Compass Guide Evaluation of SDL Tridion
Summary
A leader in WCM since circa 2006, SDL arguably produces the most functionally robust enterprise platform in the industry, with particular strengths in multi- channel marketing, globalization, translation management, and brand management. Based on a heterogeneous technical infrastructure, the product can be tricky to implement, but global, enterprise-wide deployments often require the fine-grained configurability of a such a solution. Non-technical business users (online marketers in particular) seem to adopt the product readily, and they consistently give its polished user interface high marks.
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| An overview of Key Strengths and Key Limitations | A Report card ranking this product on usability, sales tools, market presence & more | Ratings on categories of critical importance like flexibility and administration ease |
About Compass Guide™ Reports
The Compass Guide™ to Web Content Management is a comprehensive series of product/vendor evaluations designed to help potential buyers of WCM technologies identify the software best suited to their needs. The reports are based on information from a wide range of sources, including:
- Product testing conducted by Ars Logica at over 30 WCM software manufacturers’ headquarters
- More than a dozen years of analyzing and recommending WCM software products/vendors
- Extensive knowledge of actual WCM implementations and the business problems they were designed to solve
- WCM vendor responses to an exhaustive 172-item questionnaire
- Experience helping vendors evaluate features and functions for future product versions
In 2009 and 2010, Ars Logica founder Tony White traveled to most of the software vendors covered in these reports for hands-on product testing. This is unique in the industry. Because of both the breadth of information included in Compass Guide™ and the fact that the Compass Guide™ is in no way vendor-sponsored, we believe that it is the most unbiased and thoroughly-researched set of reports available.
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