Sitefinity

Siteinfinity has a really amazing design architecture. The best thing with Sitfinity is that the customer supports does reply almost immediately you text them. Aside from this, it has a free trial for a few days to check out how it will do for your business.

There are not enough dislikes. The good side of it totally outweighs the cons.

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Our current site is beautiful, designed well and modern, and engages users, usually sites likes these require alot of technical people on staff to maintain. Not so is the case with Sitefinity, the site has been architected so that admin backend is easy to manage and is simple enough for our content authors/designers to update. Data is organized well and intuitive backend makes it easy to train others on how to manage content. Also the workflows and approval processes can be defined to prevent mistakes from being posted online. Permissions can be defined to limit beginners and novice users from messing up the site.

Updates requires to update in the staging/dev environments. Would like it to auto update or one click update, and be able to revert updates if needed.

Also wish the user community would share more knowledge and custom modules/plugins/themes to the rest of the user base.

really good CMS, that is highly configurable and provides what you want from a CMS, ease of use, low maintenance, good support

Our public website can be kept up to date and current without hiring/waiting for developers/contractors or technical staff.

After years of maintaining and old static web site that was not fit for mobile we upgraded to a CMS.

We looked at the free open source products, but they lacked commercial support.

We needed a product that had most of the CMS aspects built-in, and was easy to configure.

Sitefinity hit a sweet spot for us, it is very cost effective and was easy to stand up in the Azure cloud. The cloud support was so important, as we no longer wanted to have the servers on premise. The fact that it was built on .NET gave us a fast track because we had a lot of experience with IIS and .NET. Sitefinity is a very mature product with a long support history. If you Google Sitefinity you will see what I mean. Never under estimate the need for support. Sitefinity has quite a few business partners to help deploy and maintain your site. Our initial site design and build was done by a web content creator company. They had never worked with the product; because Sitefinity is built with web standards they were able to build our site with their current skills. We have been running Sitefinity for 4 years and we have experience zero downtime. There are many modules built in to support common web site features like documents libraries, comments, form data collection, security, administration, etc..

Some areas that we feel could be improved are around upgrades and deployment. Sitefinity is backed by a SQL database that has to be upgraded for each new version. When you have a build pipeline that includes QA sites this can be tricky. In the end you have to maintain separate databases and manage the connection strings for each environment. The other downside is having to manage a .NET solution and be able to build and deploy. It takes a very experienced .NET developer to handle this. However you have total control, but at a cost of complexity. The other downside is it is .NET (full framework), it can feel bloated and very large and slow to work with. As most .NET developers know, .aspx pages are very bad at cold start. You will need to warm the site to make it work at acceptable speeds.

Make sure you have the expertise with .NET or have a business partner lined up.

The biggest bank for the buck is handing the day to day ownership and maintenance of our web site, the business takes full ownership. I cannot stress this enough, IT should not own what marketing or customer services knows best. The business can move at their speed.

it is very autonomous for business users.

not too much, its a good tool. We probably arent using the features so i guess more demos to clients.

keep to the updated version

it is our main cms

The possibility to giver our clients independence to generate their own content and all the marketing features that help us to generate better engagement.

Learning curve for programmers was a bit slow at the beginning.

Personalized interaction with end users. Time to market for the solutions and features, we offer a more robust solution

Developing custom functionality is very easy once you understand the workflow

Upgrading sites could be better, it’s always been painful to do ourselves

Get your developers trained

Custom customer dashboards, insurance claims, and more

The possibility to manage different languages and multisites

I think that the start up process is too slow

As I told before it easy to use and implement

Integrated authentication with external providers

Making quick updates by marketing easier

Bugs with the product. Fortunately, Progress listens to our needs and fixes asap

Keep version up-to-date.

Some smaller updates can be one faster

Sitefinity is easy to use to build sophisticated pages even with just the out of box widgets.

Customizing and connecting related widgets is a little more complex than expected.

Interview current users to get a feel for any tips, tricks or traps they have run into. The more you know the better your implementation will be.

We are a higher education institution trying to drive students leads to matriculated students. We have reduced our bounce rate more than anticipated.