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!
Progress Sitefinity Review
Great on features
Overall great product, happy customer
Sitefinity Review for the Non-Technical Users
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
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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(1-25 of 171)- Organize pages
- Create lists
- Blogs
- News articles
- Usability
- Reliability
- Help documentation and support
A flexible UX platform that we really enjoy using
- 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
Sitefinity is a really powerful CMS
- 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
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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 less well suited for organizations with small budgets or that don't modify content on their site regularly.
- 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.
Want an easy to use, but powerful CMS? Sitefinity is your choice!
- Updates to the CMS software
- Support on critical issues
- Larger install base
- Speed of support replies
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- 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
Great on features
- 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.
Overall great product, happy customer
- 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
Sitefinity Review for the Non-Technical Users
- Drag and Drop Widgets
- Creating Templates and Pages
- Website Templates and Themes
- Third Party Widgets and Tools
Sitefinity is a great custom solution for the right clientele
- 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
A good value in a CMS platform with broad functional capabilities
- 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.
Sitefinity is a good fit for our school
- 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
Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS.
- 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.
Super easy to generate new pages, news/press items, lists. A little more complicated to set up Salesforce and Sharepoint connectors.
Consistent and Reliable
- We've had a consistent experience with few, if any, bugs.
- Provide better tools to measure and improve the page load speeds.
- 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
SItefinity = Good
- 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.
Sitefinty for a large company
- synching process
- Staging environments
- Ability to have multiple translations
- How to update content through all translations.
Piece of mind and time to market
- Content authoring, approvals, provisioning, and global synchronization
- Easy integration with backend systems and microservices.
- Customer data profiles and personas tracking.
- None
Simple to use CMS
- 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.
Sitefinity if you're looking for customization
- 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.
- 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.
Recommend Sitefinity
- 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.