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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Xperience by Kentico

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AKentico is a web content management system for building websites, online stores, intranets, and Web 2.0 community sites. Kentico CMS uses ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server for development via its Portal Engine, using Visual Studio, or through Microsoft MVC.

    $9,999

    Subscription license

    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Xperience by KenticoSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Editions & Modules
    Kentico Xperience Business
    $9,999 / year
    Subscription license
    Kentico Xperience Business
    $14,999
    Perpetual license
    Kentico Xperience Enterprise
    $17,999 / year
    Subscription license
    Kentico Xperience Enterprise
    $29,999
    Perpetual license
    Kentico Xperience Corporate
    Upon request
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Xperience by KenticoSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Xperience by KenticoSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Considered Both Products
    Kentico software
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Xperience by KenticoSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Xperience by Kentico and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Xperience by Kentico
    9.0
    25 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Xperience by Kentico and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Xperience by Kentico
    9.0
    22 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    API9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Xperience by Kentico and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Xperience by Kentico
    8.6
    26 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow10.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator10.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Xperience by Kentico and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Xperience by Kentico
    8.0
    26 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management10.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Xperience by Kentico and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Xperience by Kentico
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings6.023 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Xperience by KenticoSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (45 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Xperience by KenticoSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kentico software
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Kentico software
    • 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
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    Salesforce
    • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
    • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
    • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
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    Cons
    Kentico software
    • 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.
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    Salesforce
    • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
    • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
    • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kentico software
    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.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Kentico software
    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.
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    Salesforce
    It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
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    Support Rating
    Kentico software
    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.
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    Salesforce
    I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
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    Implementation Rating
    Kentico software
    The system provides many opportunities to integrate and enhance the platform and makes it easy to do so.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Kentico software
    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.
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    Salesforce
    We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
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    Return on Investment
    Kentico software
    • 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.
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    Salesforce
    • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
    • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
    • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
    • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
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