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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%
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- Admin section (168)8.080%
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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.
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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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November 08, 2018
Sitefinity continues to be the right tool for us and our clients
We are a solutions provider, so we are typically creating a turnkey solution which includes Sitefinity websites for clients. We have been using Sitefinity since version 3 and have always found it to be the best solution for clients looking for a CMS that is powerful and robust, yet easy to understand and easy for us to teach.
- The UI is clean and user friendly. From experience, the granular permissions make it easy to customize the security to fit the client's needs.
- The built in widgets provide the majority of the functionality we need, but the extensibility also allows us to create our own widgets to fill in the gaps where needed!
- Support has been difficult to get at times, with us having to rely on year old forum posts. Or email support, which takes some time.
- While not directly involved with the process, I know that upgrades frequently break things, especially if you have customized Sitefinity in any fashion.
November 07, 2018
Sitefinity offers alot "under the hood" but requires TLC
We adopted the Sitefinity software back when it was in version 3.x and have continued to expand our Sitefinity portfolio. Sitefinity is not a lightweight package and therefore does have its challenges, but these challenges primarily involve changes to the "out-of-the-box" package. Progress has done an excellent job to keep abreast of the changing technology. The community is a very vibrant one with lots of support.
- It provides an excellent library management package
- It is extensible
- It is progressive on its use of technology
- Documentation lacks. There is no mapping of database fields and usage.
- Some custom features are lacking completeness. However this can be corrected with expert programming.
October 19, 2018
A Realistic Look at Sitefinity
I have used Sitefinity on multiple projects that require more sophistication and the ability to scale with client's needs. We have used for a large equipment manufacturer/retailer to manage the company's external website as well as the company's Intranet. In addition, we have developed several custom applications in dot.net technology that have been integrated into these implementations. We have also synced with the company's Active Directory for single sign on/authentication as well as made customer inquiries from the external website flow directly into Microsoft Dynamics - the customer's CMS.
- Scalable: As new needs arose we were able to manage and integrate/use Sitefinity.
- Customization: It does take knowledgeable programmers, but you can customize quite a bit.
- Flexibility: Allows for changes in site structure very easily.
- Expensive. Sitefinity did away with their small business edition some time back and the time of this writing, it takes around $3,000 to get a license. That rules out Sitefinity for a lot of small to small-medium sized businesses.
- Complex: You can do almost anything with it, but it will require knowledgeable programmers to make that happen.
October 18, 2018
Robust and Powerful CMS
I use Sitefinity with clients now to provide them a CMS solution that has a good user interface and a wide variety of features available "out of the box." I also use their available libraries and platform to add custom components or integrations for my client's unique needs. For those that need a .Net based proprietary CMS solution, I find it the best option available for the most reasonable price.
- Intuitive and user friendly interface for creating and editing content.
- Easy to implement additional features, such as a blog, news feed, or document repository.
- Powerful library to extend your site with custom integrations.
- Powerful ability to build customized templates and user controls for reuse on multiple pages.
- Solution code does not play well with a standard source control mechanism such as Git. A few changes will be needed.
- Creating custom widgets that are non-trivial takes additional time and effort.
- Upgrading the platform can be problematic if the default tool doesn't work.
October 16, 2018
Content authors first
We implement Sitefinity solutions for our customers. These can be multi-site and/or multilingual.
In some cases, we also author and manage content for the sites.
In some cases, we also author and manage content for the sites.
- Easily create pages & site structure.
- Creating page content using the drag & drop widgets is very intuitive.
- A lot of customization is possible
- Documentation (especially for advanced concept) & support could be better.
- Site start-up time.
- Encountered several bugs during development.
October 15, 2018
Sitefinity review
In 2012, I moved our organization from being reliant on outside vendor for all content additions/changes to using a content management system (CMS). Sitefinity was the best choice for our company because I wanted a CMS that was .NET based for integration with other Microsoft platforms, was a proprietary system for a predictable and stable platform, was inexpensive, and was easy to use.
- Makes it easy for an administrator to assign roles for others in the organization to contribute content.
- Easy for administrators to know when new content has been created and is ready to be reviewed and approved.
- Its licensing model makes it very affordable for small and medium sized business to adopt the platform.
- They continue to update the platform with new features
- We have created a Chinese version of our site. I do not read or speak Chinese; however, I cannot create a role for one of our Chinese employees to be an administrator of the Chinese portion of our site. They must either be an Administrator for the entire site, or an editor for the entire. This creates additional effort / hassle for the team.
- I have what I believe to be a simple question for the owners of Sitefinity. I wanted to see about using Sitefinity with AWS. Our web agency says that we cannot ask the owners a question, because they will only respond to an "issue". Because we cannot get an answer from Telerik, we are trying to figure this out on our own....and spending a lot of money along the way.
- It is difficult to find one agency that understands both the front end design capabilities and the back-end technology capability of the platform.
September 28, 2018
A Functional CMS
- Love the widget and module builder tools
- Allows me to quickly and easily build new pages without having to pay our digital agency to do so.
- Our business has reduced its out of pocket costs to our digital agency to develop pages.
- Not a fan of the inability to easily find and replace site content.
- The CMS stores all of the data in a database, so replacing specific lines of text is a chore to say the least.
- Upgrading from one version to the next is also painful. It is worse then a new install.
- Back office is not user friendly
- Pages loading too long, overall bad performances
- No extensive plugin base
- No state of the art web dev tools and integrated libraries
- Preheating solution not integrated and very long and heavy
- Recompilation mandatory even for minor changes, causing availability issues
- Template handling not practical
- No quick support
- Very expensive for a CMS I judge inferior to open source free solutions of the market
- Bad integration with Azure Cloud Solutions
September 18, 2018
Sitefinity meets our needs
Sitefinity is the provider for our website NVAR.org. It is used by the general public, more specifically by our 17,000 Realtors across Nevada. Sitefinity gives us an online platform to disseminate news and information about our association. It is a valuable tool for our staff to share information with our members and for members to interact with staff.
- Sitefinity offers a platform that is user friendly. The ease gives us a better tool to reach members. More members use our website because it operates quickly and is easy to follow.
- Sitefinity boasts a service staff that is easy to chat with and prompt. My emails are often answered within 24 hours. Next, after issues are discussed, follow-up work is prompt to find solutions.
- Sitefinity's back-end for administrators is logical. It is easy to follow and makes sense. I am basically self taught and did so with relatively few frustrations.
- While service staff is quick to respond, it is not real clear who should be our first point of contact, account leaders, techs who have helped us before.
- I have had some frustrations with Sitefinity's analytics module. It will not work for us and I've been told the issue lies with our third-party vendor. That may be the case, however a Sitefinity programmer helped with a 'workaround.'
- A few times, I've dealt with service staff who seemed to use English as a second language. When you are asking for an issue to be addressed, you don't want something to be lost in translation.
September 06, 2018
Intuitive and easy to use product, integrates well with .Net stack. Good pricing with some drawbacks.
Sitefinity was selected to support a smaller public site we have been tasked with supporting. The goal is to enable content to be managed easily by teams within the organization. We were looking for a product to blend well with our existing .Net tech stack and bring ease of use to the developers and marketers.
- Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- Great fit for existing .Net tech stack
- Good pricing options
- Rich API
- More advanced functionality in the menus (can be flat and hard to navigate).
- Templates can be difficult to locate as there are many storage locations.
- Having support for MVC and legacy webforms can lead to confusion
August 31, 2018
Overall good product with great support community
[It's used] Mostly by the marketing department, but other users will be added to admin roles from other departments as needed. Employees will have access to customize their page.
- Drag and drop features
- Dashboard content accessibility
- Support community and forums
- Visual organization of Content vs. Layout editing
- More HTML options for sections
- Easier access to CSS
August 31, 2018
Wouldn't even think of using anything else!
We use Sitefinity to update our website. The Marketing/Communications department is the main user but other departments use it as well to make changes to pages associated with their knowledge base. It's made the website update process much easier because of the ability to share tasks.
- Sitefinity is very user-friendly. If I'm not able to figure out how to do something, their knowledge base is very detailed and easy to understand.
- The standard components of Sitefinity make it very easy to add new modules to our website. For instance, blogs, general news, and events.
- The online account is very nice. One login/location for me to access my license, renew the service and ask questions.
- I would like to see an easier to use image solution. This could be active in the upgraded versions, but I'm not currently able to upgrade.
- I do wish there weren't so many steps to activate a new module (I may be using the wrong term here).
August 10, 2018
Sitefinity User's Review
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Sitefinity as our web content management system. It is used across the whole organization by more than 150 users. We bought Sitefinity because it is more user-friendly, has descriptive URLs, works well for SEO and has responsive functionalities. It is much easier to train our web users on Sitefinity and we found that they upload and change their content more often.
- Responsive functionalities - easy to apply and your website is beautiful on all devices
- Better for SEO - descriptive URLs, Alt text fields, meta tag fields, and description fields
- Very user-friendly content management system
- We cannot seem to change the colors and font used on the events calendar.
August 10, 2018
Enterprise-level control and Search Engine Optimisation CMS
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I work at the University of the Free State (UFS), and we use it across all departments (approx. 150 web admins, supervised by my line manager and me). She and I are the quality assurers for web content at the university. Sitefinity has a high level of user-friendliness, and an intuitive graphical user interface. Users with a basic level of technological skills are able to quickly assimilate the basics of Sitefinity and start building a web page, while advanced users rarely run out of new ways to present their content. However, it is difficult to implement customisations and then maintain these over progressive iterations (updates/upgrades).
- Drag-and-drop GUI: HTML can be very intimidating to new web users or web admins. Sitefinity GUI and drag-and-drop functionality allow one to build a page using a pre-selected template. This process is intuitive and easy to master.
- Consistency: By creating department-specific templates for home pages and content pages, users are able to simply populate the template with their text, images, designs, videos, and other digital content. The template keeps the pages looking consistently the same while allowing a measure of freedom to the user.
- Corporate Identity: Sitefinity allows web admins to adhere to the Corporate Identity guidelines of our company.
- We would like to be able to customise the features of the software more, but this presents issues when these customisations are not carried over to the following version of the software.
- Integrations with other software and/or API are not clearly identified or communicated.
- Customer support and service is often lackadaisical or sluggish.
July 27, 2018
Progress Sitefinity is an affordable, quality CMS.
We use Progress Sitefinity as our external facing website. It represents our entire organization.
It addresses marketing, communication, enrollment management and serves as an internal employee web portal.
Our ability to tie into our active directory of users, to quickly get users up and running and allow for multiple editors across our organization is invaluable. The publishing workflows that Sitefinity allows for, gives us the web governance control we need, while allow our content experts the ability to generate content that can be moderated before being live.
It addresses marketing, communication, enrollment management and serves as an internal employee web portal.
Our ability to tie into our active directory of users, to quickly get users up and running and allow for multiple editors across our organization is invaluable. The publishing workflows that Sitefinity allows for, gives us the web governance control we need, while allow our content experts the ability to generate content that can be moderated before being live.
- The content publishing workflows in Sitefinity are easy and work very well.
- The editing interface is my favorite. The layout widgets, in conjunction with content widgets make creating any number of content layouts in just a few minutes a piece of cake.
- Access rights and permissions are easy to set up; and more importantly, give you the ability to be very granular (person or role).
- The upgrade process for updating the system is lacking. While there is a "simple" upgrade installer, many times, the assembly references are broken or point to older versions.
- I typically wait until an X.1 version before I upgrade our system. Each "new version" of Sitefinity comes with quite a few bugs and usually aren't resolved until the X.1 update.
- The ability to control the HTML editing control is not as easy as it used to be in older versions.
Sitefinity is used by our organization as the backside of our company's website. In 2014, we wanted to update our website and quickly chose a vendor. This vendor strictly uses Sitefinity, thus we now use Sitefinity.
- Easy to Add Content (news article, blogs, etc.)
- Page Templates make it easy to add new pages that match the scheme of the site overall
- The most challenging thing about Sitefinity is the formatting. We struggle to keep paragraphs, photos, etc. in the same size and font across all the pages.
July 25, 2018
Great tool for developing .NET websites.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Flexibility in developing CMS websites, together with the tools and features offered. Sitefinity enables IT to deliver software fast, without having to worry about managing the CMS, users etc. since the product is standard and fairly easy for the business to use.
- Content Management System is great for software developers to work with
- Develop websites fast
- Simple for non-technical users to administer website content
- Technology tie-in
July 23, 2018
Great content management tool
Progress Sitefinity is being used to update and maintain our company's internal and external website. I maintain the site using this product. It ensures our content is up-to-date and relevant. It also gives an ease of use for quick corrections or changes to company information, and drives brand consistency.
- Good technical and community support
- Great ease of use
- Overall solid product
- Fewer glitches when using the back end in other browsers
- Pre-existing limitations on some functionality (templates, content blocks, links)
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Sitefinity is used by multiple users within our organisation. We wanted a simple CMS that can be used by business users responsible for specific content. These users should have simple edit function while designers still would be able to use the full functionality.
- Sitefinity is simple to use while still full of features.
- All content including documents/images can be stored in a database instead of the file system.
- Small design changes on the layout are also easy for content editors.
- All documentation and training material is online. Sometimes you want your users to start with a book like a dummies book for example.
- The features vs license is a complex one. You need technical assistance to understand the different versions when exploring to your functional wishes.
- The page locking can make users a little bit frustrated.
July 13, 2018
Good and effective CMS tool for the price.
We use Progress Sitefinity as our primary website CMS. the site was developed by a third party developer, but our internal team manages the tool and updates our site daily via Sitefinity.
- relatively easy to use
- stable platform
- customer support
- load speed
July 13, 2018
Sitefinity CMS is a great tool!
Sitefinity is being used by the marketing department to update current content and create brand new content. It is our Content Management System of choice. It has allowed us to drastically reduce the time it took to make website updates because we no longer have to go through our IT department.
- Sitefinity makes it easy to create a new page - either from a new template or an existing one.
- Sitefinity makes it very easy to update current content on pages.
- Sitefinity is great because there is no limit to how many things you can sync at once. We did a website audit and published all the content updates we had at once.
- I do not like that if I visit a page but make no edits to it, when I leave that page it asks me if "I am sure that I want to leave the page because all edits will be lost."
- The sync feature can be finicky. Occasionally, something fails to sync, but it does not tell you exactly why or if it does, it is in very technical terms that make it hard to understand.
- I wish I had more news on the product's roadmap.
July 13, 2018
Very complete and easy to use CMS
Progress Sitefinity is being used by our organization as a CMS for our corporate website.
- Very robust CMS
- User-friendly, intuitive to use.
- I think the price is quite high.
- More external templates and modules should become available.
July 10, 2018
Great CMS for a variety of applications
Sitefinity is used by our organization as the CMS of choice for both of our corporate sites. It allows our marketing team to make needed changes to pages in an easy to manage way. Further, it is also used in our suite of products because of its ease of use.
- Page and template creation is managed very well.
- Document management has good taxonomy abilities.
- Very flexible branding and editing capabilities.
- Multi-site management tools are very helpful for managing several sites.
- SEO capabilities could be stronger.
- Emailing capabilities are poor, although there is integration with leading emailing platforms.
- Staging development environments and going live with sites can be cumbersome.
May 24, 2018
One of the best CMS products available.
We utilize Sitefinity for all of our websites, we currently have around 8 websites that are all managed through Sitefinity, it is the perfect solution for us since it allows us to give access to our users to update sections of the websites that belong to them and from an IT perspective it works great in our environment since we are a Microsoft only shop.
- Deployment is easy.
- The product is highly customizable.
- Ease of use for end-users.
- Customer support could be a little quicker.
May 15, 2018
Great Experience
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Currently using Sitefinity to service clients that I work with. My client required a CMS that supports multi-language and is easy to use to allow the global team members to be able to manage and update their versions of their site autonomously and with ease. The CMS has been well received and learning has been straightforward.
- Ease of page creation
- Simple to understand
- Intuitive
- Built in tutorials would be great
- Allowing duplicated content to be treated as unique content
- Image and media management structure could be refined
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
[It's] Used to empower digital marketing teams with the tools and capability allowing them to create and manage engaging, responsive websites with minimal reliance on IT.
- It's easy to get up and running quickly with lots of sensible options set by default. There's also lots of options for advance configurations.
- Interface is fairly intuitive for both content editors and site administrators.
- Technical and Account Management support is very good: they are responsive and quick to resolve any issues or queries raised.
- Getting the site to work in a highly resilient and fault tolerant manner takes some effort. The options and documentation is there, but it's not as straight forward as one would hope.
- Make sure you understand the licencing models in order to select the most appropriate for your needs. If your business spins up and tears down lots of sites it can get expensive as domain licences are non-transferable.