Sitefinity is a market-leading, .NET-based Web Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Marketing Platform from Progress, a company with a mission “to help people build and deliver engaging customer experiences”.
Sitefinity offers the following key advantages for units at U of I:
- Significant cost-savings (a tiny fraction of the price one would pay today) for a market-leading product thanks to grandfathered Enterprise licensing from 2010 (for sites within illinois.edu and uic.edu domains). Learn more…
- Best of breed web editor experience, including Inline Editor, and the popular RAD Editor.
- Best of breed developer solution, including a robust API, full .NET, MVC, Microsoft IDE support/integration.
- Best-of-breed Multi-Site Manager feature delivers significant value for units wishing to leverage investment in a primary site (design, content, features) for “sister” or “derivative” sites.
- Optimize your Digital Marketing with Multi-Site Manager, deep Google Analytics integration, sophisticated “customer journey” analysis, optimization and personalization.
- Support from vendor.
- Support from and collaboration with local Sitefinity experts — the U of I “birds of a feather” group. Great for sharing solutions and code for common needs such as accessibilty, emergency notification, integration with digital signage, webtools (e.g., News & Events), directory, course catalog, etc.