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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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Great on features

7 out of 10
February 18, 2020
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Popular Features

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  • Role-based user permissions (163)
    8.1
    81%
  • Page templates (164)
    8.1
    81%
  • WYSIWYG editor (160)
    8.1
    81%
  • Admin section (168)
    8.0
    80%
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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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  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.sitefinity.com/editions

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  • 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 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

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

8.1
Avg 8.1

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

8
Avg 7.1
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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

Leading digital agency Americaneagle.com discusses the Sitefinity Partner Program and the Telerik Sitefinity platform.
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Progress Sitefinity Technical Details

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

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).
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Reviews and Ratings

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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.

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Reviews

(1-5 of 5)
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Jochem Bökkers | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
  • '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.
It's one of the easiest to use, easiest to customize CMS system available on the Microsoft technology stack.

Whenever there's an application need for user management, role-based permissions, workflows and page-content, it is simply not done to start custom development from scratch.

For complex 'factory-approaches' its architectural implementation shines brightest and allows for hybrid deployments, full Azure DevOps integration and ensures security and governance are not sacrificed.
Digital Experience Platform
N/A
N/A
Web Content Creation (8)
88.75%
8.9
WYSIWYG editor
90%
9.0
Code quality / cleanliness
100%
10.0
Admin section
90%
9.0
Page templates
100%
10.0
Library of website themes
60%
6.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
90%
9.0
Publishing workflow
90%
9.0
Form generator
90%
9.0
Web Content Management (5)
90%
9.0
Content taxonomy
90%
9.0
SEO support
100%
10.0
Bulk management
90%
9.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
90%
9.0
Community / comment management
80%
8.0
Customer experience management
N/A
N/A
Results and Analysis
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
100%
10.0
API
100%
10.0
Internationalization / multi-language
100%
10.0
Security (1)
100%
10.0
Role-based user permissions
100%
10.0
  • Sitefinity's Microsoft Machine translation integration will allow us to cut production of localized content down from days to hours.
  • Sitefinity's architecture and adherance to industry standards of development have allowed us to re-use components, functionality across the various instances.
  • Sitefinity's responsive and scalable implementation allows us to build a design system and future digital economy of shared elements reducing the need of constant front-end implementations from scratch for every new initiative, site or application launched.
My main experience has been with Drupal and SharePoint besides Sitefinity.

And while many people swear by Drupal because of its open-source nature, often the hidden TCO, its lack of intuitive usage and limited functional implementation (CMS for Web Publishing) has made us choose Sitefinity.
Yes
We prefer mission critical support as we utilize Sitefinity cross-organizational where up-time is considered mission critical.
Mission critical support allows us to have 24/7 support on the software, but while 24/7 also means multiple agents across various continent, Progress provides us with a unifying 'customer success manager' ensuring that all tickets and escalations are handled and communicated in a uniform matter.
Yes
Yes, in general bugs are treated beyond satisfaction with quick resolution.
In a few cases, fixes are delayed until a patch release (which is normal behavior) in which case we were offered work arounds.
During a recent switch of functionality in output caching (with a version upgrade) we were seeing infrastructural problems arise. Progress supported us beyond their scope and assisted us in the investigation to determine a custom piece of code that was affected due to the external dependency library upgrade. The previous implementation, from our side, was actually never correctly done - however the symptoms only appeared after this upgrade.
February 18, 2020

Great on features

Kelly Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Well suited for a large organization where you would have many editors. Software seems very secure and less "hackable" than some of the open source platforms.
Digital Experience Platform
N/A
N/A
Web Content Creation (8)
78.75%
7.9
WYSIWYG editor
80%
8.0
Code quality / cleanliness
90%
9.0
Admin section
90%
9.0
Page templates
80%
8.0
Library of website themes
60%
6.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
70%
7.0
Publishing workflow
70%
7.0
Form generator
90%
9.0
Web Content Management (5)
70%
7.0
Content taxonomy
80%
8.0
SEO support
80%
8.0
Bulk management
70%
7.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
60%
6.0
Community / comment management
60%
6.0
Customer experience management
N/A
N/A
Results and Analysis
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
20%
2.0
API
40%
4.0
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
N/A
Security (1)
N/A
N/A
Role-based user permissions
N/A
N/A
  • Definitely increased website traffic.
  • Traffic increase in the mobile area.
  • Ability to get the word out quickly on current events.
We looked at the newer version of SharePoint and it was too cost prohibitive and not well suited for an overall website. We were primarily using it because of the multiple editors features coupled with the ability to segregate them to different areas of the site. Progress Sitefinity does the same thing at a better cost.
1500
They represent both the editing and operational sides of the business.
1
This person is a web developer with HTML and JavaScript skills as well as a thorough understanding of MVC and C#
  • Company Website
  • Content Editing Across Departments
  • Analytics for stale pages
  • Marketing
This is a solid platform but it can be cost prohibitive for some organizations.
Yes
We replaced Microsoft SharePoint with Sitefinity. The reasoning is SP was clunky and started to be super cost-prohibitive with licensing.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Vendor Reputation
Product features was probably our most important factor. We wanted something solid and under a regular support umbrella in order to get the newest features but also keeping it secure.
We might have evaluated the licensing a bit more to lock in a better price or a multi-year price.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
There was no change management done. This could have been better to improve the speed of adoption.
  • Gathering content from departments was difficult
No.
  • no training
Fairly easy. We did read the help docs online.
It can be complex but it's simple for out of the box usage.
Keep it simple.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
No
No
This is another cost and trying to limit budget as much as possible. We have never had a critical issue that we could not wait on.
Pretty solid support. They are responsive in the windows they say they are.
Yes
Very much so.
There was a bug we found and they ended up escalating it to one of the devs. We were amazed at the complexity of the bug and how fast it was dealt with.
  • Editor
  • Admin of Users
  • Templates
Yes, but I don't use it
Very solid platform and easy to use for basic editing. While it can get complex overall it's easy to use out of the box.
Seems pretty scalable.
Has been solid for us on availability
A bit sluggish sometimes as the compiler works.
  • None
  • No
  • Single Signon
No
We have not done much here.
We have not done much here.
They were easy to work with.
They addressed questions promptly
None
No
Yes
Some go better than others. The upgrades have been better/easier lately.
  • New Features
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Security
No
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
At the current price point, Sitefinity is too expensive for a simple brochure or lead generation website. There are a ton of great options out there for this use case. It is great if your website will include various integrations to third parties or user management that requires complex scenarios that need to be accounted for.
Digital Experience Platform
N/A
N/A
Web Content Creation (8)
83.75%
8.4
WYSIWYG editor
100%
10.0
Code quality / cleanliness
100%
10.0
Admin section
100%
10.0
Page templates
100%
10.0
Library of website themes
70%
7.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
100%
10.0
Publishing workflow
N/A
N/A
Form generator
100%
10.0
Web Content Management (5)
60%
6.0
Content taxonomy
100%
10.0
SEO support
100%
10.0
Bulk management
N/A
N/A
Availability / breadth of extensions
100%
10.0
Community / comment management
N/A
N/A
Customer experience management
N/A
N/A
Results and Analysis
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
100%
10.0
API
100%
10.0
Internationalization / multi-language
100%
10.0
Security (1)
100%
10.0
Role-based user permissions
100%
10.0
  • Ease of implementation
  • Costly
  • Ease of Management
Sitefinity, in my opinion, follows current Microsoft practices which make developing it a breeze. Kentico has always seemed a bit lagging in this department.
3
They represent the marketing division of the company. They use the site to clients and prospects up to date on new service offerings of the company. It's also used as a lead generation mechanism for our company.
1
We are a software development shop and we dedicate one of our developer's part-time attention to the site. The remainder of the site is left to marketing and administration as Sitefinity if setup correctly does actually run that smooth.
  • Ease of Use
  • Simple support and upgrade
  • Windows based
  • We've connected it to a document production system to produce original PDF content.
  • We could certainly leverage the different ways of authentication to make user management easier.
The ease of use and the out of box expectation that it is mobile-ready.
Yes
It replaced WordPress. The support model that Sitefinity provides is much more responsive to questions. Upgrades are also easier to implement.
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
It was important for the non-development staff of our company to feel comfortable in update and administering our website. The tools provided along with the rich text editors make it a breeze for our staff to update any content.
The Sitefinity pricing model has changed since we acquired it for our company. I think the pricing would impact our decision a bit more in this case.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
It really depends on the change if any from your standard process. In our case, we went from WordPress to Sitefinity and while it was definitely and stack change, the ease of our marketing folks to pick up on the concepts was minimal.
  • Change in IT infrastructure when moving from WordPress
As with any CMS, make sure you plan out the site design.
No
The standard support works great for our organization.
You are always assured an answer and they will continue to move forward with you until you as the client feel like you have resolution.
No
We were looking to create a custom integration with a document management system and they provided guidance on how to easily implement that integration.
  • Content updating
  • Setting up forms
  • Setting up forms in the templates
Yes, but I don't use it
They are very strong in usability but they can always strive to make things even easier.
Jeff Van Dyk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It's well suited for hosting websites and managing content.
Digital Experience Platform
N/A
N/A
Web Content Creation (8)
45%
4.5
WYSIWYG editor
70%
7.0
Code quality / cleanliness
70%
7.0
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
N/A
N/A
Library of website themes
N/A
N/A
Mobile optimization / responsive design
N/A
N/A
Publishing workflow
80%
8.0
Form generator
60%
6.0
Web Content Management (5)
72%
7.2
Content taxonomy
70%
7.0
SEO support
70%
7.0
Bulk management
50%
5.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
100%
10.0
Community / comment management
70%
7.0
Customer experience management
N/A
N/A
Results and Analysis
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
45%
4.5
API
90%
9.0
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
N/A
Security (1)
100%
10.0
Role-based user permissions
100%
10.0
  • N/A
We mostly chose Sitefinity because we are current users of Telerik (Progress) development tools. When they purchased Sitefinity we decided to switch from our custom developed website to one hosted on a CMS. We have had some experience with DotNetNuke in the past and Sitefinity seemed to be a very polished and usable alternative.
5
Content development, Marking, Software Development.
2
Software Development and Content Management
  • Corporate website
  • Marketing tools
  • Brand awareness
  • N/A
  • N/A
Yes
We replaced a custom solution with the intention of supporting easier content management.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
We would follow the same process.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • Creating the initial templates took some time
The implementation was fairly straightforward.
Yes
Overall support is great.
No
N/A
  • Page organization
  • Content management
  • Taxonomy and metadata.
  • Software updates
  • Customization can be daunting
Yes
Lots of features are available and most are easy to use.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Sitefinity is well suited for an organization that does not want to wait on IT releases to make changes to their website. The product works well managing our digital content and users can easily pick up the basics. The product would be much better if the organization continued to communicate with our business to ensure we are successful and using best practices.
Digital Experience Platform
N/A
N/A
Web Content Creation (8)
73.75%
7.4
WYSIWYG editor
80%
8.0
Code quality / cleanliness
70%
7.0
Admin section
70%
7.0
Page templates
80%
8.0
Library of website themes
90%
9.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
90%
9.0
Publishing workflow
50%
5.0
Form generator
60%
6.0
Web Content Management (5)
44%
4.4
Content taxonomy
70%
7.0
SEO support
60%
6.0
Bulk management
50%
5.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
20%
2.0
Community / comment management
20%
2.0
Customer experience management
N/A
N/A
Results and Analysis
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
25%
2.5
API
30%
3.0
Internationalization / multi-language
20%
2.0
Security (1)
N/A
N/A
Role-based user permissions
N/A
N/A
We are going to evaluate Progress Sitefinity in 2019 against other CMS systems next year.
20
UX, Web Development, Content Development, SEO, and SEM
20
UX Designers and Application Support. We also have security specialist who monitor Progress.
  • Web Sales
  • Content and SEO
  • Landing Pages
  • Personalization and Product Offering
  • Multiple Product Offering based on location
  • Unique Messaging across the country
  • Better Analytics
  • Global Changes with a focus on goverance
  • Approval rules
  • Intuitive User Admin
Uncertain - we will do an evaluation in 2019.
  • Ability to sell our retail products based on location
  • Ability to tracking landing pages
Yes
I was not in this role at the time.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Third-party Reviews
Overall features -> Customer Journey, SEO capabilities, personalization, usability for UX Design, cloud and security features, A/B testing, ease of use, price etc.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
N/A
  • I was not part of the implementation as this was years ago.
N/A - I was not part of the implementation team. We have had this internally for over 5 years. Based on my experience, ensure that you have documentation on the initial implementation and subsequent upgrades. I would also recommend to have all the documentation on how and why the system was implemented the way it was.
No
The support I get in my contract is difficult so we do most of the work on our own. Luckily this product is easy to manage w/o paying for premium support.
It serves our needs at a reasonable price. The features are good. They need to do better at client success management.
No
No
  • Site redirection
  • template layout
  • Custom Messaging
Yes
It works well. We have issues from time to time. A good enhancement would be to offer testing capabilities for mobile devices.
It does not offer views of the page based on device type; which several other packages do.
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