3. Translation

SDL undoubtedly is pioneer in translation service – their AI powered translation services are unmatched with any other service provide – that’s what SDL meant and known for – Software and Documentation Localization.
Now SDL’s translation services can be integrated with SDL Web through out-of-the-box Translation Manager which enable sending content for translation to SDL’s translation service as well as manages the entire translation workflow and approval process.

So you can for example:

• Select content in SDL Web, send it for translation to SDL’s Translation server, receive the translated version in SDL Web, let it pass through approval workflow
• if approved, use it in your website; if rejected, sent it back to for re-translation
• Integrate this as part of your content management workflow.

4. Latest Version – Always

If you worry about the effort it takes to upgrade an on-premise software tool, then worry not! With SDL Web Cloud which is a version-less system. This means you will always be on latest version of the WCMS system – the quarterly release of the software will be patched as per an agreed scheduled by SDL and you can relax and be free from “Upgrade Plans”

5. Extensibility

One of the biggest advantage with SDL Web is that it allows you to extend most of its features – GUI, Publishing Process, Link Resolving process, Storage Mechanism, Content Saving process, Workflow process – almost everything.
So you can for example:

• Extend the GUI to have few custom menus there with custom functionality to ease the Content Author
• Extend the default process of publishing and may choose to inject some custom logic before, during or after the publishing of content
• Extend the storage mechanism while publishing content – you may choose to save the publishing content to file system and/or database and/or can define a new storage type altogether and/or choose to store published content in some custom DB like Mongo DB and/or search engines like Solr, Elastic Search, AWS Cloud Search etc.
• Extend the content save process and choose for an example to send an email whenever a component is saved
• Extend to capture almost any event corresponding to any activity you do and can customize the process

6. Third Party Integrations

SDL Web has a rich set of APIs, which can be used to access any content – published, unpublished, under workflow process, everything.

It could be a WCF based service that can be used to access pages, content and other building blocks of your website, the user, groups and other admin related information; it could be an OData based service exposing all “published only” content; it could be a dll or jar file that you can reference in your web application to interact with SDL Web or it could be a special library to connect with external content provided by third party applications – possibilities are limitless.

So you can for example, integrate your SDL Web based website with:

• Salesforce creating leads and opportunities
• Applications like Eloqua, Marketo, Pardot etc. submitting information collected via various forms on your website
• Sharepoint to access docs or intranet information
• Tools like Documentum, Flickr, AWS S3 Bucket etc.
• Integrate with SOLR, Elastic Search, AWS Cloud Search etc. to index and search content
• Integrate with Brightcove, Vimeo, Ooyala to access and play videos on your website