RWS Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Content Management Systems for Authenticated Digital Workspaces

Tridion’s translation capabilities and architectural framework cited as key differentiators, according to global market intelligence firm

CHALFONT SAINT PETER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RWS, the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services, announces that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Content Management Systems for Authenticated Digital Workspaces 2021 Vendor Assessment.

The analyst firm’s latest report evaluates content management platforms and their ability to support next-generation digital workplace environments. Vendors are evaluated against their strategy and capabilities, and placed within a Participants, Contenders, Major Players or Leaders Category.

“An effective global workforce depends on the ability to collaborate, communicate and access company information in their own language – and the ability to securely share it externally,” explains Thomas Labarthe, President of RWS’s Language Services and Technology division. “That’s where our intelligent content platform Tridion stands out. Our technology handles the most complex content environments – and the IDC MarketScape’s recognition is testament to our continued investment and innovation.”

The IDC MarketScape recognizes Tridion’s BluePrinting® and Baselining technology and its ability to help multinational organizations “handle complex multilingual, multi region, multi brand, multi-channel projects.”

Tridion, connects people, processes, and information through the most complete portfolio of collaborative content management, knowledge management and headless delivery technologies. Companies can securely streamline communication to employees, prospects, customers, partners, influencers, investors, and other stakeholders globally.

Click here to download the IDC MarketScape: Content Management Systems for Authenticated Digital Workspaces 2021 Vendor Assessment (doc #US47412921, September 2021).

Notes to editors:

• According to IDC, companies should “consider Tridion when they are a multi-national organization that has complex content structures that would benefit from a componentized architecture and automated machine translation capabilities to dynamically assemble authenticated and personalized digital experiences.”
• Tridion’s strengths highlighted in the report include:
  • Localization and translation: Tridion benefits from RWS’s own machine translation technology to automate localization of content and imagery based on language selection. Tridion’s atomic design of content creation and management is well suited for real-time translation and dynamic delivery.
  • Authoring environment: Content authors can use the site building wizard with a headless design extension to provide a consistent single view of the customer and employee content. Tridion provides a knowledge graph for content visualization, user interface for conversational internet-of-things content (e.g. Alexa simulator) and insight to content voice and tone.
  • Architecture framework: Tridion offers rigorous content modeling, content component inheritance and reuse across any combination of sites, regions, brands and channels. For customers, employees and partners that work in China, Tridion provides a publishing process that helps reduce latency for the user experience.

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About RWS

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and approximately half of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.