Tridion News & Articles

A community technology preview (CTP) of the upcoming SDL Tridion 2011 (news, site) is in progress right now and leaks of what it has improved upon and added are starting to surface.

With Amazon's success on the brain, SDL Tridion (news, site) added a new leg to its Web CMS last week: SDL SmartTarget. The integrated tool is a profile-based marketing and e-commerce solution with a particular focus on the personalization segment of Web engagement.  

Only a few months after they consolidated their business divisions under the SDL (news, site) brand, another major announcement is coming from the global info management organization: a new General Manager is set to lead the North American operations for their Web Content Management Solutions division, formerly known as Tridion.

CMS Watch (news, site) has just released the 17th edition of their independent research report on Web Content Management: Web CMS Report 2009.

In this latest release, CMS Watch notes that there is another wave of web content management vendors from Europe entering the North America market. These vendors are offering a greater variety of options especially in the areas of .NET and open source. And these are not new vendors, many have been around awhile, just focused on the European market.

According to Tony Byrne, CMS Watch founder, European and UK-based Web CMS vendors have been trying to break into the US market for over a decade. There are been two previous waves: successful in wave 1: RedDot and Day Software, successful in wave 2: Sitecore and Tridion.

This "third wave" includes some well-known vendors:

• Telerik and EpiServer: Offering solutions to the SMB market and challenging existing vendors like Ektron and Sitecore
• eZ Publish, TYPO3 and Drupal: All three are developing strong partner relationships in North America

And while they think this is a good thing, CMS Watch is advising caution and due diligence. “Crossing the Atlantic in either direction is very hard for a Web CMS vendor,” adds Byrne.  “Building effective support structures is a process that takes years, so North American customers should carefully weigh any newcomer’s current abilities as well as long-term staying power.”

You can get the full report here.

SDL Tridion (news, site) has released a connector for the print publishing favorite Adobe InDesign.

Merging the worlds of print and web will allow organizations to re-use content for different output channels, while doing creative work in InDesign. Ideally, the goal is to achieve greater message consistency and efficiency.

What is Tridion? Or is it Trillian, Trideon or Tridian? What can we say, it’s tough being a Euro web content management vendor in the U.S. market.

After conquering most of Europe, SDL Tridion started its Web CMS quest in the U.S. in 2006 with their flagship CMS product — Tridion R5 — an offering that has received accolades from such critics as analyst firm, Gartner. R5 comes with a myriad of standard Web CMS features, like inline editing using SiteEdit and some unique functionality such as the Translation Manager.

This Quick Take Review is an overview of SDL Tridion R5.2 with a detailed summary, full of “meat,” at the tail end of this article.

And the award for ‘Earliest Awards Giveaway 2008’ goes to… InfoWorld, which has already announced 2008’s Technology of the Year winners. Oracle and Tridion are the big winners in the content management space, picking up the Enterprise CMS and Web CMS gongs respectively.

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.

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.

Though home to many vendors, the European CMS marketplace is in many ways still up for grabs.

And if you EU types would care to see some of these vendors go several rounds in the ring. Get on over to Denmark for the 2nd International Content Management Forum (cmf2006). The Danish CM event kicks-off Nov. 7th and runs through the 9th.

Choices, choices, choices… but no big players yet. That’s the message for European CMS technology buyers, according to the European edition of the CMS Report by CMS Watch, released today. “Standard”, and “Enterprise” — for large multi-site projects — editions are available.