GPI CMS Partners all make the Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant

Websites today are driven by an array of web content management systems (WCMS). Global companies author, store, edit, localize and publish content from these platforms. The ability to initiate and manage content authoring and translation workflows and collaboration around the world has improved immensely just in the last few years. Some of these WCMS have recognized the need for global, multilingual enabled authoring and publishing platforms to better serve their worldwide client bases.

The 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM) report lists the CMS companies with the leading web content management systems in the marketplace today.  The Gartner Magic Quadrant chart is a useful tool to identify the key players in an industry which is sectioned by Niche Players, Visionaries, Challengers, and Leaders. To make the chart at all in such a competitive industry is an achievement. The report lists another 60 or so companies that did not make the chart.

Let’s take a look at this year’s results:

GPI is proud to be official partners with four Web Content Management System companies of which all four are in the 2014 Gartner WCM Magic Quadrant.

Adobe (Adobe Experience Manager) and Sitecore are in the upper right quadrant for leaders. They typically are the standouts in this industry. In the lower right hand quadrant Ektron and EPiServer have been labeled Visonaries which is an excellent label for these organizations.

What we like about each of these CMS’s is their support for and features that make them an effective platform to deliver multilingual content and sites.  In addition, GPI has developed Translation Services Connectors to further enhance their global feature sets as well.

Some features specific to language support and multi-language site management:

	Provides a built-in tool to export / import content. Users can track changes between two languages side-by-side Provides an easy set of steps to enable and manipulate multiple languages.
	Provides built-in support for content export/import in XLIFF format for translation. Workflow management with support for language specific approval chains User experience configurations allowing one to target customers in their language of choice
	Provides fallback option to return the user when accessing a non-translated page Allow admins to set certain content fields to be unique per language. Provides the option to compare between source and target languages.
	Allows users to define custom locale/language pairs to meet their specific needs The built-in export/import process uses a standard XML file Provides quality assurance to view content side-by-side

GPI CMS Translation Services Connectors

Globalization Partners International (GPI) has a CMS Translation Services Connector for Adobe AEM, Ektron, EPiServer and Sitecore which we provide to our clients at no cost as part of our comprehensive website translation services. Recently GPI launched a microsite to help educate potential clients about website translation and Translation Services Connectors. You can visit it at: https://www.translationplugin.com/

Congratulations to Adobe, Ektron, EPiServer and Sitecore! It will be exciting to see what new capabilities these companies bring to the marketplace in 2015!