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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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Sitefinity - flexibility and affordability in the same package

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 24, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Progress Sitefinity is the powerhouse behind Murdoch University's award-winning websites. It is our primary platform for engagement, news & events, course selection and br...
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Justin Cawthorne
Project Manager - Information Technology
Senior Project Manager
Murdoch University
Progress Sitefinity1 year of experience

Sitefinity's usage from small project to large scale factory approach

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 12, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified 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 ...
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Jochem Bökkers
Team Lead - Information Technology
Sitefinity lead
World Health Organization
Progress Sitefinity15 years of experience

Sitefinity Allows Pages to be Deployed and Maintained at the Speed of Business

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 10, 2020
Vetted Review
We use Progress Sitefinity CMS for our own website across the entire organization. It allows our marketing people to quickly spin up pages and manage site content. It also all...
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Todd Knowlton
C-Level Executive - Corporate
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Smooth Fusion, Inc.
Progress Sitefinity11 years of experience

Want an easy to use, but powerful CMS? Sitefinity is your choice!

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 27, 2020
IncentivizedVetted Review
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...
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Alex Hood
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
CTO
Team SI
Progress Sitefinity7 years of experience

Progress Sitefinity Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 26, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sitefinity is being used as our main website domain. We have over 50 other websites that prominently use wordpress. This site contains all the information for our nonprofit or...
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Louie Kafka
Engineer - Engineering
Frontend Web Developer
IFMA Houston
Progress Sitefinity1 year of experience
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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.

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

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.1
Avg 8.2

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8.1
Avg 8.3

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

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Avg 7.2
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Product Details

What is Progress Sitefinity?

Progress Sitefinity web content management system is designed to help users engage, convert and retain visitors across the entire customer lifecycle, and boasts usage by more than 10,000 websites. The vendor states companies large and small use Sitefinity to engage audiences with thoughtful, relevant content; personalized experiences that increase conversions; a consistent, responsive experience across all channels, including mobile; ready integration with backend systems; digital commerce; and Sitefinity Insight to track, analyze and shape every step of the customer journey.

Progress Sitefinity Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

Additional Features

  • Supported: Multisite Management
  • Supported: Multilingual Management
  • Supported: Content Personalization
  • Supported: A/B Testing and Content Optimization

Progress Sitefinity Screenshots

Screenshot of Engage your audience with thoughtful, relevant content. Your marketing team can create and manage content faster and easier than ever before with inline drag-and-drop editing, requiring no help from your web team.Screenshot of Create a truly global solution that provides consistent experiences and unmatched performance across brands, regions and languages. Reduce maintenance and hosting infrastructure by managing multiple websites from a single platform. Reduce time to market and deploy changes faster with content and code synchronization between websites and environments.Screenshot of Increase revenue with a personalized, connected experience between your website and online store. Easily manage your product catalogs, price lists, shopping cart and checkout process. Connect to cloud services for accurate real-time tax and shipping rates. Integrate with your ERP and other business systems to improve and automate inventory management, order fulfillment and customer support throughout the product lifecycle.Screenshot of Increase conversions and generate more leads with 1:1 conversations with your customers. Create, preview and deliver personalized experiences at a massive scale with amazingly easy to use tools. Analyze and optimize the experience with the help of contextual analytics and A/B testing solutions.Screenshot of Analyze cross-channel data to get a detailed view of content and campaign performance. Gather data on visitors and build persona segments and track their behavior on your site. Get ML-driven recommendations for the next best update to introduce into your journey.

Progress Sitefinity Videos

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Progress Sitefinity Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

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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 Digital Experience Platform, 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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Sitefinity - upgrade process a challenge made worse by poor support

Rating: 5 out of 10
January 17, 2018
Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Philanthropy Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sitefinity is used as our organization's intranet as well as our public facing internet site. It is one of our main communication tools for both employees and the general public. As a Microsoft shop, it was important for users to use a CMS based on the dot net framework so we could leverage our in-house development resources.
Pros
  • Once set up and configured properly, Sitefinity is quite stable.
  • Backend access for content editors is fairly straight forward.
Cons
  • The Sitefinity upgrade process is challenging. It breaks existing functionality with every upgrade. Improvements must happen.
  • Support is really bad, even with the enterprise version, which is expensive. You have to deal with overseas, non-native English speakers over email. Screen sharing tools such as webex is discouraged by charging extra for that functionality, which is surprising and very frustrating.
  • Authentication methods, while improved in recent versions, still doesn't support Integrated Windows Authentication.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is fairly expensive and requires deep technical expertise to implement. Hiring a third party with lots of experience is highly recommended. Once properly implemented, it is quite stable. But if you need to make changes to code or templates, you better know what you're doing.

Using Sitefinity from the beginning to now

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 25, 2017
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used by our business users to convey information to the committees and clients outside our organization on what they do. It is used as a portal to the users. It is used to hold and manage our many documents thru a customized file management system/module. It is being used by a small business group. It addresses the timeliness of releasing the materials to the users/public and puts the users in control of their content.
Pros
  • Lets users take more control over content without a developer.
  • Ability to get a site up and running very quickly.
  • Can build your own modules to create LOB apps.
Cons
  • File management system needs major improvement. We handle lots of documents on the web and it'll be good to be able to have one that is easy to use and built in. The current one is really bad.
  • Documentation of how to use the product for developers would be nice. It seems like lots of things are found in forums and are not documented.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is good for the users to manage their own content and to get up a site and running quickly. It would be nice to be able to upgrade in a smooth transition but I realize this is not very possible but any customization is really hard to upgrade. Customization is good but could be hard to upgrade if not kept up to date.

So happy with Sitefinity!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 08, 2018
EH
Erin Hasinger
Web Communications Manager
Materials Research Society (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sitefinity is used by our web department only. We have two full-time users and two occasional users. All web content is filtered through our department for review and posting.

We upgraded from Ektron and it feels as though we've launched 100 years into the future. We used Sitefinity to become mobile responsive as well.
Pros
  • It's very user-friendly. If our organization wanted to move to a workflow system, I'm confident every person here could be comfortable with Sitefinity with little training.
  • Updates are quick and easy. I like the drag and drop modules.
  • Our previous system didn't give us CSS access; it's nice to be able to edit literally any part of the site on our own without going through our web vendor.
  • I really like being able to upload multiple images or files at once.
Cons
  • It doesn't work well in Chrome. When we first implemented it, our vendor told us to only use Chrome, but there are so many things that don't work in Chrome that we no longer can use it.
  • I wish Sitefinity had an in-text editor. When I'm making a really small update, it'd be nice to click an edit button on a page and either fix it right there, or at least use that button to open that page in Sitefinity (old Ektron had that!).
  • Our department hates when we're editing a page, finish, and go back into the Pages menu and the menu we were working in is closed, or a different one is open. It'd be really nice if our place was saved.
  • I wish there was a way to keep the WYSIWYG editor open to full size all the time.
Likelihood to Recommend
I'm really happy with how Sitefinity functions for our website. It's easy to edit and we've been able to create some custom microsites easily as well. We have some custom integrations that Sitefinity seems to struggle with. It's hard to know if it's Sitefinity or the integration created by our vendor.

Enterprise-level control and Search Engine Optimisation CMS

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 10, 2018
ES
Eugene Seegers
Digital Content Specialist
University of the Free State (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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).
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Enterprise-level scalability; User-friendliness; Ease-of-use

Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 05, 2019
Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Banking Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is a very cost-effective CMS system with the flexibility needed by a front-end developer while still being super easy to use by less code knowledgeable people. If you just had one server and database set up with Sitefinity it would be the simplest, and possibly adequate, setup. Adding servers complicates the upgrade process, the scheduling process, custom field additions etc. but having development, staging and production servers is worth the effort.

Super easy to generate new pages, news/press items, lists. A little more complicated to set up Salesforce and Sharepoint connectors.
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