Sdl News & Articles

Global Information Management Solution Provider SDL (news,site) has unveiled its Common Enterprise Application Framework (CEAF), a new platform for better managing global content across multinational companies.

The new product is designed to create greater efficiencies and interoperability among Global Information Management Applications (GIM) which manage content throughout the entire global information lifecycle – from authoring through content management to on-line and off-line publishing across world markets.

With the world becoming more connected, global authoring and publishing will need to be addressed by nearly all technical communications personnel. But with global authoring and publishing come translation hurdles as well as working to maintain consistency with global publications to streamline the translation process. These can mean both added time and cost for businesses.

Following up on its latest study on how global businesses need to actively create, manage and publish multilingual content, the Gilbane Group is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 24, at 2 p.m. EST.

The webinar is dedicated to helping companies develop enterprise strategies that are crucial for creating, managing and publishing multilingual business communications.

According to Global Information Management provider SDL, even though more than 90% of an international company’s dynamic content is available to a global audience, only about 10% is actually translated into multiple languages. So what does SDL do? They launch a Worldwide Language Service Provider Partner Program to help these organizations get their content in the right format to the right customer.

It seems the SDL acquistion of Idiom stirred up a little action in the translation management industry.

ThebigwordGroup has set out to offer an alternative to SDL/Idiom that is scalable and has little capital investment on the front end. Hmmm...sounds intriguing.

Global Information Management Solution Provider SDL has announced the acquisition of Idiom Technologies Inc for $21.7m USD (£11.1m*) plus $4.9m USD (£2.5m*) worth of debt and working capital.

Founded in 1998, Idiom Technologies Inc. provides Translation management systems as Software as a Service (SaaS). Their product WorldServer is used by over 60 leading global companies worldwide.

SDL Tridion, a provider of web content management solutions, has launched the newest version of its flagship product, R5.3.

This new version provides improvements to business, system and collaboration processes, along with a new approach to templating.

In English this time: IBM has joined OpenOffice.org, reportedly to “collaborate on software development for the Open Document Format (ODF), an ISO standard that governs the creation, storage, and exchange of documents,” says Mark Long of newsfactor.com.

IBM will start by sharing the code it’s been developing for its Lotus Notes software, including certain accessibility fixes that may allegedly help OpenOffice “reach parity” with Microsoft’s current offering for disabled workers via Office.

Web technology company Amaze has just been tapped by the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency to provide a shared-service content management system for the capital.

Amaze has selected global web CMS purveyor SDL Tridion to do the job.

Recently acquired Tridion, the self-proclaimed global leader in web content management (WCM) software solutions, is making available a new web archiving tool designed to help customers better manage their web content lifecycle.

UK-based SDL International, a leading provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions, has solidified an agreement with Tridion, a leading provider of enterprise Web CMS solutions. The EU€ 69 million agreement awaits shareholder approval but is expected to augment the breadth and offerings of SDL’s info management solutions significantly.

The Xerox DocuMate 272 duplex scanner, unveiled at the AIIM trade show in mid-May, has been awarded the AIIM E-DOC Magazine 2005 "Best of Show Award" for "best workgroup scanner."

Award winning products were specifically acknowledged for demonstrating creative use of technology, business value, and return on investment in Enterprise Content Management (Enterprise CMS) solutions.

New York-based Quantum Art produces the QP7 content application server. QP7 is geared towards web content management, but aims to break away from the page-based metaphor and provide a framework for developing content centric web applications utilizing QP7 content objects.