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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

Screenshot of Application listScreenshot of Marketing AutomationScreenshot of Kentico DashboardScreenshot of Data ProtectionScreenshot of Persona InsightsScreenshot of Campaign ManagementScreenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Marketing AutomationScreenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Page builderScreenshot of Web analyticsScreenshot of Data protectionScreenshot of AB testing

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 Competitors

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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Billy Rivet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have used several CMSs in the past and decided on Kentico 8 for a large website project in early 2015. The stability of the software, the usability of the software, and the expansive options are all phenomenal. It is as user friendly for developers as it is for the end-user maintaining the site. The dynamic display abilities of the software are amazing. In this implementation, we have two regions in a state updating content and both marketing departments learned quickly and caught on quickly due to the ease of use of the Kentico backend management interface. The departments aren't very computer savvy but Kentico is quite comfortable to them, allowing for management of a very large site with no knowledge of web code needed quite easy.
  • The ability to create various user levels and access for large organizations is quite impressive.
  • The user interface and WYSIWYG interface is very easy to learn and gain a comfort level for those not very computer savvy.
  • The dynamic display of content is quite easy to achieve from a developers perspective.
  • I may be wrong, but there are so many options that it can be overwhelming to the end user making updates. I may need to investigate user access better.
  • Draft modes of pages or content is not as user friendly as I would like it to be.
  • A review module of new content added would be wonderful.
I think Kentico 8 is wonderful, but it for larger websites with true dynamic display of content needed. It is over board for smaller sites.
Digital Experience Platform
N/A
N/A
Web Content Creation (8)
72.5%
7.3
WYSIWYG editor
100%
10.0
Code quality / cleanliness
90%
9.0
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
80%
8.0
Library of website themes
N/A
N/A
Mobile optimization / responsive design
90%
9.0
Publishing workflow
60%
6.0
Form generator
80%
8.0
Web Content Management (5)
74%
7.4
Content taxonomy
80%
8.0
SEO support
80%
8.0
Bulk management
60%
6.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
70%
7.0
Community / comment management
80%
8.0
Customer experience management
N/A
N/A
Results and Analysis
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Platform & Infrastructure (2)
N/A
N/A
API
N/A
N/A
Internationalization / multi-language
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Security (1)
N/A
N/A
Role-based user permissions
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  • The Kentico implementation has allowed for much greater efficiency of maintaining the website and less time and money spent than our previous solution.
wordpress, joomla, drupal.
IT, web development, HR, marketing, admin
4
Web development, database management, server management
  • maintaining content on website
  • blog posts
  • job announcements
  • integration with outside vendors for user functionality
  • truly dynamic display of various content
It's worked great for the organization and we won't turn back now.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Vendor Reputation
We evaluated many options and I wouldn't change the process or selection of Kentico
Tim Gluth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Kentico in an organization-wide capacity. It powers our public-facing website for two of our brands. It allows us to easily and effectively provide product and service information to our customers and prospective customers along with the ability to quickly communicate news items and updates. We utilize many Web Parts within our site(s) and continue to find new uses for this content management system.
  • 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.
If an organization is looking for a Microsoft-hosted CMS solution, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Kentico. It has many features that others in the CMS-realm have but handles them in a straightforward way, making it easy to implement and manage. Business and organizations with many departments can easily create workflows that would assist in content creation by the departments that have intimate knowledge about the information they're writing about, yet final editing and publishing can be left to others in the company for proper review and editing.
  • Decreased content publication time - With Kentico, we are able to take content that has been internally created and reviewed and quickly create a home for it that our customers and potential customers can find and utilize.
  • Through a streamlined form creation process, we are able to quickly gather data on what products and services potential customers are interested in learning more about and can quickly get them in touch with the information that they need as well as the experts that can help guide them to their solutions.
  • Increased site-wide product promotion - We've been able to spotlight products, features, and services, making them easier to customers to find and research. This has resulted in lifts in enrollment and adoption across the board.
  • WordPress,Ektron Web Content Management System
We had used WordPress.com for our company blog over the past years, however we didn't consider it for our full-fledged CMS solution as it's not compatible with our Microsoft server environment. The other CMS that we looked at was Ektron, however the features and pricing weren't in line with what we were able to achive with Kentico.
We're extremely happy with what Kentico has provided us, from built-in features to an overall publishing platform. We've spent time customizing it to fit our needs and have further plans to push forward with customized development in the next year. Between the initial investment, the ongoing time investment, and the fact that nothing that was encountered seemed to match up (feature-wise) we'll be sticking with Kentico for the foreseeable future.
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
The Product Features and Usability were the two largest factors that we looked at when selecting a content management system. The fact that Kentico comes packaged with a number of modules and plugins that allow us to tap into social networks, web services, and other third-party vendors that we had already been using was a huge benefit. Secondly, the mostly-straightforward nature of the administrative interface was beneficial as it allows us to grant content creation and maintenance access to employees with varying technical experience.
Taking another look at what solutions are available, I would like to have a greater level of hands-on testing and trial with potential content management systems during a future evaluation and selection process. That might highlight possible issues (UX, workflow, etc) that may create problems after implementation. A better understanding of licensing minutiae would also be beneficial.
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