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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Progress Sitefinity

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AProgress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.N/A

    Progress Telerik

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AWith Telerik UI libraries, Progress aims to equip .NET ninjas with a full arsenal of weapons, helping to create beautiful, modern and future-proof applications quickly and intuitively. The vendor states that with its over 1,250 UI components for all .NET platforms, as well as various themes, skins and customization options, Telerik users report cutting development time by up to 50 percent. Web

    $999

    per developer, royalty-free

    Pricing
    Progress SitefinityProgress Telerik
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Individual Product Licence
    $999
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft UI
    $1,299
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft Complete
    $1,499
    per developer, royalty-free
    DevCraft Ultimate
    $2,199
    per developer, royalty-free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Progress SitefinityProgress Telerik
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Progress SitefinityProgress Telerik
    Considered Both Products
    Progress Software
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    Ease of use and quick deployment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    Have looked into WordPress and Drupal but Sitefinity worked better for our application because of its visual studio integration and it seemed to be a much more robust product. Have used Telerik for years and Sitefinity fit in nicely.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    When we were evaluating whether to use WordPress or Sitefinity, WordPress was experiencing many security problems. Also, being a .NET shop, we were better able to integrate with Sitefinity. Finally, Sitefinity seemed much easier to use and to teach others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    Did not participate in Sitefinity CMS selection process, but it is obviously night and day in comparison with Joomla.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    We mostly chose Sitefinity because we are current users of Telerik (Progress) development tools. When they purchased Sitefinity we decided to switch from our custom developed website to one hosted on a CMS. We have had some experience with DotNetNuke in the past and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    We've used Sitecore in the past and the interface was very unintuitive and difficult to use. Since then we have experimented with DotNetNuke and Umbraco, but are not satisfied only being supported by a community of volunteers. Customers have requirements and Sitefinity is able …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    I have never used Sitecore, but we are using it on a new project. I know it is comparatively very expensive to Sitefinity and they have been very proactive with sending me information regarding certification and training courses for our development team. Many projects we have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    Custom development
    Drupal
    Kentico
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    Umraco, SharePoint, DotNetNuke, Sitecore. I prefer Sitefinity in almost every instance. Sitecore is more enterprise level but overkill for most clients.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    Previously used Ektron CMS 400.NET. It was sufficient for our needs at the time, but Sitefinity offers many more features and a much better code base.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    We have also evaluated Sitecore CMS, but we choose Sitefinity because of its support and a big software company as Progress has convinced us more. We hope to see quick support from Progress, and new cool development of Sitefinity with a lot a new features in the news releases.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    I don't remember what else we looked at 5 years ago.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    I cannot remember the other product that I used at my former organization. I just remembered how difficult it was to update the webpages and how I hated to work on the software. I just cannot express how Progress Sitefinity has made this one of my favorite job assignments to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    What Sitefinity lacks in community support and quality of admin UI - it makes up for in reliability, security and feature set.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    Progress Sitefinity was easy to use for our non-technical resources. The pricing was also favorable. Also, it came highly recommended from two technical users who used Sitefinity on a frequent basis.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    We performed extensive research and compared a number of products. These included products from across the spectrum - some large "enterprise content management" platforms and some open-source platforms. Sitefinity stacked up well to the larger ECM products without the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    For the money it has the features we need.
    Incentivized
    Chose Progress Sitefinity
    We evaluated, and had been using RedDot, when we decided to implement Sitefininty.

    We liked the fact that Sitefinity is .net based, as we are a .net IT shop. Sitefinity was easy to implement and lent itself well to our new responsive design position. Sitefinity has more features …
    Incentivized
    Progress Software
    Chose Progress Telerik
    They build good components with a good UI. It is also very flexible for developers; they have perfect support. They also deliver a lot of examples where you can find out everything what you need. When you have a problem and would like to look for solution just purchase support …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    Progress SitefinityProgress Telerik
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Progress Sitefinity and Progress Telerik
    Feature
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.1
    163 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Progress Telerik
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.1163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Progress Sitefinity and Progress Telerik
    Feature
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.1
    144 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Progress Telerik
    -
    Ratings
    API8.1137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.1106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Progress Sitefinity and Progress Telerik
    Feature
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.0
    170 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Progress Telerik
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.1160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.0151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.0168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates8.1164 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.0104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.1152 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator8.0140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Progress Sitefinity and Progress Telerik
    Feature
    Progress Sitefinity
    8.0
    164 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Progress Telerik
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy8.1157 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support8.1151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management8.0122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.0130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.0121 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Syncfusion Essential Studio
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.9 out of 10
    D3.js
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Yext
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Progress Kendo UI
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Progress SitefinityProgress Telerik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (171 ratings)
    9.3
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.2
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.3
    (28 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.6
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Progress SitefinityProgress Telerik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Progress Software
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    We have used the Telerik UI controls for our Admin user experience. We found that this lead to consistent user experience, with feature rich functions already provided. Effectively this meant that hour for hour, using the Telerik UI improved productivity in creating screens with more functions than using the default controls in ASP.NET. At this point most of our focus with the Telerik controls is User Interface oriented.
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    Pros
    Progress Software
    • '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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    Progress Software
    • Easy to configure with application.
    • It provides flexibility for complex grid customizations.
    • Takes less time for quick development UI elements.
    • UI is very responsible, which can be viewable in any device.
    • Great support from Telerik team. It only takes 24 to 48 hours to resolve your issues.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Progress Software
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    • I have not worked with the App Builder but I think a GUI for dragging and dropping components to build a web page would be great.
    • In addition to the app builder there should some tools to design a responsive web application to see the results for different screen sizes.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Progress Software
    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
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    The Telerik UI has become part of our staple development tools. We can not be as productive without the feature set available to us in the Telerik UI ASP.NET AJAX control package.
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    Usability
    Progress Software
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    Progress Telerik UI is very usable and one of the best tools to use by the front-end development engineers in our team. It has helped us to improve the overall design of our existing and new applications. Also, the time to build applications has also been reduced effectively and we are able to focus on other areas of improvement to deliver a better user experience for our customers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Progress Software
    Has been solid for us on availability
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    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Progress Software
    A bit sluggish sometimes as the compiler works.
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    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Progress Software
    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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    Progress Software
    Telerik UI support is what you are paying for. If something does not work you ask them for an example of how to solve your use case. The SEO on their sites is awesome and so well bedded into Google. The videos are good, [they're] not used much but their examples and DoJo examples make all the difference.
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    Implementation Rating
    Progress Software
    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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    Progress Software
    The controls work very well as long as they are used as intended. Built-in functionality should be used whenever possible,
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Progress Software
    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
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    Progress Telerik UI provides a large amount of language support, demos, and documentation. While the competition is still great in their own right, Progress Telerik UI has provided enough resources to cover a number of current and future projects without having to expand to other libraries.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Progress Software
    Seems pretty scalable.
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    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Progress Software
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    • Telerik enabled us to demonstrate our vision for new flagship software with only a years worth of effort.
    • Telerik provided out of the box solutions for some of our more challenging UI problems.
    • Telerik support has been extremely helpful and critical to our success.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    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.

    Progress Telerik Screenshots

    Screenshot of Easily create eye-catching and full-featured user interface for web, mobile and desktop by selecting from our rich library of components. Use advanced features like our grid component to create tables that display data in a wide range of formats from both local and remote sources.Screenshot of Create rich dashboard applications by taking advantage of the breadth of UI widgets available within the Telerik UI toolset. Easily wire up the UI controls to any backend to display any and all kind of data that you need to surface in your applications.Screenshot of Need to add reporting and analytics capabilities to your applications? Telerik Reporting is a complete, lightweight .NET embedded reporting tool for web and desktop applications. Use Telerik Reporting to create, style, view and export rich, interactive and reusable reports to attractively and beautifully present analytical and business data.Screenshot of With Telerik UI for Xamarin you can build native iOS and Android applications, with rich user experience and outstanding performance. Enjoy all the components you need to build your mobile application.Screenshot of Build modern desktop applications with Telerik UI for WinForms and Telerik UI for WPF. The most complete desktop UI suites, with rich feature set and modern look and feel.Product screenshot