Likelihood to Recommend CMS is well suited for automotive manufacturing businesses.
Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology at Humphrey Companies, LLC.
Read full review Kentico is a robust and flexible CMS platform that is great for managing multiple websites and multiple environments (dev, stage, and production for instance). It makes content management very easy and makes it easy to keep the environments synced with the same content. However, the Kentico CMS does require a bit more technical understanding to get it set up properly and requires a bit more effort and support than, say, free open-source options.
Read full review Pros EDI Order Processing Serialized Inventory Tracking Order Processing Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology at Humphrey Companies, LLC.
Read full review I love the intuitive top and left navigation within the content management platform. I can easily find what section, sub-section, and page I'm looking to edit For creating content, the WYSIWYG editor is so intuitive; it feels like you're working on an MS Word doc! The tab for adding metadata in simple fields takes away the headache of having to hunt and peck through code to add H1 tag, page description etc. The image library is easy to edit and manage Read full review Cons Visual interface Report Customization Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology at Humphrey Companies, LLC.
Read full review Kentico needs to invest in more enterprise class environment management utilities -- example: global CDN support via the CMS is sorely lacking. There are work-arounds, but it should be more elegant. The Kentico staging module could be improved to support the concept of bundled releases. Current staging module functionality is good, but could be improved. Kentico ecommerce support is a touch immature. While content management is superb, Kentico lags in this area when compared to many open source ecommerce engines. Kentico is lacking MVC support. 99% of the time this isn't an issue for the end-user or business user, but can be a hurdle for technology teams depending on the team's makeup. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We are locked into Kentico for the long haul. It provides us with an easy and flexible solution for a very non technical company to create a site and have the features they want, especially with the inclusion of EMS into our license. Now we have a true platform to build and grow our solutions.
Read full review Usability CMS takes time to learn and use the menu driven green screen. However, once you are familiar it makes for fast navigation.
Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology at Humphrey Companies, LLC.
Read full review It seriously is one of the best interfaces I have ever used. I also love the fact that I can use UI personalization to secure any functionality by user or role that I don't want that role to have access to. The best part is the customization of the UI, I can add in any button, tab, or menu item I want through it, no code required.
Read full review Support Rating Support is getting better but can still be slow to respond.
Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology at Humphrey Companies, LLC.
Read full review Their support staff is friendly, knowledgeable, and will work with you until your issue is fixed. This could take a few phone calls back and forth, but they are very diligent in helping you.
Read full review Implementation Rating The system provides many opportunities to integrate and enhance the platform and makes it easy to do so.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We have more control over the backend of CMS and the fact it runs on a 5250 emulator it run a lot faster for data entry.
Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology at Humphrey Companies, LLC.
Read full review I've used
Sitecore , Ektron,
Joomla !,
WordPress , and SharePoint (if you want to count that as a competitor for CMS). Kentico 8 blows them all out of the water. Nothing is more intuitive in the way that content is created, the way the site is setup, and how efficient rollouts can be with Content Staging.
Read full review Return on Investment Inventory tracibility Order Processing Customer Integration EDI Processing Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology at Humphrey Companies, LLC.
Read full review Kentico has enabled faster speed to market for SMEs. They are empowered to enter content them selves while still having that content go through editorial review to ensure tone of voice and brand are maintained. Deploying Kentico has freed up web developer resources from manual content entry enabling them to build more useful solutions to support the business efforts Tapping into the Kentico event pipelne allows us to trigger external system events when product content is published. Read full review ScreenShots Kentico Xperience Screenshots