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Features for IT Managers

Granular access rights on a user or role level

Sitefinity supports different authentication methods (Active Directory, Windows Authentication, forms authentication, etc). To maintain the integrity of your website, Sitefinity also allows you to set extremely granular security with unique user-level permissions attached to everything in the CMS from a single content item, to pages, CMS settings, and configuration. For easier management, you can assign users to groups who share similar roles and therefore need similar permissions.

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System workflows

Sitefinity adapts to the way you work and to your organization’s business processes. Default workflows support processes involving one or more levels of approval before publishing. For scenarios, which extend beyond content approval, you can upload your own custom workflows, allowing you to:

  • Set conditional approval steps;
  • Apply safeguards to ensure that certain words or phrases will not be published;
  • Receive notifications if someone is away or if there is content pending approval;
  • Many additional features built on top of Windows Workflow Foundation 4.

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Site Synchronization for Multi-site management

Designed especially for the needs of enterprise websites, the new site synchronization technology, based on the CMIS standard, ensures content synchronization of content blocks, news, blogs, documents, videos, pages, templates as well as taxonomies among your servers and websites. You can add as many servers as you need, depending on your infrastructure (example: development, test, production). Whenever you make content updates, you can sync the data to ensure that changes are reflected on all servers and the information is up-to-date on your website.

Integration with Other Systems

Sitefinity CMS brings unprecedented abilities for connectivity and integration with all kinds of external systems and data sources through the following integration points:

  • Provider model allowing Sitefinity to work with multiple data sources in parallel;
  • Publishing system, which makes it easy to expose, consume, aggregate and mashup content from multiple sources, external websites and blogs;
  • Fully exposed RESTful web services;
  • Data feeds, which allow you to easily expose or import CMS content items to external systems via RSS and XML.

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Mobile strategy based on Responsive Design

Sitefinity enables you to deliver a consistent web browsing experience across all devices and platforms through cutting-edge responsive design techniques. You are able to manage both traditional web and mobile experiences within the same environment, ensuring that your website is attractive and easy to read regardless of the device. Sitefinity Mobile Web allows you to:

  • Have only one URL address per page accessible for all devices - no mobile subdomains will be necessary;
  • Easily manage web properties without any additional server logic;
  • Provide accessible content for smaller/bigger screens without the need to detect devices or redirect the user.

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Deployment

Sitefinity offers flexible deployment options based on the needs of your organizations:

  • Windows Azure deployment;
  • Staging and Live Servers;
  • Network load-balanced environment available on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2;
  • Web Farm Framework 2.0;
  • Advanced caching capabilities for ensuring high performance.

Performance

Sitefinity makes minimal use of postbacks and viewstate, relying on the browser to handle client interactions. This technique ensures minimal load on the server. The server-client interaction of data has been optimized to speed access.

  • RESTful web services;
  • Minimal Postbacks & Viewstate;
  • Use of jQuery.

Unlimited Scalability

You can manage websites of any size and scale easily from small micro-sites to multi-instance deployments. Each edition of Sitefinity has been designed to provide a natural and seamless license growth path as the website matures and you need to manage new traffic peaks or new features.

System adoption

Sitefinity uses standard ASP.NET technology such as ASP.NET controls, Master Pages, Themes, providers, WCF, WWF, etc. and feels familiar to .NET developers. This combined with the intuitive UI, that empowers your content authors ensures quick adoption and requires almost no training.

Based on technologies that you already understand

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