A (very) disappointing experience
September 08, 2017

A (very) disappointing experience

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity

Used by a project team for our client learning department. Multiple languages brand education platform, with users completion tracking. Solution use worldwide with more than 3000 end users, in 8 languages (still more coming through).
  • Sorry, nothing is particularly well done
  • Back office is not user friendly
  • Pages loading too long, overall bad performances
  • Some features just don't work as sold
  • No extensive plugin base
  • No state of the art web dev tools and integrated libraries
  • Recompilation mandatory even for minor changes, causing availabilty issues
  • Preheating solution not integrated and very long and heavy
  • Template handling not practical
  • No quick support
  • Very expensive for a CMS I judge inferior to open source free solutions of the market
  • Bad integration with Azure Cloud Solutions
  • No responsive solution
We thought it would be better, and especially better suited for .NET and Azure solutions.
In the end, I would say Sitefinity is worse in nearly all aspects, including Microsoft technology integration.
Frankly, I think there are better solutions for each and every scenario

Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
2
Code quality / cleanliness
1
Admin section
1
Page templates
1
Library of website themes
2
Mobile optimization / responsive design
1
Publishing workflow
4
Form generator
1
Content taxonomy
1
SEO support
4
Bulk management
1
Availability / breadth of extensions
1
Community / comment management
1
API
3
Internationalization / multi-language
2
Role-based user permissions
4