I had the chance to attend the Progress Sitefinity Roundtable in Puerto Rico this week, that’s no April Fool’s joke. I landed in San Juan on April 2, the first thing I did was take a look at the beach and realize how beautiful the ocean was. However, the food of Puerto Rico was giving the view some stiff competition. The seafood was so fresh and the pina coladas were out of this world. The roundtable conference itself was filled with brilliant minds and kind faces, it was an honor to meet these outstanding partners and team members, let alone listen to their presentations. Aside from learning about the many reasons Puerto Rico is an amazing tourist destination, I leaned essential knowledge of Progress Sitefinity’s future and where it stands in the world today.

Making moves toward the future

Congratulations to the entire Progress Sitefinity team for releasing version 15.1 while we were at the conference and if you’re interested in knowing more about that please click here. The vision the Sitefinity team has going forward is not only exciting from a technical point of view, but also from a sales and marketing standpoint. I was ecstatic to hear their vision of taking, the already powerful product, Progress Sitefinity and moving it forward from MVC towards ASP.NET 8, React and NextJS. This will improve speed, security, and allow for even more exciting integrations in the future. The opportunity to be exposed to .NET Aspire, NextJS, and seeing the interacting relationship between Progress Sitefinity, a CRM like Salesforce, and Progress Insight through Workato was an absolute treat and above all was a priceless experience. I look forward to seeing where an amazing product like Progress Sitefinity goes and its journey toward NextGen CMS technologies, in other words seeing Progress go to Sitefinity and beyond.

Marketing and Sales

All of the recent technical updates have positioned themselves perfectly to create faster, more secure and easier use of the same product we all know and love. The advancements Progress Sitefinity has made to their product is possible by adopting the latest AI trends and more scalable, reliable and secure technologies. This constant awards them their position as leaders in the industry by Gartner and Progress Sitefinity’s many loyal customers including Best Western, P.F. Chang’s, Dublin Airport, and many more. Progress Sitefinity’s priority to adapt, evolve, and integrate the latest and greatest in developments leads to a faster Time-To-Markets through more efficient software and talented minds pushing boundaries, stronger security by the use of strong and experienced Red-Teams, and consistent, dependable growth for the customer with regular updated and remodeling every 4-5 years to help refresh a powerful fundamental focus on customer needs and growth of success.

Znode Integration

An exciting part of Progress Sitefinity’s future is the integration of Znode. The end goal for the integration of a platform like Znode is to have a serious integration with an ECommerce platform that enable B2B2C web application to provide its capabilities and services with ease. This is a reasonable and achievable objective as Znode currently runs as a headless and decoupled API based B2B2X e-commerce platform. The combination between the functionality and the power Znode brings and the unambiguous, expeditious nature of Progress Sitefinity can only lead to an enhanced experience for the user, which at the end of the day is the goal for all of Progress Sitefinity and Progress itself.

All in all, it was a magical few days with great people.  Thank you Progress for having me for the first time, I enjoyed my time and learned tons. It was special to me as well accompanying my dad, Lino Tadros, my boss :) and see first hand his influence in the industry and the way his friends, CEOs, Presidents and the Progress Sitefinity team look at him and cherish his input and amazing experience.

Justin Tadros is a Project Manager and Data Analyst at The Training Boss. Justin has a bachelor degree in Theater performance from Rollins College and currently pursuing his Masters in business at the University of Center Florida.  Justin is certified on Microsoft Power BI and Progress Sitefinity Sales accreditation with on going training on Python and CMS technologies.  Justin performs in theaters in Orlando, Boston, Alaska and stand up comic whenever the opportunity arises.  His passion for performing and bringing incredible customer service to any industry he approaches is second to his commitment, dedication and hard work.