We did it! Successfully implemented multi-country sites (9) using Sitefinity.
December 13, 2016

We did it! Successfully implemented multi-country sites (9) using Sitefinity.

Steve Ensminger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity

We use Sitefinity as our sole CMS tool, to build and maintain websites in 11 different countries. We will be deploying another 9 sites by end of Q1, 2017. Our company had two different CMS systems and we wanted to cut costs and complexity, by supporting one CMS tool. We consolidated to Sitefinity. Additionally, the other CMS tool was not PCI compliant. By consolidating to Sitefinity we are now compliant.

Pros

  • Easy to implement other .net solutions into the platform.
  • Progress Sitefinity played well with the new responsive design we were implementing.
  • New page templates can be built and utilized very quickly.

Cons

  • We struggle with the technical support, and sometimes find that our knowledge of the product surpasses that of the technical support person on the phone.
  • We decided to use a third party search because the search engine in Sitefinity did not meet our needs.
  • At times we see latency issues with our sites. To date, we have not been able to isolate the cause.
  • We have not gotten site sync to work properly for us.
  • We were able to eliminate one of our CMS platforms, which in turn saved us a significant amount of $$ as well as support effort.
We evaluated, and had been using RedDot, when we decided to implement Sitefininty.

We liked the fact that Sitefinity is .net based, as we are a .net IT shop. Sitefinity was easy to implement and lent itself well to our new responsive design position. Sitefinity has more features available, is a growing product, whereas RedDot seems to be dying product line for OpenText.
Sitefinity is well suited for IT groups with .net experience. Additionally, the team building and maintaining the actual content should have a good knowledge of HTML. The WYSIWYG editor isn't the greatest, so if issues with pages occur, having a knowledge of HTLM comes in very handy.

Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings

Digital Experience Platform ()
Not Rated
7.8
WYSIWYG editor
6
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
8
Page templates
9
Library of website themes
7
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8
Publishing workflow
8
Form generator
8
7.2
Content taxonomy
8
SEO support
7
Bulk management
7
Availability / breadth of extensions
7
Community / comment management
7
Customer experience management ()
Not Rated
Results and Analysis ()
Not Rated
8.5
API
8
Internationalization / multi-language
9
8.0
Role-based user permissions
8

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