Progress Sitefinity: There are finite limits.
July 25, 2017

Progress Sitefinity: There are finite limits.

Billie-Ann Woo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity

We use Sitefinity as our CMS. It was suggested to us by our third party web developers who designed the site. As a CMS, it's fine but I think using a third party developer can really restrict your use - based on what templates they use and what kind of functionality they choose to deploy. I think there is a lot of functionality in Sitefinity we are not using because we are limited by website design and the prohibitive cost of contracting out to customize different modules to adhere to branding.

I think one feature I would like to see is being able to do A/B testing - they had suggested Optimizely but the current version of Sitefinity is not supported.
  • User interface is intuitive
  • In general the support from Sitefinity is good and attentive
  • Can be limiting depending on the site design
  • I'm not sure if it has to do with how the web developers implemented it but I think Sitefinity could improve their in-editor SEO functionality (for me, from what I can see, it is non-existent or at least not intuitive).
I think WordPress has a stronger SEO and self-customization focus but also can be limited depending on the site design and implementation. I think the Image editor is better in WordPress and the plug-in support is better because it's a more widely used platform.
I think Sitefinity is a good general CMS. I think it's easy to use - my former colleagues had no problem updating their content and never had any issues with the editor. If you want a site that is a more sophisticated for automation, there aren't a lot of native solutions. You are better of implementing external tools for landing pages and forms.

Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
9
Code quality / cleanliness
Not Rated
Admin section
9
Page templates
7
Library of website themes
Not Rated
Mobile optimization / responsive design
10
Publishing workflow
10
Form generator
Not Rated
Content taxonomy
Not Rated
SEO support
4
Bulk management
7
Availability / breadth of extensions
Not Rated
Community / comment management
Not Rated
API
Not Rated
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
8