No surprises here
June 06, 2017
No surprises here
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity
Progress Sitefinity is essentially a lower-cost alternative to other industry-leading enterprise-level .NET website content management solutions. We recommend it to our clients as it fits our internal resource capabilities and allows us to maximize fees by minimizing the direct cost budget that would otherwise be invested in more popular but costly platforms. We only recommend it for certain clients and we have not launched a new website on the Progress Sitefinity platform within the last 12 months.
- Sitefinity has a lot of built-in functionality, such as creating redirects. Admin users can do a lot in the CMS on their own without the support of a development team, once their solution has been built and configured properly.
- Sitefinity's personalization capability is very intriguing, although in my short experience, many marketers don't seem sophisticated enough to understand the power of this capability and how to harness it.
- Sitefinity continues to release new functionality with every version, so it's nice to see that they are tying to keep up with the latest trends.
- Product support is tough. If your development team is not naturally curious to solve problems on their own, be ready to wait. I'm sure they have a paid support option but we've never been in a position to invest there.
- There are some technical contingencies to the platform. For example, the entire page is a form element. The devil is in the details, sometimes we're not sure if something is going to work or not until it works.
- Sometimes releases contain major bugs that aren't addressed until later releases, then requiring an upgrade and associated cost to resolve. Not sure if that's a pattern but definitely not ideal news to share with clients.
I have never used Sitecore, but we are using it on a new project. I know it is comparatively very expensive to Sitefinity and they have been very proactive with sending me information regarding certification and training courses for our development team. Many projects we have had the opportunity to bid on lately listed Sitecore as a requirement.