"If you really want to focus on employee productivity when it comes to CMS, then my recommendation would be that you focus on the top tasks. What are the top tasks employees use the CMS for? Typically creating and editing content. Just like you would for any website, work with a UX designer to design the best flow and then make sure to follow Sara’s advise and implement according to standards."

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We want our next major release to provide the very best administration interface for Web-based content management on the market.

Go ahead. Read that again.

Yes, we really do believe Magnolia 5’s GUI will be better than any other web based CMS on the market. That is a strong aspiration, agreed, but then again it’s been Magnolia’s core aim from day one: “Simplicity on an Enterprise Scale” for us means a CMS that is intuitive to use and works well for enterprise use cases. We have shown Magnolia CMS can cover enterprise use cases. Now its time to deliver on the usability part.

Adobe buying Day will be good for Magnolia and Magnolia customers; it will most likely not be good for Day customers (the aim of a takeover rarely correlates with the goals of the existing customer base, otherwise the existing customers would have bought something else). Thanks to Adobe buying Day, Magnolia's technology stack will gain more credibility, and with clients like the US Navy (navy.com), EADS.com, Sony Playstation and many other multi-nationals in its portfolio, it is easy to see that Magnolia CMS is a very credible alternative to becoming dependent on a single integrated product suite delivered by a rather closed-sourced billion $ company.