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Progress Sitefinity

byProgress Software
in
4.4
Market Presence: Digital Experience Platforms, Web Content Management

Overview

Product Information on Progress Sitefinity

Updated 30th July 2025

What is Progress Sitefinity?

Progress Sitefinity is an AI-powered, cloud-first CMS that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, secure, and personalized digital experiences—faster and without overhead. Its modular architecture supports traditional, hybrid, and headless delivery, allowing teams to adopt capabilities as needed. Marketers benefit from intuitive editing, multilingual publishing and AI-assisted workflows, while developers leverage .NET Core, Next.js and modern APIs. Built-in marketer-friendly customer data and personalization tools enable real-time segmentation and journey optimization, while seamless integration capabilities connect Sitefinity with existing systems. Progress Sitefinity is trusted by global brands for its reliability in addressing complex scenarios and strengthening customer engagement and loyalty.

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Overall experience with Progress Sitefinity

Software Developer
<50M USD, Travel and Hospitality
FAVORABLE

“Initial complexity eased by responsive support and ongoing feature discovery”

5.0
Jun 8, 2026
I use sitefinity CMS regularly, and while it can be a bit complex to navigate at first, it truly stands out once you become familiar with it. The learning curve is there but it's absolutely worth it. One of the biggest strengths of Sitefinity is its flexibility and customization capabilities. It aloows for a high level of control, making it suitable for both simple and more advanced implementations. Content management is efficient and I particularly appreciate how well it handles multilingual content, which make managing different language versions much easier. Over time I have found myself discovering new features and technologies with the platform that enhance how we build and manage content. Its a CMS that continues to offer value as you explore it further. Overall Sitefinity is a powerful and reliable CMS, especially for teams looking for scalability and customization.
Senior Software Developer
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Innovative CMS Solution Offers Robust Usability but Challenging Support Services”

3.0
Aug 29, 2024
The product itself would be rated more highly, its usability in particular in of note, but it loses some points for a hit and miss, quite frustrating support process.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a company that aids businesses in achieving faster innovation cycles, fueling growth and success. It provides top quality products for the development, deployment and management of high-impact applications. The company's services ensure the creation of necessary applications and user experiences, offers flexibility in how and where to deploy and facilitates the safe and secure management of all these processes. This comprehensive solution makes Progress an essential resource for numerous enterprises, software companies and developers, supporting them in meeting their defined objectives.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1981
Head office location
Burlington, MA, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.progress.com/

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4.4

(294 Ratings)

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  • Software Developer
    <50M USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Initial complexity eased by responsive support and ongoing feature discovery

    5.0
    Jun 8, 2026
    I use sitefinity CMS regularly, and while it can be a bit complex to navigate at first, it truly stands out once you become familiar with it. The learning curve is there but it's absolutely worth it. One of the biggest strengths of Sitefinity is its flexibility and customization capabilities. It aloows for a high level of control, making it suitable for both simple and more advanced implementations. Content management is efficient and I particularly appreciate how well it handles multilingual content, which make managing different language versions much easier. Over time I have found myself discovering new features and technologies with the platform that enhance how we build and manage content. Its a CMS that continues to offer value as you explore it further. Overall Sitefinity is a powerful and reliable CMS, especially for teams looking for scalability and customization.
  • Group Product Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Good authentication options and analytics, but the editor is not immediately intuitive.

    5.0
    Jun 10, 2026
    I regularly refer to Sitefinity as the Rolls-Royce of content management systems because you can do so much with it; the system is ingeniously put together and is very flexible for editors. A large part of an editor's job is finding content in different languages, and that works extremely well in Sitefinity. The information architecture of the translations is really good. Templates can be used at a very fine level, which is also a convenience.
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  • Multimedia Specialist
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    The True Power of Progress Sitefinity DXP Platform

    4.0
    Jun 16, 2026
    Progress Sitefinity is genuinely an exceptional DXP platform. The impact of its role on our team's overall productivity and efficiency is outstanding. The addition of AI-integration is excellent and provides a much smoother content management experience.
  • COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    External Update Issues Hamper Sitefinity Productivity

    4.0
    Jun 11, 2026
    Sitefinity is a good product for our website, but unfortunately external circumstances with an update for example caused a lot of errors on Sitefinity, which hindered my productivity. However, almost a year later, we are in the process of a re-engineering project and I am really looking forward to exploring all the new features of Sitefinity on a clean instance.
  • DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Seamless context-aware experiences, with purchasing limitations affecting training access

    5.0
    Jun 12, 2026
    The strongest value of the product is its ability to support personalisation and context-aware experiences. For a large and diverse istitution, this is a significant benefit, as it allows content and digital journeys to be better aligned with the needs of dfferen audiences,
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User Sentiment About Progress Sitefinity
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Progress Sitefinity Likes & Dislikes

Like

What i like the most is Sitefinity's flexibility and customization capabilities. It offers strong control over content and structure, making it suitable for both simple and complex needs. I also value its multilingual support. Additionally, the support team is very responsive and helpful, especially Ina, who is always great at assisting and keeping us updated, particularly during critical issues or urgent questions :).

Like

I particularly like the usability of the CMS from both an administrator and an editor's point of view. The power given to an administrator to control how a website is built via the CMS itself, rather than entirely relying on developers, has always been a big positive. Extensibility is also good, especially in view of much of the code being available on GitHub which helps with understanding how things fit together.

Like

Sitefinity works well with a 3rd party authentication layer; we recently completed an SSO provider migration for the public part and the backend of the website, and it works perfectly. This means you can have a separate authentication layer for your editors and for your visitors, which is not the case with many similar solutions. We are still in the early stages, but the integration of Sitefinity Insight is also a very nice feature for analytics and lead generation.

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Dislike

I would have to say that the CMS is a bit complex to understand initially and it is different from some of the major CMS out in the market.

Dislike

The support process can be frustrating, and hit or miss. It can take weeks of back and forth to get to the bottom of an issue and often not in a very constructive way. Certain elements of extensibility could be better in terms of documentation and available integration points. Documentation in general is not kept up to date in places and often does not go into enough detail.

Dislike

The search function isn't great out of the box; you need to tweak it, especially if you have different content types, but that's the case with every website that has a large corpus of content. Additionally, there is a learning curve for editors; flexibility and obviousness are in natural conflict here, so you do have a real challenge for new staff. It takes quite a bit of effort to get the A/B testing module up and running.

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