A Guide to Sitefinity Elite Partners

Partners Like InGen Benefit Enterprise Websites

WHAT IS SITEFINITY?

Sitefinity is a very particular piece of software called a CMS, or content management system. To put it simply, it's an incredible opportunity to not only create the type of meaningful content that your customers will respond to online, but also store and manage that content, and even present it on your website in the best possible way.

This is all critical because in the modern era, content really is the best way to strike a chord with your target audience. Not only is it a great way to present your brand as a thought leader in your industry, but it's also a perfect way to help people warm up to the idea of making a purchase, help people get more out of purchases they've already made, and much, much more.

Still, the actual process of creating that content is equal parts time-consuming and work intensive. At any given moment, you probably have multiple employees planning out pieces, working on content and performing other essential tasks. A CMS solution like Sitefinity is a great way to allow these people to work more efficiently, making sure that they have everything they need to get that content live without requiring any knowledge of coding or other web development skills.

No discussion of Sitefinity pros and cons would be complete without what is perhaps the most important advantage of all: the ability to create a truly cohesive, unified look by way of pages and page templates. In essence, Sitefinity features pages and page templates to give you a chance to best present your website in the most consistent way possible. You can easily build and structure your website in the exact way you want it to maximize your first impression with someone, all without needing to hire a dedicated web developer to do it. You can even better define the functionality of your site to meet your needs by adding widgets like login and navigational tools. One look at the Sitefinity documentation reveals that these options are every bit as easy to use as you hope they can be.

Still, Sitefinity does come with a bit of a learning curve attached to it - especially if you're just starting to use a CMS for the first time. This type of software is nothing if not malleable - meaning that it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different businesses. That's where it can prove important to have a partner like InGen by your side - they can help you make sense of the Sitefinity documentation and learn more about the Sitefinity features that matter most to you.

Based on what you're trying to accomplish with your content, your website and your online presence in general, InGen can help you leverage the Sitefinity features that make accomplishing those goals easier than you could have ever thought possible. What you'll be left with is a perfect digital representation of your brand and an incredible sales tool that will make meaningful connections with customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

SITEFINITY PARTNERS

Another important part of the Sitefinity experience you should be aware of takes the form of the Progress Sitefinity Partner program. These partners play an important role in helping organizations of all sizes and across all industries transform and successfully operate their businesses based on exactly what they need such a powerful CMS tool for in the first place.

InGen, for just one example, is both a Progress Sitefinity Delivery Partner and Sitefinity Partner - meaning that they are in a unique position to help organizations like yours get the most out of their Sitefinity deployment. As a Sitefinity Elite Partner, the hardworking and passionate team at InGen have earned the reputation of completing turnkey Sitefinity implementations for a wide array of different businesses. They can even assist with any troubleshooting issues that you may have to course correct from certain mistakes that you've made in the past.

Overall, InGen specializes in helping to create order out of chaos. The mission statement of the organization is to help businesses like yours stop losing leads and wasting money on an enterprise website that isn't actually providing you the value that you need. Never forget that in the best of circumstances, your website problems absolutely shouldn't be dominating the majority of your time. While no digital resource is perfect, if you feel like you're spinning your wheels when it comes to managing both the costs and the complexities of running your site, you absolutely need a CMS solution like Sitefinity and you need one right away.

When you partner with the team at InGen, you'll have access to a dedicated group of professionals who can help leverage the full might of Sitefinity to your advantage. As a Sitefinity and Progress Partner, InGen can help you get the most value for your time and money and dramatically improve your ability to interact with your target audience in one fell swoop.

What you'll be left with is a wide array of different benefits, most of which would be difficult (if not outright impossible) to get on your own. First, you'll be able to breathe easier knowing that you have a website that just works. It'll be faster and more efficient in all the right ways, acting as a true competitive edge in your industry. Likewise, you'll be able to get more time back in your day because you'll be focusing on far fewer problems on your own. This will free up as much of your valuable time as possible to focus on those matters that actually demand your attention.

But most importantly, you'll be able to harness actionable insights to achieve business goals like you never thought possible. Once you have the might of InGen's measurable and actionable data analytics by your side, you'll have everything you need to always make the best decisions possible in the moment. This means that you'll be able to capitalize on opportunities for advancement soon after they appear instead of watching them pass you by, which is an incredibly exciting position for any business owner to be in.

SITEFINITY CLOUD

Finally, no discussion of Sitefinity would be complete without touching on what may very well be the most important component of all: Sitefinity Cloud.

To give a Sitefinity Cloud solution overview, what you're talking about is a resource designed to help you dramatically minimize IT complexity and overhead, all while meeting your business demands and exceeding your expectations across the board.

Hosted by the team at Progress in a state-of-the-art, fully secure Microsoft Azure environment, only Sitefinity Cloud allows you to develop, run, manage and secure the types of meaningful digital experiences your customers are clamoring for - all without having to build and maintain this type of complicated infrastructure on your own.

Never forget that in the modern era, digital experiences themselves are becoming the key competitive advantage for businesses like yours. There are a lot of companies out there who probably offer products and services like yours. Consumers have more choice than ever. But the thing that matters is that nobody does what you do quite like how you do it. If you're able to position yourself to emphasize and capitalize on those qualities that make you unique, you'll be able to show people what it's like to work with you in a way that immediately lets you stand out in a crowd.

This, in essence, is why Sitefinity Cloud is of paramount importance. Because it's a full platform-as-a-service offering that is hosted entirely in Microsoft Azure, it significantly reduces the need for any type of internal infrastructure management for your business. Despite this, you can use an autoscaling infrastructure to your advantage that is backed by not only a 99.9% service level availability, but also support that you can tap into 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

All this and you get best-in-class performance with an industry leading content delivery network (CDN) and autoscaling that lets you blow past all of the performance requirements that have become so essential in the fast-paced digital world that we're currently living in.

Sitefinity Cloud pricing is available in a few different tiers for you to choose from depending on your needs, all of which allow you to remain competitive by accelerating development, testing and even deployment - all while reducing overhead at the same time.

Tier 1 comes with one included domain and support for up to a million page views per month. For one fixed, predictable price you get 10 users for the included management portal, support for 100 websites and a 99.9% uptime service level availability.

Tier 2 keeps that one supported domain but increases the page views to up to 50 million per month. You can add an additional 10 users for the included management portal for a total of 20, and you get support for up to 1000 different websites.

Tier 3 is the most significant of them all, offering one included domain and support for up to 30 million page views per month. Up to 30 users can gain access to the management portal at any given time, and you get support for the same 1000 websites as the previous tier. Pricing for each of these tiers will be based on which version of Sitefinity you purchase, and that information is only available after getting in direct contact with the vendor itself.

But as stated in the Sitefinity Cloud overview, this is a powerful tool that you absolutely do not want to use on your own. Only a partner like InGen can help with all things Sitefinity in a way that helps you get the most out of your deployment, helps you improve your return on investment and helps you create better digital experiences for your customers - all at the exact same time.

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