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CMS for Energy and Utilities to Improve Customer Experience and Enable Self-Service 

Deliver self-service portals, real-time updates and connected customer experiences

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Your Challenge

Meeting Rising Expectations Across the Customer Experience

Energy and utility providers are under growing pressure to deliver fast, reliable digital experiences that make it easier for customers to complete essential tasks online. From outage reporting to bill payment and account access, your digital experience needs to reduce friction, support self-service and connect the systems behind every interaction.

Enable Customer Self-Service

Customers expect to handle routine tasks on their own, whether they need to access account information, report an outage, pay a bill or find service updates. When these journeys are incomplete, difficult to use or limited to certain devices, support demand increases and the customer experience suffers.

Deliver Connected Digital Journeys

Customers compare every digital interaction to the best experiences they have elsewhere. They expect fast, connected journeys that let them complete key tasks without switching channels, repeating steps or waiting for support. Meeting those expectations requires consistent, always-available experiences across web and mobile touchpoints.

Scale Digital Services with Confidence

As digital expectations grow, energy and utility teams need a platform that supports new services, content and customer journeys without adding unnecessary operational complexity. Teams need the flexibility to evolve their digital experience over time while maintaining speed, consistency and control.

Connect Legacy and Business-Critical Systems

Many organizations depend on long-standing systems for billing, service management and customer data. When those systems remain disconnected, it becomes harder to deliver accurate information, automate workflows and give customers a consistent experience across channels.

Our Solution

Drive Online Customer Interactions with Sitefinity

Sitefinity CMS helps energy and utility providers deliver secure self-service, real-time updates and connected digital experiences across every customer touchpoint. From content governance and AI-powered search to system integration and personalization, it gives communications, marketing and IT teams the tools to improve service while reducing operational complexity.

Operate on a secure, enterprise-grade, cloud-first CMS built for regulated utilities with 99.95% uptime, built-in compliance and reduced infrastructure burden on IT teams.

Reduce call center demand and improve satisfaction with secure, personalized self-service portals that enable customers to manage account information, report outages, pay bills and resolve issues independently.

Empower marketing teams to deliver personalized, targeted content and messaging using unified customer insights from the native CDP Sitefinity Insight—without reliance on IT.

Help users find accurate answers instantly with AI-powered conversational, context-aware search that surfaces trusted information from across your systems and content.

Integrate with CIS, CRM and billing systems and deliver real-time, multi-channel content with low and no-code pre-built connectors and a flexible, API-driven CMS platform.

Marketing teams manage websites, portals and digital experiences from a centralized platform using structured content,  while IT maintains governance, security and architectural control. 

Sitefinity in Action: Energy and Utilities

From customer self-service to outage communications and account management, Sitefinity CMS has been proven to help energy and utility providers deliver digital experiences that are easier to manage and better for customers to use.

Why Do Energy and Utilities Organizations Choose Sitefinity?

Energy and utility providers choose Sitefinity CMS because it helps both communications and IT teams deliver better digital experiences with less complexity. From easier content management to flexible integrations, Sitefinity CMS gives teams the user-friendly tools they need to adapt faster as their needs evolve.

“Sitefinity allows our communication department to update the sites themselves without IT intervention and it also provides our customers with a mobile friendly website.”

Administrator in the Utilities Industry

“Within one month of launch, helpdesk requests were down 80% Once stakeholders got comfortable managing their content, and that did not take long, the changes to our internal processes were dramatic. Using simple templates, stakeholders now create their content and put it through an approval cycle—without any IT involvement. Our IT team is free to focus on higher priority development projects.”

Jacqui Safis, eBusiness Solutions Manager, NorthWestern Energy

Frequently Asked Questions

Energy and utilities organizations need a CMS that does more than publish website content. It should support self-service, secure customer access, real-time updates and integration with systems like CIS, CRM and billing platforms. Sitefinity CMS helps teams manage public websites, authenticated portal experiences and service content from one platform, with structured content, workflow automation, multisite support and enterprise governance built in, making it easier to support outage communications, account-related content and customer journeys without creating more operational complexity.

A CMS helps reduce support demand when it makes common customer tasks easier to complete online. With Sitefinity CMS, teams can deliver self-service portals for account dashboards, billing history, service requests, knowledge bases and protected documents, while also surfacing timely updates and support content on the public site. Sitefinity CMS for energy and utilities also provides AI-powered, context-aware search, which helps users find trusted answers from across systems and content faster instead of calling support.

A strong customer portal CMS should support authenticated experiences, role-based access, integration with business systems and the ability to manage both public and secure content together. Sitefinity CMS supports authenticated portal experiences connected to core business systems while maintaining clear ownership between marketing and IT. That means organizations can build secure self-service portals for customers, manage content centrally and deliver personalized, role-based experiences without splitting portal and website management across separate tools.

Yes. Sitefinity CMS is built to connect with external systems through APIs, built-in connectors and middleware options. Its integration capabilities include support for REST and GraphQL APIs and Sitefinity Integration Hub for low-code and no-code connectivity across a broad range of systems like CIS, CRM and billing integrations, so teams can bring together customer data, service information and content to support more connected digital experiences.

Yes. Sitefinity CMS supports both traditional personalization and newer AI-driven dynamic experience capabilities. Its core personalization features allow teams to tailor content by widget, page, template and audience segment, including persona-based targeting and testing when using Sitefinity Insight. It also supports real-time, intent-driven experiences through dynamically generated experiences, where Progress Agentic RAG uses approved content sources and editor-defined layouts to assemble more relevant content based on visitor intent and context while staying within governance guardrails.

Energy and utilities organizations choose Sitefinity CMS because it helps them improve self-service, modernize customer experiences and manage complexity across teams and systems. Sitefinity CMS combines secure portal capabilities, AI-powered search, personalization, workflow automation, integration options and centralized governance in one platform. That allows organizations to support essential digital journeys such as outage reporting, account access, bill payment and service updates while giving communications teams more publishing independence and IT teams the control needed in regulated, enterprise environments.

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Deliver better self-service, reduce support demand and improve customer experiences with Sitefinity CMS.