One of the most 'user friendly' CMS (if implemented correctly)
November 09, 2018
One of the most 'user friendly' CMS (if implemented correctly)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity
Sitefinity is being used to manage the website for some of our clients who have relatively large websites with large number of pages, and with many rich features. It's being mostly used by the marketing department to promote the products, offers, and services offered by the company.
Personalization is the key important feature for any new website. Sitefinity offers a simple but effective mechanism to make any page or content within the page personalized. We are using this feature for some of our websites where we need to target users based on their behavior, location, time etc. Here, Sitefinity play an important role to achieve our target audience. It provides many out of the box widgets, like News, Events, Cards, Rich text editor, and Image Gallery, which can be easily dragged and dropped on the page, and within minutes you can create a new page using any existing template. Also, for developers, it provides the flexibility to build custom modules and utilities API, which can be consumed by any frontend medium (mobile app, website).
Personalization is the key important feature for any new website. Sitefinity offers a simple but effective mechanism to make any page or content within the page personalized. We are using this feature for some of our websites where we need to target users based on their behavior, location, time etc. Here, Sitefinity play an important role to achieve our target audience. It provides many out of the box widgets, like News, Events, Cards, Rich text editor, and Image Gallery, which can be easily dragged and dropped on the page, and within minutes you can create a new page using any existing template. Also, for developers, it provides the flexibility to build custom modules and utilities API, which can be consumed by any frontend medium (mobile app, website).
- Easy to use drag and drop widget, which allows CMS users to create new pages within minutes.
- Easy to implement Personalization on any page or content within the page level.
- The support Sitefinity provides plays an important role in achieving project target date. It especially helps during development; in case one faces any technical issues, their support team is highly responsive and guides you with best possible solution or workaround.
- Not easy to upgrade to the latest version. If by mistake one deploys the latest version DLL, it changes the database and you cannot rollback to the old version.
- The Export/Import feature is not advanced enough and randomly breaks.
- By default Sitefinity stores some of the changes like labels, messages, and search index on the ‘File System,’ which causes issues when you have a load balance environment. There, you have to manually sync the file on all environments, which is not ideal.
- Reporting. Currently Sitefinity does not seem to have native support for tracking website analytics; rather, it integrates with Google Analytics for showing website analytics in CMS, which creates dependency on 3rd party service. If there is any change in 3rd party service, it would directly impact the reporting in Sitefinity CMS.
Umbraco is good for a campaign website, whereas Sitecore provides rich feature and is suitable for enterprise websites, but compared to Sitefinity it's more expensive.
Sitefinity provides features which are suitable for many enterprise websites. It also has different types of license cost models, including professional, marketing, and enterprise, thus giving more options to recommend Sitefinity to different types of needs.
Sitefinity provides features which are suitable for many enterprise websites. It also has different types of license cost models, including professional, marketing, and enterprise, thus giving more options to recommend Sitefinity to different types of needs.