Kentico Xperience vs. Progress Sitefinity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kentico Xperience
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Kentico 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
Progress Sitefinity
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.N/A
Pricing
Kentico XperienceProgress Sitefinity
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
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kentico XperienceProgress Sitefinity
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Kentico XperienceProgress Sitefinity
Considered Both Products
Kentico Xperience
Chose Kentico Xperience
Sitefinity is behind Kentico in feature maturity. It lacks the level of tech support that Kentico has. Sitefinity can also be harder to upgrade.
Chose Kentico Xperience
When discussing Kentico with clients, I find myself uttering the same phrase repeatedly. "Kentico provides 95% of the functionality of high-dollar CMSs at a fifth of the price." This allows clients to use the dollars they would have previously put towards licencing into feature …
Chose Kentico Xperience
When compared to the above solutions the value that Kentico offers is much higher when compared to the price of these other solutions. Kentico will do 90% of what Sitecore and Ektron and Adobe do, and those other solutions will do 90% of what Kentico does. In my opinion they …
Progress Sitefinity
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Kentico is a great alternative to Sitefinity, very similar features and usability. We explored switching away from Sitefinity a couple of years ago but we ended staying with Sitefinity because we have lots of internal expertise.
Chose Progress Sitefinity
We currently use ElementCMS and it is slow to use and slow to upgrade. We evaluated Kentico, Sitecore and a few others when looking for Sitefinity. Sitefinity was the easiest to use and offered all the features we wanted.

It was important to us the company stayed up to date and …
Chose Progress Sitefinity
In terms of feature set, Sitefinity offers more out-of-the-box features as compared to Umbraco.
In comparison to Kentico, Sitefinity has a better back-end admin set of tools.
In comparison to Sitecore, Sitefinity is cheaper and easier to use.
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Sitefinity, in my opinion, follows current Microsoft practices which make developing it a breeze. Kentico has always seemed a bit lagging in this department.
Chose Progress Sitefinity
DNN was very similar from a flexibility and feature perspective but wasn't as polished or professional feeling. Kentico was poor in communication, not replying to email requests and questions. Crownpeak we had been using for many years but wasn't impressed with customer loyalty …
Chose Progress Sitefinity
We evaluated a range of other platforms before selecting Progress Sitefinity. While many other platforms had a powerful range of features, Progress Sitefinity provided to be a comparable product at a price far more suited to our budget. Above all else, its ease of use gained …
Chose Progress Sitefinity
In addition to being a user of Sitefinity, my company is also a Sitefinity Partner. More than a decade ago, we were supporting several CMS platforms and decided we wanted to pick one and be great at it. After analyzing many content management systems, we decided that Sitefinity …
Chose Progress Sitefinity
It is hands down just easier for our customers to use. The interface and the page builder experience is much better than what we have used in the past and has many enterprise features even in the lower price-point.
Chose Progress Sitefinity
  • Best system from a feature/cost point of view. We had specific requirements, one of which was that the system had to be based in a IIS/.net environment.
  • Price was another factor and ease of implementation with the existing development staff another.
  • E-commerce had to be …
Chose Progress Sitefinity
We wanted a CMS that is based on the dot net framework to leverage existing on-site expertise. Also, ease of use for content editors was important. An API to interface with other systems was important as well.
Chose Progress Sitefinity
I don't think the Sitefinity stacks up against them, and i would no longer recommend Sitefinity after using the other mentioned CMS's
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Custom development
Drupal
Kentico
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Content Managers have full, easy, control the content on the site and when content gets released.
  • IT should only be required to help with new features but not with content updates.
  • Usually contain support contracts and decent sized development communities.
  • Fully customizable with …
  • Chose Progress Sitefinity
    I find that Sitefinity has the heart and soul of an open source CMS in that it is easy to use by everyone, but it definitely has the street cred in the enterprise market that it has a solid API and you can easily build custom applications on the platform.
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    For the money it has the features we need.
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    During review of potential solutions, SItefinity won out against others because of extensibility and (esp.) the back-end experience for users. We are a dot net shop, so we limited out CMS options to .Net-based solutions.
    Top Pros
    Top Cons
    Features
    Kentico XperienceProgress Sitefinity
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
    Kentico Xperience
    7.1
    24 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.1
    163 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions7.124 Ratings8.1163 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
    Kentico Xperience
    7.5
    21 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.1
    144 Ratings
    0% above category average
    API8.020 Ratings8.1137 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.018 Ratings8.1106 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
    Kentico Xperience
    7.0
    25 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.0
    170 Ratings
    5% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor8.024 Ratings8.1160 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness7.125 Ratings8.0151 Ratings
    Admin section7.225 Ratings8.0168 Ratings
    Page templates7.125 Ratings8.1164 Ratings
    Library of website themes5.812 Ratings8.0104 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.023 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
    Publishing workflow6.224 Ratings8.1152 Ratings
    Form generator7.024 Ratings8.0140 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
    Kentico Xperience
    6.9
    25 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.0
    164 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Content taxonomy6.324 Ratings8.1157 Ratings
    SEO support7.224 Ratings8.1151 Ratings
    Bulk management5.124 Ratings8.0122 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.924 Ratings8.0130 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.923 Ratings8.0121 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Kentico XperienceProgress Sitefinity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    7.1
    (171 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (22 ratings)
    7.2
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.6
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Kentico XperienceProgress Sitefinity
    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.
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    Progress Software Corporation
    Progress Sitefinity remains a little heavyweight for sites that require basic text content, or a limited number of pages. However, its flexibility (including the range of different content types if supports) make it a good choice for any organization requiring advanced content management capabilities at an affordable price.
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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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    Progress Software Corporation
    • 'Low-code structured content' (dynamic content types) is one of Sitefinity's most powerful features that allows you to structure content according to business needs, while at the same time dampening editorial freedom to ensure accessibility, meta enhancement, SEO and API consumption can be achieved.
    • Sitefinity's content provider model allows us to flexibly (by means of admin interface) easily aggregate or separate content sharing within a multi-site instance.
    • This proofs particularly powerful in emerging situations where there suddenly is a demand for content sharing across countries or regions.
    • Adaptability at its core.
    • While there's never a perfect fit for everything, it allows for easy code customization and extension being a .NET application at heart. Giving it a corporate edge over other custom solutions, whether it is on the development side or deployment side (on premise, IaaS or Azure DevOps Paas). And it has enabled us to put the system to use in its core feature - which is to manage content, where on other occasions we were able to take full advantage of its features such as A/B testing and personalization.
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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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    Progress Software Corporation
    • Diagram or illustrate more use cases for server setups, and managing of upgrades.
    • I'd like to see the ability to synchronize from one server to multiple others at once.
    • Implementation assistance as part of the purchase rather than farming out to 3rd party, although they did answer every question we asked in order to determine our best architecture setup.
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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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    Progress Software Corporation
    Pricing makes this a no brainer. Not the best CMS, but with work arounds and some fumbling around we are able to make it do what we want it to do
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    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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    Progress Software Corporation
    Very big fan of this CMS, as it allows scalability, performance, and everything else. The support is great whenever we need it. As a marketer, the digital/marketing side of things is very easy to use and we've seen strong results from an SEO and marketing perspective. I can't speak to the developer/creative side too much, but in talking with these teams, they do recommend the tool as well.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kentico software
    No answers on this topic
    Progress Software Corporation
    Has been solid for us on availability
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    Performance
    Kentico software
    No answers on this topic
    Progress Software Corporation
    A bit sluggish sometimes as the compiler works.
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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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    Progress Software Corporation
    Support can be pretty good, even though, depending on the level of licensing, it can take longer to hear back from their team. They do have a phone option, which works well. Overall, they are knowledgeable, and helpful when needed. At times, support is able to access the system directly and troubleshoot critical items when needed.
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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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    Progress Software Corporation
    N/A - I was not part of the implementation team. We have had this internally for over 5 years. Based on my experience, ensure that you have documentation on the initial implementation and subsequent upgrades. I would also recommend to have all the documentation on how and why the system was implemented the way it was
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    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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    Progress Software Corporation
    It is hands down just easier for our customers to use. The interface and the page builder experience is much better than what we have used in the past and has many enterprise features even in the lower price-point
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    Scalability
    Kentico software
    No answers on this topic
    Progress Software Corporation
    Seems pretty scalable.
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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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    Progress Software Corporation
    • Sitefinity has reduced the amount of time it takes to edit and publish content, which has enabled us to get information out more quickly.
    • Sitefinity allowed us to establish a consistent and modern brand identity and apply it across multiple websites.
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    ScreenShots

    Kentico Xperience Screenshots

    Screenshot of Application listScreenshot of Marketing AutomationScreenshot of Kentico DashboardScreenshot of Data ProtectionScreenshot of Persona InsightsScreenshot of Campaign Management

    Progress Sitefinity Screenshots

    Screenshot of Engage your audience with thoughtful, relevant content. Your marketing team can create and manage content faster and easier than ever before with inline drag-and-drop editing, requiring no help from your web team.Screenshot of Create a truly global solution that provides consistent experiences and unmatched performance across brands, regions and languages. Reduce maintenance and hosting infrastructure by managing multiple websites from a single platform. Reduce time to market and deploy changes faster with content and code synchronization between websites and environments.Screenshot of Increase revenue with a personalized, connected experience between your website and online store. Easily manage your product catalogs, price lists, shopping cart and checkout process. Connect to cloud services for accurate real-time tax and shipping rates. Integrate with your ERP and other business systems to improve and automate inventory management, order fulfillment and customer support throughout the product lifecycle.Screenshot of Increase conversions and generate more leads with 1:1 conversations with your customers. Create, preview and deliver personalized experiences at a massive scale with amazingly easy to use tools. Analyze and optimize the experience with the help of contextual analytics and A/B testing solutions.Screenshot of Analyze cross-channel data to get a detailed view of content and campaign performance. Gather data on visitors and build persona segments and track their behavior on your site. Get ML-driven recommendations for the next best update to introduce into your journey.