Enterprise Kentico, engineered and supported for manufacturers.
Kentico, now Xperience by Kentico, brings content, digital marketing, and customer data together on one .NET platform. If it's your enterprise standard, or the right fit for where you're headed, we build and run it with the same rigor we bring to every platform we work in.
One .NET platform for content, marketing, and data.
Kentico is a digital experience platform, a DXP. It's one .NET system that brings content management, digital marketing, personalization, and customer data together. That suits enterprises, manufacturers among them, that have outgrown a plain CMS and want automation, personalization, and governance in one place rather than spread across separate tools.
Here's where we stand. For most enterprise builds, Umbraco is our first recommendation. Kentico is a strong, capable DXP in its own right, and when an organization has standardized on it, or its requirements clearly point that way, we build and support it fully, with the same engineering discipline, integrations, and governance we bring everywhere else.
What we do with Kentico.
From a new Xperience build to running and supporting the Kentico estate you already have.
New Implementation
A new Xperience by Kentico build: a structured content model, reusable components, and the DXP's marketing and personalization features set up around your teams.
Upgrades & Version Migrations
Moving you onto current, supported Kentico, including a path from Portal Engine or MVC to Xperience, with a plan that protects your content and customizations.
Ongoing Maintenance & Support
Hosting, security, monitoring, and continual improvement across your Kentico estate, handled by a team that knows how it's built.
Custom Development
Custom modules and integrations with your ERP, CRM, and PIM, plus the personalization, forms, and workflows Kentico is built to run.
CMS Migrations
Migrating to Kentico from a legacy platform, or off Kentico onto Umbraco when that fits better, with your content, search equity, and integrations intact.
Training & Enablement
Onboarding and documentation so your marketing team can use Kentico's content, campaign, and personalization tools with confidence.
Why Kentico — and when.
Kentico's strength is breadth. As an all-in-one DXP, it brings content, email marketing, automation, personalization, and customer data together on a secure .NET foundation, so an enterprise can govern a lot of digital activity from one platform instead of integrating a stack of separate tools. For teams that want that consolidation, and those already invested in it, Kentico is a solid, well-supported choice.
So where does it sit against Umbraco? We reach for Umbraco first on most builds. It's leaner, open-source, and where our deepest expertise lives. Kentico is our recommendation when its integrated marketing and DXP features are genuinely needed, or when it's already your standard and the smart move is to run it well rather than re-platform. Either way, you get honest guidance on which platform serves you best, and a team that delivers on both.
The right platform is the one that fits your business, not the one an agency is most comfortable selling. Sometimes that's Kentico.
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FAQs.
Do you actually recommend Kentico, or just Umbraco?
We recommend whatever fits. Umbraco is our first choice for most enterprise builds, but Kentico is a strong DXP and the right answer for some organizations, especially those already standardized on it or needing its integrated marketing features. We'll tell you honestly which one serves your goals.
We're already on Kentico. Can you take it over?
Yes. We fully support existing Kentico sites: maintenance, security, upgrades, and continual improvement. We can pick up an estate from another agency or an in-house team, too. If a move to Umbraco ever makes sense we'll say so, but there's no pressure to leave a platform that's working.
What's the difference between Kentico and Xperience by Kentico?
Xperience by Kentico is the current product, a modern .NET DXP that unifies content, marketing, and data. Older Kentico builds like Portal Engine and Kentico EMS/MVC are still widely in use. We support those too, and can plan a path to Xperience when the timing is right.
Is Kentico enterprise-grade?
Yes. It's a mature, secure .NET DXP used by large organizations for content, marketing automation, and personalization at scale, with the governance and integration capabilities an enterprise needs.