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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 7.7

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 7.3
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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 22)

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.

Daily Tridion User

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 07, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
3 years of experience
Used across the whole organization to generate and post content to the web
  • File organization clear and concise
  • Ability to tweak html code in wysiwyg windows
  • You don't have to have any programming experience to use
Cons
  • A lot of steps to link components with pages
  • Ability to delete PDFs from server very cumbersome, unlike regular pages
  • Having difficulty manipulating images and special text such as bulleted lists next to each other -- they don't play well together!
If you're already familiar with working in a CMS then it won't be too difficult to pick up -- but still recommend a training session or two. For my company any template tweaks are handled by the IT department so I can't speak to how easy or difficult it is to modify templates.

Tridion - A CMS to Avoid

Rating: 1 out of 10
April 08, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
2 years of experience
We are starting to convert everything to a CMS and Tridion was chosen as the CMS of choice by the IT leadership. We have slowly started to migrate everything to CMS and are still in the process of migrating everything over. Tridion is being used by both Technology and Business.

While Tridion does give business more functionality to edit some parts of the website that were previously not editable, I feel that Tridion is completely out-dated as a CMS and there are lots of better alternatives.
  • Tridion has a blueprint (hierarchy) where you can inherit items from a higher structured website or publication
  • Tridion has version control built-in to the application so you don't need to use a separate SVN
  • You can write custom plugins or extensions such as one to minify all JS and CSS files automatically
Cons
  • Doesn't work well in all browsers. Tridion is a Microsoft product so they really push IE; however, now-a-days it SHOULD work in all browsers. Even though they say to use IE, Chrome actually functions the best with Tridion.
  • It uses Dreamweaver Syntax. Dreamweaver syntax is completely out-dated and SDL really needs to come up with a better way of looping through content by using it's own structure or using .NET syntax to loop through items - Dreamweaver syntax is not the way to go
  • Component Templates and Page Templates. Tridion uses Component Templates and Dreamweaver templates to display content and store the content that is to be displayed. These 2 items could easily be converted into 1 group of items, but SDL chose to keep them separate therefore increasing the complexity of Tridion
  • Steep learning curve. Tridion has a very steep learning curve and it will take some time to train people on it. We had to hire 4 Tridion experts (at probably around $1000 / day) to get everyone trained on Tridion and then build the structure for Tridion
Anything that Tridion can do can be done by another CMS. Maybe not a free one, but definitely other paid CMSs. I would really have liked to use Drupal or Sitecore.

Tridion Delivers!!!

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 17, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
5 years of experience
We use Tridion for our public sites. It has really delivered! The problems this product has helped to solve include, content reusability, publishing once and using many, flexibility, the use of connectors, the forms plug-in, and so much more. Our contacts Jessica Roland and Wiegert Tierie are great and responsive to our needs (e.g., support, using a forms plug-in, graphQL, etc.). We escalate any issues that come up and they are quick to resolve.
  • Reusable content
  • Content as a service
  • Inheritance of templates and components
  • Flexibility
Cons
  • New UI :) I know they are on it.
  • Ease of upgrades
  • Upgrades should not be too costly
Love the product and I really like how we use it for public sites. The only negative aspect is that it is just hard to find Tridion devs that understand the tool, grasp .net, react, and understand the blueprint, etc.

Tridion Docs for Tech Docs

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 17, 2022
JC
Vetted Review
Verified User
RWS Tridion Sites
4 years of experience
We use Tridion Docs to create and manage our technical documentation. Implementing Tridion Docs has allowed us to scale our operation and keep pace with the growth of the business. We've successfully increased productivity, improved consistency, and reduced translation costs. Tridion has played a large role in enabling these successes.
  • Simplify content management
  • Enable easier collaboration
  • Standardize content workflows
  • Simplify translation processes
Cons
  • Improved search functionality
  • Improved Review Space funcitionality
  • OOTB notification functionality
  • OOTB reporting and metrics
Tridion is well suited for creating and maintaining tech content. The Draft Space component is well suited for capturing content from SMEs. Tridion Pub Manager is well suited for teams new to DITA and CCMS.
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