User friendly, easy to integrate and extend - would recommend!
April 24, 2017

User friendly, easy to integrate and extend - would recommend!

Alex Kirkwood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity

We use Sitefinity for our main public website. Around 50 people across our organisation are trained to author content, and a smaller subset of those users (around 10) are setup as superusers who can approve, manage and delete other users' content and restructure the site as needed. We moved to Sitefinity in 2015 after we identified a need for a more modern content management system, allowing us to work more quickly and effectively, and taking advantage of advanced personalisation and analytics features that weren't previously available to us.
  • User friendly interface - easy for users to understand the WYSIWYG/drag and drop editing screen
  • Fully featured in terms of managing media assets including images, structural assets and templates for the site, and all types of text-based content
  • Fully supports deployment to Microsoft Azure cloud hosting, which we have adopted due to extreme peaks in load.
  • Additional and more advanced personalisation tools would be useful (specifically in-page personalisation).
  • Sitefinity has one "Administrator" level security role with access to everything; it would be very useful if this were broken down further.
Ultimately, Sitefinity won over the competitor products in three key areas - price, ease of use and ease of extension/integration.
Sitefinity is well suited for our needs - running a public website with nearly 1000 pages, sharing content across a number of different site sections, with over 10,000 images, and around 50 users all adding and updating content on a daily basis. We have an in-house software development team who have integrated a number of our internal systems (including our CRM) with Sitefinity, made easier thanks to comprehensive documentation available. We would recommend Sitefinity to anyone with similar parameters. While it's not quite as advanced as some more heavyweight products, the price/feature level suits us well.

Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
9
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
8
Page templates
9
Library of website themes
Not Rated
Mobile optimization / responsive design
Not Rated
Publishing workflow
7
Form generator
Not Rated
Content taxonomy
9
SEO support
Not Rated
Bulk management
Not Rated
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
Not Rated
API
10
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
7