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Progress Sitefinity

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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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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)
    8.0
    80%
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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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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

8.1
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

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

8.1
Avg 8.1

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

8
Avg 7.1
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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

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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Users have found this product to be incredibly useful in a variety of scenarios. One key use case is for travel enthusiasts who want to document their adventures. By using this product, they are able to capture high-quality photos and videos of their experiences, allowing them to relive their journeys and share them with others. Another use case is for professionals who need to give presentations or showcase their work. With this product, they can easily create stunning visuals and slideshows that captivate their audience. Additionally, individuals who enjoy capturing special moments with family and friends have found this product to be perfect for recording birthdays, graduations, and other important events. The versatility and ease of use make it accessible to users of all skill levels.

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May 09, 2018

Sitefinity Review

Yen Liu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity houses our company extranet and it is used by our customers, vendors, suppliers, and their prospects.
  • Sitefinity provides branding ability to put unique characteristics at our company website.
  • This gives the company a strong sense of identity internally and externally.
  • Sitefinity can improve their pricing negotiation process. It took us a couple of weeks longer than expected to reach a mutually agreeable price for our multiple year renewal.
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.
May 02, 2018

Sitefinity Review

Jason Honn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I build and deploy Sitefinity based websites for my clients. It provides a simple interface for them to manage their website. It does not require much training for them to grasp how the tool works.
  • It does not require a high level of expertise to manage a website.
  • Simple layout templates and modules.
  • Vast amounts of Documentation.
  • It is an expensive system.
  • Depending on your implementation, upgrades can be tedious.
I feel that this software is perfect for a staff of non-technical users. I think it is simple to edit and modify content.
Spike Silvernail | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Progress Sitefinity to integrate content management for our web application. It's being used across our entire organization and is robust enough for seasoned developers and easy enough for casual users.
  • Content Management
  • Mobile integration
  • Email lists
  • Previewing capabilities while working on a page are basic and does not allow visualizing how a widget will be rendered.
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.
April 26, 2018

Sitefinity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Progress Sitefinity to produce a richer web experience for our 'customers' and so that we can better understand their online activity and as a result the issues facing their business. It is used by 2 or 3 'super users' in our organization, though the information that is gleaned from the system is used across the organization.
  • The system is easy to use by relatively inexperienced users
  • The system gives us a good insight into our customers
  • The system integrates well with other packages
  • A relatively expensive system
  • There is some functionality that we expected would be provided by Progress Sitefinity but isn't (eg mass emailing)
Good content management system and provision of customer insight. Not so good at email marketing.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity helped us leave behind our outdated website for a much easier to manage and much more robust template. The platform was purchased mostly just to give our site a much-needed facelift, but it's allowed us to do a lot more on the backend as well. We now have a much more robust content marketing strategy, have embraced using responsive templates (finally!), and more directly and effectively manage our SEO and quality control.
  • Day-to-day activities are easy to learn and easy to do
  • A lot of flexibility for building more advanced functions
  • Tools for maintaining image and link quality control
  • Sometimes flexibility comes at the expense of directness. Certain advanced features are confusing.
  • Forms are buggy and overly complicated to create.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sitefinity is used by our client to improve their customer journey analysis, by its excellent optimisation and personalisation.
  • SEO optimisation
  • Video Management
  • Images Management
  • When a bug is found, sometimes we need to wait for the next upgrade to fix - which can take quite a long time
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.
Anthony Colli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sitefinity is used as our public facing web content management system.
  • Sitefinity is a good content management system, is scales well and has good support.
  • Sitefinity has enabled end users to build their websites quickly and easily, with little support from IT.
  • Upgrades to the application can be tedious. They use their own upgrade tool which often does not work the on first attempt.
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.
February 27, 2018

Sitefinity Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity is used by the marketing department as our online website platform.
  • Great communication from the Sitefinity team
  • Fairly user-friendly interface
  • Constantly has updates available for anyone looking to keep their web platform up to date
  • I find the site finicky when there are multiple admin users making edits, locks pages easily, 'crashes' site if it doesn't link the action you do... Could be a bit smoother to allow the everyday user who isn't we savvy to have more confidence
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.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sitefinity is used as our organization's intranet as well as our public facing internet site. It is one of our main communication tools for both employees and the general public. As a Microsoft shop, it was important for users to use a CMS based on the dot net framework so we could leverage our in-house development resources.
  • Once set up and configured properly, Sitefinity is quite stable.
  • Backend access for content editors is fairly straight forward.
  • The Sitefinity upgrade process is challenging. It breaks existing functionality with every upgrade. Improvements must happen.
  • Support is really bad, even with the enterprise version, which is expensive. You have to deal with overseas, non-native English speakers over email. Screen sharing tools such as webex is discouraged by charging extra for that functionality, which is surprising and very frustrating.
  • Authentication methods, while improved in recent versions, still doesn't support Integrated Windows Authentication.
It is fairly expensive and requires deep technical expertise to implement. Hiring a third party with lots of experience is highly recommended. Once properly implemented, it is quite stable. But if you need to make changes to code or templates, you better know what you're doing.
Erin Hasinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity is used by our web department only. We have two full-time users and two occasional users. All web content is filtered through our department for review and posting.

We upgraded from Ektron and it feels as though we've launched 100 years into the future. We used Sitefinity to become mobile responsive as well.
  • It's very user-friendly. If our organization wanted to move to a workflow system, I'm confident every person here could be comfortable with Sitefinity with little training.
  • Updates are quick and easy. I like the drag and drop modules.
  • Our previous system didn't give us CSS access; it's nice to be able to edit literally any part of the site on our own without going through our web vendor.
  • I really like being able to upload multiple images or files at once.
  • It doesn't work well in Chrome. When we first implemented it, our vendor told us to only use Chrome, but there are so many things that don't work in Chrome that we no longer can use it.
  • I wish Sitefinity had an in-text editor. When I'm making a really small update, it'd be nice to click an edit button on a page and either fix it right there, or at least use that button to open that page in Sitefinity (old Ektron had that!).
  • Our department hates when we're editing a page, finish, and go back into the Pages menu and the menu we were working in is closed, or a different one is open. It'd be really nice if our place was saved.
  • I wish there was a way to keep the WYSIWYG editor open to full size all the time.
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
[It's] Used across departments for ongoing development and maintenance of the organization's public-facing website. Impressed with flexibility and usability of the platform.
  • Content management
  • Web development
  • Web maintenance
  • N/A
Impressed with quality of product, features and functionality, with over six years of usage with the platform.
November 17, 2017

Easy to use and Deploy

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity is being used to develop and deploy our corporate website and websites we build for clients. It helps us quickly deploy new sites. It provides a robust framework and templates that allow for easy customization to meet our clients varying demands. We have found it versatile and flexible.
  • Easy deploy and implementation
  • Many templates and standard features
  • Constant updates to improve performance
  • Yearly cost structure
  • Phased releases
  • Additional APIs
It is well suited for rapid website deployment and setting standard website architectures and frameworks. It doesn't always allow for full customization of navigation and menus but provides a good level of customization for most routine sites.
October 26, 2017

Great Service!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Sitefinity for our website. It works great, It integrates really well with our CMS. I was not employed with the company when they chose or implemented Sitefinity; however, I have not heard of any issues like I have with other implementations. I would definitely recommend Sitefinity. The team is very responsive and helpful.
  • We can manage the content ourselves without a web designer
  • It implemented well with our current CMS
  • It takes a long time to load sometimes
Websites are specific scenarios. I cannot speak to where it is less appropriate.
September 25, 2017

Trellist Reviews Sitefinity

Paul Immediato | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Trellist uses Sitefinity for our own website at trellist.com and we recommend and implement Sitefinity solutions for our clients. Sitefinity has proven to be an easily extensible solution that serves well for mid-size and large companies that have robust website requirements. Its combination of out-of-the-box features and robust API provides the right balance of price, core capabilities and ease of customization by extending or creating widgets. Sitefinity's intuitive interface, and ability to create custom designers, reduces the learning curve for content owners.
  • We use Sitefinity's module builder for managing a lot of custom data types--think database tables but you get an interface for free. The modules come with widgets for common basic functionality and customizable widget templates, but for complete control, we often build custom widgets that utilize the API to access and manage the data.
  • The MVC page templates and layout designers are a really nice feature. The page templates are hierarchical and each child inherits all the capabilities and layouts of its parent. The page layouts provide an easy way to implement bootstrap responsive layouts while making it easy for content owners to drag and drop widgets into content place holders.
  • If you know .Net, Sitefinity's API is intuitive and doesn't require programmers to learn new languages or frameworks. This reduces the learning curve for developers and provides practically limitless options for writing code to meet project objectives. Sitefinity also offers a Visual Studio extension called Thunder that aids in creating Sitefinity components. Although it's not strictly necessary, it's use does reduce some of the tedious development tasks, especially around creating custom widget designers, which can be created to provide content owners with niceties like an image or page picker.
  • We implemented a multisite solution for one of our clients and although the ability to share templates and content is extremely powerful, setup wasn't as intuitive as it could be and documentation was lacking a bit. We also ran into a couple bugs which we'll be reporting when things slow down a bit. Permissions was one area where some trial and error was necessary and workarounds needed.
  • eCommerce and the Marketing modules need some maturity. They are not robust enough or easy enough to use to supplant more mature products.
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.
September 22, 2017

School CMS

Mohammad Elsheimy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We promote our business through our website that we created using Sitefinity. We, as a school, allow parents to create accounts and log in to the website to manage their kids' data. We integrated e-commerce and other school-related features such as reports, newsletters and calendar. We also linked our iPhone and Android apps to the website through a dedicated API.
  • CMS
  • Desktop/Mobile view management
  • Integration of ASP.NET and AJAX
  • Easily management of users and data through API
  • Performance on low hardware specs
  • Upgrading from one version to another is not as smooth as it should be
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).
September 21, 2017

Sitefinity and Beyond

Drew Pasler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We have implemented Sitefinity for 3 different industries for their websites. One implementation was for a college website, one was for a large investment bank, and the last was in the business of product manufacturing consumer facing and intranet. It addresses the need for a CMS that is mid priced.
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.
September 20, 2017

Hands on Sitefinity Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization uses two Sitefinity web systems for the content management of the website. The content is developed by less than ten employees but is published for a public facing website. We use Sitefinity to organise various project resources such as developed documents and training resources. We also develop custom.NET controls for various web function within the CMS framework.
  • Organize website
  • Common built-in features
  • Current updates
  • Upgrades are tedious
  • Heavy framework means loading is slow
  • Options for budget users
Sitefinity is a great CMS if you need all its features but could be too much for a budget user.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's being] Used across the marketing and IT departments to manage our website content.
  • Very customisable
  • Different sections out of the box such as image library, documents, news, blog etc
  • Intuitive and easy to use
  • Ability to add pages generated on the fly into the Sitefinity sitemap
  • Add an image compression tool
Well suited to a website with lots of pages and features, where duplication of pages is required. Less appropriate where lots of HTML is required so could do with more of an advanced graphical interface.
September 19, 2017

Sitefinity CMS

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Sitefinity to host a couple of our websites, it has allowed us to quickly implement and customize a solution that works for our agency.
  • Their continuous product updates have made it easy to use with the latest technologies.
  • The flexibility in its customization makes it easy to make changes or create some of our own modules.
  • The backend administration is very clean and granular.
  • Better documentation and tutorials.
  • Lower costs in modules.
  • Faster support responses times.
It's very useful it you have not used a CMS before or have users that haven't used before.
Bart Welch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sitefinity for all of our corporate websites. Sitefinity allows us to quickly spin up new sites, make changes and use custom features for all of our sites. We are able train new business users easily and give them the power to make content updates as needed. Sharing content and functions across our sites is also a big benefit.
  • Contains built in features and functions out of the box
  • Shares content well with all sites in multi-site
  • Easily sync content changes from test environments to production
  • Always seems to be some items with bugs or not working 100%
  • Offer more training videos and various certifications for all types of users
  • Improve documentation, help within the application itself
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.
September 15, 2017

Why we like Sitefinity

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We manage, maintain, design, custom code, and implement for a variety of companies.
  • Easily customizable
  • Fast deployment
  • Drag and drop
  • License matrix
  • Support could be a bit better
I haven't found a scenario other than budget restrictions where Sitefinity would not be well suited, In fact, this is usually the main reason for our clients to choose another option.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Sitefinity is being used to manage all company websites in multiple different regions and languages. Sitefinity simplifies the process of new content creation by allowing multiple people to create and edit content before it is checked and published to the live website.

Language translation and management between different countries is also easy through Sitefinity.

  • Simplicity of the interface
  • Powerful language management
  • Easy to design templates
  • Integration with other systems
  • Install process is very technical and best done by an expert.
  • Upgrades are similarly technical.
Sitefinity is particularly useful in an environment where there are no in-house web developers or web designers due to it's simplicity to roll out new web content and make changes to existing content. One of the areas which can be particularly complicated is for companies that operate in multiple countries and languages and Sitefinity manages this with relatively little user knowledge.
Kristin Haynes, MSM | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sitefinity as the CMS for our main website with 3 languages and we also use it for 2 subsidiary websites. We chose Sitefinity for its security and localization ability so that we could have one site with multiple languages that could be easily translated through the platform.
  • If Sitefinity is correctly implemented, the ease of use for multiple users is great. We have had multiple companies helping us with the design of the site over the years and when we used a Sitefinity partner, the set up was great. I can trust multiple people to be able to add things to the website without breaking any code.
  • Localization was a huge factor in our continued use of Sitefinity. We like being able to click a button to send text to a translator.
  • The platform interface. The UX design of the CMS is great. We can easily know where to go and how to do things.
  • We have had huge issues with problems in the code from the versions of Sitefinity. When we launched our new site it was delayed over a month because there was a huge bug in their code. It took them over a month to figure it out which cost us a lot of money. When they fixed that bug, it wasn't in future releases so when we went to upgrade we couldn't do that either.
  • Support. Their support is not great. I don't think I have found many companies with great tech support anymore but I see it as a definite problem.
  • You have to use a Sitefinity partner if you want the site set up correctly. If you don't use a partner, and they don't know how SItefinity works, be ready to work in the code for any updates to text.
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.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Used by a project team for our client learning department. Multiple languages brand education platform, with users completion tracking. Solution use worldwide with more than 3000 end users, in 8 languages (still more coming through).
  • Sorry, nothing is particularly well done
  • Back office is not user friendly
  • Pages loading too long, overall bad performances
  • Some features just don't work as sold
  • No extensive plugin base
  • No state of the art web dev tools and integrated libraries
  • Recompilation mandatory even for minor changes, causing availabilty issues
  • Preheating solution not integrated and very long and heavy
  • Template handling not practical
  • No quick support
  • Very expensive for a CMS I judge inferior to open source free solutions of the market
  • Bad integration with Azure Cloud Solutions
  • No responsive solution
Frankly, I think there are better solutions for each and every scenario
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Sitefinty as the CMS for the company's website. It is co-owned and supported by both IT and Marketing. The solution allows us to efficiently and easily promote content through environments (development, evaluation, production). We utilize a plug-in called SiteSync to accomplish this. It allows our Marketing department to stage content, make design changes, and edit templates prior in an isolated space (development) before promoting to the evaluation environment. There content approves, editors, and managers can review the changes, provide feedback, and approve before being promoted to Production (live). This is primary one of the reasons we chose Sitefinity - workflow management had been a problem in the past.
  • Content approval/management/workflow. Allows for content and changes to move through environments in an approval process
  • Templates - create universal templates easily and as re-usable resources throughout your project. Makes page layout management incredibly easy
  • RBAC (Role Base Access Control) - Easily manage users permissions with the admin console, at a granular level
  • Support is very much hit or miss. Example: Imagine opening a support case, communicating back and worth for days trying different solutions to resolve a problem, only to find out days later that the issue you are experiencing is a known bug that is resolved in a future release. Incredibly frustrating!
  • Pricing - Overall, the product is pricey. Add in enterprise level support and brace for the impact - the bill can be quite high.
Again, I believe Sitefinity is a great tool in most scenarios. It has great RBAC (Role Base Access Controls) allowing you to apply the appropriate permissions to users at a granular level. The use of Sitesync also allowed our organization to create an approval process/workflow for approving and changing content before being promoted into production. Based on pricing, I believe the solution is more geared for enterprise or large organizations who can 1) afford the price 2) need content management vs. something like a smaller organization with a single content creator/approver.
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