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Headless-Ready CMS, Built
for Marketers and Developers

Deliver personalized experiences to any device with Sitefinity headless-ready CMS. Combine API-first content delivery with marketer-friendly tools. Get the flexibility developers want and the speed, personalization and governance business teams need from a headless CMS.

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Why you should go headless with Sitefinity

Why Organizations Choose Sitefinity
Headless CMS

Move faster

Editors ship pages without tickets; developers build with modern frameworks and clean separation of concerns.

Lower total effort

Consolidate tooling and reduce maintenance with three‑layer decoupling and simpler upgrades.

Performance you can trust

Sustain speed under load with output caching and a tiered design.

Flexibility without lock-in

Choose renderers and integrate via APIs, SDKs and connectors as needs evolve.

Experiences Across Channels & Teams

Operate one content layer for websites, SPAs, mobile apps, portals and emerging endpoints (AR/IoT) on a headless CMS platform — while marketing retains visual control and IT governs at scale.

  • Global/multisite estates

    Central governance with local agility across brands, languages and regions.

  • Experience-rich web apps

    Modern Next.js/React/Angular front-ends backed by stable editorial workflows.

  • Authenticated experiences

    Ability to syndicate content and personalize for customers, members and partners.

  • Omnichannel reuse

    One source of truth for web, mobile and beyond.

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What Makes Sitefinity CMS Different

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Performance & scale

Deliver fast, reliable experiences with the OData output cache and a decoupled, tiered architecture. 

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Front‑end choice

Render with ASP.NET Core or power React / Angular / Next.js / Vue / Gatsby using the same APIs.

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API‑first delivery

Leverage standard‑compliant REST/OData content endpoints for websites, SPAs, mobile apps, portals and more.

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Hybrid-headless model

Decouple content from presentation while retaining visual page building, personalization and governance for editors.

Three Steps to Headless CMS

  • Step 1 — Model & Create

    Define structured content types and templates so marketers can assemble pages with drag-and-drop blocks while staying on brand.

  • Step 2 — Deliver via APIs

    Expose content through REST/OData and choose ASP.NET Core or modern JS frameworks for presentation—then connect with the tools you already use via SDKs and integration patterns.

  • Step 3 — Optimize & Govern

    Personalize experiences, use approval workflows and tune caching profiles to keep performance high across channels—without coupling editors to any single front end.

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Built for Speed, Scale and Simplicity

  • Decoupled by design

    Presentation, content/admin and data operate as independent tiers for reliability and simpler upgrades.

  • Caching where it counts

    OData output cache and distributed output cache keep API responses fast at scale.

  • Open & extensible

    Page Layout and companion services expose structure/content to any renderer; extend via APIs and SDKs.

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"Integrating new rendering components in Next.js is proving to be a really powerful framework for building modern web apps.”

Ross Whisson

Technical Project Lead for Racing WA, The Brand Agency

"Sitefinity is a one-of-a kind DX platform that solves for a variety of use cases. Compared to other DXP platforms, Sitefinity is the easiest to use, based on its user-friendly interface and visual design tools. We also like that it offers out-of-the box integration with third-party systems, making it easy to incorporate other tools and technologies into a website or application.”

Rojan Ulak

Senior Manager, Software Engineering, DART

"The flexibility of Sitefinity allows us to constantly evolve our website to meet our users’ needs without requiring extensive development.”

Micaela Cassisa

Digital Marketing Manager at Mater Private Network

"ASP.NET Core provides us scalability, which is really nice for handling website traffic. We can have as many ASP.NET Core frontend applications as we want, but we still only need one backend application running.”

Jacob Grosser

Managing Director of Marketing and Communications at USA Swimming

"Sitefinity serves as our single source of truth—real-time updates reach clinicians everywhere they practice.”

Yash Chitale

Senior Product Manager at Royal College of Radiologists

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