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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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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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Chris Manko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sitefinity as our main CMS for all of our brand lifecycle marketing. We use the system to serve content of all types as well as an email platform to mail our customers. It houses everything in one place which we find handy as well as the ability to extend by making controls and widgets.
  • Ability to extend out of the box info
  • Ability to email large amounts of data
  • Give a secure CMS base
  • Speed of how pages are loaded as you go further down a navigation
  • More detailed error reports to help diagnose issues quickly
  • More detailed video or written guides for new features
  • Keep more aligned to trends in market place and get them implemented quicker such as AMP, this was on WordPress years before Sitefinity
Larger websites with multiple elements are suited to this system; small websites would be overkill to use this.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Progress Sitefinity is primarily used by our IT Department. As a Content Management System, it allows our small staff to maintain and manage our website very efficiently.
  • The backend interface is very intuitive and easy to use.
  • There are many customization options and features.
  • I like the ability to add plug-ins and other widgets.
  • Granted we are using an older version (so this may have been corrected), but when viewing the HTML in the text editor, it doesn't format or display the code well.
We are a small local government organization, so I can't speak for larger, private sector implementations, but it has made the life of our small IT staff so much easier. We can update, add and remove content so efficiently. We may be small, but our website has a lot of content and features. Sitefinity makes maintenance a breeze.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sitefinity as an e-commerce platform for one of our brands. Planning to redesign and migrate our corporate site from Joomla to Sitefinity in the near future.

Sitefinity CMS is well built, easy to learn and work with, but it is short on features, especially for digital marketers.
E-Commerce module is decent for small and medium size businesses, but it doesn't come across as an enterprise-level solution.
  • Content publishing, managing, versioning is easy.
  • Page/template design is very intuitive.
  • Digital Experience Cloud (DEC) is nice, but costly.
  • Short on features, especially for digital marketers. DEC is available for Online Marketing Edition and up only. (Did not buy DEC.)
  • Automatic content synchronization between Sitefinity environments/instances is unclear.
  • I wish Telerik continued to invest in Sitefinity's own e-commerce module instead of developing symbiotic relationship with ROC Commerce, which is a mess.
Well suited for hosting small to medium size websites. Less suited for robust enterprise level e-commerce solutions.
Joel Reimer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity is our enterprise content management system and allows us to maintain a decentralized approach to content development. Subject matter experts across the univeristy have the ability to maintain their own content with full workflow and permissions.
  • Workflow and permissions are of significant importance to us, and Sitefinity does it well.
  • The ability to create custom content types, like faculty and staff profiles, obituaries for alumni relations, and more are really critical for us, and Sitefinity makes this easy.
  • The ability to allow subject matter experts from across the enterprise to "own" their sections of the website is important.
  • Revision history hasn't worked well for us.
  • Internal search functionality should be easier to configure.
Sitefinity is well suited for a decentralized content management process.
Eric Krauska | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have recommended and implemented Sitefinity for several of our customers. The product offering may be a bit expensive, but TCO is low after initial purchase and implementation.
  • Content Management is superb. Marketing and web design consultants love it!
  • Custom development model using asp.net is excellent for our internal developers. We are able to easily extend the use of the system.
  • Support from Telerik is excellent. They have been great to deal with when questions arise. They are extremely knowledgeable with the product and the underlying technologies.
  • Upgrade management was horrible during the earlier builds.
  • Price is pretty high for our client base. I'd prefer to see a "light" version that could compete against the free products out there. WordPress steals a ton of work from us when dealing with smaller projects.
Multi-user web content is a perfect fit. Small teams of developers are great to work with the offering. Small budgets don't allow the use of software.
Vesselin Vassilev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We are a small company, primarily made of developers. We build custom solutions for our clients using Sitefinity CMS.
  • Sitefinity is now very mature and it has a great ASP.NET MVC support, which is a huge benefit for developers. It is easily extensible and allows custom modifications. Recent versions are built with DevOps-friendliness in mind which is great as well.
  • Business users find the user interface very easy to navigate and interact with.
  • Customer support is great.
  • eCommerse has always been the thing that could be further improved.
  • The new Warmup module is great, but it would be even better if the CMS invokes it automatically on every page update or content item update.
  • Dynamic Modules are great, but it would be even better if Sitefinity generates a plain .NET object model inside the solution, instead of those "artificial" dll files that it creates.
Less appropriate for any complex eCommerce site. Well suited for any other scenario if the customer can afford it.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's] Being used by our entire enterprise for the public facing web site.
  • Great out of the box CMS
  • Great user management
  • Cost management
  • Better help desk
[It's] Well suited for a public facing website that does not use the e-commerce tools. It makes for a great browsing website.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We only have about 4 users accessing Sitefinity but they represent the entire organization. We use Sitefinity's APIs and additional frameworks for our member portal that is built using in house developers to offer applications and services to our membership.
  • Ease of use for web page creation and editing.
  • APIs for developers.
  • Forward thinking and never stopping developing the core product.
  • Licensing models for non-profit, small businesses.
  • User interface and search improvements for images and documents.
Customers who want flexibility of their web site.
Billie-Ann Woo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sitefinity as our CMS. It was suggested to us by our third party web developers who designed the site. As a CMS, it's fine but I think using a third party developer can really restrict your use - based on what templates they use and what kind of functionality they choose to deploy. I think there is a lot of functionality in Sitefinity we are not using because we are limited by website design and the prohibitive cost of contracting out to customize different modules to adhere to branding.

I think one feature I would like to see is being able to do A/B testing - they had suggested Optimizely but the current version of Sitefinity is not supported.
  • User interface is intuitive
  • In general the support from Sitefinity is good and attentive
  • Can be limiting depending on the site design
  • I'm not sure if it has to do with how the web developers implemented it but I think Sitefinity could improve their in-editor SEO functionality (for me, from what I can see, it is non-existent or at least not intuitive).
I think Sitefinity is a good general CMS. I think it's easy to use - my former colleagues had no problem updating their content and never had any issues with the editor. If you want a site that is a more sophisticated for automation, there aren't a lot of native solutions. You are better of implementing external tools for landing pages and forms.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Progress Sitefinity as the content management system for our corporate website, with our patients and community as primary users.
  • Flexible
  • Modular
  • Better social integration (but this could be that my version is old)
Decent content management system, very customizable. Not a good solution if you require a third party developer. Our vendor built our website through trial and error, which I think messed up the basic functionality of the product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's] Used to house our company's public facing websites. [It's] Used by marketing, IT and third-party vendors.
  • Robust.
  • Customizable.
  • Great developer tools.
  • Easier upgrade process.
  • More workflow capabilities.
  • More notification capabilities.
  • Ability to allow bulk document replaces without causing duplicates.
Sitefinity can be used for nearly every use case. It's less effective with shared document management so it won't replace your internet's document libraries.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Sitefinity to develop websites for clients for about 9 years. Over the years we have implemented Sitefinity to solve a variety of business requirements ranging from online documentation portals, to e-commerce. In several cases we have implemented a Sitefinity solely for online documentation with custom widgets to allow printing the entire site to PDF. For other customers we've implemented Sitefinity with e-commerce features to sell products and services. In a more unique implementation, we developed a new website using the e-commerce modules for Sitefinity, but customized it to act as an online product catalog allowing customers to find products they were interested in renting. We disabled all the purchasing ability and as our client handles all of the money transactions and product distribution locally.
  • Content management works very well, from layout and design, to daily content updates.
  • Sitefinity provides a high degree of customization for developers. This is very important for what we do, and enables us to deliver any website solution for our clients.
  • Upgrading Sitefinity needs improvement. After nine years of performing numerous upgrades, it has almost always been painful.
  • The eCommerce module and related widget could use more features and customization. We were able to utilize Sitefinity eCommerce in multiple scenarios with significant customization.
Sitefinity started out small. We're a small company that began using Sitefinity back when it was inexpensive and even had a free version. It was a great solution with the small clients and limited budgets we were working with. Over the years Sitefinity pricing has skyrocketed to compete with the most expensive CMS solutions available. At its current pricing level, I would only recommend Sitefinity to large enterprise operations. It's just not feasible for small or medium business.
June 19, 2017

Almost perfect

Rich Mephan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity is being used as the platform our website is built on. It is also currently under review to see if it is suitable for us to build a customer facing portal to allow B2B and B2C collaboration for people that use our legal and case management software.
  • Simple and easy to use without much training.
  • Quick - A basic web site can be up in minutes.
  • Slightly on the pricey side.
  • Custom extensions are harder to develop than something like Umbraco.
As a content management system, it works really well for people who do not come from a development background, allowing them to create feature rich content without having to resort to writing specific code.
Matt DeWolf | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity has been my go-to platform for content management needs for 11+ years. We utilize the platform to control content across multiple web identities to help streamline our content update processes.
  • The ability to change templates for different pages is extremely helpful when managing multiple sites. It speeds up our creation of new pages, content, etc.
  • Like all content management systems, Sitefinity brings your content management efforts under one roof. But for me, the user interface makes it simple to quickly deploy content. Other platforms seem to require several steps, and an almost quirky user interface to get things done. With Sitefinity, I'm able to quickly find what I need, when I need it, and get my content deployed.
  • Sitefinity has always been a very reliable platform for us. We've never experienced an outage of the system.
  • The integrations with analytics don't seem to be particularly useful.
  • The eCommerce functionality lacks some depth and breadth in terms of customer transaction communication as well as the reporting data on these transactions. We deployed an eCommerce site, using sitefinity, but reporting out on performance has proven challenging.
Sitefinity is a fantastic CMS for a variety of users. Where it really shines, is in being able to be a reliable and flexible web development platform for my coding team, while also being very user-friendly for the teams and individuals that are responsible for updating content. I would recommend Sitefinity every single day of the week.
Heather Azizirad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity is being used as a CRM for both of our company websites.
  • The ease in which I can utilize the product and how easy it is to make changes to our environment. The system is easy to manage and we are able to keep our environments secure.
  • Management of the system as we were able to manage and maintain the system with just 1 person.
  • Solid design features and options right out of the box.
  • E-commerce platform is terrible. We do not use it for this reason.
  • Very limited on templates.
  • Updates are always long and tedious.
  • The initial load screen on an app refresh is painfully slow.
Great for a small team that can easily make updates and change content.
Matt Haskell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Sitefinity as a CMS tool for our company website for over 5 years. We recently migrated out of Sitefinity to use Squarespace. Sitefinity allowed us flexibility in web development with template and widget based tools for users on the team that weren't as tech savvy as it would take to run a site in say, Wordpress.
  • Allows a good blogging template and management platform where other team members could write articles and submit for approval
  • Decent navigation while in the CMS tool.
  • Allows for deep customization if you know how to code.
  • The template is pretty hard to drag and mess something up. Strict rules and approval before changes is nice
  • The mobile functionality needed improvement and was hard to implement. It wasn't default, and really should be nowadays, and it cost extra.
  • Upgrades took forever to implement, and we had to get outside resources to implement them, which cost us more money.
  • Not particularly user-friendly and many features were buried.
Well suited for businesses that want a website that is hard to mess up. You would need an outside designer that knows Sitefinity to do your design work and set up your CMS tool. Not particularly well suited for beginners to set up, but okay for beginners to manage. Your website is as good as your upfront design, and this platform has a lot of potential, but for DIYers, it's not great to build a site or add new pages from scratch
Jean-Francois Frechette | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our division we use Sitefinity for our Income Tax software portal UFile and ImpotExpert. It is also used across the whole organization but I cannot comment on that part. It addresses problems at the website creation level by making it simpler for web developers to create professional and stable websites. It also simplifies installation and deployment for web administrators.
  • User-friendly and offers a safe environment for people with basic programming skills. This is an important strength of Sitefinity because almost any user with basic web knowledge can use it to modify or add content.
  • Good supports for mobile. Sitefinity helps to develop mobile-optimized websites very easily. This is an important strength of Sitefinity because more and more people are accessing websites from mobiles and downloading apps to purchase products/services offered by companies.
  • Sitefinity has a great e-commerce integration and has everything you may need to build and manage an online store. We can collect online payment from buyers in a fast and secure manner.
  • Maybe our content creators and editors could say more but in my Web administrator situation, I see none so far.
In my opinion, if you are planning an e-commerce or corporate portal, Sitefinity is the best choice because it has everything to get you going quickly and easily. It might be a bit too much for personal pages, family portals andsmall communities, especially when people have very basic computer knowledge and very low budgets.
Sam Rueby (MCP) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We develop high quality websites for our clients built on ASP.NET and Sitefinity. We choose Sitefinity because it provides a framework to build a website that is easily customizable for our clients. Users do not want to have to call a company to make a few changes on their website; they want to be able to make changes themselves. We're able to develop tools using this framework that allows the client to make their own updates without the risk of breaking the design or needing to tiptoe around raw HTML.
  • Sitefinity provides a slick backend interface that allows users to easily drag layouts and widgets (i.e. page elements) onto the page. They're able to configure the widgets and preview exactly how the page will look before publishing. All without risk of accidental changes to the live site.
  • Sitefinity Feather has been a breath of fresh air for developers. We needed more control over the markup going down the wire and they gave it to us. Markup is now much cleaner and developers are able to use the latest best practices for developing widgets and data binding.
  • Custom Modules (module builder) is a very powerful tool for providing customers with structured methods of creating data that will be displayed in a particular way on their website. When a school wants to put a teacher in the monthly spotlight, they're able to create a new "Teacher" in the backend where they're able to provide their name, picture and bio. All "Teachers" will automatically be displayed on another page of all past spotlight teachers. Clients don't have to create duplicated, accident-prone HTML in raw content blocks. We can provide them the tools to provide the necessary information, and we display that data consistently and beautifully.
  • As a developer, when you run into a problem, sometimes it will be incredibly difficult or impossible to diagnose yourself. No one likes seeing a "NullReferenceException", but when it's thrown and it's deep in a Telerik (Progress) stacktrace, what are you supposed to do?
  • Telerik Progress has left a bad taste in my mouth in the past about their brilliant ability for marketing and sales, but when it comes time that you need help, you feel like a second-class citizen. StackOverflow (the de-facto website for all software, development, and programming help) has very few Sitefinity questions and answers. The Sitefinity forums will probably provide you with some very old results. Responses are very slow, and sometimes never come from Sitefinity staff. There's a few heros (like Sitefinity Steve) that will come around and help. Sitefinity's own support portal absolutely needs improvement. When you begin creating a ticket, you're provided with a very clunky interface. The actual box to provide detail is a very tiny 100x200 pixel box- I've pointed out that it's very difficult to use, to which I was told to type somewhere else and copy into the box. Once you create your ticket, they claim you will receive a response in 48 hours, but that is rarely the case. Typically the response is about 6 days, +- 2 days.
  • The documentation site is not too bad. It can be very helpful. Sometimes you will run into areas that have not been touched in a while. For example, the current documentation for creating a widget designer does not provide an example of how to create a widget designer. All it says is to use Sitefinity Thunder, which is an extension for Visual Studio. That's fine, but there is no supported extension for the latest version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2017). Plus, the industry is headed in a direction where you shouldn't need particular tools to get the job done. We've got JetBrains Rider and Visual Studio Code (different than Visual Studio), so we shouldn't need a particular extension to a particular version to get a job done.
  • There's a lot of bugs. I currently have 7 support tickets open. Some features, like the ability to export all pages/data, and import them into another instance, does not work at all. There's similar issues with SiteSync, which is their ability to sync multiple separate instances.
  • There's some really bad UX (user experience) choices. For example, I filed a support case because when you're on the Backend / Users page, and click "Search", a search box appears but it does not focus it for you. Because of this, you will begin typing but have it not go anywhere. So you focus the search box and begin typing the name of the user you are looking for (The first column of the table shows the User's first and last name). However, search does not use the user's first and last name. Because of this, you can search for the name of the first user you see in the table, and there will be no results. I was told that this is expected and is not a bug.
  • Sitefinity has two main data layers: the "native api" and the "fluent api". The native API is older and is fully implemented. The fluent API is the newer, "more readable" API. But, it appears that "readable" just means that you chain the calls and perform actions using callbacks. This would mostly be fine, except that the fluent API is only partially implemented. This is unfortunate when you're trying to maintain consistency and suddenly you run into a feature that is not implemented. Now you'll have to switch back to the native API.
  • The Sitefinity certification exams need to be completely redone. They're not as serious as the Microsoft Certified Professional exams. I don't mind that nearly as much as the actual questions on their exam. There's spelling and grammar mistakes. They don't include topics on the latest features and best practices.
  • Learning materials for Sitefinity tend to be outdated and questionable. The official learning material for the Sitefinity certification exams are outdated. There are only a couple of videos on Pluralsight for Sitefinity, one of which provides the questionable suggestion that, in order to figure out how to do something, you should decompile the Sitefinity DLLs and read the code. I think if you were to do that you'd spend significantly more time and be much more confused than if there was sufficient documentation. There needs to be examples for everything. The language in documentation needs to be as simple as possible. There needs to be multiple delivery mechanisms (docs, videos, books, forums with fast and intelligent moderators).
Sitefnity is probably the best .NET CMS framework. There are others, especially free frameworks that are open source. For the open source frameworks, you're going to be relying heavily on the community for support. They also only tend to implement the basic features of any CMS. Sitefinity has some higher capabilities that makes it better suited for a cooperate environment, especially regarding SEO and tracking engagement.
Rachael Bell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sitefinity powers our website, njcpa.org. It is integrated with our association management software, Aptify. This enables us to present customized content, display data from Aptify and write data (transactions) back into Aptify. The content on the site is managed by the communications staff (myself and a content editor). Programming changes, particularly the Aptify custom widgets, are managed by our IT department.
  • Very user-friendly
  • Drag & drop widgets
  • Lots of control to provide customized content/layouts while still maintaining the overall site look & feel/structure
  • Forms - wish there were more options for field sizes, etc.
  • We see some performance issues where there are a lot of records in the Lists module.
It's a very cost-friendly option for websites of just about any size. Once the templates are set up, people with virtually no HTML experience can easily add/edit content. And with some HTML/CSS knowledge, the sky is the limit.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sitefinity across our whole organization as our main website. It is used by staff in every department to update the website and build new content. It is an update from our last content management system as it is faster to maintain and build new content.
  • Easy to edit existing content. It is only a few clicks to open a page, edit some text and publish it.
  • It is easy to create content types and templates to display them for organizing information. We don't have to create custom applications to display simple content types.
  • Speed. Sitefinity needs to be faster to load and use. There are features to help speed things up and they should be enabled by default.
  • Documentation. It is possible to do many things with Sitefinity but the documentation is very hard to find. More examples with clear instructions for basic extensions are needed. They used to do this with screencasts but have stopped. Make sure the version number is included so we know if it works with our version.
  • The Progress Support Portal needs to be improved. It is very time-consuming to put in a support task. You have to fill out many fields over and over and over again whenever you put in a task and they are the same every time. The old Support Portal was much faster.
Sitefinity is very nice to use when you need a website that is easy to use and extend. If you need something that is very fast or uses static pages then you'll have to use something else.
June 06, 2017

No surprises here

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Progress Sitefinity is essentially a lower-cost alternative to other industry-leading enterprise-level .NET website content management solutions. We recommend it to our clients as it fits our internal resource capabilities and allows us to maximize fees by minimizing the direct cost budget that would otherwise be invested in more popular but costly platforms. We only recommend it for certain clients and we have not launched a new website on the Progress Sitefinity platform within the last 12 months.
  • Sitefinity has a lot of built-in functionality, such as creating redirects. Admin users can do a lot in the CMS on their own without the support of a development team, once their solution has been built and configured properly.
  • Sitefinity's personalization capability is very intriguing, although in my short experience, many marketers don't seem sophisticated enough to understand the power of this capability and how to harness it.
  • Sitefinity continues to release new functionality with every version, so it's nice to see that they are tying to keep up with the latest trends.
  • Product support is tough. If your development team is not naturally curious to solve problems on their own, be ready to wait. I'm sure they have a paid support option but we've never been in a position to invest there.
  • There are some technical contingencies to the platform. For example, the entire page is a form element. The devil is in the details, sometimes we're not sure if something is going to work or not until it works.
  • Sometimes releases contain major bugs that aren't addressed until later releases, then requiring an upgrade and associated cost to resolve. Not sure if that's a pattern but definitely not ideal news to share with clients.
Sitefinity works well for us when the client's users don't have to use it. The rich text editor is not user-friendly. Also, it helps to have pretty set requirements when building with Sitefinity, as applying customizations on the fly can take time to implement.
Joshua Boensch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company has used Progress Sitefinity since 2009 (back when it was Telerik Sitefinity) to help decrease time to launch our marketing website. With a web development team which has never grown larger than 2 participants, this product allowed us to rapidly deploy our website, with minimal effort. We launched quickly, and the website remained active for 5 years with increased lead generation and sales, month over month, year over year.

When we decided to re-launch our website in mid 2015, we felt that Sitefinity was a great fit for our team. We are a Microsoft shop, but the tools Sitefinity offered greatly lent themselves to help small teams. Wtih this platform we were able to launch our newly polished, responsive website in very short order.

Progress support came into play when we noticed some slowness with our site. We worked with their engineering team to help pinpoint what it was that was causing the slowdown. Support for Sitefinity is easily obtainable, the staff is very knowledgable and they will not quit until you say the issue is resolved.

The issues I have had with support usually were due to my misunderstanding of Sitefinity features/processes.

All in all, I would recommend Sitefinity to any team, not just small team as the framework provided is top notch and the features just keep rolling out quarter after quarter.
  • Ease of implementation
  • Decent documentation
  • Productivity boost to small teams as well as their commitment to new features are reasons enough to recommend this product
  • Minifying Sitefinity closed resources.
  • Sense of urgency in support requests
Sitefinity is well suited for any team size, and perhaps it's because my team is so small, but I would have to say that the integrated, easy to use features lend its ability to rapid deploy to small teams even more.

I would have to say that Sitefinity is less appropriate if planned to be used for an intranet website. I found its user management/permissions ability to be less than ideal.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It used by the Information Technology - Software Development department as a part of the company website.

It's used to create pages, content, and blogs.
  • Flexible and easy to use.
  • Expandable and support customer development.
  • Rich of features and tools.
  • Performance issues sometimes.
  • Very slow when starting up the application.
  • Many random errors/noise errors that can be captured especially after many upgrades.
Well suited in blogs, content blocks, and pages. A great feature is the site sync to move the data between environments. I'm not sure where it could be less appropriate, at least from our business and need point of view.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used by our department. We use it to manage our intranet and public website.
  • Responsive design
  • Content modules
  • Forms
  • Bug updates
  • Responsiveness with development
  • Speed
[Sitefinity Progress is well suited for an] enterprise level organization. May not be suitable for a personal website as there is a bit of a learning curve.
James Sperring | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is predominantly being used by our marketing team to deliver our two corporate websites. Some other teams request files to be uploaded, and either our marketing team or my development team do this. Additional features are created by my team for use by the marketing team.
  • File management
  • Page and template creation
  • Personalisation
  • Site sync
  • Localisation
  • Module creation
  • General CMS capabilities are great, user-friendly for common site requirements.
  • Not so good for user segregated content, hiding files based on who's logged in isn't intuitive or easy out of the box.
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