Progress Sitefinity Reviews & Product Details

Progress® Sitefinity® DX provides a platform for creating, delivering and personalizing content and experiences across multiple digital channels, powered by future-proof technology, rich integrations, modern multi-experience tools, outstanding ease of use and enterprise security. Sitefinity DX is available on-premises or as a fully managed PaaS in Sitefinity Cloud. Hosted by Progress in Microsoft Azure, Sitefinity Cloud enables businesses and organizations to deliver digital content and experiences without having to set up and maintain complex infrastructure.

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Progress Software

Languages Supported

Arabic, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified)

Product Description

Sitefinity DX is built around a powerful WCM core, enhanced by data-driven audience modeling, personalization and journey optimization. The platform offers a rich, tightly integrated toolset for creating and delivering content and experiences across multiple digital channels.

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

6 months

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Progress Sitefinity Demo - Sitefinity DX Backend UI – Pages

Create a truly global solution that powers consistent experiences across brands, geographies, and languages, managing multiple digital properties from a single platform. Enjoy true WYSIWYG editing and codeless page building, backed by modern and powerful development frameworks and APIs.

Progress Sitefinity Demo - Sitefinity DX Chatbot Widget

Engage visitors and provide a bespoke customer experience with a powerful AI-driven chatbot that is developed in-house and tightly integrated with the DXP. Easy to build. Easy to train. Easy to theme and customize. Drag and drop the web chatbot widget on any Sitefinity page.

Progress Sitefinity Demo - Sitefinity DX Data Service Protocols

Multichannel delivery and connectivity via standard-compliant content, presentation, and personalization APIs. GraphQL is fully integrated with the existing user interface for managing RESTful API services in the Sitefinity backend and easy to enable via a Nuget package.

Progress Sitefinity Demo - Sitefinity DX Personalization - Page – Widget

Deliver tailored experiences and 1:1 personalization to promote relevant content, product offerings or services. Increase engagement, boost conversions, and retain customers with personalization on page and content level.

Progress Sitefinity Demo - Sitefinity DX Search Facets

Make your most valuable content easy to discover. Augment the search experience with faceted navigation. Apply multiple filters based on the taxonomy and classification of your products, services or content.

Progress Sitefinity Demo - Sitefinity DX Segment Discovery

Know your visitors' behavior, preferences, and engagement. Segment audiences and tailor the messaging to craft converting journeys and drive pipeline. Take advantage of AI-assisted audience modeling that automatically generates segments based on visitor behavior.

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Sitefinity DX: Drive connected experiences with a powerful DXP

Sitefinity Cloud: Digital Experiences Made Simple

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Juan G.

Director of Marketing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/28/2021

"Flexible, Powerful and Easy to Integrate"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Sitefinity's best feature is it's ability balance customization and out of the box functions when building or migrating a website. They also offer great support which is offered in a few tier options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

There aren't as many pre-supported 3rd party connectors as other CRMs, like Wordpress for example which has an extensive list of apps you can easily integrate. Most of your tools will need to be integrated with the help of development resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress Sitefinity solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sitefinity allows marketers an easy to use platform to make small to medium-level changes to your website thanks to its WYSIWYG drag and drop editing for web pages. Depending on your comfort level with HTML you can also add code blocks which are helpful if you want to quickly test something out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

George B.

IT Systems Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/25/2021

"Sitefinity Product Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

I like that the product uses a database on the back-end. I like how customizable the product is. Our web developers are able to integrate custom code into the Sitefinity project. This supports our ability to include e-commerce components, customer support options, and content that is tailored to each individual customer. I also have had excellent success when using Sitefinity support services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

I think the product has a steep learning curve for both the end-user and the IT technician. In other words, several things aren't very intuitive when creating content. In addition, many configuration options are difficult to find for the IT technician. I wish there were a better path to upgrade to newer versions of the software. When upgrading to a newer version, the process is not intuitive and easy to understand. Additionally, if there is any custom content, this can introduce difficulty when upgrading Sitefinity to a newer version. I also found it difficult moving the database to a new server and migrating the Sitefinity project to new servers (when upgrading from an older operating system to a newer operating system, for example Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2019). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Sitefinity:

I would recommend comparing several content management systems when considering Sitefinity. That process will highlight the strengths of Sitefinity and help with the decision to purchase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress Sitefinity solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sitefinity deploys using a modular format. Employees can make a single change, and that change pushes to multiple areas throughout the website. Using a modular design minimizes the time needed to make changes in various sections, which results in faster changes and a lower cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zane K.

Programmer Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/24/2021

"Capable and Cost Effective CMS Solution"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

1. Ability to design and customize C# MVC widgets.

2. Sales team is responsive and easy to work with.

3. Templates are highly customizable and intuitive to work with.

4. Integrated well with our current architecture.

5. Easily deployed using Azure DevOps.

6. Database administration essentially off-loaded to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

1. Long build times lead to prolonged intervals of "watching gears spin" during development.

2. Technical support was adequate but could be slow to respond when faced with advanced technical questions or issues.

3. Counterintuitive layout in some page editing environments can lead to a poor user experience.

4. Lack of consistent workflows created issues when migrating ownership to Communications team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Sitefinity:

1. Deeply understand the use case for the product and be aware that customization requires C# MVC widget development.

2. Be prepared for the need to provide your javascript workarounds for some issues that the vendor has not addressed.

3. Consider utilizing vendor training, if available at the time of purchase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress Sitefinity solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Legally required to provide a WCAG 2.0 compliant website.

2. Needed a cost-effective solution that delivered value to our user community.

3. Decent developer experience with at least a couple of years of C#.

4. Ability to remove IT from the workflow after design and development of the initial website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2021

"Progress Sitefinity is outstanding"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

My day-to-day tasks are simplified using Sitefinity. Managing our web site's content is much easier now. It is easy to navigate and adjust to using. We have a lot of users that are not developers, and Sitefinity makes it easy for them to manage content on our site flawlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

The least helpful thing about Progress Sitefinity is finding resources when troubleshooting an issue. The documentation is poorly written and uninclusive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Sitefinity:

Having a mixture of jobs/roles that use Sitefinity, it has been a blessing of a product to help assist our team to create, manage, and deploy our site. It's also been fantastic to combine some of the other products and services we need into the mix with Progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress Sitefinity solving and how is that benefiting you?

Progress Sitefinity is helping me to delegate website maintainability and train users on how to maintain their content on our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/15/2022

"Sitefinity is a great CMS for enterprise and small businesses"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Sitefinity has the ability to create modules which are essentially forms to capture data. Then you can easily modify the data for use on the front end. Love sharable content blocks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Some of the products that are not heavily used such as Site Sync or others, tend to have limitations and can bug out at times. Having a vendor that can do some heavy lifting with code is important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/19/2022

"Sitefinity is very slow to load. So it's not good for development and debug"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

the features it provides and the easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

the loading time. On my vm, it takes around 5 minutes to load. It makes it so difficult to debug Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/16/2021

"Working with Sitefinity"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

The platform is large yet easy to understand. The user interface is inviting and easy to use. The system has a lot out of the box to work with. Lots of innovation and a bright roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

The system is cache-heavy and can be slow. Lots of technical debt is being cleaned up by Progress that was inherited but lots of investment so the future is bright. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/19/2018

"Has potential but needs a community behind it to push it to the next level"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Taxonomy is pretty easy and intuitive. For large companies this has potential. Out of the box and simple site design is posssible without a dedicated developer to create widgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Unreliable. Plugins don't always work as expected. Site sync always seems to get out of sync and you have to manually copy the database. The back end can be very confusing and unnecessarily complicated. The new interface after version 12+ is unreliable. Sometimes code pasted in the html field works, other times it doesn't save with no consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Sitefinity:

I would steer clear unless you have a decicate asp.net developer willing to put in A LOT of time to get this up and running and perform maintenance on a regular basis. There are other CMSs out there that would do a better job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress Sitefinity solving and how is that benefiting you?

Only using sitefinity as a CMS for mostly static pages right now because we don't trust it to do other, more complex tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/13/2022

"Build and Maintain your site with Sitefinity"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

It is easy to create and maintain the web page. it has the publish approval process to make sure the contents are appropiate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Upgrade is not easy and startup time is too long in DEV environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.