After its first release in 2003, Magnolia quickly became a leading Content Management solution for the Java platform. Due to its easy-to-use web interface and open standards such as JSR-170, it is being used in several thousand installations world-wide.

Our Magnolia Services

Priocept has been working with Magnolia since 2009, and is one of only two Magnolia partners in the UK.  We have worked extensively with the Magnolia product suite, providing both development and consultancy services to clients that include a major automotive manufacturer and local government.  Priocept also has considerable expertise in the Java Content Repository (JCR) and Apache Jackrabbit technologies which underpin Magnolia, having been working with JCR and Jackrabbit since 2008.  We were also the original developers of the open-source Jackrabbit Explorer project.

Contact Us

Whether you are considering Magnolia for a new project, or if you are an existing Magnolia user and need help getting the most out of the product, get in touch with Priocept.  We work with clients on everything from one day of consultancy providing Magnolia technical advice or user training, to hundreds of man days of development work, through to long term support and operation of Magnolia based websites against a formal SLA.

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Case Study: Magnolia CMS Development and PIM Integration for ITW

ITW Construction Products is a subsidiary of ITW (Illinois Tool Works), a diversified manufacturer of industrial technologies that employees 60,000 people worldwide and has annual revenues in excess of $15 billion.

In October 2011, ITW engaged Priocept to assist with the development of their Magnolia CMS platform and its integration with an inRiver PIM.

Read more Leave a Comment March 16, 2012 Priocept Case Studies

Enterprise WCM: Bi-directional Content Migration

Enterprise content-managed websites need bi-directional content transfers on a regular basis. Here we explain why, and how to achieve this, a task which involves content editors, IT operations, and software development teams.

Read more Leave a Comment October 25, 2011 Matthew Skelton

Announcing Jackrabbit Explorer, the administration tool for JCR repositories

We are pleased to announce that Jackrabbit Explorer, an administration tool for JCR repositories, is now available on Google Code. It’s exciting to be able to contribute something back to the JCR and Jackrabbit community, and we’d welcome feedback and feature requests (and bug reports!) for Jackrabbit Explorer via the Google Code project.

Read more Leave a Comment September 16, 2011 Matthew Skelton

Content Management vs. Content Repositories vs. Content Platforms

The traditional web content management system (WCM/CMS), focused on presenting web pages to a browser, is no longer necessarily the right choice for managing and delivering content in a multi-device, multi-channel, content-syndicated world.

In this article, we look at the difference between a CMS and a content repository, and how and why you might decide that a content repository is the right technology for your expanding content requirements.

Read more Leave a Comment August 16, 2011 Matthew Skelton

Priocept appointed by Sheffield City Council to deliver Magnolia CMS training

Priocept has been appointed by Sheffield City Council to assist in the training and roll-out of their new Magnolia based website and content management platform.

Read more August 9, 2011

Magnolia Training – The Magnolia Publishing Model

This example follows a site editor making minor changes to a page in a Magnolia CMS website and a site publisher reviewing that change before publishing it for public viewing. It uses the Magnolia CMS Demo Area, hosted by Magnolia International to provide an area for exploring and practising.

Read more Leave a Comment June 21, 2011 Chris Jennings

Magnolia CMS And Priocept Announce UK Partnership

Priocept, the internet technology consulting firm, and Magnolia International, the creator of the open source content management system Magnolia CMS, have announced a strategic partnership in the UK.

Read more June 17, 2011

Magnolia Training – An Introduction to Magnolia Instances

Magnolia CMS’s publishing mechanism revolves around the concept of a server used for creating, editing and previewing content, available only to a limited group of users and known as the authoring instance, and one or more publicly accessible servers which operate in a read-only style, serving content over the web and known as public instances.
In this short tutorial, we describe the concept.

Read more Leave a Comment June 16, 2011 Chris Jennings

Case Study: Implementing Magnolia CMS for a Major Automotive Manufacturer

In September 2010 Priocept started working with a major automotive manufacturer to streamline management of their UK website. The visual design and functionality offered on the website was viewed as a resounding success, and seen as the group’s flagship website across Europe. In this case study we look at how Priocept integrated Magnolia CMS with the Grails framework to create an effective content management solution.

Read more Leave a Comment May 22, 2011 Priocept Case Studies

Magnolia Training – A Simple Edit in Magnolia CMS

This example follows a site editor making minor changes to a page in a Magnolia CMS website and then publishing that change for public viewing.

Read more Leave a Comment May 2, 2011 Chris Jennings

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