Item: Kentico Xperience
Rating: 9
Author: Phillip Duncan

Overall Satisfaction with Kentico

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Kentico to manage two brand sites. One site is available in 23 language variations with the other being translated currently. It's used by the Marketing and IT departments for content publishing. It easily manages all the language variations we have for the different countries and users.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Translations and Language Management - with UI Culture Strings you can specify anything you want to be easily replaced with a language variation
User Management - Roles and Rights management is deep, but once you learn it's a powerful tool.
Search index is fantastic out of the box

Cons

UI is too busy but seems to be addressed in v8
Ability to define a global site and not have language unique pages show up for translation would be helpful for a large global company
Better blog and tagging

Return on Investment

Increased translation and markets keeping content up to date.
Easier to maintain site wide changes - such as navigation as compared to our old system.
Customer can now search and browse our entire product line (over 500 products) which they couldn't do before.

Alternatives Considered

WordPress,Ektron Web Content Management System

Kentico is to most full featured for large corporate sites needing multiple versions. WordPress may update more frequently, but Kentico has released 2 updates in the 2+ years I've been using it, which is fantastic.

Likelihood to Renew

Good support and great features. Honestly, we wouldn't switch to something else this early in the life cycle if we weren't happy but it's a great system.