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.
Loading Reviews List....
Progress Sitefinity Reviews
44 Reviews
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Search is temporarily unavailable. Filters are still applied.
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.
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)
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.
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.
We are a Sitefinity partner who uses the CMS platform to build custom websites for various clients. Sitefinity is an appealing solution for clients who need something robust, without of of the box modules that can either be customized or integrated to meet their needs. It also is a secure option that many of our clients value.
Pros
Custom modules allowing us to integrate client-required technology
Secure backend that can house form data
Cons
Occasionally we run into tracking issues where the Sitefinity native code strips out pixel data
User limitations can be frustrating
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is well suited for complex websites that [find] value from having shared content that can be updated centrally for sitewide deployment. It also is relatively user-friendly to operate in once you are familiar with the interface and allows a host of custom modules to be built and deployed. However, it is not always appropriate for clients on a budget who don't require the technical benefits to Sitefinity.
Sitefinity is used for our organization's website that is open for our members and new members to join our organization. We use it primarily to promote our business and resources that we have for emergency medicine.
Pros
Customer Support
Account Sales and Contracts
Tech Support Team Open to Assist 24/7
Cons
Provide some of the new features in older version as much as possible
Improve on the HTML Editor as some of the functions for HTML are not compatible with Sitefinity Format
Likelihood to Recommend
Great people to communicate with and on-point to answering questions and inquiries.
Currently using this as our corporate website, but have also recommended and developed websites for 3 other organizations. It is being used primarily by the design/technology departments for marketing to update our company brand and presence online.
Pros
Once templates and custom data has been defined, it is very easy for CMS authors/editors to manage content on the site without knowledge of HTML programming.
Programming templates and custom module and extending the CMS is fairly straightforward for our development team.
Security is in the forefront, with regular updates and enhancements to the product.
Working with support is great, they have extensive knowledge on the product are able to assist if called upon.
Product utilizes .net standards, and also integrates well will standard front end tools such as jquery/bootstrap.
Cons
I wish there was more sharing in the community of user-generated scripts/tools (like the word press community and the vast amount of plugins)
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited where the site content authors/editors do not have extensive knowledge of web programming. User needs to know the basics of cropping/optimizing images for the web, but those tools to crop images are also available in the CMS. Advanced users can extend the data structures, and update module themes, views easily without requiring a dedicated development team in-house (compile in VS). CMS administrators can choose data storage (file vs database), but wish there was out of box functionality to connect with external CDN - S3 storage. Custom Development, and enhancement of the CMS out-of-the-box functionality is straightforward for development teams, easy to customize the product, themes, and custom modules. You will need to have access to Microsoft .net developers to be able to extend beyond out-of-the-box functionality.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Sitefinity provides our financial institution customers with an easy-to-use content management platform. Our customers can make all of their day-to-day website edits, and Sitefinity's built-in "revision history" feature helps them to meet their unique financial compliance and regulatory needs. In addition, Sitefinity integrates well with online banking and application vendors, which is a must for financial institutions. Most of our customers do not have web designers or developers on staff and rely heavily on third-party relationships which can be costly. Sitefinity CMS makes the website management process easy, and to the point where they can manage their website independently of third-party relationships.
Pros
Closed-Source
Updated Regularly
Easy Drag and Drop Style Editing
Cons
Expensive for Smaller Organizations.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity is great for those organizations without designers and programmers on staff, as the platform helps non-developers to quickly and easily manage their websites.
We developed a website for our client, to transition them from the lack of security and database integration that they were experiencing with their current web platform. We wanted stability and scalability, and Sitefinity fit the bill. We were also pleased to see that the support offered by Progress was top-notch.
Pros
Dynamics database integration
Customization of the platform
Ease of training
Cons
Extendability with off-the-shelf modules
Better SEO tools
More options for social media integration
Likelihood to Recommend
If your CMS or donor management system works in a Windows environment, you need to use this CMS. Also, if you have a broad team of contributors and each has a varied level of sophistication, Sitefinity does a great job in making training and access easy to set. Finally, it's written for people to understand, unlike other CMS platforms that seem to be written only for developers.
We use Sitefinity internally to power our own corporate website. Additionally, we are a Sitefinity partner, so we implement Sitefinity sites for customers around the United States. Sitefinity is a powerful CMS that is easy to use, while at the same time is easy to extend and integrate into other systems.
Pros
Out of the box support for news, blogs, forums, forms.
Out of the box ability to point and click to create new, custom content types as needed.
Rich API for developers to use in implementing solutions.
Extensible platform to allow for integration with other systems.
Cons
Improved startup time after developers makes coding changes.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitefinity works well for sites/systems that need real content management capabilities. For example management of users, groups and roles, content approval workflows, multi-language support. If you are creating a custom line of business application that has no need for content management, this CMS might not be needed.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
