Progress Sitefinity

Progress Sitefinity

Score 8.7 out of 10
Progress Sitefinity

Overview

What is Progress Sitefinity?

Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.
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Recent Reviews

Great on features

7 out of 10
February 18, 2020
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Popular Features

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  • Role-based user permissions (163)
    8.1
    81%
  • Page templates (164)
    8.1
    81%
  • WYSIWYG editor (160)
    8.1
    81%
  • Admin section (168)
    8.1
    81%

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Americaneagle.com Discuss the Sitefinity Partner Program
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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.

8.1Avg 7.2

Platform & Infrastructure

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

8.1Avg 7.2

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8.1Avg 6.8

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

8Avg 6.3
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Product Details

What is Progress Sitefinity?

Progress Sitefinity web content management system is designed to help users engage, convert and retain visitors across the entire customer lifecycle, and boasts usage by more than 10,000 websites. The vendor states companies large and small use Sitefinity to engage audiences with thoughtful, relevant content; personalized experiences that increase conversions; a consistent, responsive experience across all channels, including mobile; ready integration with backend systems; digital commerce; and Sitefinity Insight to track, analyze and shape every step of the customer journey.

Progress Sitefinity 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: Multisite Management
  • Supported: Multilingual Management
  • Supported: Content Personalization
  • Supported: A/B Testing and Content Optimization

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 Sitefinity Videos

Leading digital agency Americaneagle.com discusses the Sitefinity Partner Program and the Telerik Sitefinity platform.
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Progress Sitefinity Technical Details

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.

Sitecore Experience Manager, Kentico Xperience, and Acquia Digital Experience Platform are common alternatives for Progress Sitefinity.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions and API and WYSIWYG editor highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Progress Sitefinity are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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June 14, 2021

It does what it is supposed to do but not the easiest to set up and administer

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used for our entire website. Each department has its own web manager, but I manage the overall website design and coding. Everything runs through my team before anything gets published.
Pros and Cons
  • Organize pages
  • Create lists
  • Blogs
  • News articles
  • Usability
  • Reliability
  • Help documentation and support
Likelihood to Recommend
Once set up it works pretty well. Administrative side of things is a little harder to use than other CMSs.
June 08, 2021

A flexible UX platform that we really enjoy using

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Progress Sitefinity as our CMS tool for our website as well as clients. Currently, just our marketing team and development team uses this tool as it keeps things streamlined and efficient. We use it to create websites. We've found that it helps successfully engage our internal team in developing successful websites.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy-to-use backend for developers, marketers, and creatives
  • Strong SEO tools for improved SEO optimizations
  • Lots of integrations
  • More integrations and easier to add as a marketer
  • Upgrade process is bulky and slow
  • Make advanced settings a little easier to navigate
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a flexible UX platform that we really enjoy using. It allows us to scale the website as needed and this is a CMS we can grow with. You can edit code easily, as well as connect to many third-party integrations. The image library is a great tool that makes finding, resizing, and naming images easy.

Support Rating
9
Anytime we have questions or issues, they're great and very responsive. They provide quick feedback with ample details and walkthroughs. There are also great supporting documents and documentation on how to do things. Sometimes if you get the right person, they're able to actually do some of the work for us and help us.
May 27, 2021

Sitefinity is a really powerful CMS

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Music Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Progress Sitefinity is used across the entire organization for the company website. It addresses the issue of complicated web updates by providing a tool to easily manage content. Also, Sitefinity allows us to easily create private content for different roles and membership types, which is key to our organization and online benefit distribution.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to use CMS
  • Versatile for search setup
  • Information management can be complex and supported by the platform
  • Less code to do certain things
  • More out of the box integrations
  • More add ons for enhanced features
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for companies that don't have a lot of technical staff for the content editing end. However, for setup, upgrades and customizations, Sitefinity isn't the easiest to manage. It is also well suited for role management and users. It is very easy to create new roles and assign them to users. Likewise, creation of special content types, such as news and lists for content display is also intuitive and easy to do.
Support Rating
9
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.
June 24, 2020

Sitefinity - flexibility and affordability in the same package

Justin Cawthorne | TrustRadius Reviewer
Justin Cawthorne
Senior Project Manager
Murdoch University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Progress Sitefinity is the powerhouse behind Murdoch University's award-winning websites. It is our primary platform for engagement, news & events, course selection and broader information about the wide-ranging activities undertaken by the University. It serves our millions of domestic and international web visitors each year and is a key acquisition channel for attracting new students. With hundreds of pages and articles being edited and created a year, supported by nearly a hundred content editors and administrators, the platform is easy to use and maintain.
Pros and Cons
  • Progress Sitefinity's user-friendly interface allows us to extend use of the platform to wide range of users across the business.
  • Constant feature updates continue to add valuable new features and resolve prior issues. This is one of our primary reasons for retaining Progress Sitefinity.
  • The Module Builder tool has given us enormous flexibility in enabling us to add new dynamic content items to our Progress Sitefinity platform and support a wide range of business requirements (e.g. course listings, custom news articles, scholarships, etc).
  • Image management.
  • It is still not possible to accurately determine whether a image is in active use on the website or not (i.e. embedded on a page/widget). This makes it extraordinarily hard to properly audit our image libraries, which continue to grow and increase our hosting costs. This is without a doubt our number one issue with the platform.
  • Requirement to deploy/restart application for many updates.
  • While acknowledging that Progress Sitefinity uses best practice when it comes to further development of the platform, the need to deploy new code and/or restart the platform continues to be an inconvenience when managing a production website.
  • Lack of granular permissions on site sync and multisite.
  • Site sync and multisite are two of Progress Sitefinity's most valuable features in terms of managing our website environment. However, there is no out-of-the-box method currently for assigning a user role to a specific site (a custom role has to be created). Similarly, it is not possible to assign granular permissions to the site sync tool (a user who has access to Site Sync has access to sync all content on all sites). Having more control over these features would reduce the overhead for our site admins.
  • The license model in respect of subdomains (whereby an entirely new, full-cost license is required for each subdomain) is relatively uncompetitive and severely limits options when creating a network of sites.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
June 12, 2020

Sitefinity's usage from small project to large scale factory approach

Jochem Bökkers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jochem Bökkers
Sitefinity lead
World Health Organization (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As part of a modernization, our current CMS is being replaced with Sitefinity as an organizational product.
Serving both as the main CMS for several regions and HQ - as well as a departmental application CMS for standalone portals and platforms in a multi-tenant, multi-cloud approach. The main reason for standardizing on Sitefinity is its flexibility and its omni-channel capabilities, allowing us to write once and use across platforms, channels and APIs throughout the organization and externally.
Pros and Cons
  • '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.
  • Roadmap visibility could be better.
  • Being a publicly traded company, long term roadmaps will have commercial impacts, however it would be great to see future visions expressed more clearly.
  • Video improvements.
  • While accessibility and concepts like 'low-bandwidth' are key these days, rich experiences are equally important. When it comes to 'videos', Sitefinity is trailing behind the current use cases where low/high-bandwidth versions, captions and subtitles are a requirement.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's one of the easiest to use, easiest to customize CMS system available on the Microsoft technology stack.

Whenever there's an application need for user management, role-based permissions, workflows and page-content, it is simply not done to start custom development from scratch.

For complex 'factory-approaches' its architectural implementation shines brightest and allows for hybrid deployments, full Azure DevOps integration and ensures security and governance are not sacrificed.
Support Rating
10
Mission critical support allows us to have 24/7 support on the software, but while 24/7 also means multiple agents across various continent, Progress provides us with a unifying 'customer success manager' ensuring that all tickets and escalations are handled and communicated in a uniform matter.
June 10, 2020

Sitefinity Allows Pages to be Deployed and Maintained at the Speed of Business

Todd Knowlton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Todd Knowlton
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Smooth Fusion, Inc. (Internet, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Progress Sitefinity CMS for our own website across the entire organization. It allows our marketing people to quickly spin up pages and manage site content. It also allows us to personalize content based on personas and to analyze user behavior using Insight. We use it in conjunction with HubSpot to attract and track leads.
Pros and Cons
  • The interface for managing content and building pages is very intuitive.
  • The platform is extensible through custom modules, making it possible for our team to create any functionality we need.
  • Workflows make it easy to approve content before it goes live.
  • Insight allows us to assign personas based on user behavior and then customize content based on that persona.
  • I'd like to see more third-party integrations out of the box.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is well suited for marketing teams that need the ability to build landing pages and campaign pages that provide just the right amount of structure and the right amount of flexibility. When implemented correctly, marketers and content managers should only need developer intervention for significant site changes.

Sitefinity is less well suited for organizations with small budgets or that don't modify content on their site regularly.
March 06, 2020

Sitefinity is a Great Solution for Anyone in Need of a CMS.

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Marketing & Advertising Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Sitefinity internally as a CMS for some of our own company sites, as well as offer to build websites and services using Sitefinity. We develop web applications and websites and use Sitefinity as our primary CMS for the solution.
Pros and Cons
  • It has very granular permissions for users in the backend.
  • You can customize pretty much anything you'd like for a tailored experience.
  • Initialization times are really the only thing that I can see improving on.
  • Documentation could be a little more structured.
Likelihood to Recommend
For clients that want custom features and ease of use when it comes to editing their own website, Sitefinity is a great solution for that. We've had many clients want different views of, for example, a staff widget. Being able to make as many templates as they want and easily implement them by dragging and dropping with the editor to place them anywhere on the page is great.
February 27, 2020

Want an easy to use, but powerful CMS? Sitefinity is your choice!

Alex Hood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alex Hood
CTO
Team SI (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have implemented Sitefinity as the CMS of choice for various website projects. One of the huge considerations we have when choosing a CMS for our clients is the ease of use and the capability to integrate with external (3rd Party) systems easily. Sitefinity ticks both those boxes. It is extremely easy to use for our clients but still gives our developers the ability to customize where we need it. When used with the Digital Experience Cloud (DEC) that progress offers, it's an excellent marketing tool - top to bottom. We also evaluated the cost of Sitefinity against some other solutions and for the license and implementation fees, it was a no-brainer. Other CMS systems costing 2-4x as much could not compare.
Pros and Cons
  • Updates to the CMS software
  • Support on critical issues
  • Larger install base
  • Speed of support replies
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for a company that needs an easy to use CMS. The interface is very well thought out and organized in a way that you would expect. At the same time, because of how it's engineered - it's really easy to extend as you need. Integration with external data providers is possible and easy to do. The personalization and marketing capabilities are integrated - something that is not common in this price point. There is a licensing fee for the different editions of Sitefinity and that must be weighed with your project budget since this is not an open-source CMS. In my opinion, the license cost is well worth it having dealt with the costs and risks of using an open-source CMS.
February 26, 2020

Progress Sitefinity Review

Louie Kafka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Louie Kafka
Frontend Web Developer
IFMA Houston (Non-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sitefinity is being used as our main website domain. We have over 50 other websites that prominently use WordPress. This site contains all the information for our nonprofit organization, IFMA. It's also used as a store and place for our users to become members and obtain resources. The website is used mostly by the marketing and web service team. These departments maintain and update information such as new events, posts, and services on a daily basis.
Pros and Cons
  • Able to organize our content
  • Easy to maintain and edit information
  • Have the ability to have multiple users working on the same page at the same time
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is a very good tool to use a more large company. It as simple as WordPress but with more flexibility and customizable. It is simple for non-developers to get their hand and use. It also has good administration abilities to give users certain roles and permissions.
February 18, 2020

Great on features

Kelly Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kelly Martinez
Systems Manager / Application Developer
City of Greeley (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently being used by multiple departments in the organization. Sitefinity Progress has allowed them to be able to submit content and create forms without any I.T. intervention. It also helps address some administrative overhead so we can focus on improving our overall web presence and back-end server technology rather than helping folks edit.
Pros and Cons
  • Modern platform.
  • Good customer support.
  • Full featured.
  • Upgrades could be smoother.
  • Licensing could be more tailored toward our industry.
  • Could be considered to have some performance bloat. Would like to see options to slim down the page sizes.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for a large organization where you would have many editors. Software seems very secure and less "hackable" than some of the open source platforms.
Training Types Used
  • no training
Support Rating
7
Pretty solid support. They are responsive in the windows they say they are.
Upgrade Process
Yes
Some go better than others. The upgrades have been better/easier lately.
February 13, 2020

Overall great product, happy customer

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Government Relations Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Content Management. It is used agency wide. It helps users with our external content management and internal employee messaging portal.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to use - especially for new content managers
  • Great product support/TA
  • Maybe more pre-set templates
  • Expanded programming options for forms/social media outreach
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is well suited for users that are not familiar with programming and do not have the ability to manage something like an open source software. It is less suited for clients that want the ability to customize at a high or intricate level.
February 13, 2020

Sitefinity Review for the Non-Technical Users

RM
Ruben Morales
Web Developer
Los Angeles County Development Authority (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use Progress Sitefinity CMS across our agency. We use it for our main public facing website, we also use it for smaller programmatic websites and our intranet.
Pros and Cons
  • Drag and Drop Widgets
  • Creating Templates and Pages
  • Website Templates and Themes
  • Third Party Widgets and Tools
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is well suited for organizations that need non-technical users to maintain portions of the website without having to rely on IT for support. Progress Sitefinity is less appropriate as it relates to customizing existing templates with third party integrations.
January 28, 2020

Sitefinity is a great custom solution for the right clientele

Verified User
Vice-President in Other
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are a Sitefinity partner who uses the CMS platform to build custom websites for various clients. Sitefinity is an appealing solution for clients who need something robust, without of of the box modules that can either be customized or integrated to meet their needs. It also is a secure option that many of our clients value.
Pros and Cons
  • Custom modules allowing us to integrate client-required technology
  • Secure backend that can house form data
  • Occasionally we run into tracking issues where the Sitefinity native code strips out pixel data
  • User limitations can be frustrating
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is well suited for complex websites that [find] value from having shared content that can be updated centrally for sitewide deployment. It also is relatively user-friendly to operate in once you are familiar with the interface and allows a host of custom modules to be built and deployed. However, it is not always appropriate for clients on a budget who don't require the technical benefits to Sitefinity.
December 27, 2019

A good value in a CMS platform with broad functional capabilities

Michael Dell'Arciprete | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Dell'Arciprete
Director of Customer Acquisition
People's Trust Insurance Company (Insurance, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Progress Sitefinity is being used by our marketing team as a site content management system. We use it to create new content and to upload images. It allows our marketing team to engage with our online audience and to remain current/accurate in our messaging. It is managed by our team webmaster, but it is used by many members on our team to create and duplicate landing pages. It also allows us to create messaging at various touchpoints. This is especially useful when urgent messages need to be communicated.
Pros and Cons
  • Landing pages that include metadata, UTM tracking, and vanity URLs. These landing pages are easy to create and can be duplicated in a very short team.
  • Site content management - It is easy to add text content and to upload new images.
  • Messaging - We often need to create urgent messages related to a storm warning. This allows us to create message units or widgets that alert our policyholders.
  • Landing pages are easy to duplicate but could be easier to customize.
  • Reporting is limited. If reporting could be automatically tied to Google Analytics that would be a plus.
  • An SEO optimization tool that looked for errors and suggested improvement would be very helpful.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is very cost-effective and support is good. After the 12.0 update, we were able to eliminate use of tools like Unbounce and Optimizely. Having one content management system with broad functionality is very valuable. Sitefinity does many things well like A/B testing, landing page development, and messaging. It is not the best for customization, but it is improving. The one area that would help is more training. Very few webmaster candidates had familiarity with Sitefinity.
December 23, 2019

Sitefinity is a good fit for our school

KB
Kevin Bloomquist
Application Developer
New England Law Boston (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The whole organization uses Sitefinity. Primarily it is a marketing tool, but has grown into a company wide resource that allows all departments to reach out to the community and let everyone know what each department can offer.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to manipulate and organize widgets on a page
  • Interface to create custom widgets
  • Keeping up to date with JavaScript libraries
  • More features and control to form management
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is well suited for a company with a programmer available, especially if there are any custom widgets. If custom widgets aren't needed then a company with the need to keep clients engaged and coming back would do well with this software. Sitefinity is less suited for a company that has static information or large volumes of PDFs that need to be downloaded.
December 05, 2019

Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS.

Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Banking Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We run our corporate website off a series of 6 total servers running Sitefinity. We utilize it across a few departments, Marketing and IT mainly. Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS. We launched a new website and CMS all at once and it was refreshing to utilize Sitefinity over our prior CMS system. Sitefinity is a clean, very user friendly, adaptable, feature rich CMS. Pricing is attractive, features are there, support is very adequate. We have a complex use case with 6 servers running Sitefinity and interacting with each other, and we're still trying to get a handle on simplifying the upgrade process - which has been our only minor hurdle.
Pros and Cons
  • Very flexible and easy to use to create new pages.
  • Customizable widgets allow for displaying data the way you need and want it to.
  • Simple to setup synchronization to additional servers.
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is a very cost-effective CMS system with the flexibility needed by a front-end developer while still being super easy to use by less code knowledgeable people. If you just had one server and database set up with Sitefinity it would be the simplest, and possibly adequate, setup. Adding servers complicates the upgrade process, the scheduling process, custom field additions etc. but having development, staging and production servers is worth the effort.

Super easy to generate new pages, news/press items, lists. A little more complicated to set up Salesforce and Sharepoint connectors.
November 24, 2019

Consistent and Reliable

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I like the ability to customize the editors and change what functions do to create HTML on the backend. This makes it easy for me to create the experience which is easiest for my users, the most autonomous, and requires the least amount of retraining and support hours from the administrators. The CMS creates a lot of .axd references in the executed code which slows down page speed, but we still have ~4s real-world site-wide averages. To get it lower, we would have to limit the number of .axd references, and we don't know how to do that. With page-load speeds becoming more important to user experiences, it would be nice to see tools specifically related to measuring and improving this.
Pros and Cons
  • We've had a consistent experience with few, if any, bugs.
  • Provide better tools to measure and improve the page load speeds.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for deployments with a dedicated web manager with extensive HTML/CSS experience, and not for situations where one is unavailable for contracts.
November 17, 2019

Looking for an Ideal Website Development Tool, then Think Ahead and Progress!

Dan Joseph San Buenaventura | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dan Joseph San Buenaventura
IT Manager
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sitefinity is used for our organization's website that is open for our members and new members to join our organization. We use it primarily to promote our business and resources that we have for emergency medicine.
Pros and Cons
  • Customer Support
  • Account Sales and Contracts
  • Tech Support Team Open to Assist 24/7
  • Provide some of the new features in older version as much as possible
  • Improve on the HTML Editor as some of the functions for HTML are not compatible with Sitefinity Format
Likelihood to Recommend
Great people to communicate with and on-point to answering questions and inquiries.
November 12, 2019

SItefinity = Good

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Environmental Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
This is a web CMS platform that's being used across departments, but only by a subset of employees that work on web content.
Pros and Cons
  • Modern infrastructure.
  • Good quality of technical support, and a renewal/sales representative that is willing to work with you.
  • Lots of features and room for customization.
  • Delay in getting technical support tickets assigned.
  • Performance is a bit of an issue, but that may be due to our on-premise infrastructure.
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is fully featured and has much of the nuts and bolts in place to get things running relatively quick.
September 10, 2019

Sitefinty for a large company

Rasheed Romain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rasheed Romain
Digital Marketing Front-End UI/UX, & Email Marketing
Crystal Cruises (Hospitality, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Used across the whole organization, Sitefinity is the CMS and backbone of our website used across many teams. We use Sitefinity with many other tools like Salesforce and Adobe.
Pros and Cons
  • synching process
  • Staging environments
  • Ability to have multiple translations
  • How to update content through all translations.
Likelihood to Recommend
Its been great for us to work collaboratively with different teams and translations amongst different countries.
September 10, 2019

Piece of mind and time to market

Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Progress Sitefinity to host and maintain our corporate website and the global domains. It is utilized mainly by Marketing and their Digital team along with IT with the product owner, BAs, and Developers. There is real-time integration with a number of corporate-wide systems which allows instant access to the latest pricing, product details, and inventory availability.
Pros and Cons
  • Content authoring, approvals, provisioning, and global synchronization
  • Easy integration with backend systems and microservices.
  • Customer data profiles and personas tracking.
  • None
Likelihood to Recommend
Global delivery of content with ease of use, content authoring, and provisioning. Easy to maintain, approve, and synchronize.
August 27, 2019

Simple to use CMS

Verified User
Professional in Engineering
Government Administration Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Progress Sitefinity as the content management software on an external government website.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of use: HTML or design mode.
  • It is intuitive and can be used with very little training.
  • Would like to see the addition of an undo button.
  • User videos are not accessible.
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is an adequate content management software, without any unnecessary glitz and glamour.
August 23, 2019

Sitefinity if you're looking for customization

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used as a marketing front-end as well as to manage a registered user base. We have installed several different instances to take on different roles. As far as marketing is concerned, it's great to leverage the built-in SEO and forms for lead generation capturing. For managing registered users, we customize Sitefinity to fit our business model which was straight-forward to do.
Pros and Cons
  • Progress Sitefinity does a great job of staying on top of new and ever-changing IT security threats and patching for it.
  • Progress Sitefinity has great support for people interested in customizing their instances with a vast knowledge base that includes videos and white papers.
  • Progress Sitefinity is great at communicating and following up on any opened support tickets.
  • Creating an out of box cloud deployment experience to ease the deployment burden.
  • Improve on their developers using source control and automated deployment experience.
  • Go back to their upfront pricing as opposed to having to speak to someone.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Support Rating
10
You are always assured an answer and they will continue to move forward with you until you as the client feel like you have resolution.
August 20, 2019

Outstanding experience and relationship with Progress Sitefinity

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Government Relations Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Progress Sitefinity is being used to host our company website. It has allowed us to host our own site, manage the content and easily customize the CMS to our business needs.
Pros and Cons
  • Customizations can be made easily.
  • Built-in tools are very functional.
  • Provides integration with other platforms such as Salesforce.
  • It would be nice to see more options in some of the modules such as events, news, documents, and files.
  • More extensive samples of customization and use cases.
  • More updated online training.
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinitiy is very easy to use and navigate, and the ease of installation and deployment was, and is, excellent.
August 19, 2019

Recommend Sitefinity

JN
Julie Niehues
Director Professional Services
State of Kansas (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used by several agencies. It gives our end users the ability to update their content easily. Developers are able to create a site in a timely manner.
Pros and Cons
  • The product is user-friendly and robust.
  • Keeping content organized is easy.
  • Sitefinity is easily customizable and relatively intuitive for developers.
  • Upgrading to new versions is time consuming. There are always several errors to work through. Each upgrade has to be completed individually, instead of offering cumulative updates.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is well suited for a .NET environment.
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