Less IT headache and quicker changes
July 07, 2015
Less IT headache and quicker changes
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
8
Overall Satisfaction with Kentico 8
Kentico 8 is used to maintain 8 public facing websites. Easy content changes can now easily be made by the multiple stakeholders. From the marketing team to branch managers, content editing is enabled. The content editing can vary by each users role and responsibilities. For example marketing can edit a majority of pages while, branch managers can only edit a few pages. This broad level of access and roles has really benefited the organization by allowing IT development resources to significantly reduce the amount of time spent on updates to webpages. It has also cut down on the last minute Friday afternoon fire drills requesting changes. From IT risks standpoint, it has reduced the need to do a production deployment of code based pages for simple content changes. All of the changes are still captured in the database and documented for IT risk with a date and time stamp. Oops changes can easily be rolled back to a previous version.
My overall opinion is very thankful that we implemented this system.
My overall opinion is very thankful that we implemented this system.
- Enabling content changes to be made quickly by stakeholders outside of IT.
- Adding seach engine optimization information
- Geomapping
- Continue improving the Sharepoint connector adding more functionality
- Certified add-on modules, I think it would be helpful to have modules produced outside of Kentico that have been throughly tested and certified and supported by Kentico.
- Better migration wizard
- Better turn around for webpage changes, this allows the marketing team to quickly deploy marketing campaigns.
- Increased traffic because SEO changes or trying new SEO functionality to a certain degree, can be accomplished without involving IT which is shorthanded.
When deciding on Kentico we compared 2 other products, all vendors provided either provided 1 to 2 demos. Compared to the other vendors, the Kentico product worked as expected when demonstrating compared to the other two vendors that had a range of problems in their product when attempting to demonstrate their functionality. This caused many of our stakeholders to dismiss the others for the simple fact that if a demo product is unstable how can a purchased product be better. Additionally, compared to the other two, Kentico was easier to use and would require less training for end users and developers.