ancestry had an existing CMS in place
for a few years and the biggest pain
point for us that we wanted to solve was
the usability of the tool the previous
tool that we had was very feature-rich
but it was very inaccessible to sort of
the general non-technical customer so we
wanted something that was significantly
more accessible made finding content
easier creating content easier and
Magnolias really solved those issues
when we decided to redesign our
architecture we had a few things in mind
we wanted the system to be highly
performant a minimum of two fold
increases what we see so the new system
is like you know twice as faster as the
older one technology is changing and the
product that we have did not support
that shift so we needed something that
would plug into our existing ecosystem
and didn't require some enterprise
solution at some enormous price and with
all the integration with our testing
tools it helps us get there faster
installing the endpoints the rest
endpoints that are abstraction layer
needs on Magnolia was super easy you
know we took advantage of the of the
servlet capabilities and you know all of
our components that we developed we're
you know easy to add one we brought
Magnolia on board one of the awesome
features was an effective search so I
could very easily find assets that I was
looking for simply by searching has
actually been one of the most helpful
features that I've lacked for the last
five years so looking at the performance
I think that was like a big win for us
that removed all the suspicion we had on
the tool like would it scale the tool
actually scaled well right I feel good
about saying this is the right tool
because it'll offer you X Y & Z and I
know that when they come in to use it
they're gonna have a good experience
it's made my life easier because the
support staff are super responsive to
any questions that we have it's been a
really nice experience
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