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Mobile Website CMS: Sitecore vs Sitefinity

August 9th, 2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

Here is a quick case study I did for mobile CMSs.

Here I have considered two paid popular CMS systems based on internet search results.

Conclusion: Both CMS systems are basically built for PC based browsers but provide support for mobile devices additionally. Pricing is high so not recommended if what we need is just the mobile website.

Sitecore

Sitefinity

Official URL

http://www.sitecore.net

http://www.sitefinity.com/

Developer

Sirecore Corporation

Telerik Inc.

Development Platform

.NET 4.0

.NET 4.0

Dedicated for Mobile?

No, Made for the normal website but dedicated functionality available to support mobile devices.

No, Made for the normal website but dedicated functionality available to support mobile devices.

Pricing

No indication on the official website but sources say licensing starts with $ 15,000

Professional license – USD 7999
Up to 10 CMS users

Need to contact Telerik to get customized package

Features

Same content to multiple devices

Multi-Device Design allows the content to automatically convert and deliver to match smartphones and tablets and RSS fields

Auto detects the type of device & screen resolution and service optimized content for the target device.

Auto detects the type of device & screen resolution and service optimized content for the target device.

Emulators available for Android and iOS devices for preview

Same contents to targeted devices

Can detect the type of device and provide pre-defined device specific content

Can detect the type of device and provide pre-defined device specific content

Handling of new devices

Built with future devices also in mind

Control page layouts

Yes

Form creation

Easy form creation to capture information from visitors without developer’s support

Supports progressive profiling which allows asking additional questions to already filled-in forms

Business logic workflow possible

Easy integration with CRM/ERP

Through .NET development & module builder

Personalized contents

Can provide personalized contents based on type of visitor segmentation and categorization

Editor

WYSIWYG Editor with Preview feature

WYSIWYG Editor with Preview feature

Multi-lingual

Yes

Need to customize

SEO Friendly

Yes

Scalability

Scale the website easily as the content grows

Performance

High availability and intelligent caching

Cloud Support

Cloud-Ready feature available for scaling the resources quickly.

Extendibility

Follows an Open Architecture which allows the development of extensions and modifications

Rich set of APIs with 1300+ classes

Can use pre-defined .NET controls and traditional and custom ASP.NET controls

Can use pre-defined .NET controls and traditional and custom ASP.NET controls

Module Builder available

Developer Community

Available

Available

Developer contributions

Components, Templates and other useful code available from the Sitecore developer community

Enterprise capabilities

Built for the Enterprise requirements

· Site Control – customizable workflow process for versioning, approvals, incremental publishing, notifications, and archiving

· Data Integration – Can connect to any database, webservice or system with pre-build connectors, data abstraction layers and out-of-box integration capabilities. Can connect to SharePoint as well

· Deployment Model – Can follow traditional or cloud

· Security – Access control with role, user and group. Can integrate with Active Directory (AD). Uses .NET security model

Community recommendation

Recommended

No much recommendations found

One website reports this do not have good support for SEO

There are dedicated Mobile CMS systems available like the ones below but not much recommendations available on internet.

· Mobile Jooma – Open Source/PHP – http://www.mobilejoomla.com/

· NetObjects – commercial – https://netobjects.mobi/ – for static websites with contact forms

· WordPress mobile extensions – PHP

· Bricks & Mobile – http://www.brickandmobile.com

· Mofuse – http://mofuse.com/

· piJnz – http://pijnz.com/

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  • http://gabesumner.com/ Gabe Sumner

    Hi Praveen. Full disclosure, I work for Telerik – so take what I say with a grain of salt. ;) We greatly appreciate that you took the time to evaluate Sitefinity. The challenge with any marginally complex CMS is that there are numerous ways to tackle a given problem. Form building, as any example. You’re correct this can be tackled in Sitefinity using a WebForms control or an MVC view. Or it could be done with our Module Builder, if you need to define a new data model / content type. Or it could be done with our Form Builder – which is designed with end-users in mind (drag & drop) and generates email responses. This post serves as a nice overview / reference, but there are several items like this where our answer is similarly nuanced. In general, we love to hear customers describe their core challenge or objective – then we can suggest the path we’ve envisioned. Either way, thanks so much for taking a look at Sitefinity.

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  • http://www.ninethsense.com/ Praveen V Nair

    Hi Gabe,

    Very happy to see your comment and thank you for visiting my blog.

    The post was based on the info on Internet and the post is definitely not complete. I know this gives more importance to Sitecore. I had only 1-2 hours before a client meeting and was really quick in analysis. I had installed the trial on my laptop but was not working that that time so did not do much research. But I will do more study and publish more details. Also you can see I haven’t touched tech words like MVC etc. because I had business clients in mind.

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  • http://www.ninethsense.com/ Praveen V Nair

    Hi Gabe,

    Very happy to see your comment and thank you for visiting my blog.

    The post was based on the info on Internet and the post is definitely
    not complete. I know this gives more importance to Sitecore. I spent only 2-3 hours so it was really a quick analysis. I
    had installed the trial on my laptop but was not working that that time
    so did not do much research. But I will do more study and publish more
    details. Also you can see I haven’t touched tech words like MVC etc.
    because I had business clients in mind.

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