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This page provides a high-level overview of Magnolia apps.

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Apps are important building blocks of Magnolia, providing segmented, task-oriented functionality to different users. Technically speaking, an app is simply a UI extension point. How you extend the UI depends on your needs and the needs of your users. Thanks to Magnolia's open architecture, the limits of the app approach are boundless, meaning you can tailor the experience of target work groups by customizing the UI and existing apps - and by creating new apps as needed.

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All apps are implemented using the App framework, whether they are apps provided by Magnolia or your own custom-built apps. Because content is at the heart of Magnolia, there is a specific framework subset dedicated to creating apps that manage content; apps created using this framework subset are referred to as content apps. Some examples of content apps are the Pages and Assets apps, some non-content app examples are the Log Tools and About Magnolia apps.

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• An editor may need to access product data in a remote ERP system in order to create content to sell the products. Such remote data can reside in a relational database, on the filesystem, in a Web service, or some other data delivery service. For convenience, you make the remote data available inside the familiar Magnolia environment so editors don't need to jump from one system to another. For example, Magnolia's IBM WebSphere Commerce Integration module connects a WebSphere Commerce store to Magnolia. 
• Your authors need  to to choose image assets from Flickr but they do not have to leave Magnolia just because the content resides somewhere else. With a content connector you can decouple content management from content storage. 
• Your clients need to contact you via forms on your website: the External Forms module provides functionality to render external forms configured in marketing automation software such as Oracle Eloqua on Magnolia pages. 

• Your company uses Amazon S3 to store large assets: the Amazon S3 Connector module provides an app that allows users to manage assets in Amazon S3 while using them in Magnolia.  

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In addition to each app being intended for a specific purpose, you can organize the apps in Magnolia's interface into groups. In the example below taken from Magnolia's demo site, all the content apps are grouped in the Edit group and the Set Up group brings together all the administration apps. You can reorganize these groups, remove them and create your own in the app launcher layout. 

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