Item: Kentico Xperience
Rating: 10
Author: Brian Maki

Overall Satisfaction with Kentico 8

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BitWise Solutions is an Indianapolis custom web application development company. We use Kentico to provide our customers with a robust CMS that is easily customize by developers. Kentico delivers an enterprise ready content management system at a price that is hard to beat for all the functionality that it has. BitWise solutions is a Microsoft centric development shop. Kentico is built in asp.net and fully integrates with Visual Studio.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to work with and customize from a developer standpoint. This makes it possible to deliver exactly what the client wants.
Built in asp.net and fully integrates with Visual Studio. Any asp.net developer should have no problems with Kentico
Tons of built-in modules and it's very easy to add custom modules and functionality
Great support and helpful community of developers
Enterprise level product at a reasonable price

Cons

It seems that pure aspx templates sometimes take a backseat to portal functionality but this is understandable from a big picture perspective.
The number of files in the solution is still an issue but this is improving with each version.
As Kentico matures it seems there might be a trend to make customization harder for developers. Hopefully is stays developer friendly.

Return on Investment

Kentico can be developed quicker and cheaper than other CMS solutions in the marketplace.
Kentico runs on established Microsoft technologies making support more efficient.
Kentico has great SEO built-in making the customers website more accessible and more easily found by search engines.

Alternatives Considered

Ektron is a great content management system in it's own right but Kentico delivers a lot of the same functionality for a much smaller price. The license fees for Kentico are very reasonable especially when compared to solutions such as Ektron. Kentico is an enterprise ready CMS with a small business price.

Likelihood to Renew

At BitWise Solutions, we will continue to use Kentico for our CMS needs because it give our clients the functionality they want at a fraction of the price of similar competitors. It's easy to use for developer so we can get solutions out the door quicker. It runs on a standardized platform which has a lot of inherent support as well as good support from Kentico's community of developers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Any company looking for a robust content management system that is built on the .net platform should look at Kentico for a solution. Kentico might not have the marketing budget of the other well known CMS solutions out there but it is a mature application and you will get a lot of value for your money when choosing it.

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