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Terri G.

Digital Project Manager

Entertainment

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/5/2016

"An application with far too many revisions in too small a time-frame"

1/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Who wouldn't like a robust CMS? With a plethora of templates and features, this tool has a lot to offer. For users who don't need to overhaul a template, or like our case... modify Master Pages, this tool should suffice. However, if you are required to go down that rabbit hole, be prepared to deal with poorly organized CSS content and a convoluted mess of templates and dependent files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

With the exhaustive revision cycle, this application churns out entirely new version numbers 2-3 times per year. Our somewhat basic site was left in the stone-age (version 3.4) in 3 years. Revisiting it for updates, we were forced to either set up and entirely new server to migrate the site up to version 9.x or just move it to our own server for hosting and drop the CMS entirely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Sitefinity:

If you are working within the constraints of the tool, you'll likely not have problems. Also, whether you're actively updating content or not, stay on top of CMS version changes or you'll rapid be left out to dry when the CMS begins to fail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The larger portion of our organization wanted a simple solution to hosting and updating their website, so this tool was chosen as the home for that site. This tool was initially chosen so we could build out the base site and hand it back for others to make updates, however, those changes always ended up being done by a developer due to tweaks frequently needed on master pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kelsey Schuering of Progress Sitefinity

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Hi Terri - thank you for providing us with feedback. We take comments very seriously and use them to help us improve in the future. I'm sorry to hear you may not be enjoying your experience with us. I'd love to assist you in having a more enjoyable experience. If you're interested, please reach out to me via email at kschueri@progress.com to discuss. Have a great day!

Thanks,

Kelsey Schuering, Progress Software