TrustRadius Insights
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 …
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.
Recent Reviews
Awards
Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards
Popular Features
- Role-based user permissions (163)8.181%
- Page templates (164)8.181%
- WYSIWYG editor (160)8.181%
- Admin section (168)8.080%
Pricing
N/A
Unavailable
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.
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.sitefinity.com/editions
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?
37 people also want pricing
Alternatives Pricing
What is Ibexa DXP?
Ibexa, headquartered in Oslo, helps B2B companies to stay relevant and succeed by transforming traditional sales strategies into frictionless buying experiences, with their eponymous digial experience platform (DXP).
Product Demos
Machine Translation in Progress Sitefinity
YouTube
Features
Return to navigation
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- Downloadables
- FAQs
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
Progress Sitefinity Videos
Leading digital agency Americaneagle.com discusses the Sitefinity Partner Program and the Telerik Sitefinity platform.
As a marketer, you strive to create meaningful experiences that engage customers, drive conversions and accelerate business growth. Progress Sitefinity puts you in control. With Sitefinity you'll get a 3x increase in customer engagement, a 3x increase in marketing team product...
 Show More Progress Sitefinity Integrations
Progress Sitefinity Competitors
Progress Sitefinity Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
Progress Sitefinity Downloadables
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).
Comparisons
Compare with
Reviews and Ratings
(237)
Community Insights
TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!
- Business Problems Solved
Users have found this product to be incredibly useful in a variety of scenarios. One key use case is for travel enthusiasts who want to document their adventures. By using this product, they are able to capture high-quality photos and videos of their experiences, allowing them to relive their journeys and share them with others. Another use case is for professionals who need to give presentations or showcase their work. With this product, they can easily create stunning visuals and slideshows that captivate their audience. Additionally, individuals who enjoy capturing special moments with family and friends have found this product to be perfect for recording birthdays, graduations, and other important events. The versatility and ease of use make it accessible to users of all skill levels.
Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 60)Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
June 08, 2021
A flexible UX platform that we really enjoy using
We use Progress Sitefinity as our CMS tool for our website as well as clients. Currently, just our marketing team and development team uses this tool as it keeps things streamlined and efficient. We use it to create websites. We've found that it helps successfully engage our internal team in developing successful websites.
- Easy-to-use backend for developers, marketers, and creatives
- Strong SEO tools for improved SEO optimizations
- Lots of integrations
- More integrations and easier to add as a marketer
- Upgrade process is bulky and slow
- Make advanced settings a little easier to navigate
May 27, 2021
Sitefinity is a really powerful CMS
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity is used across the entire organization for the company website. It addresses the issue of complicated web updates by providing a tool to easily manage content. Also, Sitefinity allows us to easily create private content for different roles and membership types, which is key to our organization and online benefit distribution.
- Easy to use CMS
- Versatile for search setup
- Information management can be complex and supported by the platform
- Less code to do certain things
- More out of the box integrations
- More add ons for enhanced features
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As part of a modernization, our current CMS is being replaced with Sitefinity as an organizational product.
Serving both as the main CMS for several regions and HQ - as well as a departmental application CMS for standalone portals and platforms in a multi-tenant, multi-cloud approach. The main reason for standardizing on Sitefinity is its flexibility and its omni-channel capabilities, allowing us to write once and use across platforms, channels and APIs throughout the organization and externally.
Serving both as the main CMS for several regions and HQ - as well as a departmental application CMS for standalone portals and platforms in a multi-tenant, multi-cloud approach. The main reason for standardizing on Sitefinity is its flexibility and its omni-channel capabilities, allowing us to write once and use across platforms, channels and APIs throughout the organization and externally.
- 'Low-code structured content' (dynamic content types) is one of Sitefinity's most powerful features that allows you to structure content according to business needs, while at the same time dampening editorial freedom to ensure accessibility, meta enhancement, SEO and API consumption can be achieved.
- Sitefinity's content provider model allows us to flexibly (by means of admin interface) easily aggregate or separate content sharing within a multi-site instance.
- This proofs particularly powerful in emerging situations where there suddenly is a demand for content sharing across countries or regions.
- Adaptability at its core.
- While there's never a perfect fit for everything, it allows for easy code customization and extension being a .NET application at heart. Giving it a corporate edge over other custom solutions, whether it is on the development side or deployment side (on premise, IaaS or Azure DevOps Paas). And it has enabled us to put the system to use in its core feature - which is to manage content, where on other occasions we were able to take full advantage of its features such as A/B testing and personalization.
- Roadmap visibility could be better.
- Being a publicly traded company, long term roadmaps will have commercial impacts, however it would be great to see future visions expressed more clearly.
- Video improvements.
- While accessibility and concepts like 'low-bandwidth' are key these days, rich experiences are equally important. When it comes to 'videos', Sitefinity is trailing behind the current use cases where low/high-bandwidth versions, captions and subtitles are a requirement.
February 27, 2020
Want an easy to use, but powerful CMS? Sitefinity is your choice!
We have implemented Sitefinity as the CMS of choice for various website projects. One of the huge considerations we have when choosing a CMS for our clients is the ease of use and the capability to integrate with external (3rd Party) systems easily. Sitefinity ticks both those boxes. It is extremely easy to use for our clients but still gives our developers the ability to customize where we need it. When used with the Digital Experience Cloud (DEC) that progress offers, it's an excellent marketing tool - top to bottom. We also evaluated the cost of Sitefinity against some other solutions and for the license and implementation fees, it was a no-brainer. Other CMS systems costing 2-4x as much could not compare.
- Updates to the CMS software
- Support on critical issues
- Larger install base
- Speed of support replies
February 18, 2020
Great on features
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Currently being used by multiple departments in the organization. Sitefinity Progress has allowed them to be able to submit content and create forms without any I.T. intervention. It also helps address some administrative overhead so we can focus on improving our overall web presence and back-end server technology rather than helping folks edit.
- Modern platform.
- Good customer support.
- Full featured.
- Upgrades could be smoother.
- Licensing could be more tailored toward our industry.
- Could be considered to have some performance bloat. Would like to see options to slim down the page sizes.
December 27, 2019
A good value in a CMS platform with broad functional capabilities
Progress Sitefinity is being used by our marketing team as a site content management system. We use it to create new content and to upload images. It allows our marketing team to engage with our online audience and to remain current/accurate in our messaging. It is managed by our team webmaster, but it is used by many members on our team to create and duplicate landing pages. It also allows us to create messaging at various touchpoints. This is especially useful when urgent messages need to be communicated.
- Landing pages that include metadata, UTM tracking, and vanity URLs. These landing pages are easy to create and can be duplicated in a very short team.
- Site content management - It is easy to add text content and to upload new images.
- Messaging - We often need to create urgent messages related to a storm warning. This allows us to create message units or widgets that alert our policyholders.
- Landing pages are easy to duplicate but could be easier to customize.
- Reporting is limited. If reporting could be automatically tied to Google Analytics that would be a plus.
- An SEO optimization tool that looked for errors and suggested improvement would be very helpful.
December 05, 2019
Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS.
We run our corporate website off a series of 6 total servers running Sitefinity. We utilize it across a few departments, Marketing and IT mainly. Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS. We launched a new website and CMS all at once and it was refreshing to utilize Sitefinity over our prior CMS system. Sitefinity is a clean, very user friendly, adaptable, feature rich CMS. Pricing is attractive, features are there, support is very adequate. We have a complex use case with 6 servers running Sitefinity and interacting with each other, and we're still trying to get a handle on simplifying the upgrade process - which has been our only minor hurdle.
- Very flexible and easy to use to create new pages.
- Customizable widgets allow for displaying data the way you need and want it to.
- Simple to setup synchronization to additional servers.
- Diagram or illustrate more use cases for server setups, and managing of upgrades.
- I'd like to see the ability to synchronize from one server to multiple others at once.
- Implementation assistance as part of the purchase rather than farming out to 3rd party, although they did answer every question we asked in order to determine our best architecture setup.
September 10, 2019
Sitefinty for a large company
Used across the whole organization, Sitefinity is the CMS and backbone of our website used across many teams. We use Sitefinity with many other tools like Salesforce and Adobe.
- synching process
- Staging environments
- Ability to have multiple translations
- How to update content through all translations.
August 23, 2019
Sitefinity if you're looking for customization
It is used as a marketing front-end as well as to manage a registered user base. We have installed several different instances to take on different roles. As far as marketing is concerned, it's great to leverage the built-in SEO and forms for lead generation capturing. For managing registered users, we customize Sitefinity to fit our business model which was straight-forward to do.
- Progress Sitefinity does a great job of staying on top of new and ever-changing IT security threats and patching for it.
- Progress Sitefinity has great support for people interested in customizing their instances with a vast knowledge base that includes videos and white papers.
- Progress Sitefinity is great at communicating and following up on any opened support tickets.
- Creating an out of box cloud deployment experience to ease the deployment burden.
- Improve on their developers using source control and automated deployment experience.
- Go back to their upfront pricing as opposed to having to speak to someone.
August 19, 2019
Recommend Sitefinity
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is used by several agencies. It gives our end users the ability to update their content easily. Developers are able to create a site in a timely manner.
- The product is user-friendly and robust.
- Keeping content organized is easy.
- Sitefinity is easily customizable and relatively intuitive for developers.
- Upgrading to new versions is time consuming. There are always several errors to work through. Each upgrade has to be completed individually, instead of offering cumulative updates.
August 19, 2019
Great Product and Great Service
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sitefinity is our CMS for our website and all of our affiliate websites. We wanted a platform that was easy to use, yet robust with analytics, customization and features. Sitefinity met our requirements.
- Easy front-end customization
- Feature-packed eCommerce module
- Good support
- Simple mobile optimization
- Pricing structure
- Make process to update software easier
August 19, 2019
Good CMS, lots of features
We use Sitefinity to host our corporate website. It provides a reliable and stable platform to managing the content and deployment of our website.
- Good content management features.
- Good performance.
- Integration with analytics.
- Ability to build upon using API and Visual Studio integration.
- Difficult upgrade process.
- Does not offer an option to restore backend configuration or revert to original defaults.
Currently using this as our corporate website, but have also recommended and developed websites for 3 other organizations. It is being used primarily by the design/technology departments for marketing to update our company brand and presence online.
- Once templates and custom data has been defined, it is very easy for CMS authors/editors to manage content on the site without knowledge of HTML programming.
- Programming templates and custom module and extending the CMS is fairly straightforward for our development team.
- Security is in the forefront, with regular updates and enhancements to the product.
- Working with support is great, they have extensive knowledge on the product are able to assist if called upon.
- Product utilizes .net standards, and also integrates well will standard front end tools such as jquery/bootstrap.
- I wish there was more sharing in the community of user-generated scripts/tools (like the word press community and the vast amount of plugins)
We use Sitefinity as a CMS for our corporate website etap.com and several sub-domains for development. When we purchased the software in 2015, we found that we needed quite a bit of customization of which we rolled back a considerable portion because of our own learning curve of what you can do with Sitefinity. We tried to implement multiple-site replication for our Chinese office and other places, but found that the cost for multi-site licenses is expensive and we couldn't find the development and support staff to work with. Languages was another area where we struggled since workflows didn't work with language roles. Otherwise we have been using the CMS across the company with Marketing being the driving force for content and development.
- Depending on the usage, it is pretty easy to work with page templates and build content widgets
- Content syncing with SiteSync works great
- Implementation of languages works well
- Personalizing page with persona, country or other specific content works well
- We are using release 9.2 right now and are in the process of updating. Using mail templates with forms is a important missing piece.
- Better connectivity of the Digital Experience Cloud with the site content.
- E-commerce, biggest disappointment! Apparently new integration with 3rd party available, but we specifically purchased Sitefinity to have an integrated e-commerce platform.
- MVC page templates
- User guides are very often not very user-friendly for non-developers.
May 03, 2019
Great for Financial Institutions
Sitefinity provides our financial institution customers with an easy-to-use content management platform. Our customers can make all of their day-to-day website edits, and Sitefinity's built-in "revision history" feature helps them to meet their unique financial compliance and regulatory needs. In addition, Sitefinity integrates well with online banking and application vendors, which is a must for financial institutions. Most of our customers do not have web designers or developers on staff and rely heavily on third-party relationships which can be costly. Sitefinity CMS makes the website management process easy, and to the point where they can manage their website independently of third-party relationships.
- Closed-Source
- Updated Regularly
- Easy Drag and Drop Style Editing
- Expensive for Smaller Organizations.
March 03, 2019
Great product
We use it as the CMS for two public facing websites. It replaced an existing custom, in-house solution.
- Easily scalable
- Lost of templates publicly available
- .NET based
- Support could respond faster
January 22, 2019
Progress Sitefinity is a great option for Content Management!
Progress Sitefinity is being used in our department for the purpose of web content management. It has been a great solution that is user friendly and intuitive to use. The personalization options are terrific and have been very valuable in our strategy. I would definitely recommend checking it out if you are in the market.
- Progress Sitefinity is user friendly.
- It is easy to get on-boarded with Progress Sitefinity.
- Managing your web content is made much easier.
- No complaints here!
November 13, 2018
Director of CX's review of Progress Sitefinity
It hosts the static site for the organization. It's the hub that moderates our business.
- Easy to make on the go changes.
- We can personalize messages based on a number of factors such as, location, times visited, etc.
- Affordable.
- We can make directional changes for the business without assistance from IT.
- Client engagement is low. Ensuring that you get the latest and greatest version doesn't happen as often as I'd like. When you ask a question, you are usually referred to a SOW and not the actual services you paid for.
- There is no Client Success Director to ensure we are properly using the product.
- We could use training and that is not offered.
November 09, 2018
One of the most 'user friendly' CMS (if implemented correctly)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sitefinity is being used to manage the website for some of our clients who have relatively large websites with large number of pages, and with many rich features. It's being mostly used by the marketing department to promote the products, offers, and services offered by the company.
Personalization is the key important feature for any new website. Sitefinity offers a simple but effective mechanism to make any page or content within the page personalized. We are using this feature for some of our websites where we need to target users based on their behavior, location, time etc. Here, Sitefinity play an important role to achieve our target audience. It provides many out of the box widgets, like News, Events, Cards, Rich text editor, and Image Gallery, which can be easily dragged and dropped on the page, and within minutes you can create a new page using any existing template. Also, for developers, it provides the flexibility to build custom modules and utilities API, which can be consumed by any frontend medium (mobile app, website).
Personalization is the key important feature for any new website. Sitefinity offers a simple but effective mechanism to make any page or content within the page personalized. We are using this feature for some of our websites where we need to target users based on their behavior, location, time etc. Here, Sitefinity play an important role to achieve our target audience. It provides many out of the box widgets, like News, Events, Cards, Rich text editor, and Image Gallery, which can be easily dragged and dropped on the page, and within minutes you can create a new page using any existing template. Also, for developers, it provides the flexibility to build custom modules and utilities API, which can be consumed by any frontend medium (mobile app, website).
- Easy to use drag and drop widget, which allows CMS users to create new pages within minutes.
- Easy to implement Personalization on any page or content within the page level.
- The support Sitefinity provides plays an important role in achieving project target date. It especially helps during development; in case one faces any technical issues, their support team is highly responsive and guides you with best possible solution or workaround.
- Not easy to upgrade to the latest version. If by mistake one deploys the latest version DLL, it changes the database and you cannot rollback to the old version.
- The Export/Import feature is not advanced enough and randomly breaks.
- By default Sitefinity stores some of the changes like labels, messages, and search index on the ‘File System,’ which causes issues when you have a load balance environment. There, you have to manually sync the file on all environments, which is not ideal.
- Reporting. Currently Sitefinity does not seem to have native support for tracking website analytics; rather, it integrates with Google Analytics for showing website analytics in CMS, which creates dependency on 3rd party service. If there is any change in 3rd party service, it would directly impact the reporting in Sitefinity CMS.
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.
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.
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
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
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.