Sitefinity

Easy to navigate. Great solution for both technical and non-technical users.

Security. Easy to integrate two-factor authentication.

Great product and support from Sitefinity team.

Easily updating and maintaining website content.

It's secure, and easy to train clients on.

The community of extension developers is a bit light.

If you're considering a CMS for use in a Windows environment, this is the platform to choose. It's sleek, secure and easy to customize.

Workflow efficiency

Generally an easy to use product. Straightforward, especially for adding or deleting content.

Occasionally lags and does not recognize actions taken.

Compare with other products to make sure this meets your needs.

Website content generation. Easy for multiple users without much experience to interact with company website.

Ease of use for non-technical editors. Lots of out of the box features like forms, forums, events and news items.

Startup time after code changes. This is really only relevant to developers.

Become familiar with the features prior to implementation. Choose a Sitefinity certified partner.

Sitefinity CMS allows our customers to get to market quickly with new sites and applications that need WCM features. Built in features like news, events, forums, and forms allow us to create compelling sites quickly. The personalization features allow for tailored content for specific types of users.

The product is straight forward to use and the support is tremendous.

It takes a little effor to learn the product.

Good solid product

We need to provide our clients with content to consume without technical support. And we need to provide Blog support on the content.

The part I like the most about Sitefinity is the ability to make it my own. Almost everything can be customized to meet business requirements. From graphics and templates to widgets and form submissions. There is a consistent look and feel that is unique to us while correct information appears only where it is expected.

The part I found challenging was trying to setup a new app and the online documentation hadn't been updated.

However, I contacted support and they got back to me quickly with the correct instructions.

Know what you want before you get started. Sitefinity can do it, but you need to have a clear direction and stick with a single unified plan otherwise it could take years to implement.

The business problems revolve around reaching prospective students and getting them to engage in the community we have built. Sitefinity has given us a platform to announce the new exciting things that make our school so great.

Sitefinity is very easy to work with and a stable platform. I love the personalization features, and it's been easy to get internal staff to make edits to their pages.

Can be hard to implement third-party customizations.

Make sure that you choose a good vendor that can help with your day-to-day support should you need it.

It is helping us immensely with crafting personas and delivering a customized user experience. It is also giving us the opportunity to provide a more dynamic web presence.

.NET base CMS with many features out of the box. Intuitive interface and expandable with a developer team.

Pricing is going up since progress did the acquisition. On the plus side the support team us much more responsive and features are getting added and fixed.

Good product but you need a team of developers to customize it to your needs. Out of the box there are multiple features available and very useful. You definitely need a UI developer to design your template. Unfortunately, we didn't find any useful template on the sitefinity marketplace. Our developers find their documentation informative but not always up to date to the latest version and their support are very responsive. The type of SLA for the support response, depends on the support package/license you have.

We use it for our intranet to manage and host our internal operations and documentation.

We have been using Sitefinity for more than 8 years now and find it one of the most user friend CMS to manage the website, if implemented correctly. It provides many out of the box widget like News, Events, Cards, Rich text editor, Image Gallery which can be easily drag drop on the page and within minute you can create a new page using any existing template. Also, for developer, it provides the flexibility to build custom modules and utilities API which can be consume by any frontend medium (mobile app, website).

Not easy to upgrade to latest version, if by mistake one deploy the latest version DLL, it change the database and you cannot rollback to old version. The Export/Import feature is not advance enough and randomly breaks. By default Sitefinity store some of the changes like labels & Message, Search Index on ‘File System’ which cause issue when you have a Load Balance environment, there you have to manually sync the file on all environment which is not ideal. Also, there is lack of native Analytics support, it integrate with Google Analytics which means dependency on 3rd party system when creating reports.

The way implementation is done is the key when using any CMS, same goes with Sitefinity CMS, if the content is properly structure in backend, then it would be very easy to manage the website, else, if there are a lot of rich feature, it would require complex content architecture, thus require more time to manage content. Also, try to use the default widget provided by Sitefinity wherever possible, which would allow you to take full advantage of Sitefinity DataAccess, Advance Cache, thus improving the overall website performance. Also, when using Sitefinity personalization, make sure you first have the content strategy.

Personalization, one of the key feature for any new website. Sitefinity allow simple but effective mechanism to make any page or content within the page personalized. We are using this feature for some of our Banking websites which have a lot of content and pages. There we need to target user based on their behavior, location, time etc. Here Sitefinity plays an important role to achieve our target audience.