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What is Progress Sitefinity?

Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.

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Sitefinity - flexibility and affordability in the same package

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 24, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Progress Sitefinity is the powerhouse behind Murdoch University's award-winning websites. It is our primary platform for engagement, news & events, course selection and br...
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Justin Cawthorne
Project Manager - Information Technology
Senior Project Manager
Murdoch University
Progress Sitefinity1 year of experience

Sitefinity's usage from small project to large scale factory approach

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 12, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
As part of a modernization, our current CMS is being replaced with Sitefinity as an organizational product. Serving both as the main CMS for several regions and HQ - as well ...
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Jochem Bökkers
Team Lead - Information Technology
Sitefinity lead
World Health Organization
Progress Sitefinity15 years of experience

Sitefinity Allows Pages to be Deployed and Maintained at the Speed of Business

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 10, 2020
Vetted Review
We use Progress Sitefinity CMS for our own website across the entire organization. It allows our marketing people to quickly spin up pages and manage site content. It also all...
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Todd Knowlton
C-Level Executive - Corporate
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Smooth Fusion, Inc.
Progress Sitefinity11 years of experience

Want an easy to use, but powerful CMS? Sitefinity is your choice!

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 27, 2020
IncentivizedVetted Review
We have implemented Sitefinity as the CMS of choice for various website projects. One of the huge considerations we have when choosing a CMS for our clients is the ease of use...
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Alex Hood
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
CTO
Team SI
Progress Sitefinity7 years of experience

Progress Sitefinity Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 26, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sitefinity is being used as our main website domain. We have over 50 other websites that prominently use wordpress. This site contains all the information for our nonprofit or...
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Louie Kafka
Engineer - Engineering
Frontend Web Developer
IFMA Houston
Progress Sitefinity1 year of experience
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What is Progress Sitefinity?

Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.sitefinity.com/editions

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.1
Avg 8.2

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

8.1
Avg 8.3

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

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Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

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Product Details

What is Progress Sitefinity?

Progress Sitefinity web content management system is designed to help users engage, convert and retain visitors across the entire customer lifecycle, and boasts usage by more than 10,000 websites. The vendor states companies large and small use Sitefinity to engage audiences with thoughtful, relevant content; personalized experiences that increase conversions; a consistent, responsive experience across all channels, including mobile; ready integration with backend systems; digital commerce; and Sitefinity Insight to track, analyze and shape every step of the customer journey.

Progress Sitefinity Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Community / comment management
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

Additional Features

  • Supported: Multisite Management
  • Supported: Multilingual Management
  • Supported: Content Personalization
  • Supported: A/B Testing and Content Optimization

Progress Sitefinity Screenshots

Screenshot of Engage your audience with thoughtful, relevant content. Your marketing team can create and manage content faster and easier than ever before with inline drag-and-drop editing, requiring no help from your web team.Screenshot of Create a truly global solution that provides consistent experiences and unmatched performance across brands, regions and languages. Reduce maintenance and hosting infrastructure by managing multiple websites from a single platform. Reduce time to market and deploy changes faster with content and code synchronization between websites and environments.Screenshot of Increase revenue with a personalized, connected experience between your website and online store. Easily manage your product catalogs, price lists, shopping cart and checkout process. Connect to cloud services for accurate real-time tax and shipping rates. Integrate with your ERP and other business systems to improve and automate inventory management, order fulfillment and customer support throughout the product lifecycle.Screenshot of Increase conversions and generate more leads with 1:1 conversations with your customers. Create, preview and deliver personalized experiences at a massive scale with amazingly easy to use tools. Analyze and optimize the experience with the help of contextual analytics and A/B testing solutions.Screenshot of Analyze cross-channel data to get a detailed view of content and campaign performance. Gather data on visitors and build persona segments and track their behavior on your site. Get ML-driven recommendations for the next best update to introduce into your journey.

Progress Sitefinity Videos

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Progress Sitefinity Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.

Sitecore Digital Experience Platform, Kentico Xperience, and Acquia Digital Experience Platform are common alternatives for Progress Sitefinity.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions and API and WYSIWYG editor highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Progress Sitefinity are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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It does what it is supposed to do but not the easiest to set up and administer

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 14, 2021
Verified User
Director in Marketing
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used for our entire website. Each department has its own web manager, but I manage the overall website design and coding. Everything runs through my team before anything gets published.
Pros
  • Organize pages
  • Create lists
  • Blogs
  • News articles
Cons
  • Usability
  • Reliability
  • Help documentation and support
Likelihood to Recommend
Once set up it works pretty well. Administrative side of things is a little harder to use than other CMSs.

A flexible UX platform that we really enjoy using

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 08, 2021
Verified User
Director in Marketing
Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Progress Sitefinity as our CMS tool for our website as well as clients. Currently, just our marketing team and development team uses this tool as it keeps things streamlined and efficient. We use it to create websites. We've found that it helps successfully engage our internal team in developing successful websites.
Pros
  • Easy-to-use backend for developers, marketers, and creatives
  • Strong SEO tools for improved SEO optimizations
  • Lots of integrations
Cons
  • More integrations and easier to add as a marketer
  • Upgrade process is bulky and slow
  • Make advanced settings a little easier to navigate
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a flexible UX platform that we really enjoy using. It allows us to scale the website as needed and this is a CMS we can grow with. You can edit code easily, as well as connect to many third-party integrations. The image library is a great tool that makes finding, resizing, and naming images easy.

Sitefinity is a really powerful CMS

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 27, 2021
Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Music Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Progress Sitefinity is used across the entire organization for the company website. It addresses the issue of complicated web updates by providing a tool to easily manage content. Also, Sitefinity allows us to easily create private content for different roles and membership types, which is key to our organization and online benefit distribution.
Pros
  • Easy to use CMS
  • Versatile for search setup
  • Information management can be complex and supported by the platform
Cons
  • Less code to do certain things
  • More out of the box integrations
  • More add ons for enhanced features
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for companies that don't have a lot of technical staff for the content editing end. However, for setup, upgrades and customizations, Sitefinity isn't the easiest to manage. It is also well suited for role management and users. It is very easy to create new roles and assign them to users. Likewise, creation of special content types, such as news and lists for content display is also intuitive and easy to do.

Sitefinity - flexibility and affordability in the same package

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 24, 2020
JC
Justin Cawthorne
Senior Project Manager
Murdoch University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Progress Sitefinity is the powerhouse behind Murdoch University's award-winning websites. It is our primary platform for engagement, news & events, course selection and broader information about the wide-ranging activities undertaken by the University. It serves our millions of domestic and international web visitors each year and is a key acquisition channel for attracting new students. With hundreds of pages and articles being edited and created a year, supported by nearly a hundred content editors and administrators, the platform is easy to use and maintain.
Pros
  • Progress Sitefinity's user-friendly interface allows us to extend use of the platform to wide range of users across the business.
  • Constant feature updates continue to add valuable new features and resolve prior issues. This is one of our primary reasons for retaining Progress Sitefinity.
  • The Module Builder tool has given us enormous flexibility in enabling us to add new dynamic content items to our Progress Sitefinity platform and support a wide range of business requirements (e.g. course listings, custom news articles, scholarships, etc).
Cons
  • Image management.
  • It is still not possible to accurately determine whether a image is in active use on the website or not (i.e. embedded on a page/widget). This makes it extraordinarily hard to properly audit our image libraries, which continue to grow and increase our hosting costs. This is without a doubt our number one issue with the platform.
  • Requirement to deploy/restart application for many updates.
  • While acknowledging that Progress Sitefinity uses best practice when it comes to further development of the platform, the need to deploy new code and/or restart the platform continues to be an inconvenience when managing a production website.
  • Lack of granular permissions on site sync and multisite.
  • Site sync and multisite are two of Progress Sitefinity's most valuable features in terms of managing our website environment. However, there is no out-of-the-box method currently for assigning a user role to a specific site (a custom role has to be created). Similarly, it is not possible to assign granular permissions to the site sync tool (a user who has access to Site Sync has access to sync all content on all sites). Having more control over these features would reduce the overhead for our site admins.
  • The license model in respect of subdomains (whereby an entirely new, full-cost license is required for each subdomain) is relatively uncompetitive and severely limits options when creating a network of sites.
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity remains a little heavyweight for sites that require basic text content, or a limited number of pages. However, its flexibility (including the range of different content types if supports) make it a good choice for any organization requiring advanced content management capabilities at an affordable price.

Sitefinity's usage from small project to large scale factory approach

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 12, 2020
JB
Jochem Bökkers
Sitefinity lead
World Health Organization (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Progress Sitefinity
15 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As part of a modernization, our current CMS is being replaced with Sitefinity as an organizational product.
Serving both as the main CMS for several regions and HQ - as well as a departmental application CMS for standalone portals and platforms in a multi-tenant, multi-cloud approach. The main reason for standardizing on Sitefinity is its flexibility and its omni-channel capabilities, allowing us to write once and use across platforms, channels and APIs throughout the organization and externally.
Pros
  • 'Low-code structured content' (dynamic content types) is one of Sitefinity's most powerful features that allows you to structure content according to business needs, while at the same time dampening editorial freedom to ensure accessibility, meta enhancement, SEO and API consumption can be achieved.
  • Sitefinity's content provider model allows us to flexibly (by means of admin interface) easily aggregate or separate content sharing within a multi-site instance.
  • This proofs particularly powerful in emerging situations where there suddenly is a demand for content sharing across countries or regions.
  • Adaptability at its core.
  • While there's never a perfect fit for everything, it allows for easy code customization and extension being a .NET application at heart. Giving it a corporate edge over other custom solutions, whether it is on the development side or deployment side (on premise, IaaS or Azure DevOps Paas). And it has enabled us to put the system to use in its core feature - which is to manage content, where on other occasions we were able to take full advantage of its features such as A/B testing and personalization.
Cons
  • Roadmap visibility could be better.
  • Being a publicly traded company, long term roadmaps will have commercial impacts, however it would be great to see future visions expressed more clearly.
  • Video improvements.
  • While accessibility and concepts like 'low-bandwidth' are key these days, rich experiences are equally important. When it comes to 'videos', Sitefinity is trailing behind the current use cases where low/high-bandwidth versions, captions and subtitles are a requirement.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's one of the easiest to use, easiest to customize CMS system available on the Microsoft technology stack.

Whenever there's an application need for user management, role-based permissions, workflows and page-content, it is simply not done to start custom development from scratch.

For complex 'factory-approaches' its architectural implementation shines brightest and allows for hybrid deployments, full Azure DevOps integration and ensures security and governance are not sacrificed.
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