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Sitefinity 13.1:
Gain a New Perspective
on Content Management

Develop, deliver and manage enterprise-grade experiences.

Sitefinity 13.1 Highlights

Sitefinity 13.1 enables organizations to improve the online experiences delivered to key personas – customers, partners or employees.

Superior Content Management Experience

Enhanced image, taxonomy and document management tools enable marketer productivity and flexibility.

Scalable Multisite and Multilingual

Increase efficiencies and productivity in a multisite, multilingual environment.

Enhanced HubSpot Connectivity

An upgraded HubSpot Connector allows marketers to personalize, optimize, and analyze cross-channel content with HubSpot data.

Evolving .NET Core Support

Streamline frontend development with the .NET Core developer framework and the new Page Editor.

Key Features

Sitefinity 13.1 further streamlines marketing and development tasks, scales common business and technical challenges, and accelerates teams’ productivity by building on top of Sitefinity 13.0’s features.

  • New in v13.1

    Streamlined Version Upgrades

  • New in v13.1

    Scalable Multisite & Multilingual Management

  • New in v13.1

    Enhanced Hubspot Connectivity

  • Enhanced in v13.1

    Modernized Images, Taxonomy and Document Management

  • Enhanced in v13.1

    .NET Core Renderer and Page Editor

  • Consistent Content Management Experience
  • Persistent Personalization Experiences
  • Comprehensive Personalization View
  • Proactive User Notifications
  • Headless Implementations
  • Google Data Studio Connector

Streamlined Version Upgrades

Sitefinity CLI streamlines the Sitefinity CMS upgrade process. Automate handling broken references, setting the target framework to the relevant framework version, fixing binding redirects, and upgrading all Sitefinity projects in the solution.

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Scalable Multisite & Multilingual Management

Easily implement and manage experiences across multiple sites and content developed in multiple languages with automatic multisite/multilingual start-up for all new projects. Achieve agility in multisite and multilingual content development with improved concurrent editing performance.

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Enhanced Hubspot Connectivity

Sync key HubSpot data with data collected in Sitefinity. Enable marketers to optimize and analyze cross-channel content performance and create personalized content with the data. Quickly embed HubSpot Forms on pages created in Sitefinity to support efficient lead generation and marketing automation.

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Modernized Images, Taxonomy and Document Management

A modernized UI for Documents, Images and Taxonomy management UI, provides marketers an intuitive environment to manage and classify digital assets. Leverage a fluid and consistent backend experience which ensures optimal productivity for users, allowing them to improve the quality and frequency of their output.

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.NET Core Renderer and Page Editor

Streamline frontend development with NET Core. Developers can quickly create and render .NET Core-based content widgets with the .NET Core render and developer framework, while marketers can utilize New Page Editor to build landing pages in minutes.

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Consistent Content Management Experience

The fluid and consistent backend experience ensures optimal productivity for users and enables them to improve the quality of their output while reducing the stress often associated with performing everyday tasks.

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Persistent Personalization Experiences

Enable demand generation and marketing practitioners to deliver tailored messaging to returning visitors. Marketers can deliver consistent personalization based on custom tags such as tittle, campaign source or other attributes stored in the system regardless of the initial touch point.

Track visitors web journey

Comprehensive Personalization View

Gain new metrics and a redesigned report that provides a comprehensive view of personalization initiatives and enables marketers to gain deeper insight into the performance of their content.

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Proactive User Notifications

Increase conversions or spot problems before they negatively impact the business through proactive notifications to users through Sitefinity Insight (formerly Digital Experience Cloud) with new ML-driven capabilities powered by Azure Cognitive Services Cloud.

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Headless Implementations

Let a genuinely decoupled system supercharge your front-end development. Unlock custom integrations. Develop and deliver across platforms and devices.

Sitefinity now offers a page layout service that decouples content from presentation when distributing content to external channels. Marketers can control the look and feel of the presentation layer as they deliver content to a myriad of touch points including legacy websites, desktop and responsive applications, digital signage and more.

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Multichannel Content Management with Decoupled Headless CMS

Google Data Studio Connector

Connect to Google Data Studio to enable marketers to export data from Sitefinity Insight and expand data analysis options.

Google Studio Connector

Release Timeline

Sitefinity 13.1
Released: Sep 2, 2020
Release notes 13.1
Sitefinity 13.0
Released: May 14, 2020
Release notes 13.0
Sitefinity 12.2
Released: Nov 6, 2019
Release notes 12.2

Why Upgrade?

Put marketers in control and keep your business growing with the latest features, improved security and performance.
  • Stay Up to Date
    Simply put, upgrading your website regularly just makes things better.
  • Stay in Shape
    We continuously improve Sitefinity to make it faster, more capable and more secure.
  • Leverage the Latest Features
    We ship amazing new functionality with each product release.

Explore Previous Sitefinity Versions

Effortlessly Create and Deliver Fresh and Relevant Content

Ucommerce and Sitefinity are seamlessly integrated so that you can easily manage your web shop right within Sitefinity. This impressive combination allows you to align your content and commerce strategy to build the most engaging digital customer experience ever.
  • Intuitive Content Creation
  • Related Content on the Go
  • Powerful Page Management Experience
  • Consistent User Experience
  • Customizable Back-end Interface
  • One-Click Content Synchronization

Intuitive Content Creation

Introduced with Sitefinity 12, the new Content block utilizes a simple, sleek and powerful interface that enables authors and editors to easily create, format and manage static and structured content and media. Full control over markup with syntax highlighting, code validation and autocomplete gives power users the freedom to do more and make their content look better than ever.

Intuitive Content Creation

Related Content on the Go

Do all kinds of essential tasks faster with contextual toolsets that let you easily search, find and embed all kinds of related content from multiple sources. Make a mistake? Simply revert to a previous version of your pages, including media items, when necessary.
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Powerful Page Management Experience

Page creation is as easy as it gets thanks to the faster, highly optimized page management interface. Put marketers in control with an easy-to-use page management interface requires fewer clicks and minimum user input. At the same time, content creators still have full control over URLs, page titles, SEO properties, OpenGraph and taxonomy to maximize the potential of their content marketing initiatives.

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Consistent User Experience

Powerful page creation and management UI follows the simple and clean design patterns of the new content interface to support multisite, multichannel and multilingual content at scale throughout its entire lifecycle.

Reinvented Media Management

Customizable Back-end Interface

Make the Sitefinity backend feel like home by matching it to your own needs and preferences. Change the grid layout, choose the high-contrast theme or use other accessibility options such as outlining elements when navigating with keyboard. Or, as an author or editor, set the proper interaction and navigation between the editing and management screens to match your style of work.

Sitefinity backend

One-Click Content Synchronization

For important press releases or time-sensitive product launches, Sitefinity 12+ is designed to improve productivity. Content creators can independently promote content, assets and templates from the staging environment to a live website and see the results immediately without risking uptime or affecting performance.

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Powerful B2C and B2B Ecommerce

Customers demand an elevated, personalized and seamless digital experience. Boost your revenue by offering catalogs, multiple storefronts, targeted promotions and payment processing. Make every transaction an experience
  • Integrate Critical Applications
  • Manage a Multitude of SKUs
  • Handle Complex Pricing Scenarios
  • Track Orders with Ease
  • Go Global
  • Streamline the Buyers’ Journey

Integrate Critical Applications

Integrate with any platform that is vital to the success of your business the solution’s extensible framework. Easily share data between connected systems.
Integrate Critical Applications

Manage a Multitude of SKUs

Manage all product information in Ucommerce’s  catalog manager . Show your products in multiple channels, categories, and stores. Update all automatically when one change is made.
Manage a Multitude of SKUs

Handle Complex Pricing Scenarios

Utilize Ucommerce’s pricing engine to support tiered pricing, discounts, promo codes, multicurrency pricing, etc. Manage vast amounts of pricing strategies or check out scenarios.
Handle Complex Pricing Scenarios

Track Orders with Ease

Use the built-in Order Management System to set up workflows and build rules on how orders should be completed and processed in the system. Keep track of orders and edit orders if needed.
Track Orders with Ease

Go Global

Make content readable in different regions and languages, without having to make manual translations. Process payments across multiple currencies , so that your products are made available easily around the world.
Go Global

Streamline the Buyers’ Journey

Track persona segments and identify whether there are friction points in the journey that prevent visitors from converting. Discover ways to improve the journey, provide a better digital customer experience, and increase conversions.
Streamline the Buyers’ Journey

Ucommerce for Sitefinity

Forget about complexity and lack of control. Drive growth and raise above the noise by building engaging, personalized, and fluid omnichannel experiences that your audience will love.
Optimize the Digital Customer Experience
Streamline the Buyer Journey
Drive Purchase Decisions
Integrate Critical Applications
Manage a Multitude
of SKUs
Handle Complex Pricing Scenarios
Track Orders with Ease
Go Global
Streamline the Buyers’ Journey

Craft Meaningful User Journeys

Forget about complexity and lack of control. Drive growth and raise above the noise by building engaging, personalized, and fluid omnichannel experiences that your audience will love.
  • Audience Segmentation
  • Data-Driven Decisions
  • Conditional Multi-Page Forms
  • Lead Capture Across Systems
  • Personalized System Emails
  • Analytics and ROI Attribution

Audience Segmentation

Target well-defined audiences with Sitefinity 12+ by finetuning or retroactively recalculating persona and lead scoring, thus delivering improved audience segmentation and personalization. Easily assign an array of characteristics to your personas, ranging from a contact property you captured in an Eloqua form or a key interaction you spotted analyzing the contact’s journey.

Persona Scoring

Data-Driven Decisions

Make data-driven decisions that have an impact on your key KPIs by collecting relevant and significant visitor data. With Sitefinity 12+, you can exclude internal traffic from being taken into account and diluting your performance metrics. You can still experiment with your personalization tactics or audience segmentation strategy while creating your content.

Data Driven Decisions

Conditional Multi-Page Forms

Use a drag-and-drop interface to easily create efficient multistep forms that dynamically display or hide form fields. Redirect users to predefined pages based on interaction or user input. Crafted to help marketers improve conversion and engagement, the Sitefinity form builder makes it easy for anyone to build complex forms, rearrange fields and validate data, as well as display custom error messages.

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Lead Capture Across Systems

Optimize the funnel to turn visitors into customers and deliver personalized communication, improved campaign ROI and data visibility across systems. Create extensive contact profiles and push leads to marketing automation systems and CRMs, such as Eloqua, Marketo and Salesforce, using the Sitefinity built-in connectors. Map form fields to Sitefinity Insight for improved audience discovery and segmentation.

Lead Capture Across Systems

Personalized System Emails

Make the most out of your system emails with Sitefinity 12+. Use the visual email template editor to easily customize communications and notifications to both peers and prospects and increase open rates and user engagement. Inserting dynamic data in the email’s subject line and body text is now easier than ever.

Email Templates

Analytics and ROI Attribution

Understand your audience better with the enhanced and lead-focused conversion reports with a number of brand-new metrics and summaries, providing distinct visitor and lead statistics. Analyze trends, compare historical periods and examine the detailed customer journey visualization in contact profiles to understand what drives new leads and deliver targeted and personalized content to them. Push leads to CRMs and marketing automation systems by finding and exporting your lead contacts by key attributes, dates and specific interactions.

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Rapidly Develop, Extend and Deploy

The improved architecture, data ecosystem and developer tools speed up the time to market of your web initiatives. This ensures Sitefinity 12+ is even more performant and efficient without sacrificing capabilities and security. Sitefinity 12+ focal points are efficient development, hardened security and performance.
  • MVC Framework
  • Advanced System Configuration
  • Web Security Module
  • Smart Caching
  • Multiregional Deployment
  • Webhook

MVC Framework

Building on enhancements in previous releases, Sitefinity is now an MVC-first platform, increasing developer productivity, accelerating time to market and helping marketers meet their business-critical objectives. Bootstrap 4 is available out of the box to enable developers to build mobile-first pages with ease. Scaffolding new personalizeable MVC widgets with VSIX and the ability to set predefined values saves time when building complex projects.

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Advanced System Configuration

Administrators now have better control over the system with newly introduced backend search for keys or values within configuration settings. Various error pages, such as 404, can be customized to prevent disclosure of sensitive information and improve the user experience. Site managers can now define rules to automatically send system notification emails to internal users based on form input.
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Web Security Module

Sitefinity 12+ delivers additional security features to extend the Web Security Module, introduced with Sitefinity 11. You can now prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) with an easy-to-use interface to configure security rules.

Web Security Module

Smart Caching

To achieve increased scalability and provide visitors with faster page load times under heavy load, system administrators can now finetune the page output caching behavior. With smart caching of pages, Sitefinity can serve the current cache version of the page to website visitors for a predefined short period of time, and meanwhile warm-up the new version of the page in cache in the background.
Smart Caching

Multiregional Deployment

Sitefinity now provides multi-faceted geo-distributed deployment optimizations for content, pages and heavy user load, resulting in reduced latency time, improved speed and better user experiences across regions.

Multiregional deployment

Webhook

Utilize the webhook to capture Sitefinity events and trigger actions on external systems, such as cache invalidations on CDNs or sharing content on social networks.
Webhook

Offload the Burden on IT with Sitefinity Cloud

Hosted by Progress in Microsoft Azure, Sitefinity Cloud enables system integrators and digital agencies to develop, run and manage secure, powerful digital experiences without having to build and maintain a complex infrastructure.
  • Reduce Infrastructure Overhead
  • Minimize Downtime Risk
  • Tap Into Proven Performance
  • Empower Marketers
  • Achieve Operational Efficiency

Reduce Infrastructure Overhead

As a full Platform-as-a-Service hosted on Azure, Sitefinity Cloud minimizes the need for internal infrastructure management.
Reduce Infrastructure Overhead

Minimize Downtime Risk

Leverage an autoscaling infrastructure backed by 99.9% service level availability and 24/7 support.

Minimize Downtime Risk

Tap Into Proven Performance

Provides best-in-class performance with Azure CDN and autoscaling so that you can exceed performance requirements for today’s digital economy.

Tap Into Proven Performance

Empower Marketers

Sitefinity Cloud enables marketers to create and manage future-proof digital experiences, reinforce brand consistency and improve user engagement across sites, channels and touchpoints.

Synchronize Single Items or Multiple Pages Between Environments

Achieve Operational Efficiency

Microsoft Azure DevOps lifecycle management tooling enables high visibility into state-of-the-art CI/CD processes required for today’s WCM environments.

Achieve Operational Efficiency

Sitefinity Integrations

Integrate Sitefinity with your critical technology platforms to meet key business requirements.
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Google Data Studio Connector
Connect Sitefinity Insight and Google Data Studio in minutes and begin using its data to optimize content and campaigns.
The Portal Connector
LiveChat
LiveChat is a cloud-based live chat and messaging platform that integrates with Sitefinity.
Image Optimization CDN
Ucommerce

Ucommerce, the market-leading .NET based commerce platform focused on unifying content and commerce, now brings its ecommerce capabilities to Sitefinity.

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Hawksearch

Hawksearch uses advanced machine learning and pattern analysis to create the best search experience for your users.

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