Kentico 8 is a Feature Rich Tool at a Great Price Point
Updated September 30, 2015

Kentico 8 is a Feature Rich Tool at a Great Price Point

Gabriel Fuller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Software Version

8

Overall Satisfaction with Kentico 8

We currently use Kentico 8 for our corporate external website and for reselling to our customers. It provides an easy way for us to be able to provide a custom website to our clients that they can easily control, update and enhance. Overall, it addresses a lot of our requirements when it comes to building a custom solution.
  • User and Role Management/ACL: With Kentico 8's built in ACL features, we can get as granular or high level with access and permissions as we want. The ACL features allow tuning to the exact customer specific levels that are needed.
  • It would be nice to have something built in that supports reusing widget content across multiple pages. For instance, if I have a widget with a link that sends someone to a page, I would like an easy, built-in way to say: "I want this widget on these pages and in this order and to hide it on this page, and change the order on this page"
  • As we start using this solution more and more, the standardization of this project definitely will lead to a better ROI. Instead of having multiple CMS solutions at varying price points, Kentico is an enterprise solution that has an entry level price point that can be used for most of our clients.
It seems to have better organization and better extendability. In comparison to WordPress, the support that is offered by Kentico is incredible. When comparing to Sitecore, the price point makes it much more affordable for smaller to mid-size organizations that need a great CMS or EMS tool. Overall Kentico definitely holds its own when compared to many of the other solutions out there that I have reviewed.
I would love to make it our standard product across all applications. Basically, I think this is a great starting point for any application that can then be enhanced through custom code development and extendible modules. The templates, editors, ACL features, security features, logging, debugging tools, and many of the other items make it a great starting point for most scenarios, in my opinion.

Kentico Xperience Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
9
Code quality / cleanliness
10
Admin section
8
Page templates
10
Library of website themes
6
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8
Publishing workflow
9
Form generator
6
Content taxonomy
8
SEO support
9
Bulk management
10
Availability / breadth of extensions
10
Community / comment management
8
API
10
Internationalization / multi-language
9
Role-based user permissions
10