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.
It does what it is supposed to do but not the easiest to set up and administer
A flexible UX platform that we really enjoy using
Sitefinity is a really powerful CMS
Sitefinity - flexibility and affordability in the same package
Sitefinity's usage from small project to large scale factory approach
Serving both as the main CMS …
Sitefinity Allows Pages to be Deployed and Maintained at the Speed of Business
Sitefinity is a Great Solution for Anyone in Need of a CMS.
Want an easy to use, but powerful CMS? Sitefinity is your choice!
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Great on features
Overall great product, happy customer
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Sitefinity is a great custom solution for the right clientele
A good value in a CMS platform with broad functional capabilities
Sitefinity is a good fit for our school
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Popular Features
- Role-based user permissions (163)8.181%
- Page templates (164)8.181%
- WYSIWYG editor (160)8.181%
- Admin section (168)8.080%
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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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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.
- 8.1Role-based user permissions(163) 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.
- 8.1API(137) 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.
- 8.1Internationalization / multi-language(106) Ratings
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Web Content Creation
Features that support the creation of website content.
- 8.1WYSIWYG editor(160) Ratings
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
- 8Code quality / cleanliness(151) Ratings
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
- 8Admin section(168) Ratings
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
- 8.1Page templates(164) 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.
- 8Library of website themes(104) Ratings
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
- 8Mobile optimization / responsive design(155) Ratings
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
- 8.1Publishing workflow(152) Ratings
The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.
- 8Form generator(140) Ratings
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Web Content Management
Features for managing website content
- 8.1Content taxonomy(157) Ratings
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
- 8.1SEO support(151) 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.
- 8Bulk management(122) 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.
- 8Availability / breadth of extensions(130) 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.
- 8Community / comment management(121) 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 Progress Sitefinity?
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
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Progress Sitefinity 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 |
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(237)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
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(26-50 of 171)Great Product and Great Service
- Easy front-end customization
- Feature-packed eCommerce module
- Good support
- Simple mobile optimization
- Pricing structure
- Make process to update software easier
Good CMS, lots of features
- 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.
- 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)
- Technical Support
- Account Management
- Solution Architecture
- The CMS portion of Sitefinity can be updated with more current objects for customization.
- Additional ease of use for entry level developers.
- Automated licensing updates.
- Depending on the usage, it is pretty easy to work with page templates and build content widgets
- Content syncing with SiteSync works great
- Implementation of languages works well
- Personalizing page with persona, country or other specific content works well
- We are using release 9.2 right now and are in the process of updating. Using mail templates with forms is a important missing piece.
- Better connectivity of the Digital Experience Cloud with the site content.
- E-commerce, biggest disappointment! Apparently new integration with 3rd party available, but we specifically purchased Sitefinity to have an integrated e-commerce platform.
- MVC page templates
- User guides are very often not very user-friendly for non-developers.
- Straight forward websites without e-commerce and a few languages - great.
- You can develop your own modules/widgets and get most work done without needing a developer. You will need a consultant or developer for the initial setup and deployment.
- Sites like ours, etap.com, with dynamically generated pages via API, languages, event management, etc. difficult.
- E-commerce is so basic that it is hard to do any sort of customization. basic e-commerce tools are missing.
- Release 12.0 however looks promising.
Great for Financial Institutions
- Closed-Source
- Updated Regularly
- Easy Drag and Drop Style Editing
- Expensive for Smaller Organizations.
Sitefinity as a Friendly CMS
- User-Interface
- Customization
- Support
- Duplicate URLs
- Redirects
- Architecture
Sitefinity is a good product
- Sitefinity is a stable environment. We don't have many issues with crashes etc.
- Sitefinity has a good organizational structure.
- On the front end, Sitefinity is fairly easy to use.
- We aren't able to do customization on our own. The 3rd party vendor controls the back end code. This limits our ability to always do what we would like to do without calling in a 3rd party.
- It might be helpful to have a "plugin" system, kind of like WordPress, that allows users easier access to a wider variety of functions without programming knowledge.
Great product
- Easily scalable
- Lost of templates publicly available
- .NET based
- Support could respond faster
Sitefiniy
- Sitefinity allows people with little of no development skills to publish content to a webpage
- Provides a way to manage email lists.
- Allows for feedback from our stakeholders
- Sitefinity has been very well designed for our need (though our needs are small)
Great solution for those without technical skills and for those with technical skills. Could improve on security and APIs.
- Ease of use. Content items are easy to add to the page and make edits.
- Customization. Standard content items are available but there is also the ability to make more advanced customization by embedding code and scripts.
- Well structured interface. Easy to navigate within the Sitefinity console.
- Availability of an easy to add on two-factor authentication for logging into the CMS.
The best Windows CMS on the market.
- Dynamics database integration
- Customization of the platform
- Ease of training
- Extendability with off-the-shelf modules
- Better SEO tools
- More options for social media integration
Progress Sitefinity is a great option for Content Management!
- Progress Sitefinity is user friendly.
- It is easy to get on-boarded with Progress Sitefinity.
- Managing your web content is made much easier.
- No complaints here!
Sitefinity CMS, a powerful, extensible system that is easy to use
- Out of the box support for news, blogs, forums, forms.
- Out of the box ability to point and click to create new, custom content types as needed.
- Rich API for developers to use in implementing solutions.
- Extensible platform to allow for integration with other systems.
- Improved startup time after developers makes coding changes.
Good solid product with great support
- Sitefinity provides an simple way for our content developers to update our website without worrying about the mechanics.
- It is a simple mechanism for creating and maintaining a blog.
- The software is straightforward to implement in our MVC application.
- For our application Sitefinity has all the capability we need. We are a small company but we have not needed more than the application provides.
- Their training is good and their support is fantastic.
Flexibilty to suit any need. Also re-usability if you program your custom items correctly.
- Sitefinity Technical Support is always responsive and ready to help. I have even gotten follow ups at night and on weekends.
- Sitefinity is designed to be flexible. No matter the requirement, there seems to be a way to achieve it.
- Out-of-the-box items can satisfy a great deal of the needs, but never get in the way of customization's I create.
- I was trying to set up a new app and the online documentation hadn't been updated.
- However, I contacted support and they got back to me quickly with the correct instructions.
Connections that just work
- Standardized user interface
- Wide array of system interfaces
- Ease of use
- Ease of installation
- I'd like to see a packaged installer, as opposed to installing each module separately
- Scales well
- Fully integrated marketing features
- Very strong API layer
- Many out-of-the-box integrations available
- Their eCommerce add-on has a very limited feature set
- Support for their partners can be better
- Pricing can be confusing
A powerful CMS for small and large company needs.
- Documentation, community forums and communication from the company is helpful and thorough.
- Support is very timely and effective.
- A couple years ago Sitefinity made a choice to change the architecture of their CMS to be MVC. This was a massive improvement in my opinion. It makes development a lot more enjoyable.
- I think Sitefinity's documentation is great. And there are plenty of code samples to pull from on github. But if they have to improve something I would put down a more active user community.
Sitefinity does the job well!
- Content creation and publishing
- Integration with CRM system and third party tools
- Digital asset management
- Taxonomy
- Search capabilities
Director of CX's review of Progress Sitefinity
- Easy to make on the go changes.
- We can personalize messages based on a number of factors such as, location, times visited, etc.
- Affordable.
- We can make directional changes for the business without assistance from IT.
- Client engagement is low. Ensuring that you get the latest and greatest version doesn't happen as often as I'd like. When you ask a question, you are usually referred to a SOW and not the actual services you paid for.
- There is no Client Success Director to ensure we are properly using the product.
- We could use training and that is not offered.
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In addition, a select number of our members have access to update their microsite pages
- Various roles for access to back pages.
- Ease in creating pages and content.
- Integration with our AMS
- Wiki page for help on how to do things
- Ensuring customers are up-to-date on versions
- Differentiating between users who have back end access to a couple of pages vs true admins who have access to all pages.
Basic CMS that gets the job done
- Content management
- Ease of use
- Layout of back end
Overall I'd highly recommend, but make sure you have someone implementing it with a strong technical background.
- The technical support is pretty good. They generally get back to support requests within 24 hours. There is also a "knowledge base" site which 9 times out of 10 has an answer to your support question already.
- The product is constantly being updated - almost weekly - so you are constantly getting improvements and new features.
- The product allows the end users to build their own page layouts while still maintaining a mobile first approach. You are not restricted to building pages using only 2 or 3 page templates. You can drag/drop with any kind of configuration you want.
- The biggest, and probably most problematic thing is the built in forms. If you require ANYTHING other than a simple name, phone number and email kind of form, then do not use this product. You cannot build dynamic fields or customize the email generated from the form. I think this is the single biggest downfall of this product.
- They need to manage feature requests better. There are a number of features users have been requesting that don't seem to get addressed. There is also no road map available for us to see if the features are going to be included in the foreseeable future.
One of the most 'user friendly' CMS (if implemented correctly)
Personalization is the key important feature for any new website. Sitefinity offers a simple but effective mechanism to make any page or content within the page personalized. We are using this feature for some of our websites where we need to target users based on their behavior, location, time etc. Here, Sitefinity play an important role to achieve our target audience. It provides many out of the box widgets, like News, Events, Cards, Rich text editor, and Image Gallery, which can be easily dragged and dropped on the page, and within minutes you can create a new page using any existing template. Also, for developers, it provides the flexibility to build custom modules and utilities API, which can be consumed by any frontend medium (mobile app, website).
- Easy to use drag and drop widget, which allows CMS users to create new pages within minutes.
- Easy to implement Personalization on any page or content within the page level.
- The support Sitefinity provides plays an important role in achieving project target date. It especially helps during development; in case one faces any technical issues, their support team is highly responsive and guides you with best possible solution or workaround.
- Not easy to upgrade to the latest version. If by mistake one deploys the latest version DLL, it changes the database and you cannot rollback to the old version.
- The Export/Import feature is not advanced enough and randomly breaks.
- By default Sitefinity stores some of the changes like labels, messages, and search index on the ‘File System,’ which causes issues when you have a load balance environment. There, you have to manually sync the file on all environments, which is not ideal.
- Reporting. Currently Sitefinity does not seem to have native support for tracking website analytics; rather, it integrates with Google Analytics for showing website analytics in CMS, which creates dependency on 3rd party service. If there is any change in 3rd party service, it would directly impact the reporting in Sitefinity CMS.
Not recommend for any campaign based website, which last for short period of time.