Michael Dell'ArcipreteSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 03 November 2019)

A good value in a CMS platform with broad functional capabilities

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Progress Sitefinity is being used by our marketing team as a site content management system. We use it to create new content and to upload images. It allows our marketing team to engage with our online audience and to remain current/accurate in our messaging. It is managed by our team webmaster, but it is used by many members on our team to create and duplicate landing pages. It also allows us to create messaging at various touchpoints. This is especially useful when urgent messages need to be communicated.

Pros and Cons

Landing pages that include metadata, UTM tracking, and vanity URLs. These landing pages are easy to create and can be duplicated in a very short team.
Site content management - It is easy to add text content and to upload new images.
Messaging - We often need to create urgent messages related to a storm warning. This allows us to create message units or widgets that alert our policyholders.

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Landing pages are easy to duplicate but could be easier to customize.
Reporting is limited. If reporting could be automatically tied to Google Analytics that would be a plus.
An SEO optimization tool that looked for errors and suggested improvement would be very helpful.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sitefinity is very cost-effective and support is good. After the 12.0 update, we were able to eliminate use of tools like Unbounce and Optimizely. Having one content management system with broad functionality is very valuable. Sitefinity does many things well like A/B testing, landing page development, and messaging. It is not the best for customization, but it is improving. The one area that would help is more training. Very few webmaster candidates had familiarity with Sitefinity.

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Rasheed RomainSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 09 September 2019)

Sitefinty for a large company

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used across the whole organization, Sitefinity is the CMS and backbone of our website used across many teams. We use Sitefinity with many other tools like Salesforce and Adobe.

Pros and Cons

synching process
Staging environments
Ability to have multiple translations

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How to update content through all translations.

Likelihood to Recommend

Its been great for us to work collaboratively with different teams and translations amongst different countries.

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Verified UserSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 09 September 2019)

Piece of mind and time to market

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Progress Sitefinity to host and maintain our corporate website and the global domains. It is utilized mainly by Marketing and their Digital team along with IT with the product owner, BAs, and Developers. There is real-time integration with a number of corporate-wide systems which allows instant access to the latest pricing, product details, and inventory availability.

Pros and Cons

Content authoring, approvals, provisioning, and global synchronization
Easy integration with backend systems and microservices.
Customer data profiles and personas tracking.

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Likelihood to Recommend

Global delivery of content with ease of use, content authoring, and provisioning. Easy to maintain, approve, and synchronize.

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Verified UserSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 27 August 2019)

Simple to use CMS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Progress Sitefinity as the content management software on an external government website.

Pros and Cons

Ease of use: HTML or design mode.
It is intuitive and can be used with very little training.

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Would like to see the addition of an undo button.
User videos are not accessible.

Likelihood to Recommend

Progress Sitefinity is an adequate content management software, without any unnecessary glitz and glamour.

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Verified UserSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 22 August 2019)

Sitefinity if you're looking for customization

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used as a marketing front-end as well as to manage a registered user base. We have installed several different instances to take on different roles. As far as marketing is concerned, it's great to leverage the built-in SEO and forms for lead generation capturing. For managing registered users, we customize Sitefinity to fit our business model which was straight-forward to do.

Pros and Cons

Progress Sitefinity does a great job of staying on top of new and ever-changing IT security threats and patching for it.
Progress Sitefinity has great support for people interested in customizing their instances with a vast knowledge base that includes videos and white papers.
Progress Sitefinity is great at communicating and following up on any opened support tickets.

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Creating an out of box cloud deployment experience to ease the deployment burden.
Improve on their developers using source control and automated deployment experience.
Go back to their upfront pricing as opposed to having to speak to someone.

Likelihood to Recommend

At the current price point, Sitefinity is too expensive for a simple brochure or lead generation website. There are a ton of great options out there for this use case. It is great if your website will include various integrations to third parties or user management that requires complex scenarios that need to be accounted for.

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Verified UserSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 20 August 2019)

Outstanding experience and relationship with Progress Sitefinity

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Progress Sitefinity is being used to host our company website. It has allowed us to host our own site, manage the content and easily customize the CMS to our business needs.

Pros and Cons

Customizations can be made easily.
Built-in tools are very functional.
Provides integration with other platforms such as Salesforce.

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It would be nice to see more options in some of the modules such as events, news, documents, and files.
More extensive samples of customization and use cases.
More updated online training.

Likelihood to Recommend

Progress Sitefinitiy is very easy to use and navigate, and the ease of installation and deployment was, and is, excellent.

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Julie NiehuesSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 19 August 2019)

Recommend Sitefinity

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used by several agencies. It gives our end users the ability to update their content easily. Developers are able to create a site in a timely manner.

Pros and Cons

The product is user-friendly and robust.
Keeping content organized is easy.
Sitefinity is easily customizable and relatively intuitive for developers.

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Upgrading to new versions is time consuming. There are always several errors to work through. Each upgrade has to be completed individually, instead of offering cumulative updates.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sitefinity is well suited for a .NET environment.

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Jeff Van DykSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 19 August 2019)

Good CMS, lots of features

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sitefinity to host our corporate website. It provides a reliable and stable platform to managing the content and deployment of our website.

Pros and Cons

Good content management features.
Good performance.
Integration with analytics.
Ability to build upon using API and Visual Studio integration.

Edit

Difficult upgrade process.
Does not offer an option to restore backend configuration or revert to original defaults.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for hosting websites and managing content.

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Nam HuynhSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 19 August 2019)

Great Product and Great Service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sitefinity is our CMS for our website and all of our affiliate websites. We wanted a platform that was easy to use, yet robust with analytics, customization and features. Sitefinity met our requirements.

Pros and Cons

Easy front-end customization
Feature-packed eCommerce module
Good support
Simple mobile optimization

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Pricing structure
Make process to update software easier

Likelihood to Recommend

Sitefinity is great for most website applications, but I would specifically recommend it for eCommerce-type of sites.

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Verified UserSource : trustradius.com

(Reviewed on 08 August 2019)

Honest review from someone who has been managing sites from 20 years

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently using this as our corporate website, but have also recommended and developed websites for 3 other organizations. It is being used primarily by the design/technology departments for marketing to update our company brand and presence online.

Pros and Cons

Once templates and custom data has been defined, it is very easy for CMS authors/editors to manage content on the site without knowledge of HTML programming.
Programming templates and custom module and extending the CMS is fairly straightforward for our development team.
Security is in the forefront, with regular updates and enhancements to the product.
Working with support is great, they have extensive knowledge on the product are able to assist if called upon.
Product utilizes .net standards, and also integrates well will standard front end tools such as jquery/bootstrap.

Edit

I wish there was more sharing in the community of user-generated scripts/tools (like the word press community and the vast amount of plugins)

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited where the site content authors/editors do not have extensive knowledge of web programming. User needs to know the basics of cropping/optimizing images for the web, but those tools to crop images are also available in the CMS. Advanced users can extend the data structures, and update module themes, views easily without requiring a dedicated development team in-house (compile in VS). CMS administrators can choose data storage (file vs database), but wish there was out of box functionality to connect with external CDN - S3 storage. Custom Development, and enhancement of the CMS out-of-the-box functionality is straightforward for development teams, easy to customize the product, themes, and custom modules. You will need to have access to Microsoft .net developers to be able to extend beyond out-of-the-box functionality.

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