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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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- 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 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
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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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May 12, 2017
Great Product, Created Great Website
Score 10 out of 10
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We are currently using Progress Sitefinity to power our public website and internal intranet.
- Variety of portals that come with the basic product.
- Customizability of the product.
- Design and ease of use.
- Update procedure is difficult sometimes.
May 08, 2017
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We implement Progress Sitefinity solutions for our clients.
- Dynamic content management
- Template/Layouts management
- Extensible
- Deployment process support
- Extended trial licences while [in] development
May 08, 2017
Easy to use, powerful with great support
We are a Progress Sitefinity implementation partner. We leverage Sitefinity for both internal and external sites for our customers.
- Great support! Whenever there is an issue the Progress support team is available and helpful.
- Easy to customize - whether customizing look and feel or building custom apps, Sitefinity is easy and powerful.
- Great content authoring user experience - non-technical users find it easy to update and create new content.
- Performance can sometimes be an issue.
- Site Sync tool is a bit expensive and my developers do not have a lot of good things to say about it.
- There were issues in the past running it on an Azure Web Site. I think these are resolved but it was not ideal at the time.
May 05, 2017
Give Sitefinity a try. You won't regret it.
Sitefinity is used for our marketing websites.
- Easy to use for non technical users.
- Easy to organize content on pages with drag and drop layouts.
- Granular control of user access.
- Search capability is limited with built in search engine.
- Several bugs that have persisted across multiple releases.
May 03, 2017
Pretty Happy with Progress Sitefinity
Progress Sitefinity is being used by the communications/marketing department. The product addresses our website presence.
- I think Progress Sitefinity updates quickly. As soon as I press publish the web page is almost in real-time updated.
- The CMS is pretty user-friendly.
- I appreciate that it doesn't take very long to load web pages.
- I think Progress Sitefinity could be more mobile friendly than it is right now.
May 03, 2017
Sitefinity Review
We use it as the primary CMS for all our web infrastructure.
- Fairly easy to customize and build on top of.
- Simple interface for non technical users.
- Overall the blog module is horrible. We have more technical issues with it than any other part of the CMS.
- The base widgets are acceptable for a small scale site, we never use them however and are always forced to do a larger buildout of those components.
May 03, 2017
Very easy CMS for an HTML novice user.
We use Sitefinity for CMS on our website. It allows me to update content quickly without being a "master html coder" myself.
- Version control is easy. I can revert back to an earlier version if needed very simply.
- I can preview how a page will look before publishing and have confidence in how it will appear for real when I'm ready.
- Publishing forms and files on our website is extremely easy.
May 02, 2017
Best, Most Balanced CMS
Sitefinity is what we use to host our current website. It is mostly used by our marketing department to keep our website fresh and up to date with new content. Most of the users had issues maintaining their own content and Sitefinity has solved that problem for them. As a developer, some of the most boring tasks when it comes to developing websites is making content changes such as updating photos and changing copy. CMSs solve this problem by taking these changes out of a developer hand's and give the power back to content managers. Many CMSs while attempting this try and fail, and developers end up making the changes anyway. Not with Sitefinity, it has the easiest UI for content managers to change. Drag and Drop controls and rich text editing have never been easier.
- Sitefinity does a great job of making it easy for content managers to drag and drop content into a given page template without the help of developers.
- Sitefinity makes it easy to create new types of content with its built in dynamic content generator. Tasks that used to take a couple of weeks and a developer or two can be accomplished within hours instead.
- For developers, it also takes a lot of scut work out of making changes and lets them get back to more interesting problems. I've not run into a problem I have not been able to solve with Sitefinity yet.
- The biggest thing I dislike about Sitefinity is the price. It's clearly not meant for smaller businesses which has priced many of my clients out of the market.
- Another negative for me is that the product's base is Web Forms. However, they have made some headway into the MVC space, it still not a purely MVC product.
- In the last few editions of Sitefinity have been mostly focused on marketing initiative that many organizations do not need. So the price keeps going up but the features are necessarily useful to justify the costs.
May 01, 2017
Positive Though Incomplete Experience
We use Sitefinity for our public web content for the entire university. We now have better control over the content before and after it's published.
- The vendor frequently updates the product.
- The vendor frequently adds new features, especially valuable marketing features, to the product.
- The vendor works with technologies with which we want to work (.NET, MVC) with.
- Your training expects a certain level of understanding. It would be nicer if you built on a lay person's understanding. These should include Lynda.com or Pluralsight.com training opportunities.
- You should provide more training on the use of Telerik development tools with Sitefinity.
April 28, 2017
Progress Sitefinity Review
We use Progress Sitefinity in our organization in three implementations, mainly for external facing websites and content. The primary purpose is to allow business users to manage content without involving or relying on information technology. We are also working to implement API integration to publish Sitefinity content to other non-Sitefinity applications.
- Distributed authoring
- Ease of API integration
- Digital Experience Cloud
- Documentation is not always robust
- File replacement is a little tricky
- Site Sync doesn't sync properties sometimes
April 28, 2017
Reliable solution for content management
We use Sitefinity as the content management system for our main website. Only one department has access to the system, but it's viewed by many. We needed a non-open-source CMS system that was cost-effective and that would provide workflow permissions in order to eventually open the system up across departments.
- Responsive layouts
- Easy to use for non-HTML users
- Versioning
- The inline editor adds so much junk HTML. We don't use it at all.
- The workflow approval process is flawed. You have to explicitly turn off the process for the administrators and approvers in order for those users to not have extra steps in having to submit their own changes for approval to themselves. And by allowing those users to skip approval, it turns off the ability to reject changes with comments. We would also like our users to be able to go back in and edit something they sent for approval.
- There should be a way to specify messages for empty data sets. So if there are no events, a message could be set that says "No upcoming events." The same would be good for blogs, lists, etc.
- Upgrades are cumbersome, especially since we've used the database for media/file storage and it's extremely large. We're in the process of moving to the file system for storage, but that is a tedious process as well. Another reason our database is so huge is the revision history. We save as we go so there are LOTS of draft versions out there. Would be nice to have a way to clean out versions that were never published.
April 24, 2017
Robust and Reliable CMS
We use Sitefinity across our entire organization. We were seeking a .NET based Content Management System with active directory integration that was robust with template-based design and the ability to customize using .NET based widgets. We found that in Sitefinity in 2013 and have been using the platform since. The engine is fast and reliable and users can maintain content without concern about formatting issues.
- Engine is fast and reliable
- System is robust and flexible with .NET based widgets
- Content editing is easy by anyone in the organization and templates are solidly built
- We don't have much to add here. We are very happy customers of the Sitefinity platform.
April 24, 2017
Corporate WW website in development
We have choosen Sitefinity as the CMS for our new corporate website, in order to deliver all the 50 company websites.
- Easy to customize
- Easy to use for the not-IT-people
- [I would like to see] A feature that allows to have already compiled the second language (on a multilanguage website) with the base-language website. So if I didn't already translate all the website, the content will be showed anyway (in the wrong language of course).
We use Sitefinity for our main public website. Around 50 people across our organisation are trained to author content, and a smaller subset of those users (around 10) are setup as superusers who can approve, manage and delete other users' content and restructure the site as needed. We moved to Sitefinity in 2015 after we identified a need for a more modern content management system, allowing us to work more quickly and effectively, and taking advantage of advanced personalisation and analytics features that weren't previously available to us.
- User friendly interface - easy for users to understand the WYSIWYG/drag and drop editing screen
- Fully featured in terms of managing media assets including images, structural assets and templates for the site, and all types of text-based content
- Fully supports deployment to Microsoft Azure cloud hosting, which we have adopted due to extreme peaks in load.
- Additional and more advanced personalisation tools would be useful (specifically in-page personalisation).
- Sitefinity has one "Administrator" level security role with access to everything; it would be very useful if this were broken down further.
Our company website is based on Sitefinity. The publishing of content is centrallized. We are considering using Sitefinity as well for our new intranet in the future.
- Flexibility of publising and customization
- Good usability especially for publishers (highly efficient!)
- Scalability and performance
- Standard out of the box modules (form generator)
- Grids, layout and widget Integration (very easy to make a website responsive)
- Integration of load balancing or upgrading without downtime.
April 24, 2017
A good product but a difficult implementation.
The marketing team uses Sitefinity to make customer facing web changes on two of our websites. The tool allows them to control the content of the site without changing code within the website or involving the IT department.
- It is easy to manage content within the tool.
- It does not compromise the company's security posture.
- It has the capacity to synchronize site content across environments, so the same CRM can manage the content through all stages of website development.
- Support for common port based forwarding versus ip forwarding.
- Ensure the partners you are recommending can deliver on their promises. We got our partner from your recommendation but they were not a good partner at all. We had to take over the development effort before it was delivered with them being over budget for the second time by 40%.
- The implementation of Sitefinity with an existing MVC website should not take 4+ months and cost $300K. We spent between $500K and $600K and more than 7 months.
April 21, 2017
The Potential is there, but you have to make it happen
Sitefinity is utilized for our primary facing website. It is configured mostly OTB. Our use of content types has room for growth, and until we begin to create more content types and utilized Sitefinity's API, I would safely say we are under utilizing it as a product. Our integrations with non-Sitefinity datasources is minimal also.
- While there are not many different layouts, the ones we have configured do work well for the marketing team to create landing pages without any assistance.
- The ability to create new content types is easy to do.
- OTB functionality has plenty of room for improvement, especially the MVC modules they provide. They are quite immature in their development, and often 3rd party jQuery plugins offer a more mature interface. (e.g. News, and Calendar)
- Due to the MVC method, there is a flaw in how some redirects are handled. If Google has cached pages of a deep link it's possible that Sitefinity will fail to a parent page, and not report it as a 301, or 404, and render out a bad page. The work around requires hard coding some redirects in the web.config file requiring the need to take the site offline to implement.
- Usability has room for improvements also. While it's super difficult, we have users coming from the WordPress world and that is easier to train.
April 21, 2017
Sitefinity is Solid
Sitefinity is the CMS we use for two externally facing websites for our organization. One is primarily a content driven site for our performing arts organization and the other is a robust ticket sales website for our organization and other organizations that we partner with. Between the websites we've developed a broad range of functionality for use by our patrons that includes single ticket sales, subscription sales, donations, memberships, education and other event registration, account maintenance and more. The websites have been fully integrated with Tessitura, our ticketing and CRM platform.
Sitefinity is being used across most of our organization. Most departments have interest in what and how content is presented on our websites and several departments have direct access to maintain certain aspects of the website.
Sitefinity is being used across most of our organization. Most departments have interest in what and how content is presented on our websites and several departments have direct access to maintain certain aspects of the website.
- Support is excellent.
- Customization is limitless.
- Updating pages and content is simple.
- Out of the box forms are cumbersome and not as fully developed as many other CMS's. Also no OOTB email receipt for users which should be added.
- Upgrades can be difficult if you rely on customizations.
- A lot of the OOTB features needed to be customized to be used by us.
April 21, 2017
Good luck!
We use Progress Sitefinity for our primary information website. It is used by the Communications department to manage and maintain our website. It doesn't address any business problems. We don't like it. We are redesigning our site this year and we will no longer use Sitefinity.
- Nothing.
- The wysiwyg is terrible. We moved to a CMS to give our clients the ability to update their own content but still maintain our branding and styling. Our initial test group had no HTML or coding experience whatsoever, but the wysiwyg was unable to work properly. So we had to teach them some HTML code as a work around. Finally, we just said forget it and all changes still go through us. We gained nothing.
- Upgrading has been a painful process. So in 5 years, we only upgraded twice.
- We purchased and implemented the SiteSync add-on and have had nothing but issues with it since we started using it. Still having issues, and when we try to submit a support ticket, we got an error for that too.
We use Sitefinity to support the CRM requirements for our public facing website. This is administered by IT and used by marketing for day to day content management. Any customization is handled by the IT department at the request of marketing or other departments throughout the organization. We have used the product for over 5 years.
- It is a product that supports a high degree of customization.
- It provides a nice interface for content managers.
- It supports users of various roles (admin, content authors, etc.).
- The documentation has traditionally been very poor, especially in terms of customization support.
- The load balancing features are spotty and unreliable.
- The recent elimination of the Standard edition was disappointing.
March 30, 2017
You need to meet Progress Sitefinity for your CMS
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is being used across our entire organization. We have primarily implemented new sites for fundraising and donations required to help improve patient care through out our organization. Previously some of our foundations did not have a web presence making it hard to reach a target audience and meet their objectives.
- Great Customization.
- Simple Installation.
- Great Vendor Relationship.
- Strong Community.
- Great ability for development sites.
- User webui is not that friendly.
- Need customization. Out of the box won't cut it.
- Better end-user training and documentation.
March 30, 2017
Thanks to Sitefinity
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Sitefinity for our Company website. Our clients go to our site to view our services and to check out any news and industry best practices that we post. New or prospective clients can request consultations and bids through our contact us forms. The website is also our main source of job applicants. Integration with Google AdWords and Analytics helps with our marketing efforts and tracking.
- Sitefinity is a robust solution that allows you to do anything your could imagine with your site.
- Their friendly and helpful staff are always there to walk you through anything and have great suggestions on ways to improve or utilize your site better.
- The only section I needed a little help with was the forms section. The Sitefinity staff was able to walk me through what I was trying to do.
- The functionality of the form section is great, but I would prefer to have a little more control over layout and look. I have some spacing issues between form elements that would likely require programmers to get exactly what I want and with such a simple edit, I would rather take care of it myself than pay to have it updated.
March 28, 2017
Ease of use
We use Sitefinity as the CMS for our corporate website. It has taken us to the next level compared to our former website in terms of functionality and creativity in sharing our service offerings to potential clients.
- The drag and drop CMS is helpful for non-technical users of the admin
- Widgets make it easy to add interest to the pages
- It is easy to add SEO to each page
- Some features like lists and content blocks are not intuitive on how to add to a page
- Documentation is a little bit difficult to navigate through
- No other issues
March 28, 2017
Value For Money
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
[It's] used by a specific department that supports an online shipping channel. Allows for end customer developers to build APIs to integrate their shipping systems to an online shipping system.
- Easy installation
- Great out of the box functionality
- Easily customizable
- More consistent update notifications
March 14, 2017
Easy to use and highly customizable
We are an advertising agency and we have used it for one of our larger accounts. We needed an enterprise-level CMS that was easy to use and provided a solid workflow for content approval and syncing. It solved this need extremely well. It also provided a great platform for content personalization allowing us to tailor content to users visiting from out-of-state vs. in-state.
- Ease of use on backend
- Highly extensible
- Great workflow and syncing
- Content personalization for targeting marketing
- Email marketing solution
- List management and segmentation
- Edit in place option not reliable