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Kentico Xperience

Overview

What is Kentico Xperience?

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.

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Kentico CAN do!

10 out of 10
December 08, 2017
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Popular Features

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  • Admin section (25)
    7.2
    72%
  • Page templates (25)
    7.1
    71%
  • Role-based user permissions (24)
    7.1
    71%
  • Code quality / cleanliness (25)
    7.1
    71%
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Pricing

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Kentico Xperience Business

$9,999 / year

On Premise
Subscription license

Kentico Xperience Business

$14,999

On Premise
Perpetual license

Kentico Xperience Enterprise

$17,999 / year

On Premise
Subscription license

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://xperience.io/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Kentico Xperience - Pages Application Demo

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Editing Pages - Kentico Xperience Demo

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Kentico Xperience 13 Demo - Administration Interface | Ray Business Technologies

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Demo: Kentico Xperience 13 Refresh 7

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Demo: Kentico Xperience 13 Refresh 8

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How to use Kentico Xperience Contact management

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

7.1
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7.5
Avg 8.1

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

6.9
Avg 7.1
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Product Details

What is Kentico Xperience?

Kentico Xperience is a digital experience platform that combines content management, digital marketing, and commerce.

Available on-premises or in the cloud, Kentico Xperience is presented by the vendor as an easy-to-use solution for modern websites. It provides personalized experiences and integrates seamlessly into any technology stack.

Kentico Xperience is built to empower companies and brands to increase customer engagement, deliver personalized content to the right audience, and optimize performance to win more clients. Its capabilities, time to value, and ease of use are backed by Kentico support and a global network of implementation partners.

Kentico Xperience Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

Additional Features

  • Supported: Marketing Automation
  • Supported: Content Personalization
  • Supported: Lead Scoring
  • Supported: Data Protection/GDPR
  • Supported: A/B Testing
  • Supported: Campaign and Conversion Management
  • Supported: Contact Management
  • Supported: Email Marketing
  • Supported: Contact Segmentation/Personas
  • Supported: MVC Page Builder
  • Supported: Online Storefront
  • Supported: Abandoned cart recovery
  • Supported: Checkout user experience
  • Supported: eCommerce security
  • Supported: Promotions & discounts
  • Supported: Personalized recommendations

Kentico Xperience Screenshots

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Kentico Xperience Videos

Kentico - The All-in-one That Gets It Done
What does Kentico mean to you?
Kentico Xperience 13 - Administration interface
How to use Kentico Xperience Marketing Automation
How to use Kentico Xperience Email Marketing

Kentico Xperience Integrations

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Kentico Xperience Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Kentico Xperience Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Drupal, Evoq Content, and Joomla! are common alternatives for Kentico Xperience.

Reviewers rate API and WYSIWYG editor and Mobile optimization / responsive design highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Kentico Xperience are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Kentico Xperience, a robust content management system, has been widely utilized by organizations to build and maintain a variety of websites. Customers have praised Kentico for its flexibility, built-in features, and positive user experience. It has empowered organizations to create and manage both intranet sites and external websites for B2B and B2C organizations.

One of the key use cases of Kentico Xperience is its ability to support multiple brand sites with content publishing and language variations for different countries and users. This allows organizations to effectively reach their target audience in different regions while maintaining consistent branding. Additionally, Kentico Xperience has been instrumental in creating websites for various organizations, improving communication and sharing information with patients, staff, and the public. The intuitive platform provided by Kentico enables both tech-savvy and non-technologically oriented individuals to easily design and maintain content on company websites.

Kentico Xperience also serves as a powerful CMS solution for ecommerce websites, job boards, learning management systems, and other web applications. Its extensive feature set and options facilitate ease and flexibility in developing websites of any kind and size. Moreover, Kentico's document model system helps in finding and indexing multimedia content such as videos.

Overall, Kentico Xperience has proven to be a valuable tool for organizations looking to efficiently manage their website content, streamline workflows, and provide engaging user experiences.

Intuitive User Interface: Several users have praised Kentico Xperience for its amazing and easy-to-use user interface. They have found it intuitive and user-friendly, allowing them to navigate and use the software effortlessly, even without any training.

Strong Customization and Integration Capabilities: Many reviewers have been impressed by Kentico Xperience's strong customization and integration capabilities. The built-in REST service, Integration Bus, and elegant API were particularly appreciated. This flexibility and extensibility of the software allow users to easily extend the system or connect it to any CRM, ERP, or third-party service without extensive custom coding.

Powerful HTML Control: Users have highlighted the ability to control the HTML output of websites at a very fine level in Kentico Xperience. This feature makes it easy to create HTML5 pages and implement responsive designs. The powerful HTML control features provide users with the tools they need to create and customize websites with modern design practices.

Outdated HTML Markup: Some users have mentioned that older modules in Kentico suffer from outdated HTML markup, making it challenging to create responsive designs. This limitation has been expressed by multiple reviewers and may impact the ability to deliver modern and mobile-friendly websites.

Weak Intranet Modules: Users have reported that the Intranet modules in Kentico are weak in terms of scalability, limiting their usefulness for larger projects. This concern has been raised by several reviewers, highlighting potential challenges in implementing robust intranet solutions on the platform.

Limited E-commerce Capabilities: Kentico's e-commerce support is considered immature compared to open-source e-commerce engines, according to user feedback. This limitation has been noted by multiple reviewers, indicating a need for enhancements in this area to meet the capabilities offered by other e-commerce platforms.

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Reviews

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June 08, 2021

Complete solution for marketing, content management, and commerce

Tim Johnston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tim Johnston
Senior Financial Analyst
Primark (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico Xperience is one of the best platforms available for digital marketing, management of different content, and digital commerce. The dashboard is fully intuitive, which allows users to pin the software and tools according to use. Media libraries, codes, and automatic sequences can easily be stored, sorted, and made easily accessible. Integration with other software is amazing--it’s easy to set up a marketing application with Kentico Xperience, as it gives one marketing task and automates it.
April 21, 2020

Kentico Provides a Robust and Efficient Content Management Platform

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Leisure, Travel & Tourism Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico is well suited for an enterprise-level CMS solution for major websites, but would not be suitable for smaller businesses due to the high cost of purchase and implementation as well as the need for customized development. It's adept at handling large amounts of content in an organized and efficient manner.
October 04, 2019

Great CMS with lots of features

KA
Kathryn Andringa
Business Analyst
Vermeer Corporation (Machinery, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico is well suited to websites that are very straight forward in their security. The built in modules are strong and easy for a contributor to manage. More secured sites can cause struggles if you need to go beyond the built in security features and will need development intervention to get to that level.
October 04, 2019

Great WYSIWYG and Tagging

Courtney Reyers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Courtney Reyers
Senior Manager, Digital Strategy
American Society for Microbiology (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico is great for our smaller organization that has very nuanced needs, both in products and services and our members themselves. We find the content management is pretty straightforward and, outside of the clunky tree, is great for staff use.
October 03, 2019

All the Power, None of the Hassle, from Small to Large Kentico is a Miracle CMS

Fayas J | TrustRadius Reviewer
Fayas J
Software Engineer
Avastone Technology (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The only situation I wouldn't recommend Kentico is for a small business who can't afford it. Otherwise, we have saved a ton of development time thanks to Kentico's robust feature set and ease of use. We've done everything including massive Product + Asset systems with regionalization and localization, teacher student task management modules, Event management systems with encryption, customized cart item ecommerce sites, reporting intranets, etc. There really isn't anything Kentico can't do.
September 30, 2019

Kentico is a flexible platform

NB
Nick Bushnell
Director of Development
BlueModus (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico is a bit of work to design and build to make sure it's easy for content editors. You can take the 'wrong' path and make it hard on editors. Upfront planning and on-going support are needed to get and keep a good implementation.
June 04, 2019

Kentico is a robust, flexible, and easy to use Content Management System

Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
December 03, 2018

Kentico for admins rules!

Irina Danilova | TrustRadius Reviewer
Irina Danilova
Marketing email coordinator (part time contract project)
Scenic USA (Recreational Facilities and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If a simple site with static pages is needed, then Kentico maybe a bit of overkill. But if you have a lot of dynamic data feed like our company has, than it is a wise choice. Although not widely used, the system is still respectable, and there are digital agencies that offer good support for it.
December 28, 2017

Kentico - a great CMS if your organization has the money

Alex Kimber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alex Kimber
Southern Haemophilia IT and Data Manager
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for any department or organization that wants to create a website using a proper CMS tool. We used it across our department and it was easy to train users and have multiple updates all at once. Less suited to single users or small businesses who want to save money. In that scenario, I would use something free, like WordPress.
December 08, 2017

Kentico CAN do!

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Wholesale Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for marketers that do not have in-house web programming or web designing resources available. Less appropriate for people that aren't computer savvy (i.e. don't know how to use basic programs like email, Excel, PowerPoint) or for those who are not detail-oriented because if you skip certain steps when adding/editing content, your webpage won't render correctly and/or create negative impact for search engine optimization without you knowing it.
December 05, 2017

Kentico User Review

Kate Wright | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kate Wright
Marketing Specialist
Delta Community Credit Union (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico is well suited for corporate websites needing flexibility for design and a fairly easy-to-navigate platform for frequent content/design updates. I imagine it would be less appropriate for a small business that does not have a significant technology budget.
July 28, 2017

Kentico is our single solution for creating any type of website!

Dimitris Rakopoulos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dimitris Rakopoulos
Partner, CRM Director
re|direct (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico is ideal for any type of website. That might be a portal, an e-commerce website or even an intranet. Kentico has build in template websites for all those cases. Kentico would be an overkill for small website. It can surely be used but the entire feature set is so extensive that it would be a waste.
October 23, 2015

Kentico - Enterprise Value in an Inexpensive Package

Eric Wiley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eric Wiley
Vice President, Technology
Rockfish (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico 8 scales extremely well from project budgets targeted under 50,000 to projects well over 1 million dollars. I've successfully applied the system to both internal business applications as well as high-volume B2C applications. I would avoid using Kentico 8 in situations where the client has extremely specific administration needs.
October 23, 2015

Kentico Rocks! Using the CMS is a breeze and E-commerce and Online Marketing are icing on top of the cake

Brian McKeiver | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brian McKeiver
Partner
BizStream (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Are you currently using ASP.NET technology stack? If so do you need to integrate with any third party systems? If so this is the right tool for you. Are you looking to move into the cloud, specifically the Azure cloud? If so Kentico 8 is set up extremely well to play nice with the cloud. Do you need to have a digital marketing solution for your site? Kentico 8 provides an excellent all in one solution for this.
September 30, 2015

Kentico 8 is a Feature Rich Tool at a Great Price Point

Gabriel Fuller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gabriel Fuller
Sr. Application Developer
HexaGroup (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would love to make it our standard product across all applications. Basically, I think this is a great starting point for any application that can then be enhanced through custom code development and extendible modules. The templates, editors, ACL features, security features, logging, debugging tools, and many of the other items make it a great starting point for most scenarios, in my opinion.
September 21, 2015

Best Mid-Tier CMS

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Internet Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're looking to integrate your full marketing toolkit into a single solution at a reasonable cost, it excels. For genuine enterprise scenarios the CMS is brilliant, but other areas may be weaker than in specialist products. Kentico 8 probably overkill for much smaller sites.
July 10, 2015

Kentico 8 might be the right choice no matter what size you organization.

Mark Krolikowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mark Krolikowski
Account Executive, Software Group Sales
Netrix, LLC (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If a client is looking for an easy to use WCM platform that integrates well with internal systems and provides "90%" of an enterprise solution toolset at a fraction of the price, then Kentico 8 is strongly recommended. Plus the Kentico EMS offering will truly allow you maximize your marketing initiatives.
July 07, 2015

Less IT headache and quicker changes

Paul Colborn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Paul Colborn
Lead Business Analyst
Fifth Third Bank (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentio 8 is great for an organization that has an IT deparment, but wants to enable other folks to make simple updates. It works well for multiple URLs and provides access to multiple roles including development, marketing and very basic users. The editor was very helpful for end users to make changes without having to learn HTML.
July 07, 2015

Kentico provides the perfect marriage of power and ease of use.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
I can always recommend Kentico to a team that has money to spend on a CMS and whom have need for many of the features that Kentico provides out of the box. Even if they don't have a developer resource but have a person knowledgeable about HTML, I would recommend it since once it is setup, it is very easy to maintain. If they want a solution that needs a bit more mobile support than Kentico already provides I might suggest some other CMS solutions but those are for people who have far more money to spend. Kentico right now is a great solution for people who need a CMS and don't have a ton of cash to spend. Key questions I would ask would be their marketing needs, who their developer resources are or are not, what is their mobile needs, such as a supporting app. I would also ask if they even needs a CMS as that is a good question to ask anyone who thinks they need a CMS to ensure that a handcrafted solution might work better.
July 07, 2015

Simply Put, Kentico is an Incredible Platform

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Kentico is well suited for the type of websites that deal with a lot of content that is one directional. By this I mean that it is less suited for community-type interaction where users submit content and converse with one another. This is technically possible, but not easy to accomplish.
July 01, 2015

Kenti-CAN!

Jessica Hester | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jessica Hester
Web Designer and Developer
Michael Baker International (Civil Engineering, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We base this on budget mainly, because we tend to believe that Kentico will out-perform any other CMS (including free, open-source options like WordPress). We've determined that Kentico saves our clients money, despite its up-front cost, due to time saved during development. We don't have to wrestle with compatibility issues or customize any plugins, which saves everyone hours of work.
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