SDL International, a worldwide leader in translation services, products and solutions, today announced SDLWorkFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server - an integration between SDLWorkFlow and Microsoft Content Management Server 2001. The integration offers customers a complete solution for managing the timely delivery of multilingual web content across linguistic, cultural and national boundaries.

 
SDL International has seamlessly integrated Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 and SDLWorkFlow to provide a unified user interface for content creation, management, localization and globalization. The integration provides global corporations with a complete solution for creating and managing scalable, multilingual e-business websites.

"Customers around the world want to use Content Management Server to build and deploy websites that provide targeted content," said Betsy Frost, Group Product Manager for Content Management Server 2001, Microsoft Corp. "We are excited to work with SDL as their products allow us to offer organizations a world-class platform for efficiently transforming single sites into expertly localized websites tailored for global audiences."

Localizing web content in an efficient and cost-effective way is a major challenge for multinational companies. Content localization can be a complex, distributed process. And yet, the ability to deliver web content in multiple languages is emerging as a key competitive advantage for successful market expansion in the global economy.

"We are very pleased to work with Microsoft," said Mark Lancaster, Chairman and Chief Executive of SDL. "This partnership with a market leader further establishes SDLWorkFlow as the standard platform for globalizing and managing multilingual websites and e-businesses."

Microsoft Content Management Server enables companies to quickly and efficiently build, deploy, and maintain Internet, intranet and extranet websites. SDLWorkFlow provides state-of-the-art automated workflow and project management functionality to facilitate and streamline the localization and synchronized translation of multilingual web content. By linking SDLWorkFlow to Microsoft Content Management Server, companies can efficiently localize, manage and update web content in more than 50 languages across multiple-language or country-specific websites.

With the integration between SDLWorkFlow and Microsoft Content Management Server, companies can streamline the globalization processes by automatically monitoring and synchronizing changes in global web content, reducing translation inefficiencies and minimizing dependencies on external tools and systems. The combination of Microsoft Content Management Server and SDLWorkFlow provides sophisticated change detection and process management capabilities which automatically initiate global processes to alert translators, reviewers, legal staff, authorizers, project managers and other key personnel to ensure that correct changes are made for the right country, language and locale. Customers who use both products can therefore reduce the overall cost of globalization while improving customer loyalty and projecting a powerful global brand.

Product Availability

SDLWorkFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server is available for purchase today from SDL. For information on SDL, SDLWorkFlow, and SDLWorkFlow for Microsoft Content Management Server, please contact:

Hedley Rees-Evans
Marketing Director
SDL International
Tel. +44 (0) 1628 410133
HRees-Evans@sdl.com