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.
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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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- Business Problems Solved
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(101-125 of 171)Great medium / large CMS system with great extendability
- 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
Progress Sitefinity is a great choice for a CMS
- 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.
Intuitive, easy to learn and work with CMS. Short on features, especially for digital marketers.
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.
- 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 Excellent
- 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.
- 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.
Great out of the box CMS
- Great out of the box CMS
- Great user management
- Cost management
- Better help desk
Sitefinity Review from a Developer
- 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.
Progress Sitefinity: There are finite limits.
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).
- Flexible
- Modular
- Better social integration (but this could be that my version is old)
Review from a Sitefinity Administrator
- Robust.
- Customizable.
- Great developer tools.
- Easier upgrade process.
- More workflow capabilities.
- More notification capabilities.
- Ability to allow bulk document replaces without causing duplicates.
Sitefinity is a powerful Enterprise CMS
- 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.
Almost perfect
- 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.
Sitefinity provides a friendly, straight forward user interface along with developer flexibility
- 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.
Great ouf of the box option
- 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.
Sitefinity - not for beginners
- 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.
- 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.
Sitefinity: Great framework, poor support.
- 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).
Happy Sitefinity user
- 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.
- 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.
No surprises here
- 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.
- 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
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.
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.
Sitefinity - customizable but has its quirks
- Responsive design
- Content modules
- Forms
- Bug updates
- Responsiveness with development
- Speed
Sitefinity - to infinity and beyond WordPress
- 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.