Overall I'd highly recommend, but make sure you have someone implementing it with a strong technical background.
November 12, 2018

Overall I'd highly recommend, but make sure you have someone implementing it with a strong technical background.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity

We use Progress Sitefinity for our external public facing website as well as our internal company intranet site. The external sites serves as an information source for our customers and the internal sites serves as an information/document portal for our employees.

Pros

  • The technical support is pretty good. They generally get back to support requests within 24 hours. There is also a "knowledge base" site which 9 times out of 10 has an answer to your support question already.
  • The product is constantly being updated - almost weekly - so you are constantly getting improvements and new features.
  • The product allows the end users to build their own page layouts while still maintaining a mobile first approach. You are not restricted to building pages using only 2 or 3 page templates. You can drag/drop with any kind of configuration you want.

Cons

  • The biggest, and probably most problematic thing is the built in forms. If you require ANYTHING other than a simple name, phone number and email kind of form, then do not use this product. You cannot build dynamic fields or customize the email generated from the form. I think this is the single biggest downfall of this product.
  • They need to manage feature requests better. There are a number of features users have been requesting that don't seem to get addressed. There is also no road map available for us to see if the features are going to be included in the foreseeable future.
The publishing sites in SharePoint were brutal to use. This is no comparison. It is infinitely better.
Sitefinity is best suited for information based sites. If you want the ability for non-technical people to update content, this product is perfect. If you want the site to perform a specific function other than displaying information, that might be trickier. While the product can easily be customized using MVC, there are some limitations there. Also, if you need feature rich forms or really any kind of form other than a simple name and email kind of thing, then this isn't the product for you.

Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
8
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
8
Page templates
10
Library of website themes
Not Rated
Mobile optimization / responsive design
10
Publishing workflow
8
Form generator
1
Content taxonomy
8
SEO support
7
Bulk management
7
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
5
API
Not Rated
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
8

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