The Best .NET CMS Solution: Kentico CMS

I'm working at PrimeArt for 10 years as CTO. In the early days, we we using Perl & PHP as the programming language and MySQL as the database backend. We develop several core CMS software and customize them for various clients and projects.

When the number of the projects increases the maintenance becomes a big issue. Technology also changes, and you need to adapt them. At core, we are not a development company but a solution provider. We came to a situation that we need to choose a commercial CMS solution. We tested several CMS from different providers and found Kentico CMS as the solution to all of our problems. The version of Kentico CMS was 1.9 at that time.

The current version of Kentico CMS is 4.0 and it dramatically changed from the first version we used. Regarding the features of the current state I can list the reasons why to choose Kentico CMS:

• Excelent support
  One most important thing in using a commercial application is support. During several years, Kentico support team help us to fulfill the project requirements.
  
  
• Easy development
  Most of our work includes repeated development. We do same things again and again in different projects. Kentico CMS includes a wide range of web parts which satisfies more than 90% of common development tasks. This cuts the development time and since Kentico CMS is a tested platform, the number of bugs to resolve decreased dramatically.
  
  
• Fast learning curve
  A developer who is familiar with CSS and HTML can start developing sites with just one week of training. The admin interface is very intutive and consistent although the documentation needs more refinement and examples.
  
  
• Excelent portal engine
  With Kentico CMS Portal Engine, most of the work can be done just using the browser. You do not need to open Visual Studio at all. This allows us even non-programmer web professionals can develop complicated database driven web sites (now also social network sites) without a single lines of code. Also you can add C# codes from the browser. This means that once Kentico CMS is installed on a server, you can even use your IPhone to develop your site (I try, it works :))
  
  
• Extensibility
  The requirements can vary a lot from project to project. So you may encounter a situation that you need the change default behaviors supplied by Kentico CMS. Almost every part of it is easy to extend. You can intercept with most of the events (tree handlers, data handlers, workflow handlers, authentication handlers). You can write your own webparts and use them in different projects with the same requirements.
  
  
• Easy to administer
  Common administration tasks can be performed using the admin interface from the web browser. You can get backups, easily deploy the site to other server, change settings in a
  few seconds, check the event log etc.
  
  
• The list goes on and on...
  I cannot complete the list here. Please check out their web sites for other features. Also I urge you to download Kentico CMS and check it yourself.

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