Progress Sitefinity Reviews & Product Details

Progress Sitefinity is a cloud-first content management system (CMS) and digital experience platform (DXP) used to build, manage and personalize websites, portals and other digital properties. It is adopted by mid-market and enterprise organisations that operate multi-site, multilingual or regulated digital estates and need to balance marketing autonomy with IT governance and developer flexibility. Primary use cases include corporate websites, member and customer portals, authenticated experiences, integration-heavy workflows and consolidation of fragmented CMS deployments. Sitefinity supports marketing, development and IT teams through a shared platform model with role-appropriate tools and permissions. Key capabilities include: - Multisite, multilingual and multi-brand management with governance controls and workflows - Native customer data platform (Sitefinity Insight) for segmentation, analytics and personalization - 1,000+ prebuilt connectors and open APIs, Sitefinity Cloud platform integrates with your MarTech stack, CRM and enterprise systems in hours—not weeks - Extensibility using .NET and ASP.NET Core for custom development and composable architectures Sitefinity also incorporates generative and retrieval-augmented capabilities through Progress® Agentic RAG, enabling dynamic assembly of experiences from approved content to reduce manual production work while maintaining accuracy, compliance and brand standards. Additional operational benefits and deployment considerations: - Standardization and consolidation of CMS estates across business units or regions - Support for marketing, development and IT workflows without requiring a headless-only approach - Structured content for regulated or high-volume publishing environments - Deployment on-premises or as a managed cloud service on Microsoft Azure, reducing maintenance and providing security, scaling and compliance

Product Website

Seller

Progress Software

Discussions

Progress Sitefinity Community

Languages Supported

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

Overview by

Jennifer Meyer (Customer Advocacy Manager)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

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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Ana I.

Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/3/2020

"Easy to use and configure"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Easy to configuration and setup

Customer service is awesome

Good quality, hardly any issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Sometimes little slow to load

Little Expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David B.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/6/2024

"Review Sitefinity CMS"

0/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

It's based around Microsoft Technologies so if you are use to these, it will feel familar. You work in MVC or .net Core Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Sadly the company has taken the decision to remove it's lower tier subscriptions so it's not possible for a small business or individual to choose Sitefinity as their CRM; it's strictly for Enterprise Companies (i.e. those with very deep pockets).

This is a shame becuase it has killed off the community and by doing so there is no Marketplace to download ready made components. So you end up re-inventing the wheel creating components or widgets via code over and over again like Groundhog day. Such components are available already in the Wordpress store ready to use, so you can rapidly build a website without writing endless code that no doubt every other Sitefinity user has written already.

You only need to take a look at the Sitefinity marketplace (online) and compare to Wordpress to see there are very few integrations for Sitefinity and those that exist are dated and never get updated, because they only have their paid employees, rather than a worldwide community of contributers.

Hopefully Sitefinty can reverse this decision and have community and small business and individual licenses so that they can rebuild their lost community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Product Team of Progress Sitefinity

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Hi David,

Sorry to hear your misgivings about a solution, which you sound like you used to enjoy.

Indeed, the sunsetting of Sitefinity Standard and Small Business Edition was announced in mid-2022 and they were officially discontinued as of June 30, 2023. Progress offered alternatives to the discontinued options for both on-prem license holders and Sitefinity Cloud customers. Both exceed the core CMS functionality of the retired packages and include multiple optional add-ons on top, allowing adopters to comfortably access only the features they need.

Comparisons with open-source solutions will rarely be objective strictly on the number of community-contributed widgets and other ready-made components. Without getting into the quantity-vs-quality debate, at Sitefinity we choose to enable developers through native support of diverse presentation technologies in a decoupled API-driven architecture that can work with a wide range of frontend frameworks across .NET and JS.

The stand-alone ASP.NET Core renderer offers complete feature parity with MVC and gets an immense productivity boost from one of the best Blazor UI component libraries, developed in-house. With native support for Angular and Next.js/React, we believe we’re in fact expanding the Sitefinity developer community by bringing different technologies on board and catering to a broader set of use cases.

Several product releases since the sunset of the “lower tier” subscriptions have brought significant productivity and practitioner experience enhancements too. Overall, we have been investing in technologies rather than utensils—hoping the said technologies are equally accessible regardless of size, scope and budget.

Sincerely,

The Sitefinity Product Team

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/27/2024

"Sitefinity Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

After using Sitefinity as our CMS of choice for more than 10 years, I can honestly say it is by far the best enterprise-level CMS on the market. It is easy to use for both marketers and developers and its ease of implementation simplifies the administration of complex websites. Their customer support is top notch and highly respsonsive and it is easy to integrate the CMS with a host of external software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Hosting is expensive due to extra overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Frank D. H.

Talent Advocate

Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/17/2023

"Progress Sitefinity for basic website creation"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

It is very easy to use and program, basically you do not need too much knowledge in programming to start it up, it is quite compatible with external systems to centralize the processes that need to be carried out, it has a wide range of developers which makes it easy to find information and documentation about the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

The tool does not have a sufficiently complete visual editor which at times hinders the design of web pages limiting the creative ideas of developers, some integrated applications take a long time to load which can be frustrating if we want to design a sufficiently fluid and ergonomic website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With this tool we can perform the loading and modification of content in real time in a simple way, we also keep our website updated after being created and enabled, it is compatible with various operating systems and browsers making it much more scalable, with the tool we have a website easy to locate on the network. This tool allows in a practical way the creation of websites for any type of purposes offering a series of features that make the experience a little more fluid and less complicated, also allowing to add integrations ranging from accounting sections, consumer management, automatic publication of content and e-commerce systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/24/2024

"Sitefinity: Good tool for CMS Excellence"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Ease of use and personalized content delivery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Learning curve and occasional performance issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/22/2024

"Progress Sitefinity"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Easy to use, easy to access and helps to reach wide audience by content and can be easily integrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Unstable connection and buffer speed is time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/24/2024

"Sitefinity- Best Web CMS"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

The best of Sitefinity iscreating and managing responsive, mobile-friendly websites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Nil. It has the best features to build the mobile-friendly websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/24/2024

"Good CMS for Industry Implementation"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

It has inbuilt options that are helpful for easy implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

More number of plugins or 3rd party integrations to be added Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/5/2024

"powerful CMS."

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

Digital Commerce Platform

NativeChat Chatbot

Advanced Search and Content Discovery

Insight-Driven Personalization and Optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Cost

Complexity

Customization

Third-Party Integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thivakaran M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/24/2023

"Storage and file transfers"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Sitefinity?

This simplifies and speeds up my work. It fulfills all my requirements. About DX platform I have no complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Sitefinity?

Digital Experience Platform it is the availability of documentation and guidance, for troubleshooting. When navigating and trying to resolve issues on the platform it is difficult not to have enough resources readily accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.