Xperience by Kentico (XbyK)

Xperience by Kentico: Enterprise CMS Development in Perth

One platform for your website, marketing, ecommerce and AI. Less complexity, more capability, faster to market.

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KENTICO 13 END OF LIFE

31 December 2026

No security patches after 31 December 2026. Any organisation still on K13 in 2027 is running unprotected software.

Kentico 12 went EOL in December 2022. Migrations take 3 to 6 months. If your organisation is still on K13, the window to migrate safely is closing.

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Kentico Development in Perth

Dapth is a Kentico Gold Partner in Perth, delivering Xperience by Kentico development, Kentico 13 upgrades and migration, and ongoing support for government & enterprise clients across Western Australia. As one of the few Australian partners to also hold Kentico Accelerator Expert Partner status, we build enterprise websites with security, accessibility and AI built in backed by a local team, not an offshore queue.

Worth mentioning, before we recommend a platform to a client, we run it ourselves. In 2025, Dapth became the first digital agency in Western Australia to design and build its own website on Xperience by Kentico. We migrated our own business onto it, learned it end to end, and only then took it to clients so the advice you get is grounded in running the platform every day, not a vendor brochure.

For organisations planning a new Kentico project, looking for Kentico CMS development, or moving from Kentico 13, we can help with platform strategy, development, migration, integrations and ongoing optimisation. Our Kentico development team works with you from initial planning through to implementation and beyond, with the technical expertise to build a digital experience around your organisation’s requirements.

Platform Advantages

What Kentico Unlocks for Your Organisation

Xperience by Kentico consolidates your CMS, marketing automations and digital commerce into one managed platform, so your team can stop managing tools and start managing positive outcomes.

One Platform, Fewer Tools

Many content environments accumulate tools over time that become disconnected including CMS, email marketing, personalisation, ecommerce and analytics. Xperience by Kentico (XbK) consolidates them into one managed platform, reducing integration costs and giving your team one place to work.

Launch Faster, Iterate Continuously

Kentico's hybrid headless architecture lets developers build with the front-end framework they prefer, ASP.NET Core, React, Next.js, or Tailwind, while marketing teams can publish and test faster without waiting for developers and code changes.

AI Built into the Platform, Not Bolted On

AIRA, Kentico's native AI suite, handles content generation, translation, journey optimisation and GEO strategy directly inside the platform. No third-party AI plugin required. Your team gets agentic tools that understand your content structure.

Personalise at Scale, Without Complexity

Kentico's digital marketing module delivers audience segmentation, A/B testing, and multichannel personalisation from the same platform your editors use to publish content. Personalisation becomes part of your workflow, not a separate project.

PLATFORM FEATURES

How Xperience by Kentico Delivers

Content Hub: one source for every channel

Create, store and reuse content and digital assets in a single Content Hub, then publish across your website, email and headless channels. Update once, and it updates everywhere no more hunting through page trees or duplicating content per channel. (This is the biggest single change from Kentico 13's tree-based CMS.)

Hybrid headless with a modern GraphQL API

Run traditional pages and headless delivery from the same platform. Build front-ends in React, Next.js, ASP.NET Core or Tailwind against a modern GraphQL API headless where you want it, integrated where you don't.

AIRA: AI built into the platform, not bolted on

AIRA is Xperience by Kentico's built-in AI marketing agent: context-aware copy, image handling and alt text, SEO metadata, and AI-powered translation and localisation all inside your own governed environment, not a third-party tool your content leaves for.

Built-in commerce, API-first extensibility

A native digital-commerce module plus standards-based, API-first architecture with NuGet extensibility so integrations to your CRM, ERP and line-of-business systems are clean, not bolted-on.

AIRA Agentic Marketing Suite

Beyond generative AI, the Agentic Marketing Suite adds specialised AI agents for customer-journey optimisation, experimentation, content strategy and SEO/GEO that you delegate to in plain language through AIRA Chat. They propose the work; your team reviews, approves and launches. Fully governed and auditable.

Built for regulated Australian organisations

For WA government, health and resources teams, "secure" has to mean something specific. Xperience by Kentico is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2, and aligns with the Australian Privacy Act 1988, GDPR, CCPA, DORA and the EU Data Act.

On Kentico's managed cloud, each client runs on single-tenant, fully isolated infrastructure on Microsoft Azure no shared resources, and you choose the Azure region, so data residency meets Australian requirements. Encryption at rest and in transit, a web application firewall, DDoS protection and multi-factor authentication are standard, not add-ons.

If you're on Kentico 13 and facing an ACSC advisory or cyber-insurance conditions, this is the real difference: not just "a newer CMS," but an audited, evergreen platform your risk and compliance teams can sign off on.

Xbyk in Action

Watch how Xperience by Kentico handles multichannel content delivery, personalisation and AI-assisted publishing from a single platform

Kentico 13 end of life

On Kentico 13? Support ends 31 December 2026

If your site still runs on Kentico Xperience 13, support ends on 31 December 2026, and from 1 January 2027, every new vulnerability stays unpatched, with real compliance and cyber-insurance exposure for organisations that get audited.

Migrating to Xperience by Kentico removes that risk for good: it's evergreen, so there's no next end-of-life date to plan around. As Perth's local Gold Partner, we handle the move with fixed scope and no lost content or search rankings.

See our full Kentico 13 end-of-life migration guide and book a free migration audit.

EOL explainer

Kentico 13 end-of-life: what actually happens on 1 January 2027

End-of-life doesn’t mean your website switches off it keeps running. What stops is Kentico’s support: from 1 January 2027, Kentico 13 receives no security patches, no bug fixes and no vendor assistance. Any new vulnerability discovered after that date stays open on your site. It becomes your problem, not Kentico’s. For organisations that get security-audited local government, health, finance running unsupported software is also a compliance and cyber-insurance exposure.

The fix is Xperience by Kentico, and it’s evergreen. Instead of a big-bang version every few years, Xperience ships continuous updates so once you migrate, there is no next end-of-life date to plan around.

Phil Allen (Founder & Chief Strategist at Dapth) has been working with Kentico for over 10 years. This is his take on the biggest structural change he has seen in how the platform works.

CASE STUDIES

Kentico Development Projects Delivered by Dapth

Complete Home Filtration

A marketing-ready platform built to support high-volume campaigns.

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City of Mandurah

From fragmented systems to scalable, connected citizen experiences on Kentico.

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Not sure where your digital experience sits?

Take the Kentico Digital Maturity Assessment. Answer a few questions about your current platform, content and goals, and get an instant read on your digital maturity and where migrating to Xperience by Kentico would make the biggest difference.

Insights & Articles

Kentico Insights from the Dapth Team

Using Kentico Day to Day: A Marketer's Honest Feedback

2026 5 min read

Trevan Rumal

Not a developer. Just a marketer managing a website, running campaigns, and publishing content. Here is what that actually looks like in Kentico Xperience.

Xperience by Kentico Content Management Systems Customer Experience
Kentico AIRA: What the AI Marketing Suite Actually Does

2026 3 min read

Kereti Wharemate

AIRA is Kentico's native AI suite for content teams. Tagging, translation, content generation, and personalisation, directly inside the CMS. Here is what it means in practice.

Xperience by Kentico Customer Experience Content Management Systems
Your CMS Shouldn't Become Your Biggest Security Risk

2026 4 min read

Phil Allen

The Australian Cyber Security Centre has flagged an active CMS exploitation campaign targeting Australian businesses. Here's what every WA organisation with a website needs to know, and a free checklist to assess your exposure.

Content Management Systems Xperience by Kentico Digital Consultancy Customer Experience
Dapth joins Kentico’s Partner Accelerator Program

2026 3 min read

Dapth Marketing

Dapth is now a certified Kentico Accelerator Expert Partner, and among the few in Australia to hold this qualification alongside our Gold Partner status. Here’s what that means, and why it matters for businesses looking to launch on Xperience by Kentico.

Xperience by Kentico Customer Experience Content Management Systems
What Staying on Kentico 13 Past 2026 Actually Costs You

2026 3 min read

Phil Allen

EOL is not just a vendor milestone. It has real financial and security consequences. Here is what the costs actually look like for organisations that delay their Kentico migration.

Xperience by Kentico Content Management Systems Customer Experience
What Is a CMS? Simple Guide for Business Owners

2026 5 min read

Ben De Jonge

Not a developer? Here is what a CMS actually is, what it does for your business, and real examples of how Australian organisations use one every day.

Content Management Systems Xperience by Kentico Customer Experience
Sitefinity vs Kentico vs Sitecore: Enterprise CMS Comparison for 2026

2026 5 min read

Ben De Jonge

Three enterprise CMS platforms assessed honestly: AI capabilities, headless delivery, deployment flexibility, and which type of organisation each suits best.

Sitefinity Xperience by Kentico Content Management Systems Customer Experience

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Answers to your questions

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Kentico Xperience is built for enterprise and mid-market organisations that need a governed, multichannel content platform. It is commonly used in finance, healthcare, manufacturing, education, and professional services, where content governance, personalisation, and integration with business systems are non-negotiable requirements.
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Kentico includes AIRA, its native agentic AI suite, which handles content generation, multilingual translation, SEO and GEO recommendations, and customer journey optimisation. Personalisation is built into the platform alongside your content workflows, not added as a third-party integration.
03

Yes. Kentico Xperience is API-first and built on ASP.NET Core, which means it connects cleanly to CRMs, ERPs, customer data platforms, and marketing tools. Dapth has experience integrating Kentico with Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, and custom internal systems.
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Hybrid headless means your content is managed in Kentico but delivered through any front-end framework your developers choose. You get the flexibility of headless architecture without losing the in-context editing experience your marketing team needs. It is the practical middle ground between fully decoupled and traditional CMS.
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We start with your content architecture and integration requirements, not the platform configuration. Dapth's CX, EX, and OS teams work from the same building, which means your Kentico implementation connects naturally to your intranet, customer portals, and operational systems when needed.
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Yes. Dapth is a Kentico Gold Partner, and one of the few organisations in Australia to also hold Kentico Accelerator Expert Partner status. We've worked with Kentico for over 10 years across WA government, resources and enterprise projects. Gold is the highest tier of Kentico's partner program, awarded for certified expertise and a track record of successful delivery. For you it means the team building your site is accredited by the platform vendor not learning on your project.
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Kentico Xperience 13 (K13) is the previous generation a version-based product on older ASP.NET that reaches end of life on 31 December 2026. Xperience by Kentico is a complete rebuild on the latest .NET: it's evergreen (continuously updated, no future end-of-life cliff), adds a centralised Content Hub, hybrid-headless delivery via a modern GraphQL API, and built-in AI (AIRA and the Agentic Marketing Suite) none of which exist in K13. It's a replatform to a modern DXP, not a version upgrade.
If you’re new to the platform and want to understand the fundamentals first, read our guide to what is Kentico CMS.
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Yes, it's one of our core services as the deadline approaches. We run a fixed-scope migration with no lost content or search rankings.
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Yes. AIRA, Kentico's native agentic AI suite, is built into the platform and it's native, not a third-party add-on. AIRA, handles content, images and alt text, SEO metadata, and translation inside your own environment. The AIRA Agentic Marketing Suite goes further with specialised agents for journey optimisation, experimentation, content strategy and SEO/GEO that your team delegates to through AIRA Chat and approves before anything ships. Because it runs inside the platform, your content and data never leave your governed environment.
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For many teams it consolidates the marketing stack into one licence AI writing, personalisation, email, translation, marketing automation, journey analytics and campaign planning replacing separate subscriptions that often run $200 - $10,000+ a month combined. Fewer integrations, one bill, one place to work.

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