Sitefinity is a powerful Enterprise CMS
June 19, 2017

Sitefinity is a powerful Enterprise CMS

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

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity

We have been using Sitefinity to develop websites for clients for about 9 years. Over the years we have implemented Sitefinity to solve a variety of business requirements ranging from online documentation portals, to e-commerce. In several cases we have implemented a Sitefinity solely for online documentation with custom widgets to allow printing the entire site to PDF. For other customers we've implemented Sitefinity with e-commerce features to sell products and services. In a more unique implementation, we developed a new website using the e-commerce modules for Sitefinity, but customized it to act as an online product catalog allowing customers to find products they were interested in renting. We disabled all the purchasing ability and as our client handles all of the money transactions and product distribution locally.
  • Content management works very well, from layout and design, to daily content updates.
  • Sitefinity provides a high degree of customization for developers. This is very important for what we do, and enables us to deliver any website solution for our clients.
  • Upgrading Sitefinity needs improvement. After nine years of performing numerous upgrades, it has almost always been painful.
  • The eCommerce module and related widget could use more features and customization. We were able to utilize Sitefinity eCommerce in multiple scenarios with significant customization.
Sitefinity started out small. We're a small company that began using Sitefinity back when it was inexpensive and even had a free version. It was a great solution with the small clients and limited budgets we were working with. Over the years Sitefinity pricing has skyrocketed to compete with the most expensive CMS solutions available. At its current pricing level, I would only recommend Sitefinity to large enterprise operations. It's just not feasible for small or medium business.

Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings

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