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We performed a comparison between Kentico and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable features are its integration capabilities and advanced marketing suite.""I would say they have a modern, flexible, agile content management system."

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"The product provides flexibility in collaboration.""We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform.""It improved transparency around work products.""For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature.""The search feature is valuable.""Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system.""I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well.""Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."

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Cons
"They don't have a lot of libraries, which is something that they can improve on.""This product needs an out of the box Intranet/Extranet Solution."

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"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases.""The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised.""Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA.""SharePoint’s scalability could be improved.""SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason.""The initial setup was very complex.""The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement.""The limitations and boundaries must be extended."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing fees are probably about $100,000 USD per year."
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  • "As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."
  • "Licensing can be by server or by seat."
  • "It is very expensive.​"
  • "The data classification and search elements are cheap."
  • "The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
  • "We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
  • "The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."
  • "The pricing works for us."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Absolutely! I can't stress enough how important marketing is for the digital experience you're giving to customers. If you want to reach your clients through multiple channels, each type of content… more »
    Top Answer:In my experience, Kentico has been a very flexible and easy-to-use content management system. Keep in mind that we haven't been using it for a while because our management decided to change DXPs for… more »
    Top Answer:Hello, I think Kentico will serve you well as a digital experience platform and especially for commerce purposes. We at my company have been using this feature of the DXP as well because we recently… more »
    Top Answer:Alfresco scores are high on all features of an ECM solution and tools.   Back office processing, rated as 3.36 good.  Business Process Application 3.55 Good to excellent.  Document Management 4.12… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing is competitive. That's why almost all the companies are using SharePoint. I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. When we buy the license, the person buying must be well-educated on how the… more »
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    Also Known As
    SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
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    Overview

    Kentico is a high-quality digital experience platform that allows companies and organizations to reach customers across different channels through its content management, digital marketing, and e-commerce features. Kentico offers easy-to-use applications that allow even beginners to create a working DXP that will benefit their organization as well as the users on their platform. Kentico also provides a way for companies to track the satisfaction of their customers through a detailed customer data platform that is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other data regulations. Companies can receive insight into different target groups within their customer base. This top-quality feature of Kentico helps businesses to adapt to the needs of their customers and make their DX more successful.

    Kentico Features

    Kentico’s value-added features include:

    • Content management: Page builder, option for structured content, digital asset management, multilingual content, workflows and versioning, multi-site management.

    • Digital marketing: Kentico offers companies a variety of features regarding the creation of successful digital marketing for their brands, ensuring the vast reach of their content. Features in this category include market automation and personalization, content management, email marketing, social marketing, recommendations, search, form builder, and SEO optimization.

    • Digital commerce: Shopping cart and checkout process, payment and shipping options, promotion and discounts, product information management and multi-store management, and commerce integration. To provide you with the ability to reach an international client base, Kentico also offers multilingual shopping.

    • Customer data: An efficient digital experience platform should be able to provide companies with the ability to track and analyze customer data to be able to act accordingly and improve its services to benefit clients. Kentico offers features that include contact management, segmentation, activity tracking, lead scoring, personas, and data protection, to ensure that the DXP complies with all data protection regulations.

    • Analytics: Kentico also offers features like A/B testing, web analytics, and reporting, to provide companies with data about performance of the DXP.

    • Platform: Headless API, deployment tools, MVC development, and cloud deployment help businesses build and maintain their digital experience platforms.

    • Integrations: There are various integration features that this DXP provides for its clients, including out-of-the-box integrations, translation management, and integration bus.

    Kentico Benefits

    The Kentico digital experience platform offers its users the following benefits:

    • Easy content management
    • Ability to maximize ROI
    • Option to launch a DXP with low to no code
    • Digital experience maturity
    • Solutions for multichannel marketing

    Reviews from Real Users

    Kentico is a modern, flexible and agile content management system, according to the President at a tech services company that uses the DXP for UI and website development.

    SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

    Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

    Sample Customers
    Gibson Musical Instruments, Mazda, Segway, Twinings, Ingram Micro, Allergan, Kingspan
    Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Real Estate/Law Firm13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    University8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise44%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Kentico is ranked 11th in Web Content Management while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Web Content Management with 146 reviews. Kentico is rated 9.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Kentico writes "The advanced marketing suite has helped us to establish our US business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Kentico is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress, HubSpot CMS Hub, Sitecore Experience Platform and Liferay Digital Experience Platform, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress.

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