SDL Translation Manager
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SDL Translation Manager

SDL Translation Manager

A genuinely global web presence means speaking your customer’s language. Translation is essentially the first step to make your local websites more relevant for your global audiences.

SDL Translation Manager enables marketing and communication professionals to optimize their translation dollar for their local audiences. Translation Manager combines the strengths of SDL Tridion’s BluePrinting technology with SDL’s translation technology to provide an end-to-end translation and global information management solution.

Functional overview

The best of both worlds. Fully integrated with SDL Tridion Web Content Manager, Translation Manager provides a central point for translations and ensures brand message consistency, regardless of language.

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  • Brand protection and brand building
  • Global web content management
  • Integrated multi-channel delivery
  • Targeting, profiling and personalization
  • Integrated multilingual asset management
  • Process efficiency and tracking
  • Translation memory when integrated with SDL’s Translation Management System
  • Translation expertise


Communication that connects.
Outside of marketing glamour, managing translation processes can be a painstaking process involving many manual actions and high overhead costs. Translation Manager helps companies reduce localization costs, reduce time to market and improve translation quality.

Translation memory is applied to all projects centrally, improving translation quality and reducing costs and time.

Campaign management
  • Multi-channel rollout: web, mobile, print
  • Coordinated publish actions
  • Consistent messaging and look-and-feel
Global information management
  • Translation management
  • End-to-end localization
  • Central control, local flexibility
  • Accelerated global rollouts

What's inside

Single-click processesYou can configure your translation processes from end-to-end, defining both the source and target languages for your translation processes. Authorized personnel can initiate translation for anything from a single line of text to an entire section of your website.
Centralized translation automation and managementAutomated transactions between the vendor and your organization reduce the management costs for all parties. Content is sourced from and saved to a single repository ensuring centralized control.
Built-in monitoring and notificationsTranslation Manager allows you to see the status of any translation job so you always know the status of your projects. Automated notifications ensure that all those involved are kept in the loop regarding the status of the translations.