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RWS Tridion Sites

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What is RWS Tridion Sites?

RWS Tridion Sites provides web content management capabilities, connecting people, processes, and information across teams, brands, and markets, to deliver impactful online experiences globally.RWS Tridion Sites' DPX platform enables the use of either traditional or headless publishing. It includes advanced…

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What is RWS Tridion Sites?

RWS Tridion Sites provides web content management capabilities, connecting people, processes, and information across teams, brands, and markets, to deliver impactful online experiences globally. RWS Tridion Sites' DPX platform enables the use of either traditional or headless publishing. It…

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Product Demos

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

9
Avg 8.1

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

9.1
Avg 7.6

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8.5
Avg 7.7

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.6
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is RWS Tridion Sites?

RWS Tridion Sites provides web content management capabilities, connecting people, processes, and information across teams, brands, and markets, to deliver impactful online experiences globally.

RWS Tridion Sites' DPX platform enables the use of either traditional or headless publishing. It includes advanced features such as automated personalization, multilingual capabilities and Semantic AI.

The BluePrinting® technology at the core of RWS Tridion Sites simplifies reuse and management of different content variations.

RWS Tridion Sites Features

Web Content Creation Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG editor
  • Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
  • Supported: Content versioning
  • Supported: Admin section
  • Supported: Page templates
  • Supported: Library of website themes
  • Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
  • Supported: Publishing workflow
  • Supported: Form generator
  • Supported: Content scheduling

Web Content Management Features

  • Supported: Internal content search
  • Supported: Content taxonomy
  • Supported: SEO support
  • Supported: Browser compatibility
  • Supported: Bulk management
  • Supported: Page caching
  • Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
  • Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
  • Supported: Import / export
  • Supported: Website analytics

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Internationalization / multi-language

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication
  • Supported: User-level audit trail
  • Supported: Version history
  • Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities

CMS programming language or framework Features

  • Supported: Java
  • Supported: .NET

RWS Tridion Sites Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Reviewers rate Internationalization / multi-language highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of RWS Tridion Sites are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 9)

Tridion does it's job

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 19, 2014
MR
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
6 years of experience
We use Tridion extensively for both our company intranet and public sites. I find Tridion a very effective and efficient Content Management System. There may be some areas where it can be made better, but for our purposes, it's doing a good job.
Tridion is used globally by our content owners as they build their country websites, in their own language, using the same branding.
  • Multilingual functionality by effective blueprinting really does it's job.
  • Re-usability of templates and building blocks across different projects works really well.
  • The interface makes it easier for developers to navigate around the tool.
Cons
  • Workflow needs to be addressed and worked on. We've tried implementing it back in R5 and it kept hanging the pages in between steps.
  • SiteEdit appear to be a problem in our setup. I would expect the functionality to be "plug and play" but we end up custom coding parts of it to make it work.
  • It would really be nice if they offer free "plug and play" add ons to the tool, i.e. polling widgets, commenting widgets, social networking, etc, without having to do too much coding to integrate.
  • Enable for easy portability and re-usability of content with other CMS.
Tridion will do its job for simple, less interactive websites. However, if you're looking into creating sites that are more interactive, more personalized and transactional based interaction with visitors, using it can be very challenging. Lots of coding involved, on top of the templating work.

Tridion Sites 9.5 rocks

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 02, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
11 years of experience
We use Tridion for our public websites, mobile apps. The problems solved include content reusability, blueprinting, multi-channel platform usage. We got quite a bit of customization which product support in terms of deploying / GUI extensions / Events code etc., Also got complex publishing (both static and dynamic publishing to name a few) which is taken care of Tridion sites 9.5 Our contacts of professional services, customer services address any issues we face during our implementation/post live.
  • Blueprinting
  • reusability
  • Extensibility
Cons
  • some missing features of classic UI in new UI interface should be addressed
  • More add-ons which will avoid customisations
  • Easier upgrade path
Blueprinting model is a big plus. The structure is defined, templates, components, schemas are set up at a global level and shared across inherited items. This means creating once, re-using it in many places, (localize them as and when necessary) is a big plus and well suited. if the company does not have localization requirements and also one or two sites, then the product may be a bit too much as it is more of an enterprise edition.

Switch from SDL Tridion

Rating: 1 out of 10
April 12, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
1 year of experience
SDL Tridion was used as the solution for some of the client sites that I worked on.
  • Reusability. It uses a lot of modules that can be used in more than one location.
  • Deployment of source code. A sites dll's, JS and CSS can all be managed within SDL Tridion. This gives the power to an Admin to deploy new versions of the site without as much need for a systems engineer to assist.
  • Extremely flexible. A feature can be made in many ways. So if one doesn't work, try another.
Cons
  • User interface is very confusing unless you take classes on how to use it. Not very intuitive and hard to figure out how to do things on your own.
  • Due to the high flexibility there is a high risk of having sites without uniformity. every feature can be created in different ways. This can make troubleshooting extremely difficult for a developer to fix a bug or add a feature that will not break existing features. It can also cause duplicated code or features because a developer needs to create a feature and creates a new one that already existed elsewhere in the site simply because he/she could not find it or was unaware of it.
  • Content authors can be very dangerous. SDL Tridion has the potential to give Content Authors great power over their sites. Mistakes can be made that are difficult to recover from and take many hours to recover from.
How powerful of a CMS do you need?
Multi-site CMS?
Multi-language sites?
Scale of site(s) you will need?
Complexity of site(s) you will need?
Number of Content Authors, from how many locations?

Tridion is so so

Rating: 5 out of 10
April 11, 2014
JE
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
5 years of experience
We currently use Tridion to support 2 websites, desktop and mobile site for healthgrades.com, primary it is used to target content on our website.
  • Tridion does a great job at supporting multiple websites in the enterprise
  • The ability to have multiple environments with a single instance of the CMS.
Cons
  • The content porter is really bad, we have basically stopped using it.
  • The data connector is neat but very slow, we have created a solr core to replace it.
  • Site Edit sucks!
I would not recommend Tridion for most CMS needs, but it does really well with local variations.

Administrator supporting marketers - I am the person they go to when content isn't appearing on the site :)

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 30, 2015
KM
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
2 years of experience
SDL Tridion is being used across the majority of our organization for our marketing websites. We implemented it as a multi-site platform, making it easier to have localization and mass publishing/inheritance options.
  • Makes it easy to spin up a new site quickly
  • Allows for numerous users to work on the same site without conflicting with each other's changes
  • Allows you to unpublish changes or revert to old versions if you make a mistake
  • Allows you to time publishing actions (for example, you can set it to happen overnight)
Cons
  • The user management and permissions can be confusing, especially since you have to add users directly in the database before adding permissions (I believe this was resolved with version 2013)
  • The publishing queue can easily get clogged, and it can be difficult to fully restart and get pending items published out
  • If a user has an item checked out and publishes it, it will act like it went through successfully, but actually hasn't. It can be misleading and difficult to troubleshoot why changes haven't appeared on the site.
I think it is really well suited for users who have multiple sites that need to inherit from a parent site, and want easy mass publishing options with the opportunity to also localize/personalize content to a lower level site.
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