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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

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SDL Tridion CMS Review for new customers

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 23, 2014
BM
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
1 year of experience
Tridion was used to support a former client, we assisted implement and manage their CMS platform. Their challenges were managing a content hierarchy, preview/publish content targets and needing support for a technical solution integrating various technologies.
  • Tridion gives you full capability to build content pages through the use of their component sections that can be used as a building block approach.
  • The publishing pipelines were very effective when dealing with various environments of dev, qa, staging and production.
  • I found the internal newsletter management to be very helpful to customer and engagement outreach right within the CMS platform.
Cons
  • I thought the upgrade process was a little involved going from one major version to another.
  • Additional Cookbooks could also improve implementation and development of the later versions of the CMS
Tridion is a true enterprise CMS, if your organization is well suited for the cost and the ability to capitalize on managed content and make use of the various tools available then its a great investment. Key questions would be size of organization, budget, licenses, etc.

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.

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.

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?

SDL Tridion, good for Multi-brand companies, not for everybody else.

Rating: 3 out of 10
April 08, 2014
DN
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
2 years of experience
SDL Tridion is a great content management software, if your needs are to manage lots of sites, with translated content. I chose Tridion for a rather large company to use for its 500 plus brand websites. The blueprint model made it an ideal choice to share modules but still maintain an distinct look and feel. Tridion helped leverage the concept of reuse and shorten the time to create new web properties across different brand experiences.
  • The blueprint concept is great, helps facilitate the sharing of code and content.
  • Separation of content and presentation makes it easy to share content across multiple properties, even publish to mobile and gaming platforms a possibility.
  • Workflow and the workflow Visio tool is very powerful. It can be used for various customizations.
  • Content Porter, is your friend and at times can be a pain, but mostly it's your friend
  • Moving between environments, dev, qa, uat and production is simplified.
  • Oh that Broker db.
Cons
  • Installations, do you have a month. I'm joking, but yes it is quite complicated to install SDL Tridion and its many parts.
  • Personalization with Smart Target, requires a PHD in software science. The integration between the products is just not there.
  • SiteEdit 2012 and the new Tridion UI, is a bit outdated. The UI can use a little help from a user experience perspective. It is not tablet friendly.
If your company is managing lots of websites, and would like custom Content Delivery Applications for them, then SDL Tridion is the right tool. Perfect for companies like Unilever, Kimberly Clark, Kraft, where the brand experience is unique however, costs need to be managed. Do not use Tridion if all you have is one or two website manage.
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