketing team it
helps our company grow faster we're able
to add more marketers the team without
having to worry about JSP code they can
try content out push it out figure out
what the best solution is as we acquire
new companies we can spin up new pages
very very quickly as a developer focused
company we're constantly preaching
developers that they need to be
more agile and so we were looking for
something that actually brought that
agility to the content management of the
website where people can make changes on
the fly see how it looks
activated and really try things out and
come up with the best solutions and
Magnolia has actually made our entire
marketing team more agile
