Progress Sitefinity Reviews

A very strong solution for mid-to-enterprise level corporate customers. The scalability of the different packages offers a wide range of appropriate scenarios. It is less appropriate for e-commerce scenarios unless a third party is used.

Sitefinity provides the flexibility to work with third-party vendors to create a customized website. The integration goes seamlessly. On the other hand, companies need to be discreet in selecting any third-party vendor to implement their websites.

I feel that this software is perfect for a staff of non-technical users. I think it is simple to edit and modify content.

Sitefinity is an easy enough tool that our content managers have total ownership of their respective pages taking the onus of time and content responsibility away from the site's developers and testers.

As a content management system for end users Sitefinity is a good tool. Our users enjoy how easy it is to build their web sites. But, like any system, we had to build functionality that was missing and customize to some extent.

At the current price point, Sitefinity is too expensive for a simple brochure or lead generation website. There are a ton of great options out there for this use case. It is great if your website will include various integrations to third parties or user management that requires complex scenarios that need to be accounted for.

For us, Sitefinity was the least expensive option that still provided all the features we wanted and needed. It's been a huge relief to us to not have to have our hands tied when we want to do something new, even if there are some cheaper options out there that probably would have been good enough. For a smaller company and a smaller website, it probably wouldn't be worth the cost. For larger companies, we can't speak to the Enterprise-level functions. (We're currently running the Professional version of the product.) But for us, Sitefinity hit the sweet spot.

If you want a fully database driven CMS, Sitefinity is one of the few solutions on the Windows platform. However, it's not cheap or free even for the most simple use cases.

It is very well suited for a marketing team that may not have an in house web designer because it is very simple to use. The down side is that as the website design becomes more complicated, it becomes necessary to get a web designer because it can become very burdensome on someone who does not have that expertise.

Sitefinity is great for getting something done quickly and without a lot of hassles. Deployment is very simple and all the documentation available makes this product a breeze to support. The only drawback that some might see (I don't) is that it is limited to only the Microsoft platform, but other than that it is great for prototyping.

Sitefinity has strengths surrounding template management, document management, and page creation. The drag-and-drop capabilities are very useful and are easy to brand with HTML and CSS. Our client uses this CMS for their website and uses multi-site management to switch from each site. If you are managing multiple websites, this is a great feature.

Good content management system and provision of customer insight. Not so good at email marketing.

Sitefinity CMS is fantastic for multilingual websites - it allows users to localise their sites in as many language versions as required. They will be able to use content items, taxonomies, etc. in order to easily target an international audience.

It is an effective tool. competitively priced. support has been a challenge. not overwhelmingly good or bad.

All types of websites for small businesses and large enterprises.

Great for a company that doesn't necessarily have a web developer on staff that can create an HTML based website. Has much more than just website capability, it can be your whole CMS system if you choose, we do not.

I'm really happy with how Sitefinity functions for our website. It's easy to edit and we've been able to create some custom microsites easily as well. We have some custom integrations that Sitefinity seems to struggle with. It's hard to know if it's Sitefinity or the integration created by our vendor.

For Trellist and our clients, Sitefinity has been well suited for web development projects for mid-sized and large companies. Startups and small companies will typically prefer a free open source solution, even though the Sitefinity Standard Edition is relatively inexpensive given the out-of-the-box capabilities and ease of development. Sitefinity is well suited for website projects whose requirements include pages that need to display related content like news or documents or for projects that require functionality that manipulates data because of its built-in capabilities and robust API. Sitefinity is also an excellent option if ease of use for content owners is a requirement, because of the intuitive drag and drop administration interface, role-based permissions, 2 or 3 phase workflow and the ability to create custom widget designers.

I honestly don't have a good scenario where to use Sitefinity. We've had so many issues with the CMS over my 6 years of using it, that I regret building our current site on the platform. Here is why:

• You can't easily hire a designer/coder to help you with the site. If you want the site built to where other people in the company to easily use it, you have to use someone who had a lot of experience with Sitefinity.
• We've had so many issues with problems in their own code. We spent months trouble shooting and spending our own money finding issues with Sitefinity code, then had to wait for them to fix it. Once they did fix it, they didn't keep that fix in future releases (which is bad business). So when we went to upgrade we had the same problem and had to have them issues yet another patch their their code. After they did that, we still found issues.

Sitefinity works great when you need a way for people without development skills to interact with the web. Sitefinity may not be needed if you are a very small company or individual looking for only a static webpage. Sitefinity does take time to develop, setup, and build forms for lots of content.

Promoting your business, eCommerce, integration of ASP.NET and other custom code.

Not suitable for simple blogs and sites (other less expensive alternatives are available).

I really don't have any faith in the product anymore as it has caused quite a few issues with web development and has hurt client relationships. I would not recommend it to someone that is looking to build on a CMS, based on my experiences.

Sitefinity is a great CMS if you need all its features but could be too much for a budget user.

The site sync feature is one of my favorite functions. The ability to easily publish content from dev to test and to production is extremely valuable. No need to depend on a database restore to publish content. The built in functions are also a great item so that we do not have to custom build every feature nor do we have to attempt to find a useful function online from third parties and depend on them to update. Due to the cost of the higher versions, it is not feasible for smaller companies or websites to use.