Global Content Management

Within all organiztions content is stored in various places - document management systems, web content management systems and file systems to name but a few.  SDL technology enables the creation and maintenance of multilingual content from any of these sources - to enable corporations to deliver any corporate information into any language of the world.

Within any organization, there are many content "conveyor belts", driven by specific business rules and processes, each delivering different types of information through multiple communication channels. When this information is also delivered in multiple languages, the global information assets, such as translation memory and terminology, are often created in isolation for each delivery channel.

SDL provides web-based, centralized management of these translation assets such that they can be leveraged across all information lifecycles within a global business. For example, text segments and their translations can be reused across different types of content within one division or across different business divisions. This enables companies to have control over their global brand, while reducing the volumes of content that need translation - companies achieve faster time-to-market and translation costs are minimized.

Enterprise systems, such as content management, document management and product data management, can be seamlessly integrated with a Global Information Management platform to provide a consistent and familiar interface to business users. Content for translation can be automatically extracted and translated material automatically updated into the right location within the content management system. This significantly reduces the overhead of managing global content through the localization process.

Many enterprise software companies have already partnered with SDL to deliver integrated global information management solutions, including:

• Astoria Software
• Day Software
• EMC Documentum
• IBM
• Interwoven
• Microsoft
• Red Dot
• SDL Tridion
• Trisoft
• Vasont
• XyEnterprise

Whatever your systems for storing and managing content, by supporting open standards, the industry-leading Global Information Management platform from SDL, together with professional integration services ensure that you can participate in Global Information Management with the minimum of effort.