SDL Tridion Sites functional overview
SDL Tridion Sites is an enterprise-class web content management system that lets you manage complex global web, mobile and other digital touchpoints. Together with SDL Tridion Docs, it forms the SDL Tridion DX suite of products. This section lists the various SDL Tridion Sites features.
- Componentized content
By following a content-centric rather than page-centric approach to content management, SDL Tridion Sites lets you use the same content on a website, mobile or watch app, kiosk, or any other presentation system, without the need to duplicate content. - Content inheritance through BluePrinting
The BluePrinting feature of SDL Tridion Sites lets you manage the complexity of a multi-site, multi-language web environment. - Publishing and deployment
The publishing features transforms managed content into publishable content, and packages and delivers it from the Publisher in Content Manager to the Content Deployer in Content Delivery. The Content Deployer then deploys the content to one or more delivery platforms, storing the content in a relational database, from which any number of applications or websites can then retrieve it. - Taxonomies and metadata
SDL Tridion Sites supports taxonomies that can be used to classify content in multiple ways and to define a knowledge map of the content domain. In the Content Delivery environment, you can use taxonomies for website navigation and dynamic content assembly. - Content entry points
Authors and editors can create and edit content in SDL Tridion Sites in multiple ways. - Workflow
You can use the workflow functionality to create and associate Workflow Processes with specific types of items in Content Manager. The features lets you add Manual Activities and Automatic (scripted) Activities. - Translation
The Translation Manager feature of SDL Tridion Sites lets you send content and media off to any of a number of SDL translation products. You can have your content machine-translated, manually translated or both. You can monitor translation progress from SDL Tridion Sites. - Targeted and personalized content
Experience Optimization (previously called SmartTarget) provides out-of-the-box support for marketers to create and manage targeted and personalized content for your websites. - User Generated Content (UGC)
User Generated Content (UGC) functionality allows your website visitors to rate and comment on content. - Centralized user management
The same authentication mechanism underlies all software component in SDL Tridion Sites. User management within SDL Tridion Sites is role-based. - Decoupled architecture
SDL Tridion Sites separates content management from content delivery. - Headless content management system
SDL Tridion Sites provides REST-based APIs that return JSON objects and enable in-context editing of experiences delivered through frameworks such as React and Angular. - Extensibility
SDL Tridion Sites recognizes the value of integrating multiple platforms. To address the challenge of a complex technology landscape, as found in most organizations, SDL Tridion Sites offers a connector framework for packaged, partner-created and custom connectors to third-party software. - Developer tools and templating
Integration with industry-leading development tools makes template development easy. - Cloud deployment
A Cloud edition of the SDL Tridion Sites product, called SDL Tridion Sites Cloud, lets the product be deployed for you in an AWS cloud environment managed by SDL. You can also deploy the product in your own private cloud. Refer to the SDL Tridion Sites Cloud documentation for more information. - Sizing and scaling
SDL Tridion Sites offers you the ability to build a system that meets your size and scaling needs today and into the future. The platform allows for both vertical and horizontal scaling. Refer to the system management section for more information. - Virtualization
You can deploy SDL Tridion Sites in a hardware-virtualized environment. - Redundancy
SDL Tridion Sites supports network load balancing and server clustering in order to provide a redundant, fault-tolerant environment. - Monitoring
System administrators can monitor critical Content Manager and Content Delivery processes using the system monitoring capabilities of SDL Tridion Sites. The Monitoring Agent ensures that should any issues arise, system administrators can quickly troubleshoot and resolve problems. - DTAP infrastructure
Regardless of how you host your content management system, you want your IT team to apply the appropriate development process. We recommend separate environments for Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production (DTAP).