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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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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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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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February 17, 2022

Tridion Docs for Tech Docs

JC
Jonathan Chandler
Technical Communications Group Supervisor
Intralox (Plastics, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Simplify content management
  • Enable easier collaboration
  • Standardize content workflows
  • Simplify translation processes
  • Improved search functionality
  • Improved Review Space funcitionality
  • OOTB notification functionality
  • OOTB reporting and metrics
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Tridion Feature Ratings
Web Content Creation (8)
N/A
N/A
WYSIWYG editor
N/A
N/A
Code quality / cleanliness
N/A
N/A
Admin section
N/A
N/A
Page templates
N/A
N/A
Library of website themes
N/A
N/A
Mobile optimization / responsive design
N/A
N/A
Publishing workflow
N/A
N/A
Form generator
N/A
N/A
Web Content Management (4)
N/A
N/A
Content taxonomy
N/A
N/A
SEO support
N/A
N/A
Bulk management
N/A
N/A
Availability / breadth of extensions
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
85%
8.5
API
80%
8.0
Internationalization / multi-language
90%
9.0
Security (1)
80%
8.0
Role-based user permissions
80%
8.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Reduced costs
  • increased throughput
  • increased consistency
  • increased quality
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April 30, 2020

SDL Tridion Sites Review

Verified User
Program Manager in Marketing
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Compassion International utilizes SDL Tridion Sites to manage our web presence, the content for our e-commerce interface, and other content needs throughout our NGO. We have built a very robust web solution for our constituents through Tridion including my account, checkout, letter writing, and other robust capabilities for our constituency. We have been using Tridion longer than SDL even owned the solution. And at first, SDL saw it as an also ran product. But have, over the past few years begun to give it the emphasis in SDL's stable of tools that it deserves. Tridion is one of the most important marketing capabilities and solutions.
Pros and Cons
  • High-powered CMS for Enterprise needs
  • Powerful multi-lingual site management and organization
  • Key integration solutions for publishing web content
  • If you are hoping to orbit the planet with a CMS, Tridion is built to leave the solar system. It is a very very powerful solution built for very serious enterprise businesses in hope of robust capabilities, which could be good or bad.
  • Supporting business users is a hefty lift and requires significant training and regular retraining, and support.
  • It's a niche solution that originally came out of Europe and was largely unknown in America. But today it's growing in popularity across the United States.
  • Finding capable support, and developers specializing in Tridion capabilities isn't always easy. And 8 years ago it was nearly impossible, involving finding European developer support shops in order to get the assistance needed. This is changing though and American developer firms are becoming more widely available.
Likelihood to Recommend
This totally depends. If the individual asking has a large business that needs a comprehensive solution that includes a multi-national platform, multi-lingual needs, and they need something that they are willing to invest in heavily, then SDL Tridion Sites is fantastic. But for most mid-level organizations, it is way way too complicated and heavy of a lift to setup and support. We succeeded with it, but it was through serious effort and investment.
Tridion Feature Ratings
Web Content Creation (8)
70%
7.0
WYSIWYG editor
80%
8.0
Code quality / cleanliness
90%
9.0
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
50%
5.0
Library of website themes
50%
5.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
60%
6.0
Publishing workflow
100%
10.0
Form generator
50%
5.0
Web Content Management (5)
66%
6.6
Content taxonomy
100%
10.0
SEO support
90%
9.0
Bulk management
60%
6.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
50%
5.0
Community / comment management
30%
3.0
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
95%
9.5
API
90%
9.0
Internationalization / multi-language
100%
10.0
Security (1)
100%
10.0
Role-based user permissions
100%
10.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • We've seen over 250% growth as a result of our initial implementation.
  • Our web presence is an industry defining leader for the non-profit segment.
Alternatives Considered
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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.
Tridion Feature Ratings
Web Content Creation (8)
52.5%
5.3
WYSIWYG editor
80%
8.0
Code quality / cleanliness
N/A
N/A
Admin section
80%
8.0
Page templates
80%
8.0
Library of website themes
N/A
N/A
Mobile optimization / responsive design
90%
9.0
Publishing workflow
90%
9.0
Form generator
N/A
N/A
Web Content Management (5)
48%
4.8
Content taxonomy
80%
8.0
SEO support
80%
8.0
Bulk management
80%
8.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
N/A
N/A
Community / comment management
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
40%
4.0
API
N/A
N/A
Internationalization / multi-language
80%
8.0
Security (1)
80%
8.0
Role-based user permissions
80%
8.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • SDL is a very complex system. Creating custom components by external vendors turned out to be expensive.
  • The learning curve is very slow, so training takes a lot of time and cost.
  • The revamped corporate site looks clean, modern, and is mobile-friendly.
Other Software Used
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