For businesses currently using Kentico Xperience 13, now is an important time to start thinking about the future of your website. Kentico Xperience 13 reaches the end of technical support on December 31, 2026. After that date, Kentico will no longer provide product updates, for Xperience 13. The website itself will continue to function, but businesses will be responsible for operating on an unsupported platform.
Migrating to Xperience by Kentico provides an opportunity to do more than simply avoid an approaching support deadline. It gives your business access to a modern digital experience platform designed for ongoing updates, improved flexibility, stronger marketing capabilities, and long term growth.
1. Stay on a Supported Platform
One of the most important reasons to make the move is security and ongoing support for your website.
Throughout 2026, Kentico Xperience 13 is receiving security hotfixes, but no other fixes, patches, enhancements, or updates. Beginning January 1, 2027. Moving to Xperience by Kentico means your website can remain on a supported and actively developed platform. They prioritize regular updates with their evergreen approach, always keeping your website on the cutting edge of Kentico's technology.
2. Reduce the Need for Major Future Upgrades
Traditional website platforms can create a cycle where businesses eventually have to undertake another large upgrade simply to remain supported. That can be very taxing on developer time, budgets and other aspects of your business. Xperience by Kentico takes a different approach. The platform is designed around continuous and regular updates.
This approach is more focused on allowing you to continually improve your website, without disrupting your goals and progress with major, platform changing updates.
3. Give Your Marketing Team More Control
Xperience by Kentico gives marketers with tools designed to give them greater control over content and digital marketing activities. Kentico highlights low code and no code capabilities which makes changing things on the site accessible to people who maybe don’t have a ton of coding knowledge.
4. Bring More Digital Marketing Capabilities Together
Many businesses rely on multiple tools to manage their website, marketing campaigns, personalization, analytics, and customer experiences. Xperience by Kentico brings content management, digital marketing, and commerce capabilities together within a unified platform.
This helps out in so many ways, it reduces drag between platforms, helps streamline processes, and reduces user frustration.
5. Improve Website Performance and Scalability
As your business grows, so should your website.
Xperience by Kentico is built on a modern .NET foundation and is designed to support scalable digital experiences. Kentico specifically highlights performance, security, scalability, and flexibility as benefits of moving to the newer platform.
If you decide to migrate, this is the perfect time to evaluate your website, see what may need to change or be optimized, and make some changes as your migrate over. We also offer free website evaluations! So if you have any questions about your site, feel free to ask!
6. Protect Your Existing Content
Businesses moving from Xperience 13 can retain core content, media, website experiences, and customer data while modernizing their platform. This is especially important for established websites and businesses that have a significant amount of data they need moved and preserved.
Your website may contain years of valuable content, carefully developed landing pages, search engine rankings, customer data, and digital assets. A properly planned upgrade can help preserve that investment while moving the underlying technology forward.
7. Make the Most of Your Existing Kentico Knowledge
If your team is already familiar with Kentico, moving to Xperience by Kentico provides a significant advantage.
Your organization already understands the Kentico ecosystem, and your marketing and development teams may already be familiar with many of the concepts involved in managing your website. Kentico's own upgrade guide notes that existing Xperience 13 users already have a head start because their teams are familiar with the platform.
That familiarity can help make the transition more manageable compared with moving to an entirely unfamiliar CMS.
10. Prepare Your Website for the Future
Perhaps the greatest benefit of migrating is simply being able to move forward and look to the future with confidence.
As your business grows, gets more complex and has higher needs and responsibility, your website should be right there with it. Xperience by Kentico is designed as an evergreen digital experience platform, with continuous updates rather than the traditional cycle of major platform versions reaching end of support.
That means your business can spend less time worrying about the next major platform deadline and more time improving the digital experience you provide to your customers.
Don't Wait Until the Deadline
December 31, 2026 is just a couple of months away, and we would love to chat with your about migrating!
The process can involve reviewing your current website, identifying integrations and custom functionality, determining what content should be retained or restructured, planning SEO preservation, rebuilding templates and many other things.
Starting with a bit of a head start gives your business more time to make thoughtful decisions instead of rushing to meet a deadline.
If your business is currently running on Kentico Xperience 13, let’s start planning your next step together!
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