Kentico

Vorteile

Kentico is extremely flexible, with a ton of options to edit your website, manage customers through the built-in CRM, send out e-mail campaigns, automate messages, implement personalized content, etc. It takes some training but remains a solid experience once you learn the basics. Website speed has drastically increased, as has our total number of monthly users, session duration, etc.

Nachteile

The cost can prohibit a lot of small businesses from benefiting with Kentico. There is also a learning curve meaning very few people can drop into the backend and expect to understand what they're seeing initially. A minor issue is occasionally tools such as the scheduler will malfunction and not publish or unpublish content correctly.

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Installation Xperience on Microsoft Azure Cloud is pretty easy. It has a compact and professional administration dashboard where everything is available at a glance because it's customizable with my favorite pinned tools, also I've personalized marketing automation with my preferred content and settings. I also like the web analytics features with clean design and useful information about visitors and users' activities. Xperience is more than a CMS and its Digital Experience Platform (DXP) means all you need for your website management, business marketing, and e-commerce are all in one platform.

Nachteile

We have been working with Xperience DXP for many years, Yes, there is nothing I can write about missing features. They've very good support and if you have a problem with any part, the support team will respond immediately and if there is a bug, it will be fixed before you know it.

Vorteile

Not much. However, it tries to replicate some of the features of more ubiquitous ESPs.

Nachteile

There's no link between their CMS and Email Marketing Platform; the UI is clunky and is not as easy, or honestly, robust as other more popular ESPs.

Vorteile

Combines CMS, digital marketing, and e-commerce tools in one place. This is especially beneficial for businesses looking for an integrated solution.

Nachteile

While basic features are intuitive, more advanced tools (e.g., marketing automation) require training or expertise.

Vorteile

- Mid-market priced CMS which can deliver the capabilties which most business need
- Good WYSIWYG editing interface when correctly delivered by the chosen development team
- Great security
- Based on an open framework which can be enhanced to most requirements
- Marketing features enhance the overall value of the system
- Administration interface is really friendly and users love the ease of use in comparison to other content management systems

Nachteile

- Two development models - PortalEngine and MVC - mean that to move from one to the other requires a re-build of the site
- PortalEngine model has a limited support lifetime
- Pricing increases have been badly communicated to the development community

Vorteile

The CMS was due to be easy for non technical employee to use.

Nachteile

Their commercial practice. We started with Kentico 12, 5 years ago and they are already not supporting it.They are increasing prices by more than 20% a year and are pushing to sign long term contract when their product works for a couple of years.

Vorteile

Licensing cost is pretty affordable and their license is per domain and not tied with number of users. Kentico’s support is really good and have a very active self driven community on their channel. Documentation is also good around the product.

Nachteile

I think over the years they are trying to and bend Kentico CMS to its limits so that influencers can influence decision to buy this product within their orgs. Kentico 12 was one such example. It came with many bugs.

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Gründe für den Wechsel zu Kentico

Vorteile

Kentico is a feature rich CMS, being very user-friendly and definitely liked by most clients. With its shift over to MVC it makes it a current, lightweight, powerful tool. I especially like the custom configuration thats possible with Kentico, including custom webparts and page configuration.

Nachteile

The pricing of licenses has really become more limited making it more difficult to be recommended for small business or lower price point websites.

Vorteile

With Kentico you can build nice responsive websites. I really like the ease of creating different versions of the content and the fact that it is possible to copy-paste portions of the layout. IT does not take much time to start using it as a content manager.

Nachteile

If you are not familiar with the system enough you may easily make some drastic mistakes (one of my colleagues deleted a part of what he though was just one page template and changed all the pages depending on that layout).

Vorteile

It's relatively cheap for it's enterprise-quality CMS, and since it's written in .Net, it is relatively easy to extend

Nachteile

Out of the box services do lack some built-in functionalities like page cache clearing and builders, which we have to write ourselves.

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Vorteile

Gain de temps - Les fonctionnalités intégrées de Kentico permettent de créer et de gérer des sites web rapidement et efficacement.

Nachteile

1- Courbe d'apprentissage - Bien que l'interface utilisateur de Kentico soit conviviale, il peut y avoir une certaine courbe d'apprentissage pour les nouveaux utilisateurs qui ne sont pas familiers avec les fonctionnalités avancées du logiciel.2- Coût - Kentico peut être plus coûteux que certains autres CMS disponibles sur le marché, en particulier pour les petites entreprises ou les projets à petit budget.

Vorteile

As an agency, we've been implementing Kentico Xperience for many years. It's a mature DXP that combines content management, digital marketing (automation and other services), and commerce, in the cloud or on-premise.

The platform is now .NET 6 (formerly Core), which means it meets the needs of enterprise businesses and can be integrated with just about anything. This is a huge positive for us. It means we can recommend an all-in-one platform that integrates deepling with existing systems and can drive the organisation's content, marketing, and experience needs.

We find easy to communicate the benefits to our clients, which is a good indicator of the platform's capabilities. It's easy to use, easy to develop for, and scalable - all things clients need.

Nachteile

Because we've been working with the platform for an extended period, our familiarity is exceptional, and there are very few negative points. Kentico's 24/7 support is exceptionally fast when an issue occurs and works with the team to find a solution. A detailed roadmap and release schedule also overcomes any feature shock, allowing for planning and preparation, both technically and when managing client expectations.

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Vorteile

Kentico is unparalleled at its price point as a comprehensive customer experience platform. With EMS, it has the power of an enterprise-class CMS, marketing automation and nurturing, personalization, e-commerce, and an incredibly deep bag of tricks through its API and integration options. It is not unfair to compare it to higher-end solutions such as Sitecore, which is bests in overall value and ease of use, if not in scalability. (Although Kentico, properly managed, can meet the needs of highly demanding websites.) The system is fairly easy to use once you learn your way around - all the components work similarly within a unified interface, so after training, it's not hard for a proficient user to execute more complex tasks without significant additional support. It is also one of the few solutions running on the Microsoft technical stack, which is an advantage if you are already standardized on Microsoft servers or Azure. Kentico is best if you are looking for a comprehensive marketing suite and want to avoid the headache of tying together your marketing and web stack.

Nachteile

Kentico doesn't work like a lot of systems. It is well thought out, but if you are coming from Wordpress, Drupal, or even Sitecore, it's going to feel pretty alien.

The system also suffers from jack-of-all-trades/master-of-none. I consider its CMS top-rate, but the marketing features are not quite up to par with the likes of Marketo or Pardot, and its e-commerce is very rudimentary (but getting better). That said, the integration out-of-the-box is where it wins, and having a less-than-leading-class marketing system that is truly integrated with your e-commerce is a substantial benefit and represents the real value of this system.

You should expect to lean on an integrator or build in-house development expertise (full disclosure: I used to work at an integrator - I no longer do). While a lot can be done without actual C# code, building out the CMS is still a highly technical task, on par with development on other platforms.

Kentico's underlying system has been around for many years, and has received some significant upgrades every year, but the core technology is showing its age. Kentico is taking some drastic measures to modernize the system and keep it supportable and relevant. But that may mean a bumpy road as you go through upgrades. Again, you will need some proper technical talent to keep the system running smoothly.

Vorteile

1. Highly configurable and adaptable according to your business need and requirement.
2. You can use things like Macros, custom modules etc to design configurable website.
3. Kentico provides great marketing campaign inbuilt for you website which you can configure from kentico admin panel to sent promotional mails ,offers etc
4. Provides support to wide range of approach like portal engine, MVC etc.
5. You can design great website by just dragging and dropping the webparts.
6. Site editor can easily manage the content displayed on the site and can also change layouts by dragging and dropping the component.
7. Provides feature like ecommerce also.
8. Provides analytics also to your website which you can see from kentico admin panel.

Nachteile

The only con that i can think of is that the price is on bit higher end.

Vorteile

Feature set continues to improve with every upgrade (and the upgrades are regular).

Nachteile

Pricing can be very harsh.

Vorteile

The website is very nice looking. We've been able to put some pretty complicated customization in place. We have over 400 content pages on our website.

Nachteile

The team that implemented this website went for a highly customized version. It makes any change to the website very difficult- even for seasoned kentico professionals. And, the back-end data is a mess. I have to view three different reports to get information on my users, their subscriptions and activity. It's been a challenge.

Vorteile

Kentico EMS's MVC page builder system is very flexible and easy to develop in. Sections, Widgets, even Page Templates all follow the same patterns and allow for simple and quick creation to more complex implementations. Kentico itself has been building a rich set of tools and features that makes creating complex systems, integrations, and management a breeze. There hasn't been anything we haven't been able to build in Kentico.

Nachteile

Only down side is the software has become so feature-rich and powerful, that it has started to migrate away from the smaller business market and is priced outside of smaller site builds.

Vorteile

Comes with many of features / widgets out of the box making it pretty quick to get started. Can be customized to add features specific to the customers business. Content can be synchronized between environments. Many built in integrations with third party systems. Great support.

Nachteile

Can take a little to get use to the dashboard interface initially but pretty easy to understand afterwards.

Vorteile

It allows to quickly build complex, modern looking, responsive web pages. It has an intuitive staging to live site workflow. It allows to add custom code (html, css, bootstrap). It also has tools to add metadata to the page for SEO improvement. You can build custom forms and a sophisticated media library. It allows a good integration with extraneous data sources.

Nachteile

Building forms (especially a layout and validation) could be a bit of a burden.

Vorteile

From a content admin perspective Kentico is easy to use. I can easily create blog posts and manage my company's website.

Nachteile

Kentico could use some work with their email marketing features, they aren't very user friendly and can be confusing to work in.

Vorteile

The way content is structured and organized in Kentico is very intuitive, and allows you to structure your navigation based on how you structure your content. It's also very simple to assign roles to different areas of your site, so that you can restrict which users have access to make updates to specific sections.

Nachteile

There aren't a lot of cons - maybe Kentico's need to try to get the CMS to do *everything*. For instance, you're far better off using Google Analytics than Kentico's built-in analytics.

Vorteile

Kentico is a great software for managing content for websites. I used it daily to manage the content for my university website and its a very convenient way to update the content. We can add pages, modify them, add widgets and perform all the actions to keep the website updated.

Nachteile

I love this software, so it's difficult to point out the negative things. But, I feel that it would be better if it could be directly integrated with the Siteimprove software and we can do the updates directly. Instead of accessing both the softwares individually.

Vorteile

Great WYSIWYG, and the ability to tag/categorize and filter content.

Nachteile

Sometimes Kentico can be slow on deploying code fixes, upgrades and sister software (such as Cloud/Kontent). In the backend, one huge frustration is the drop-and-drag only option for moving content items in the tree.

Vorteile

Very Easy to use CMS which provides many features to handle sites content directly from the browser. Many Web Parts available which reduce work of writing number of lines of codes.

Nachteile

Should Provide Chat Customer Support, normally Kentico`s support team asked to send email for this issue, when we call them.

Vorteile

It provides customers with all powerful, effective and comprehensive tools plus customer centric solutions in order to create stunning websites. It is one of the fantastic CMS that is frequently used for E-Commerce websites. It consists of very excellent features to handle site contents in a better way.

Nachteile

When I talk about cons I hardly find even a single. It is quite expensive software so that people can not easily buy this software. Sometimes while designing simple templates, it takes several steps so in this way it wastes time of the users. I would like to suggest one thing that is chat customer support should be available in this software.

Vorteile

All the features, scale-ability and ease of use.

Nachteile

There is a learning curve.

Vorteile

The CMS is not too difficult to learn, the website is attractive.

Nachteile

The EMS features are really built for specific industries. The conversions are build for e-commerce, which isn't what my company does, therefore every out-of-the box solution needs customization.

It's interesting to work through a third-party partner to implement a website and work through their developers to customize, rather than working with Kentico representatives. I have never had that experience with a CMS.

Vorteile

So many features it’s very versatile and powerful

Nachteile

Takes a while to implement features which is a bit of a pain

Vorteile

Kentico is truly the easiest CMS I have ever worked in. It is easy for beginners and advanced webmasters to use. The customization and integration capabilities, as well as the marketing features, make this investment worth every penny. Clients love working on their site with Kentico.

Vorteile

Salesforce integration

Nachteile

Very very limited in things you can do.
It takes several steps just to design a single template
UI is not very friendly

Vorteile

Easy to use/navigate/learn
simple interface
room for us to grow and use even more functionality into the future without additional cost

Nachteile

There's always a learning curve with any new system, and the initial work required a developer to get the site up and running to our specifications.

Vorteile

Kentico CMS has wide feature set, it's extremely reliable and allows custom development easily. Support is highly responsive and anyone working as a support rep has a deep knowledge of the system.

Nachteile

The highest edition, Kentico EMS represents a full digital marketing solution yet it's pricing makes it less affordable for small businesses.

Vorteile

It is more affordable than say a site core and the support is better. Tool has shown progressive improvements over last 5 years and growing community of people who support the product vs. curse it

Nachteile

Marketing features like email submission need to be enhanced and there are a few more areas in the enterprise level like multi site management that need to be improved upon. They work, just not the greatest.

Vorteile

The system allows for multiple logins at one time and is accessible remotely. Appreciate the clear hierarchy of content, the overall design, and ease of navigation. The History to compare and identify prior content changes is a great feature. Also, appreciate the log of system errors in identifying and tracking problem points within the site.

Nachteile

The "Help" articles are technical, as they should be, but often challenging to understand for novice users with little CMS/HTML knowledge.

Vorteile

Kentico is a great CMS provided in .Net technology. It helps creating websites on the fly. Provides lot of add-ons which adds more functionality to the websites.

Nachteile

It helps creating good looking and manageable websites. Updating sites with Kentico CMS back-end is easy. It helps non technical users to update content.

Vorteile

Kentico is the best tool to manage eCommerce based websites. It provides a number of features to be configured for the eCommerce functionality. Helps developers to write less code and perform various operations from the inbuilt libraries. Performance of the applications are good with Kentico.

Vorteile

Kentico is a nice CMS and works on any hosting server for us. We can easily design websites using Kentico and create required pages.

Nachteile

It let us update the content of the pages by logging to the admin interface of the website. It helps keeping the website secure and updated.

Vorteile

Kentico is a .Net based app which helps building websites for our customers. Its an easy to use package and helps managing website content

Vorteile

The MVC structure with the ability to develop like WordPress, it's been easier to use this than writing several lines of code in Visual Studio.

Nachteile

Generating Keys and linking it to visual studio was a challenge, although the FAQ or the Knowledgebase provides enough support to set it up.

Vorteile

Kentico has been a great solution to be used by our .Net team. It helps developing websites within 1 week. Helps with managing content easily.

Vorteile

It's fairly easy to use and seems to have a lot of capabilities. Excited to see what marketing automation offerings are available.

Nachteile

Pretty slow to get onboarded and to implement new changes. I want to be able to use it quickly and efficiently but every upgrade and/or customization seems to take a lot of time.

Vorteile

- We used Kentico as our content management system for 2 years and found it to be very dependable, and made great use of the configurability of the software

Nachteile

- The analytics side of the system is sometimes lacking, which is why we eventually decided to switch.

Vorteile

1. Easy configurations with .NET
2. Robust features make it easy to use and powerful
3. Good SEO tools support.
4. Easy to use Admin part

Nachteile

1. Price is bit at higher side, that Kentico need to think of.

Vorteile

Easy to build custom websites. Enterprise Marketing Solution is a really powerful tool to personalize content.

Nachteile

They don't have a solution ready to use for small companies. I'd like to use the Kentico in small companies but we can't meet the budget.