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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Umbraco CMS
Score6.8 out of 10
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Umbraco is an open-source .NET Core CMS with over 700,000 active installs worldwide and with more than 200,000 active community members. It was first released on February 16th, 2005, and is still to this day an open-source project backed by a commercial company. To ensure Umbraco is always running the latest technology, the company has aligned with Microsoft's .NET release schedule to always have the Umbraco CMS…
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Pricing
Progress Sitefinity
Umbraco CMS
Editions & Modules
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Umbraco Free
$0
Umbraco Starter
$53
per month
Umbraco Standard
$320
per month
Umbraco Professional
$860
per month
Umbraco Cloud Enterprise
Custom Pricing
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Progress Sitefinity
Umbraco CMS
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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The Umbraco CMS and all of its core features are the same across all plans.
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Smooth Fusion, Inc. (Internet, 11-50 employees)
Chose Progress Sitefinity
In addition to being a user of Sitefinity, my company is also a Sitefinity Partner. More than a decade ago, we were supporting several CMS platforms and decided we wanted to pick one and be great at it. After analyzing many content management systems, we decided that Sitefinity …
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Frontend Web Developer in Engineering at IFMA Houston (Non-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Chose Progress Sitefinity
WordPress has a huge community when it comes to custom plugins available. The ability to use functions.php files to add scripts makes it very easy to use and handle. Only issue is that WordPress lacks the ability to scale for a bigger site.
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Verified User
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Sitefinity has its advantages and disadvantages. We view it as a useful tool in our toolbox and are always happy to develop a new Sitefinity site when its features align with the needs of our clients. From a content management standpoint, it is easier to work in than some and a …
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Verified User
Chose Progress Sitefinity
In terms of feature set, Sitefinity offers more out-of-the-box features as compared to Umbraco. In comparison to Kentico, Sitefinity has a better back-end admin set of tools. In comparison to Sitecore, Sitefinity is cheaper and easier to use.
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Technical Lead in Information Technology at Impact Proximity (Impact BBDO) (Banking, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Umbraco is good for a campaign website, whereas Sitecore provides rich feature and is suitable for enterprise websites, but compared to Sitefinity it's more expensive.
Sitefinity provides features which are suitable for many enterprise websites. It also has different types of …
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Principal in Marketing at Brand Tackle (Machinery, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Progress Sitefinity
In terms of sophistication, scalability and the ability to achieve complex functionality - Sitefinity is the hands-down winner. In terms of sheer ease of use from a web content authoring perspective, Concrete5 is the hands down winner. In addition, Sitefinity doesn't compare on …
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Verified User
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Umbraco cannot store all content in a database like documents and images used in the site. Also, Sitefinity is more user-friendly.
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Verified User
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Sitefinity, in my opinion, follows current Microsoft practices which make developing it a breeze. Kentico has always seemed a bit lagging in this department.
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Sr. Associate - Project Management and Information Technology in Information Technology at Trellist Marketing and Technology (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Chose Progress Sitefinity
All continent management systems are built to do basically, the same thing...manage content. When Trellist makes a CMS recommendation to a client, it is primarily based on the project requirements, how easy it is to customize the CMS, how intuitive it is for the content …
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Director of Research and Development in Research & Development at Peppermint Technology Ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Ease of use of Sitefinity was why we selected it even though it is quite expensive, though you have to weigh that up against the cost of expensive technical resource to keep your site maintained.
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Senior ASP.NET Web Application Engineer in Information Technology at Bross Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Chose Progress Sitefinity
We've used Sitecore in the past and the interface was very unintuitive and difficult to use. Since then we have experimented with DotNetNuke and Umbraco, but are not satisfied only being supported by a community of volunteers. Customers have requirements and Sitefinity is able …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Sitefinity combines the benefits of being easy to use, extremely customizable, and has great support. None of the other products we evaluated or have used in the past had everything we needed. Cost is comparable with other non open source products we evaluated, but the free …
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Verified User
Chose Progress Sitefinity
Using WordPress for a CMS is difficult. We've found WordPress is better suited for blogging and it's best to leave CMS to others. Trying to use WordPress as a CMS, although doable, often requires a lot of compromises.
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Verified User
Chose Progress Sitefinity
During review of potential solutions, SItefinity won out against others because of extensibility and (esp.) the back-end experience for users. We are a dot net shop, so we limited out CMS options to .Net-based solutions.
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Tech Director in Information Technology at Liberty Concepts (Internet, 11-50 employees)
Chose Umbraco CMS
Umbraco provides the best bang-for-the-buck CMS option on a .NET platform for those that cannot afford Sitecore. It is much friendlier to use than Ektron, is free to use, has commercial grade plugins that are not overly expensive, and provides the functionality that most …
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Key User Insights
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Delivers good value for the price
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Happy with the feature set
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Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features
Progress Sitefinity
Umbraco CMS
Security
Comparison of Security features of Progress Sitefinity and Umbraco CMS
Feature
Progress Sitefinity
8.1
163 Ratings
1% below category average
Umbraco CMS
9.0
12 Ratings
11% above category average
Role-based user permissions
8.1163 Ratings
9.012 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Progress Sitefinity and Umbraco CMS
Feature
Progress Sitefinity
8.1
144 Ratings
3% below category average
Umbraco CMS
8.5
11 Ratings
11% above category average
API
8.1137 Ratings
8.010 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
8.1106 Ratings
9.010 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Progress Sitefinity and Umbraco CMS
Feature
Progress Sitefinity
8.0
170 Ratings
5% above category average
Umbraco CMS
8.0
12 Ratings
4% above category average
WYSIWYG editor
8.1160 Ratings
10.012 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
8.0151 Ratings
10.012 Ratings
Admin section
8.0168 Ratings
7.012 Ratings
Page templates
8.1164 Ratings
8.012 Ratings
Library of website themes
8.0104 Ratings
6.011 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8.0155 Ratings
6.011 Ratings
Publishing workflow
8.1152 Ratings
10.012 Ratings
Form generator
8.0140 Ratings
7.010 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Progress Sitefinity and Umbraco CMS
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.
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Umbraco CMS is the perfect tool for a company that is looking to keep their website updated. The simple to use tools and templates means updating and creating new pages is easy. The WYSIWYG editor is a nice feature, however, for accessibility, there should be some more guidance on what is suitable to be used on the CMS.
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'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.
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.
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Speed for older sites - Umbraco content can load slowly if you have thousands of pages of content. Of course, this would not be a problem for simpler websites
Complexity - since the product is free out-of-the-box, it will take technical expertise to get Umbraco setup properly
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Very big fan of this CMS, as it allows scalability, performance, and everything else. The support is great whenever we need it. As a marketer, the digital/marketing side of things is very easy to use and we've seen strong results from an SEO and marketing perspective. I can't speak to the developer/creative side too much, but in talking with these teams, they do recommend the tool as well.
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Umbraco CMS effectively addresses enterprise content management needs. It's quite mature .NET based CMS, standing out as a leader among its competitors. Websites built with Umbraco are blazing fast. Extensive customization capabilities, and user-friendly content publishing interface makes it an ideal choice for businesses looking for a mature CMS solution.
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Working in the admin panel (adding / reviewing / editing content) is very slow. The public facing site speed is dependent on what the pages are doing and how well the code was written (whether it is optimized for speed).
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Support can be pretty good, even though, depending on the level of licensing, it can take longer to hear back from their team. They do have a phone option, which works well. Overall, they are knowledgeable, and helpful when needed. At times, support is able to access the system directly and troubleshoot critical items when needed.
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N/A - I was not part of the implementation team. We have had this internally for over 5 years. Based on my experience, ensure that you have documentation on the initial implementation and subsequent upgrades. I would also recommend to have all the documentation on how and why the system was implemented the way it was
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Spend the time to wireframe the content structure prior to diving in. This helps speed the process of implementation and it serves as documentation for end users.
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It is hands down just easier for our customers to use. The interface and the page builder experience is much better than what we have used in the past and has many enterprise features even in the lower price-point
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Umbraco's templating is far superior than WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but it's update process is WAY behind those platforms. The release schedule of Umbraco is way to often and most releases are to fix something missed in the previous release and not an improvement or new feature of the CMS
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
