Progress Sitefinity vs. Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

Progress Sitefinity

239 Reviews and Ratings

Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

167 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Progress Sitefinity	Score6.8 out of 10	N/A	Progress Sitefinity is a content management and customer analytics platform. It supports content management, tailored marketing, multi-channel management, and ecommerce sites.	N/A
Sitecore Digital Experience Platform	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	The Sitecore Experience Platform (Sitecore XP) is a digital experience platform used to build websites and create customer experiences online. The solution boasts fast content authoring, built-in personalization features, testing and other optimizations, as well as analytics and marketing features.	N/A

Pricing

Progress Sitefinity

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Pricing Offerings
Progress Sitefinity	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Progress Sitefinity	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Considered Both Products	Progress Software Justin Cawthorne Senior Project Manager in Information Technology at Murdoch University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity We evaluated a range of other platforms before selecting Progress Sitefinity. While many other platforms had a powerful range of features, Progress Sitefinity provided to be a comparable product at a price far more suited to our budget. Above all else, its ease of use gained … Incentivized Helpful? Todd Knowlton CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Smooth Fusion, Inc. (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity In addition to being a user of Sitefinity, my company is also a Sitefinity Partner. More than a decade ago, we were supporting several CMS platforms and decided we wanted to pick one and be great at it. After analyzing many content management systems, we decided that Sitefinity … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Hood CTO in Information Technology at Team SI (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity It is hands down just easier for our customers to use. The interface and the page builder experience is much better than what we have used in the past and has many enterprise features even in the lower price-point. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity Sitefinity has its advantages and disadvantages. We view it as a useful tool in our toolbox and are always happy to develop a new Sitefinity site when its features align with the needs of our clients. From a content management standpoint, it is easier to work in than some and a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity It stacks up very well and in many areas is a lot easier to use and develop. Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Noack Director of Integrated Marketing in Marketing at ETAP - Operation Technology, Inc. (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity Best system from a feature/cost point of view. We had specific requirements, one of which was that the system had to be based in a IIS/.net environment. Price was another factor and ease of implementation with the existing development staff another. E-commerce had to be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity In terms of feature set, Sitefinity offers more out-of-the-box features as compared to Umbraco. In comparison to Kentico, Sitefinity has a better back-end admin set of tools. In comparison to Sitecore, Sitefinity is cheaper and easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Fus Vice President of Operations in Information Technology at Azavar Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity We prefer Sitefinity to any of the open source solutions out there for the basic arguments you will typically hear. Additionally, Sitefinity fit well into our .NET development stack and competency we have on staff. Relative to Sitecore, Sitefinity seemed to offer better value … Incentivized Helpful? Nabeel Qaisar Technical Lead in Information Technology at Impact Proximity (Impact BBDO) (Banking, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity Umbraco is good for a campaign website, whereas Sitecore provides rich feature and is suitable for enterprise websites, but compared to Sitefinity it's more expensive. Sitefinity provides features which are suitable for many enterprise websites. It also has different types of … Incentivized Helpful? Dave Johnson Sr Marketing Communications Manager in Marketing at Data Sciences International (Biotechnology, 201-500 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity It's been six years since I evaluated all of the possible CMS platforms. I really liked Sitecore but it was substantially more expensive. I really like Joomla but felt it would be most successful if you have a web designer/developer on staff. I also looked at a lot of other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity We wanted a CMS that is based on the dot net framework to leverage existing on-site expertise. Also, ease of use for content editors was important. An API to interface with other systems was important as well. Incentivized Helpful? Erin Hasinger Web Communications Manager in Marketing at Materials Research Society (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity I previously used Ektron. It felt clunky and outdated and wasn't keeping current with browser updates. We looked at Sitefinity, Sitecore and Ingeniux when it was time to upgrade. Sitefinity stood out from the rest namely because of the personalization features, content editing … Incentivized Helpful? Drew Pasler Project Manager in Information Technology at Primacy (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity I don't think the Sitefinity stacks up against them, and i would no longer recommend Sitefinity after using the other mentioned CMS's Incentivized Helpful? Bart Welch Website Manager in Sales at International Medical Group, Inc. (Insurance, 201-500 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity The cost of Sitefinity compared to other enterprise level CMS systems along with their built-in functions makes this a one stop solution for most companies. We also have the ability to easily create other content types and tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity SharePoint was too limited. Sitecore was too expensive. Sitefinity was just right. Incentivized Helpful? Sam Rueby (MCP) Senior ASP.NET Web Application Engineer in Information Technology at Bross Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity We've used Sitecore in the past and the interface was very unintuitive and difficult to use. Since then we have experimented with DotNetNuke and Umbraco, but are not satisfied only being supported by a community of volunteers. Customers have requirements and Sitefinity is able … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity We currently use ElementCMS and it is slow to use and slow to upgrade. We evaluated Kentico, Sitecore and a few others when looking for Sitefinity. Sitefinity was the easiest to use and offered all the features we wanted. It was important to us the company stayed up to date and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity I have never used Sitecore, but we are using it on a new project. I know it is comparatively very expensive to Sitefinity and they have been very proactive with sending me information regarding certification and training courses for our development team. Many projects we have … Incentivized Helpful? Rhys Jones General Manager Software Services in Professional Services at Affirma Consulting (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity Umraco, SharePoint, DotNetNuke, Sitecore. I prefer Sitefinity in almost every instance. Sitecore is more enterprise level but overkill for most clients. Incentivized Helpful? James Sperring Development Lead in Research & Development at Cobweb Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity Much more enterprise class than WordPress or Umbraco, and a lot cheaper and seemingly user-friendly than Sitecore. Incentivized Helpful? Paola Naldi Digital Marketing Coordinator in Marketing at MAPEI S.P.A. (Chemicals, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity We have also evaluated Sitecore CMS, but we choose Sitefinity because of its support and a big software company as Progress has convinced us more. We hope to see quick support from Progress, and new cool development of Sitefinity with a lot a new features in the news releases. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Kirkwood Head of Application Delivery in Information Technology at Royal Shakespeare Company (Performing Arts, 501-1000 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity Ultimately, Sitefinity won over the competitor products in three key areas - price, ease of use and ease of extension/integration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity Easy installation, Value for money (license costs) Backend usability Incentivized Helpful? Bill Elvin Director Of Engineering in Information Technology at QC Holdings Inc (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Progress Sitefinity We chose Sitefinity because it was the only CMS framework that was built on ASP.Net MVC web pages and we believed it was going to be a much easier implementation than the others, since our site was already written in that language. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Sitefinity Sitefinity combines the benefits of being easy to use, extremely customizable, and has great support. None of the other products we evaluated or have used in the past had everything we needed. Cost is comparable with other non open source products we evaluated, but the free … Incentivized Helpful?	Sitecore Verified User Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform Other tools lack one or the other and fail to provide a comprehensive best experience for everyone - content authors, marketers and developers. Sitecore comes with out of the box authoring host, best content authoring and WYSIWYG editing experience and much more. Incentivized Helpful? Zaheer Tariq Web Tech Manager in Engineering at Avid Technology (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform Its is simply by far the most advanced system. Using other CMS you will soon be blocked with advanced customizations specially to their back office but Sitecore enables you to do whatever you want and hook into the pipelines and embed your own code/business logic. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform Sitefinity is improving but at the time of decision making it had nothing that could compare with the A/B testing and personalisation features that Sitecore offers. This was a key differentiator and ultimately ensured Sitecore was purchased. WordPress isn't really comparable … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Lada Tech Director in Information Technology at Liberty Concepts (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Sitecore Digital Experience Platform Of all the competitors listed above, Sitecore owned, by far, the best combination of power, easy-of-use, and extensibility. It easily outperformed the other paid-for CMS systems. Its power is especially noticeable in its ability to handle very complex workflows, security … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Progress Sitefinity

Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

Comparison of Security features of Progress Sitefinity and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Feature	Progress Sitefinity 8.1 163 Ratings	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform 9.9 31 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	8.1163 Ratings	9.931 Ratings

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Progress Sitefinity and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Feature	Progress Sitefinity 8.1 144 Ratings	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform 9.7 28 Ratings
API	8.1137 Ratings	9.927 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	8.1106 Ratings	9.525 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Progress Sitefinity and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Feature	Progress Sitefinity 8.0 170 Ratings	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform 8.9 31 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	8.1160 Ratings	8.231 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	8.0151 Ratings	8.529 Ratings
Admin section	8.0168 Ratings	8.930 Ratings
Page templates	8.1164 Ratings	9.428 Ratings
Library of website themes	8.0104 Ratings	8.316 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	8.0155 Ratings	9.027 Ratings
Publishing workflow	8.1152 Ratings	9.429 Ratings
Form generator	8.0140 Ratings	9.528 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Progress Sitefinity and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Feature	Progress Sitefinity 8.0 164 Ratings	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform 9.2 30 Ratings
Content taxonomy	8.1157 Ratings	9.528 Ratings
SEO support	8.1151 Ratings	9.426 Ratings
Bulk management	8.0122 Ratings	9.024 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	8.0130 Ratings	8.728 Ratings
Community / comment management	8.0121 Ratings	9.726 Ratings

Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Progress Sitefinity and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Feature	Progress Sitefinity - Ratings	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform 7.5 10 Ratings
Conversion tracking	00 Ratings	7.69 Ratings
Test reporting	00 Ratings	7.410 Ratings
Funnel Analysis	00 Ratings	7.310 Ratings
User Segmentation	00 Ratings	7.510 Ratings

Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Progress Sitefinity and Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Feature	Progress Sitefinity - Ratings	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform 8.0 12 Ratings
Campaign management	00 Ratings	7.712 Ratings
Cloud enablement	00 Ratings	8.412 Ratings
Content aggregation	00 Ratings	8.112 Ratings
Content classification	00 Ratings	8.212 Ratings
Multi-channel content personalization	00 Ratings	8.012 Ratings
Customer data analytics	00 Ratings	7.411 Ratings
DXP Third-Party Integrations	00 Ratings	7.612 Ratings
Multi-website management	00 Ratings	8.711 Ratings
Digital asset management	00 Ratings	8.312 Ratings
Editorial workflows and task management	00 Ratings	8.011 Ratings

User Ratings
	Progress Sitefinity	Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	7.1 (171 ratings)	9.5 (41 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.2 (7 ratings)	9.0 (9 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (10 ratings)	9.1 (16 ratings)
Availability	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	5.5 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (7 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	4.6 (4 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Configurability	5.5 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	4.5 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	6.4 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.5 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)