TrustRadius Insights for Progress Sitefinity are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
Users have found this product to be incredibly useful in a variety of scenarios. One key use case is for travel enthusiasts who want to document their adventures. By using this product, they are able to capture high-quality photos and videos of their experiences, allowing them to relive their journeys and share them with others. Another use case is for professionals who need to give presentations or showcase their work. With this product, they can easily create stunning visuals and slideshows that captivate their audience. Additionally, individuals who enjoy capturing special moments with family and friends have found this product to be perfect for recording birthdays, graduations, and other important events. The versatility and ease of use make it accessible to users of all skill levels.
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.<div>
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.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
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.
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.
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 allows us to personalize content based on personas and to analyze user behavior using Insight. We use it in conjunction with HubSpot to attract and track leads.
Pros
The interface for managing content and building pages is very intuitive.
The platform is extensible through custom modules, making it possible for our team to create any functionality we need.
Workflows make it easy to approve content before it goes live.
Insight allows us to assign personas based on user behavior and then customize content based on that persona.
Cons
I'd like to see more third-party integrations out of the box.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is well suited for marketing teams that need the ability to build landing pages and campaign pages that provide just the right amount of structure and the right amount of flexibility. When implemented correctly, marketers and content managers should only need developer intervention for significant site changes.
Sitefinity is less well suited for organizations with small budgets or that don't modify content on their site regularly.
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 and the capability to integrate with external (3rd Party) systems easily. Sitefinity ticks both those boxes. It is extremely easy to use for our clients but still gives our developers the ability to customize where we need it. When used with the Digital Experience Cloud (DEC) that progress offers, it's an excellent marketing tool - top to bottom. We also evaluated the cost of Sitefinity against some other solutions and for the license and implementation fees, it was a no-brainer. Other CMS systems costing 2-4x as much could not compare.
Pros
Updates to the CMS software
Support on critical issues
Cons
Larger install base
Speed of support replies
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for a company that needs an easy to use CMS. The interface is very well thought out and organized in a way that you would expect. At the same time, because of how it's engineered - it's really easy to extend as you need. Integration with external data providers is possible and easy to do. The personalization and marketing capabilities are integrated - something that is not common in this price point. There is a licensing fee for the different editions of Sitefinity and that must be weighed with your project budget since this is not an open-source CMS. In my opinion, the license cost is well worth it having dealt with the costs and risks of using an open-source CMS.
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 organization, IFMA. It's also used as a store and place for our users to become members and obtain resources. The website is used mostly by the marketing and web service team. These departments maintain and update information such as new events, posts, and services on a daily basis.
Pros
Able to organize our content
Easy to maintain and edit information
Cons
Have the ability to have multiple users working on the same page at the same time
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is a very good tool to use a more large company. It as simple as Wordpress but with more flexibility and customizable. It is simple for non-developers to get their hand and use. It also has good administration abilities to give users certain roles and permissions.
Content Management. It is used agency wide. It helps users with our external content management and internal employee messaging portal.
Pros
Easy to use - especially for new content managers
Great product support/TA
Cons
Maybe more pre-set templates
Expanded programming options for forms/social media outreach
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is well suited for users that are not familiar with programming and do not have the ability to manage something like an open source software. It is less suited for clients that want the ability to customize at a high or intricate level.
We currently use Progress Sitefinity CMS across our agency. We use it for our main public facing website, we also use it for smaller programmatic websites and our intranet.
Pros
Drag and Drop Widgets
Creating Templates and Pages
Cons
Website Templates and Themes
Third Party Widgets and Tools
Likelihood to Recommend
Progress Sitefinity is well suited for organizations that need non-technical users to maintain portions of the website without having to rely on IT for support. Progress Sitefinity is less appropriate as it relates to customizing existing templates with third party integrations.
We use Sitefinity internally as a CMS for some of our own company sites, as well as offer to build websites and services using Sitefinity. We develop web applications and websites and use Sitefinity as our primary CMS for the solution.
Pros
It has very granular permissions for users in the backend.
You can customize pretty much anything you'd like for a tailored experience.
Cons
Initialization times are really the only thing that I can see improving on.
Documentation could be a little more structured.
Likelihood to Recommend
For clients that want custom features and ease of use when it comes to editing their own website, Sitefinity is a great solution for that. We've had many clients want different views of, for example, a staff widget. Being able to make as many templates as they want and easily implement them by dragging and dropping with the editor to place them anywhere on the page is great.
