Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS.
December 05, 2019

Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity

We run our corporate website off a series of 6 total servers running Sitefinity. We utilize it across a few departments, Marketing and IT mainly. Sitefinity has been a very flexible, easy to adopt CMS. We launched a new website and CMS all at once and it was refreshing to utilize Sitefinity over our prior CMS system. Sitefinity is a clean, very user friendly, adaptable, feature rich CMS. Pricing is attractive, features are there, support is very adequate. We have a complex use case with 6 servers running Sitefinity and interacting with each other, and we're still trying to get a handle on simplifying the upgrade process - which has been our only minor hurdle.

Pros

  • Very flexible and easy to use to create new pages.
  • Customizable widgets allow for displaying data the way you need and want it to.
  • Simple to setup synchronization to additional servers.

Cons

  • Diagram or illustrate more use cases for server setups, and managing of upgrades.
  • I'd like to see the ability to synchronize from one server to multiple others at once.
  • Implementation assistance as part of the purchase rather than farming out to 3rd party, although they did answer every question we asked in order to determine our best architecture setup.
  • Sitefinity has been a very affordable solution, while not compromising ability and features.
  • Ease of use for users of all levels.
  • Upgrading has proven to be an unfriendly task.
DNN was very similar from a flexibility and feature perspective but wasn't as polished or professional feeling. Kentico was poor in communication, not replying to email requests and questions. Crownpeak we had been using for many years but wasn't impressed with customer loyalty especially when it came to pricing.
Sitefinity is a very cost-effective CMS system with the flexibility needed by a front-end developer while still being super easy to use by less code knowledgeable people. If you just had one server and database set up with Sitefinity it would be the simplest, and possibly adequate, setup. Adding servers complicates the upgrade process, the scheduling process, custom field additions etc. but having development, staging and production servers is worth the effort.

Super easy to generate new pages, news/press items, lists. A little more complicated to set up Salesforce and Sharepoint connectors.

Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
10
Code quality / cleanliness
9
Admin section
9
Page templates
9
Mobile optimization / responsive design
7
Publishing workflow
9
Form generator
9
Content taxonomy
10
SEO support
8
Bulk management
10
Availability / breadth of extensions
9
Community / comment management
9
API
7
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
9

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