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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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- '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.
February 27, 2020
Want an easy to use, but powerful CMS? Sitefinity is your choice!
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.
- Updates to the CMS software
- Support on critical issues
- Larger install base
- Speed of support replies
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- no training
Yes - Some go better than others. The upgrades have been better/easier lately.
February 13, 2020
Sitefinity Review for the Non-Technical Users
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.
- Drag and Drop Widgets
- Creating Templates and Pages
- Website Templates and Themes
- Third Party Widgets and Tools
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.
- 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.
January 28, 2020
Sitefinity is a great custom solution for the right clientele
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.
- 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
February 13, 2020
Overall great product, happy customer
Content Management. It is used agency wide. It helps users with our external content management and internal employee messaging portal.
- 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
December 27, 2019
A good value in a CMS platform with broad functional capabilities
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.
- 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.
December 23, 2019
Sitefinity is a good fit for our school
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.
- 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
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
September 09, 2019
Sitefinty for a large company
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.
- synching process
- Staging environments
- Ability to have multiple translations
- How to update content through all translations.
August 19, 2019
Great Product and Great Service
Sitefinity is our CMS for our website and all of our affiliate websites. We wanted a platform that was easy to use, yet robust with analytics, customization and features. Sitefinity met our requirements.
- Easy front-end customization
- Feature-packed eCommerce module
- Good support
- Simple mobile optimization
- Pricing structure
- Make process to update software easier
We use Sitefinity to host our corporate website. It provides a reliable and stable platform to managing the content and deployment of our website.
- Good content management features.
- Good performance.
- Integration with analytics.
- Ability to build upon using API and Visual Studio integration.
- Difficult upgrade process.
- Does not offer an option to restore backend configuration or revert to original defaults.
December 05, 2019
Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS.
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.
- 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.
August 22, 2019
Sitefinity if you're looking for customization
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.
- 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.
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.
- Organize pages
- Create lists
- Blogs
- News articles
- Usability
- Reliability
- Help documentation and support
Currently using this as our corporate website, but have also recommended and developed websites for 3 other organizations. It is being used primarily by the design/technology departments for marketing to update our company brand and presence online.
- Once templates and custom data has been defined, it is very easy for CMS authors/editors to manage content on the site without knowledge of HTML programming.
- Programming templates and custom module and extending the CMS is fairly straightforward for our development team.
- Security is in the forefront, with regular updates and enhancements to the product.
- Working with support is great, they have extensive knowledge on the product are able to assist if called upon.
- Product utilizes .net standards, and also integrates well will standard front end tools such as jquery/bootstrap.
- I wish there was more sharing in the community of user-generated scripts/tools (like the word press community and the vast amount of plugins)
September 09, 2019
Piece of mind and time to market
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.
- Content authoring, approvals, provisioning, and global synchronization
- Easy integration with backend systems and microservices.
- Customer data profiles and personas tracking.
- None
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.
- We've had a consistent experience with few, if any, bugs.
- Provide better tools to measure and improve the page load speeds.
This is a web CMS platform that's being used across departments, but only by a subset of employees that work on web content.
- 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.
I use Progress Sitefinity as the content management software on an external government website.
- 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.
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About Progress Sitefinity
Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform, that both marketers and developers use to create winning customer experiences across all channels.
Progress Sitefinity integrates with Sitefinity Digital Experience Cloud. With numerous integrations and add-ons listed in Sitefinity Marketplace, your Sitefinity solution can easily be extended to meet your specific business requirements. says the vendor.
Progress acquired this product from Telerik.
Categories: Digital Experience, Content Management
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- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
Progress Sitefinity Support Options
| Free Version | Paid Version | |
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| Forum/Community | ||
| FAQ/Knowledgebase | ||
| Video Tutorials / Webinar | ||
| Phone |
Progress Sitefinity Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows |
| Mobile Application: | No |