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.
Complete solution for marketing, content management, and commerce
Kentico Provides a Robust and Efficient Content Management Platform
Great CMS with lots of features
Great WYSIWYG and Tagging
All the Power, None of the Hassle, from Small to Large Kentico is a Miracle CMS
Kentico has come a long way over the years. With it's Kentico 12 move to MVC, Kentico is now much more developer …
Kentico is a flexible platform
Kentico is a robust, flexible, and easy to use Content Management System
Kentico for admins rules!
Kentico for Healthcare/Physician Practices
Kentico - a great CMS if your organization has the money
Kentico CAN do!
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Kentico is our single solution for creating any type of website!
Kentico 8 is cool beans.
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Popular Features
- Admin section (25)7.272%
- Page templates (25)7.171%
- Role-based user permissions (24)7.171%
- Code quality / cleanliness (25)7.171%
Pricing
Kentico Xperience Business
$9,999 / year
Kentico Xperience Business
$14,999
Kentico Xperience Enterprise
$17,999 / year
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Kentico Xperience - Pages Application Demo
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How to use Kentico Xperience Contact management
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.
- 7.1Role-based user permissions(24) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Platform & Infrastructure
Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.
- 8API(20) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 7Internationalization / multi-language(18) Ratings
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Web Content Creation
Features that support the creation of website content.
- 8WYSIWYG editor(24) Ratings
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
- 7.1Code quality / cleanliness(25) Ratings
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
- 7.2Admin section(25) Ratings
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
- 7.1Page templates(25) Ratings
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
- 5.8Library of website themes(12) Ratings
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
- 8Mobile optimization / responsive design(23) Ratings
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
- 6.2Publishing workflow(24) Ratings
The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.
- 7Form generator(24) Ratings
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Web Content Management
Features for managing website content
- 6.3Content taxonomy(24) Ratings
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
- 7.2SEO support(24) Ratings
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
- 5.1Bulk management(24) Ratings
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
- 7.9Availability / breadth of extensions(24) Ratings
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
- 7.9Community / comment management(23) Ratings
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
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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 Integrations
Kentico Xperience Competitors
- Drupal
- Evoq Content
- Joomla!
- Plone
- Sitecore Experience Manager
- Progress Sitefinity
- Adobe Experience Manager
- WordPress
- Cascade CMS
- Tridion
- ExpressionEngine
- Microsoft SharePoint
- HubSpot Marketing Hub
- Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
- Adobe Marketo Engage
- BigCommerce
- Volusion
- Shopify
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- Wix
- Ingeniux CMS
- Oracle WebCenter Content
- Umbraco CMS
- eZ Platform
- OpenText WEM
- Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
- Keap (formerly Infusionsoft)
- BenchmarkONE (formerly Hatchbuck)
- Bloomreach Experience Manager (formerly Hippo)
- HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager)
- Magento Commerce Cloud (formerly Magento)
- Magnolia (V5 and later versions)
- DotNetNuke
Kentico Xperience Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English |
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(97)Community Insights
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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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(1-14 of 14)- It combines e-commerce, marketing, and digital automation together, which is the best feature for the websites.
- The stand-out feature is that Kentico Xperience makes users able to import the source code of multiple e-commerce projects.
- Its simulator allows users to test the final product on it and check for any bugs and errors.
- It helps in extracting variables in XLS format.
- The major drawback of enabling organization on Kentico Xperience is that when a user does not have access to the laptop or PC, the user has to check the admin panel on the smartphone.
- The smartphone admin panel is lacking major functions. It is hard to work on the admin panel on mobile devices.
- Admin area has to be more functional and needs an upgrade to add more features.
Great CMS with lots of features
- User management - all user management is within one location and can be integrated with SSO.
- Reusable content - being able to link content allowed for users to not have to recreate the wheel everytime.
- Working with good partners. We worked with a partner to set up Kentico and they really brought good insight.
- Learning curve for content contributors. When a user is used to a home grown, Kentico can be a large change.
- Roles: Managing users by role can be challenging because you cannot export.
- Media libraries - Could use more metadata management at the media library level.
The Kentico CMS has helped us transition away from a limited and clunky CMS to a robust, flexible, and configurable platform that lets us focus on and achieve our goals instead of fighting with the platform and only being able to do the most basic tasks.
- Extremely flexible content management system that makes content creation and management easy.
- Includes a 'staging' module that allows content managers to sync content across dev or test environments to a production environment in a very controlled way.
- Kentico provides an interface for creating page templates and 'transformations' which allow even non-technical users to get in there and make adjustments to these things without necessarily needing a developer or IT resource involved.
- Kentico makes it easy to sync content between environments, but it does have some room for improvement here. If you have many sites in the same instance of Kentico, there can be some messy synchronization tasks that show and it does make it a bit more confusing and hard to keep track of what's what.
- Kentico doesn't really provide much in the way of out-of-the-box page layouts or website themes. It would be an improvement if it had an easier to access a library of themes.
- Implementation would benefit from a team or agency that specializes in Kentico since it isn't the most widely known platform and having a team that really understands the platform would make the setup and transition much easier.
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.
Kentico for admins rules!
- It has a very intuitive module-based way to create page layout.
- It is mobile friendly.
- It is customizable.
- You will build skills to use modules and build pages quickly.
- You can add Bootstrap an HTML to you existing widgets and achieve a wide variety.
- It uses a folder structure to organize content, so unless you watch out, your file tree can get hard to search.
- Form builder is good, but may be improved.
- More options for WYSIWIG editor would help non-technical people to style their content in rich text module more efficiently.
- Sometimes it gets hard to find a wanted item in a media library.
Kentico CAN do!
- 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
- Perhaps upgrade the dashboard's user interface to make it feel more like an app environment which is more modern and expected these days.
- The standard You-Tube widget doesn't always render correctly on mobile or desktop. not sure if this is the tool itself or the way the people who built out my site for me configured it
- Make it easier to add anchors to a page (i.e. when clicking a certain link it "jumps" to a specific part of a page) for a user that is not a programmer.
Kentico Rocks! Using the CMS is a breeze and E-commerce and Online Marketing are icing on top of the cake
- Ease of use for the developer, content authors, and internet marketers that use it. The user interface in Kentico 8 truly is amazing and easy to pick up with no training.
- Strong customization and integration capabilities, including the built in REST service, Integration Bus, and elegant API. I love the fact that if there is anything not in the box we can use the system to extend it or connect it to any CRM, ERP, or other third party service very easily.
- Large out of the box functionality. There is an extremely high level of value that the platform provides. Instead of having to build extra modules for things like Event Booking, Forums, Polls, or E-commerce, they are already there for us to use.
- Ability to control the HTML output of the site at a very fine level. Creating HTML5 is very easy in Kentico and implementing any design, as responsive, is totally possible in the system.
- The ability to get a very high level of insight into the visitors journey through the website and market back to them with the Contact management, Lead Scoring, and Marketing Automation modules is very impressive.
- The scalablity of the system is impressive. Running a very highly trafficked web site is totally possible with Kentico and its strong caching and web farm capabilities.
- The support that Kentico provides is top notch, 24/7 global support is included with any purchase, 7 day bug fix policy, and excellent documentation
- The development community is engaged and ready to help if you are a developer learning Kentico, and the Kentico partner community is very strong as well.
- NET MVC has a way to go still in Kentico.
- Some of the older modules that have existed in previous versions of Kentico have some dated HTML markup that makes responsive a challenge.
- Some of the intranet modules are fairly week in terms of scalability. The document library, projects, and tasks functionality are not that great and ill suited for large uses.
- First and foremost, Kentico provides many ways to create solutions for your web site reasons. Many other CMS products lock you into their way of handling site solutions. Kentico ALWAYS has more than one and it gives you a great feeling of flexibility.
- Their document model system, page template engine for displaying documents, and form method of creating these documents, removes the need for our content providers from doing the ground work of creating pages and lets them focus on the actual content. Makes it easier to focus development resources on other aspects of the site and not content support.
- Their API's are very easy to understand, their support web site provides great examples of using the API to solve real world problems, and their forums are actively supported by users and support so you are not waiting for long for answers.
- In addition to their web site support for the product, their support team provides outstanding support for the product and go the extra mile to help you. They will go on your site and help provide solutions you might not have thought of. They don't give up on you unlike a lot of other companies in my many years of experience with other CMS solutions and .NET libraries.
- I would like to see more balance in their support. Sometimes their US support does not provide nearly the level of support their Czech team does. Sometimes I wait until I know that the Euro team is awake before posting an issue or question with the hope that they jump in.
- More clearer documentation and more examples of using their API. It is such a good API but it could use more tactical examples and help. Sometimes they don't provide enough details and figure that you know about the API's before hand. They are so rich, its hard to know them all much less proper usage.
- Their new website for Kentico 8 shows a great and fresh way of using Kentico 8 for creating a website, it would be great if they provided a step by step demo of how they did it so the users of Kentico can see how to navigate it.
- Rebuild their WebParts and Widgets to use HTML5 instead of tables in many cases. And more documentation on how to style them instead of having to guess via Firebug or browser development tools on how to style the web parts.
Kenti-CAN!
We set up a company newsletter that automatically gathers information from the current month's articles and formats it into an email template that we can send directly through Kentico.
Aside from our company's usage, we also develop Kentico websites for clients. We always propose Kentico if there is sufficient budget, because we prefer Kentico's flexibility and built-in features over any other CMS that we have tried.
- Full-feature CMS - Kentico is the whole shebang; it includes analytics, social media, email marketing, and doesn't require plugins.
- User Interface - Kentico's user interface was redesigned in version 8, and was a vast improvement over version 7. Things are easy to find, and you can customize your dashboard.
- Flexibility - my group feels that we can build anything a client would want or need within Kentico, if for some reason it wasn't there already.
- Their slogan - "Right First Time Technology" - I get what they mean, but some things may be lost in translation. This is a sentence fragment in English, and some clients may be turned off by it.
- Easier to understand documentation - their official documentation could use an overhaul. All of the information is there, but most of their code examples need to be fleshed out a bit. This aspect of their product can be very hard to navigate for first-time Kentico developers.
- Email Queue - this should be in the same section as Email Marketing; currently this is under Configuration
- If you create custom web parts, you can make highly versatile templates that support many layouts/designs.
- The EMS capabilities, especially content personalization, can help you go from a "brochure site" to a truly user-centered website experience.
- The Kentico 8 admin interface is significantly improved over the Kentico 7 interface.
- Media Library Azure integration can't handle large numbers of files per folder.
- Content personalization variant fly-out menus take too long to load.
- Can't use Salesforce sandbox, activity history doesn't stay automatically sync'd.
Kentico CMS
- Excellent Customer Support
- Easy to use WYSIWYG editor
- Excellent online marketing tool
- Simple integration with online communities and social media
- Easy to interpret web analytics
- Kentico addressed the areas I felt it needed to improve with its most recent update to Version 8.
Kentico - Content Management for the Corporate World
- Content management - This is the bread-and-butter of what Kentico does and it does it very well. We can set up new pages with ease, modify them, assign access to departments to manage content and tie in ways to broadcast and make that content discoverable.
- Blog publication and moderation - We have multiple instances of blog modules set up and in use on our sites. These have allowed us to create highlights of product offers, disclosure updates, as well as news and press release hubs.
- Content distribution across a website - Making the content that we create and publish easy to discover is one of our main goals. Kentico provides a few ways to accomplish this and it has helped us bring some information to the surface as well as tie that information to other pages that have similar categories.
- Automated content sharing - Most of the content sharing that we do (site-wide) is set up through a manual process. The ability (or knowledge on how to do this) in an automated fashion would be ideal, and is something that we've been researching since launching our Kentico-powered site.
- A wider library of first party modules/easier module discovery - I've used a number of content management systems in the past and have become accustomed to having a large pool of plugins/modules to help build features and functionality into my sites. Kentico doesn't have a module library that is a robust as others, at least from a first party standpoint.
- Cleaner, more streamlined admin interfaces - While Kentico's administrative interface is easy to use and navigate, there are many instances of inconsistency and potential confusion depending on what segment of page creation/editing you are in. I have lost more than a few pages in work because of on-page miscues which caused me to recreate work that was already complete.
Kentico CMS is a must-have system for anyone with a lot of content and targeted users.
- Centralized updates - make one update that shows up in several places throughout a site
- Staging to production synchronization - The ability to choose what files, objects, etc. to push to production makes simultaneous site updates a breeze
- Users and Roles for updates - Allowing users access to specific areas of the site, and approving their updates streamlines the whole development process
- Doc type versioning - We may not have this set up correctly. If we do, then there needs to be a way to rollback edits to modules on a doctype
- Microsoft Silverlight dependency - Several of the UI features require Silverlight. Most of our development team is on Chrome, which causes rendering issues
- UI - the user interface is better than other the ones I have used in other CMS. However, there are several areas for improvement, including the cut and paste functionality into text boxes
Kentico CMS: Web Development Platform for all Occasions
- Ease of use and thin-browser version works on all major platforms
- Advanced functionality for power users including only marketing campaign management, in-browser development, etc
- Customizable and extensible to support our clients unique needs
- Scalable, high performance, and reliable
- Excellent technical support
- User interface can be overwhelming for novices
- Feature set can be so large at times it is difficult to determine what you need for smaller projects
- Some features could be more streamlined or templated
Kentico CMS the Revenue Generator!
- Kentico is geared more towards the end user (not the developer). It was great for allowing an end user to make textual changes, update photos, links, and files without having to call the developer to make those changes. It gave the client admin more control over their own site.
- Kentico has most of the common functions a web developer would want to use such as forms, calendars, editable text, editable photos, widgets, so most of the coding has already been done, very rarely did I have to create a custom web part.
- Kentico settings are very easy to manage, adding email SMTP information, debugging info, etc.
- Kentico also has reporting and eCommerce functions built in so it is very easy to set up payment gateways and run reports.
- I was using Kentico 7, there was a need for improvement on adding files and photos. You had the ability to upload multiple files at the same time to the media gallery, but when adding those files to the page you had to add them individually and that was quite a pain.
- There was a calendar web part but I could not easily add events to it. I wanted my user to be able to hover over the calendar and see that dates event and be able to click on the date to add an event. I ended up making a custom calendar web part.
- There was some functionality for social media feeds, but I had to create custom web parts to retrieve feeds based on a certain username for Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram.