SDL today announced support for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 within SDLWorkFlow 4.11. The newly updated integration leverages SDL's existing support for earlier versions of Microsoft Content Management Server, but offers greater flexibility for the management of multilingual content and reduced deployment times, owing to the adoption of Microsoft .NET.

 "Management of multilingual content is now imperative for global businesses," said Eric Swift, group product manager for .NET Enterprise Servers at Microsoft Corp. "Content Management Server has seen large adoption from international companies due to its strength in this area. SDL has a strong solution with SDLWorkFlow 4.11, which will enable our mutual customers to quickly and easily localize content on their global Web sites."

"Microsoft's support for XML within Content Management Server and .NET enables us to easily integrate vendor-independent content localization services and offer support for all conceivable translation deployment scenarios," said Keith Mills, CTO of SDL. "Multilingual site architecture improvements in Content Management Server 2002 have enabled us to offer increased flexibility in the way we localize content. Adoption of the .NET Framework as the integrative technology means that development of any customized solution is now relatively painless."

SDLWorkFlow allows users of Microsoft Content Management Server to seamlessly manage the process of localizing content, resulting in a faster time to market for new or amended online content. The tight integration of the content management and content localization workflows means that content can be deployed to local language sites in a swift and controlled manner.

"The deployment of multilingual content is not only now an organizational imperative, it must be managed within a truly dynamic systems structure. The integration of technologies such as Microsoft Content Management Server, and SDLWorkFlow offers an exciting route forward," said SDL's Marketing Director, Hedley Rees-Evans. "Once large, global businesses become aware of the automated translation support now available, such systems will also become a competitive imperative."