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What is Tridion?

Tridion (formerly SDL Tridion) aims to connect people, processes, and information through a complete portfolio of collaborative Content Management, Knowledge Management and Headless delivery technologies. Combine with Accelerators for fast time-to-value and RWS Translation Management solutions for global reach. Its…

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Powerful CMS capabilities: Users have praised the powerful CMS capabilities of SDL Tridion for enterprise needs, stating that it …
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Tridion Experience

8 out of 10
March 20, 2022
Incentivized
We're using Tridion (SDL Tridion Content Management System) for more than 200 websites to serve our customers. Tridion enables us to …
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Tridion Sites 9.5 rocks

10 out of 10
March 02, 2022
We use Tridion for our public websites, mobile apps. The problems solved include content reusability, blueprinting, multi-channel platform …
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Tridion Delivers!!!

8 out of 10
February 17, 2022
We use Tridion for our public sites. It has really delivered! The problems this product has helped to solve include, content reusability, …
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SDL Tridion 2011 review

8 out of 10
July 14, 2015
Tridion is used by our web team to manage over 20,000 individual webpages. We create and edit 20-50 pages daily. Tridion provides a …
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SDL Tridion

8 out of 10
February 04, 2015
We use SDL Tridion as the content management system that supports our enterprise-level website. The Web & Interactive team manage the …
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SDL Tridion

9 out of 10
April 26, 2014
Tahzoo are premier implementors of SDL Tridion. Our clients have complex and unique Content Management problems and SDL Tridion solves …
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Popular Features

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  • Admin section (8)
    9.0
    90%
  • Page templates (8)
    9.0
    90%
  • Role-based user permissions (9)
    9.0
    90%
  • WYSIWYG editor (8)
    8.0
    80%
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What is Tridion?

Tridion (formerly SDL Tridion) aims to connect people, processes, and information through a complete portfolio of collaborative Content Management, Knowledge Management and Headless delivery technologies. Combine with Accelerators for fast time-to-value and RWS Translation Management solutions…

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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.

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Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

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

9.1
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8.5
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.6
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Tridion?

Tridion (formerly SDL Tridion) aims to connect people, processes, and information through a complete portfolio of collaborative Content Management, Knowledge Management and Headless delivery technologies. Combine with Accelerators for fast time-to-value and RWS Translation Management solutions for global reach. Its key components include:
  • Tridion Sites provides web content management capabilities, connecting people, processes, and information across teams, brands, and markets, to deliver impactful online experiences globally.
  • Tridion Docs is an enterprise-wide authoring and collaboration tool—using the DITA standard—that helps turn content into information enriched with metadata and classification information, such as taxonomy terms, and build an enterprise knowledge hub for a company.
  • Semantic AI capabilities help you better match user intent to your content, connecting your critical content together with the knowledge models of your organization to give all users the information they need to succeed.
  • Tridion Delivery supports headless, dynamic, personalized and responsive web delivery, GraphQL API-based access to content, XML or JSON output, RSS streams, XML output, static HTML, Help files, eLearning, all the way through to automatically formatted and designed accessible PDF or print output.
  • Tridion Accelerators speed implementation, allowing users to plug Tridion into a larger digital ecosystem.

Tridion 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

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

The most common users of Tridion are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 02, 2022

Tridion Sites 9.5 rocks

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Blueprinting
  • reusability
  • Extensibility
  • some missing features of classic UI in new UI interface should be addressed
  • More add-ons which will avoid customisations
  • Easier upgrade path
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
September 16, 2016

Tridion at a biotech service

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Biotechnology Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SDL Tridion is used for corporate website maintenance and is updated by IT and ER groups. It allows us to add new products to the catalog and keep our company's information and news up to date. All work is done internally. All components and pages are created by our company internally, and all the assets are provided by external authors and graphic designers.
Pros and Cons
  • It allows for creating a variety of page layouts
  • It supports SEO management
  • It has good back-end to front-end integration
  • It would be great to have an ability to reuse images in the components of different proportions
  • It would be good to have an internal tool that helps to find if a component is linked to another component or is used on some pages
  • Sometimes it takes too long to propogate changes even the small ones
Likelihood to Recommend
SDL Tridion is good for large-scale sites that use a lot of pages based on templates. Specifically, it is great for extensive online catalogs. It also good for creating microsites. For the simpler scenarios that require all pages to have different layouts and stylesheets associated with them, using Tridion may be too much of a hassle.
February 04, 2015

SDL Tridion

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use SDL Tridion as the content management system that supports our enterprise-level website. The Web & Interactive team manage the website information architecture, design, content, and strategy using SDL Tridion in support of the organization's online goals and marketing campaigns that drive traffic to our website. W&I are able to extend access to Tridion to individuals in various departments across the organization so that they can author and edit the content on their department-owned sections of the website, allowing them to make changes to the content on their pages as needed with minimal assistance.
Pros and Cons
  • Our organization was able to customize the implementation of SDL Tridion so that it would fit our unique needs for a CMS; it is flexible in this regard, and we are adding new elements all the time to fit changing requirements and marketing goals.
  • The user interface for SDL Tridion is very clean, and easy to use. This makes it easier for users with less web experience to navigate and use the CMS tool.
  • SDL Tridion integrates well with our back-end organizational systems and applications, making the customer front-end experience seamless, and our back-end processing as smooth as possible.
  • The search tool is really helpful when you have a lot of content to manage. We use the search feature all the time to find things we need if we don't immediately know where it is stored; it is a major time-saver.
  • Tridion is complicated in enough ways that it makes it difficult to train new users. Therefore, we have to limit the number of people with access to the system since we have not yet implemented Workflow.
  • When something goes wrong (items fail to publish, or there is unexpected behavior with components), there is little explanation provided that would point us in the right direction to troubleshoot. As a result, content Authors and Editors have to frequently ask for IT assistance.
Likelihood to Recommend
SDL Tridion works well for organizations with a large website with a lot of content to continuously create and manage. The use of page templates and component presentations makes creating new pages fairly straightforward. It can be a little cumbersome when it comes to trying to "break from the norm" and build web pages that are outside of the template-driven format; however, there are ways around this to create pages that break away from the normal page-template format of the website. In this regard, SDL Tridion can be pretty flexible, allowing us to create a lot of custom functionality to keep up with constantly changing web trends.
April 26, 2014

SDL Tridion

Piti Itharat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Piti Itharat
Director, Architects
Tahzoo (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tahzoo are premier implementors of SDL Tridion. Our clients have complex and unique Content Management problems and SDL Tridion solves that. The blueprinting feature allows complete reuse of content and templates between web site. It is unique to SDL Tridion. There are also many other modules which comes with SDL Tridion that allows organizations to personalize content to specific users on web sites as well.
Pros and Cons
  • Blueprinting and reuse of content
  • The front end or delivery application can be .net, java or php.
  • Personalization of content.
  • Image repository/manipulation within the system.
  • Experience manager can be improved on.
  • Content porting between publications is not possible.
Likelihood to Recommend
SDL Tridion is very useful for large corporation which have a number of different websites under their umbrella. They may have many small websites which may need some content from the main site. With the blueprinting model, this is easily achieved. It is also good for translations and multilingual websites since the same blueprinting principle applies.
April 19, 2014

Tridion does it's job

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Maricar Renion
Lead Applications Developer
Sodexo (Facilities Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
April 09, 2014

An SDL Tridion review from a Web Content Editor

Tushar Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tushar Patel
Web Content Editor
ClickSoftware (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SDL Tridion was a product I used in my first internship at a local college where I took courses. The knowledge base around Tridion was scarce and bare minimum and with no training on the product at all. My goal was to learn Tridion and help other faculty members who wanted to develop their own departments website and broadcast new events or course offerings. As a Web Content Editor and liaison for the Dean of Sciences, I was allowed to train professors and administrative assistants in what I learned about the product and help contribute to Tridion's knowledge base. This also speaks to Tridion's simplicity as a product and how it allows users with a little to no technical experience pick it up in little to no time at all.
Pros and Cons
  • This product addresses the Why, What, Who and Now, and Where of Content Management to allow simplicity.
  • SDL Tridion has a simple functional design that allows users to stay organized and streamlined.
  • At first glance, Tridion can be overwhelming with the introduction of the SDL Tridion functional design.
  • The content versioning of this product is fairly average, and meets basic requirements.
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe this product is well suited for companies and organizations that want to have its internal employees develop webpages on the fly without concerning themselves with the back end system. This product is also easy to train others in, and does not require a lot of knowledge in Java, .NET or HTML. It certainly helps to know these languages as if an issue arises it allows you to debug more closely.
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