The Transformation of SDL
Florian Faes, co-founder of Slator, attended SDL Connect 2016 and shares his thoughts as well as an interview with Adolfo Hernandez and Thomas Labarthe.
Source: Slator, November 2016
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SDL Trados Studio 2017 Offers New Capabilities
News article covering the innovative capabilities of SDL Trados Studio 2017
Source: EContent Magazine, November 2016
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SDL Surprises with Cloud & Connectors
Amberly Dressler, managing editor of Website Magazine, attended SDL Connect 2016 and shares her recap in this article.
Source: Website Magazine, November 2016
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Interview with SDL CMO Peggy Chen on Globalization
In this interview, SDL's CMO Peggy Chen, explains the challenges that companies face when going global and presents SDL's solutions.
Source: CMS Connected, November 2016
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SDL Launches Marketing Solutions
News article covering the launch of SDL Marketing Solutions.
Source: EContent Magazine, November 2016
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SDL Announces Launch of New Marketing Solutions
News article covering the launch of SDL Marketing Solutions and SDL Trados Studio 2017
Source: Martech Advisor, November 2016
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SDL Enhances Computer-Assisted Translation, Pins Future on Improved DX
News story covering recent announcements at SDL Connect 2016.
Source: CMSWire, November 2016
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SDL Launches SDL Marketing Solutions
SDL Marketing Solutions enable companies to adapt manage and deliver marketing content to customers around the world.
Source: Destination CRM, November 2016
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SDL Reveals New Global Content Management Solutions
News story on the challenges organisations face when going gobal and how SDL's new global content management solutions can help.
Source: CMSWire, November 2016
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Digital Marketers, Knock Down Those Silos
In this interview at DX Summit, SDL's CEO Adolfo Hernandez comments on the barriers to digital experience.
Source: CMSWire, November 2016
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Arjen van den Akker: Take Small, Incremental Steps to Exceptional DX
In this interview, Arjen van den Akker SDL's product marketing director, explains the steps to an exceptional digital experience.
Source: CMSWire, November 2016
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SDL Examines Language Challenges, Kaltura Reports Video Growth, More News
In this article, Dom Nicastro recaps SDL's commissioned study "Remove Translation Barriers That Obstruct Digital Experience Success"
Source: CMSWire, November 2016
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SDL to Host Three-Day Event to Address Translation and Content Management Challenges
Martech Advisor highlights SDL Connect 2016 in Palo Alto, Nov. 16-18.
Source: Martech Advisor, November 2016
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Adolfo Hernandez, CEO of SDL Discusses How To Expand Into Global Markets
In this article, SDL’s CEO Adolfo Hernandez discusses the expansion into global marketsand highlights SDL’s solutions that help businesses go global through innovative products and committed people.
Source: EContent, November 2016
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To Capture Customer Attention, Keep it Short and Sweet
SDL's Chief Revenue Officer, Allan Hall, breaks down the tactics to move your content forward and capture customer attention.
Souce: CMSWire, October 2016
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When Push Comes to Pull: Striking the Right Balance in Marketing Strategies
In this article, SDL's CMO Peggy Chen explains the marketing's shift from push to pull strategy.
Source: Website Magazine, October 2016
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Creating Personal, Human Experiences in the Digital World [A Q&A with SDL]
SDL's CMO participates in this Q&A and provides insights on SDL and experience optimization.
Source: Website Magazine, September 2016
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Brand Quarterly Global Marketing Special Edition
SDL's Kathleen is featured in this special edition's Open Mic and speaks about the complexities of going global.
Source: Brand Quarterly, September 2016
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Take Charge of Your Brand Reputation Management
SDL's Chief Revenue Officer Allan Hall breaks down 6 factors that affect brand reputation.
Source: CMSWire, September 2016
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For DX That Converts, Pay Attention to Customer Retention
SDL's Allan Hall highlights the importance of customer retention for successful digital experiences.
Source: CMSWire, August 2016
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100 Days: How SDL’s New CEO Plans to Stop Self-harm and Start Growth
100 days since the apointment of SDL's new CEO, Adolfo Hernandez.
Source: Slator, August 2016
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Best Practices for Retailers in the Age of MarTech
SDL's CMO Peggy Chen analyzes the best practices for retailers in the age of marketing technology.
Source: Retail Merchandiser, August 2016
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Local Content is the Path to Global Audiences
SDL's CMO explains why local content is key to target global audiences.
Source: COMMPRO, July 2016
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Digital Experience Strategies that Work Around the World
In this article, SDL's CMO Peggy Chen analyzes the strategies that overcome the implications of going global.
Source: IT BRIEFCASE, July 2016
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Commit to Customer Experience with a Company-Wide Strategy
SDL's Allan Hall breaks down the key points to create exceptional customer experiences.
Source: CMSWire, July 2016
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Ready to Graduate from Web Content to Web Experience?
SDL's Peggy Chen explains how businesses have the ability to create a brand experience via Web.
Source: Target Marketing, June 2016
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How to Think Human in a Digital World
SDL's Allan Hall explains how to achieve a personal touch despite the emergence of digital channels.
Source: CMSWire, June 2016
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SDL Research Reveals Challenges of Rapid Growth within the Translation Industry
SDL announced the release of its Translation Technology Insights research study, examining the role of technology in the translation industry.
Source:EContent, May 2016
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7 Ways to Market to an 8-Second Attention Span
Capturing the attention of the new breed of channel surfer calls for a fundamentally different approach to interaction.
Source: CMSWire, May 2016
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Infographic: SDL Now Translates 20Bn Words Per Month
SDL’s Machine Translation (MT) Engine now translates over 20 billion words every month. SDL has been developing MT technology for over 20 years, with the latest technology, XMT, released in 2015.
Source: CMS Critic, May 2016
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Found in Translation: A Global Customer Experience
If you have eight seconds to get a customer’s attention, asking them to read content they can’t understand will fail you every time. Read Allan Hall's valuable tips.
Source: CMSWire, April 2016
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Why Machine Learning will impact, but not take, your job
We will continue to see the rise of intelligent machines across industries, but they're not taking over our job market. Article sourced from Dominic Kinnon, President, Global Language Solution, SDL.
Source: Information Age, April 2016
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It is 6 Times More Expensive to Win a New Customer than to Retain an Existing One
SDL research shows that if satisfied by the customer experience, 73% of consumers will recommend a brand to others, and 46% say they will trust that brand's products and services about all others.
Source: Business 2 community, March 2016
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What drives Facebook's relentless attempts to be cool
SDL's Kirsty Waller comments on this Washington Post article, which looks at Facebook's evolution over the years.
Source: Washington Post, March 2016
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How to Capture an 8-Second Attention Span: Be Relevant
According to recent research, the number of seconds it takes you to get to THIS point of the sentence — 8 seconds, to be precise — is the amount of time you have to make an impression on a customer. Read Allan Hall's valuable tips.
Source: CMSWire, March 2016
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Digital Power Players 2016
SDL is included in Website Magazine's Digitat Power Players 2016.
Source: DMNews, January 2016
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What Change in Customer Behavior Will Impact Marketing the Most in 2016?
It's 2016 and customers are consuming more online information than ever before on an array of devices. What is your brand doing to stick out in today's flood of digital content? Read on for Dominic Kinnon’s valuable tips in DMNews.
Source: Website Magazine, January 2016
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The Future of Customer Experience: 10 Predictions for 2016 and Beyond
For 2016, Michale Hinshaw at CustomerThink shares his views on the (fast approaching) future of customer experience through the lens of other experts as well.
Source: CustomerThink, January 2016
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The Who & Where of Localizing Digital Content
There is a long list of reasons to localize a digital presence. For starters, SDL research shows that 46 percent of millennial consumers are more likely to purchase from a company if information is presented in their preferred language.
Source: Website Magazine, December 2015
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KM past and present: The focus is on integration, scopt and analytics
SDL, which has its roots in translation services and technology, acquired Web content management (WCM) and enterprise content management technology, allowing it to manage the entire customer lifecycle.
Source: KMWorld, December 2015
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Why Popularity Doesn't Always Translate: Lessons Learned from Netflix
SDL's Dom Kinnion shares his top tips on how to create a successful customer experience.
Source: Mad Marketer, December 2015
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You've Signed Your New Marketing Agency, Now What?
The study that was cited in the article was conducted by customer engagement company SDL, who collected data from 2,835 people in six continents, nine markets, five languages and across four generations. Not a bad sampling.
Source: Business 2 Community, December 2015
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SDL Releases New Version of SDL Web
SDL Web enables brands to scale their online presence in response to their evolving digital strategies. Enhanced context brokering technology helps marketers adapt and personalize customer experiences based on behavioral and transactional data.
Source: destinationCRM, December 2015
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CMO's top 10 martech stories this week
Article highlights weekly stories and includes new version of SDL Web
Source: CMO.com, December 2015
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New Release of SDL Web
SDL announced a new version of SDL Web, a digital experience solution that enables businesses to quickly and easily build and deploy multi-brand, multilingual websites.
Source: EContent, December 2015
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SDL Enhances Digital Experience Platform
To help businesses build and deploy better multi-brand, multilingual websites with low total cost of ownership, SDL today announced a new version of SDL Web, a digital experience solution.
Source: KMWorld, December 2015
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SDL Web 8 helps companies get their global groove on
SDL Web 8, includes enhancements to an existing localization toolset SDL calls the Unified Authoring and Translation Process.
Source: FierceContentManagement, December 2015
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The Top 100 Companies in the Digital Content Industry: The 2015-2016 EContent 100
SDL is proud to be named to the EContent 100 for 20-15-2016.
Source: EContent Magazine, December 2015
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Special Report: Internationalising your business
Kevin Ashbridge, account director at SDL, which was a sponsor of the Business Breakfast, said: “What we’ve really been talking about is relevance, not just for language markets, but with mobile too – that audience of one.
Source: Travel Weekly, November 2015
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Engage Customers Through Computer and Mobile Screens
People sprint through processing everything on their computer, tablet or smartphone. So notes Shlomo Benartzi, author of "The Smarter Screen." His research finds that roughly 50% of subjects fail a basic test of attention span on screens.
Source: Investors.com, November 2015
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SDL WorldServer Acheives ISO Certification for Information Security Best Practices
SDL announced that its management system, SDL WorldServer, has been granted ISO27001 certification by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Source: EContent Magazine, November 2015
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What to Expect From the Next Generation of Web Content Managmenet
Feeling pretty confident in your current web content management (WCM) system? Do you sleep well at night with the peace of mind that your chosen WCM toolkit is up to snuff when it comes to creating, managing, and delivering content? It's time to wake up and smell the JavaScript.
Source: EContent Magazine, November 2015
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When the wearables honeymood ends: From hype to hope
According to a 2014 report, half of those who bought fitness trackers stop using them just after three months because they got tired of having to have to frequently charge the device.
Source: Silicon Angle, November 2015
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8 ecommerce categories that will be hot in 2016
A look at ecommerce trends in 2016.
Source: CIO, November 2015
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Language Translation Software Market is Anticipated to Grow to $6.9 Billion by 2019
Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as the language translation software systems are put in place to support mobile end point information collections that are localized.
Source: Net Dugout, October 2015
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13 Shocking Customer Service Statistics
Treat yourself to the 13 shocking customer service statistics below to encourage bigger and better buy-in for your 2016 customer service initiatives.
Source: Customer Think, October 2015
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What do you really think of wearables?
As the popularity of wearables extend beyond early adopters and brand loyalists, there is no doubt that these devices will leave a lasting impact on the future of the mobile ecosystem and even more, brand engagement.
Source: The Next Web, October 2015
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Why Encouraging Your Customers to Complain Will Improve Your Customer Experience
Recent research by SDL shows that two-thirds of customers remembered a major customer experience failure over the last 10 years but less than half of them remembered a success.
Source: Forbes, September 2015
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DX Digest: Mark Grannan on Core Services Architecture #DXS15
In a comment responding to Part 1 of my conversation with Forrester analyst Mark Grannan, Arjan van Rooijen, the chief evangelist with customer experience management platform provider SDL, said, “I strongly believe practitioners need to transform their practices to meet the demands of a digital era.”
Source: CMSWire, September 2015
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Improving customer experience with digital innovation
Harnessing the power of digital data and technology to improve the customer experience are driving SDL’s vision for the future.
Source: C&I Retailing, September 2015
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News You Can Use: Livefyre, Salesforce, PicturePark
SDL: Watching Its Language. SMBs and midmarket businesses have a new resource for cloud translation. SDL this week released Language Cloud Managed Translation as part of its Customer Experience Cloud.
Source: CMSWire, September 2015
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SDL Introduces Language Cloud Managed Translation
Language Cloud, offered as part of the broader Customer Experience Cloud, offers small and medium businesses as well as enterprise companies a way to translate customer experience material quickly and cheaply.
Source: Cloud Contact Center, September 2015
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SDL Introduces SDL Language Cloud Managed Translation
SDL introduced the next evolution of its Language Cloud offering, SDL Language Cloud Managed Translation, a core solution within SDL's Customer Experience Cloud.
Source: EContent, September 2015
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SMB, mid-market cloud-based translation from SDL
SDL has introduced SDL Language Cloud Managed Translation, the newest component of the company’s online self-service Language Cloud.
Source: KM World, September 2015
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CAT-Tools
Features an indepth look at SDL Trados Studio 2015
Source: Computerwoche, September 2015
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Break Down the Language Barrier in Your Data [Podcast]
In this edition of the Data Informed podcast, Dick Csaplar, product marketing director for enterprise translation products at SDL, which provides integrated cloud solutions for content management, analytics, language, and documentation, discusses the language barrier, the unique challenges it presents to big data analytics, and what companies are doing to eliminate this barrier to data insight.
Source: Data Informed, September 2015
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Why Branding is Crucial to Lure Millennials - and Their Big Wallets
According to a recent SDL study, 60 percent of millennials surveyed expect brand consistency across all channels. This is especially important to note as brands compete to attract the millennial generation —a generation that represents one-fourth of the U.S. population, and has $200 billion in buying power.
Source: Philadelphia Magazine, September 2015
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SDL CEO: Innovation and adaptability vital to addressing changeable consumer
Head of the billion-dollar global digital customer experience management technology company discusses the importances of listening to customers in modern marketing
Source: CMO.com, September 2015
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Podcast: SDL's Dominique LeBlond Talks Digital Experience
Dominque LeBlond knows a little bit about the web content management industry. After all, he’s been involved in it for almost twenty years, including working on the Tridion WCM before SDL acquired it, and as Principal Architect of Backbase, a portal platform. Today, LeBlond is the SVP of Product Marketing for SDL and we took the opportunity to get his perspective on what’s happening in the WCM market and his view of digital experience today and in the future.
Source: Digital Tech Diary, September 2015
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Jeanswest details how it's building personalized digital engagement
Six months ago from launching an ecommerce optimisation platform, the Australian retailer shares how it is increasingly customising digital content and search based on customer data.
Source: CMO, September 2015
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Marketers need customer experience tools more than they think
Marketers may think customer experience tools are just a fad, but some say the only way to effect any real change in the minds and pocketbooks of customers is to admit that CX tools are an asset, not a hindrance, to meeting sales and marketing goals.
Source: FierceContentManagement, September 2015
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It's Time to Face Marketing's Impact on Customer Experience
Research by CX cloud provider SDL reveals that, in the year following customers having a poor experience, brands can expect to lose 65% of the previous revenue from those customers. What's more, 64% of those customers will stop recommending a brand, leave, or give negative reviews.
Source: Direct Marketing News, September 2015
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Infographic: What's the impact of a bad customer experience?
SDL investigated the perceptions and behaviours of 2,784 consumers across nine countries and three generations to bring you fresh insights that should be a customer experience wake-up call for every brand.
Source: MyCustomer, September 2015
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How good are food companies at social listening?
With nearly 11 million followers across the restaurant, beverage and food industries, how good are these brands at social listening?
Source: Food Navigator, September 2015
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Can witty martech widsom fit into 140 characters
Scott Brinker's take on the CMSWire TweetChat: Martech Convergence at #CXMChat.
Source: ChiefMarTec, August 2015
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KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2015
We published our first KMWorld Trend-Setting Products list nearly a decade-and-a-half ago because we wanted to bring some clarity to the sometimes elusive knowledge management needs of our subscribers.
Source: KM World, August 2015
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Consumers Want Choices...And Email Benchmarks Prove It
Another survey from SDL indicates the majority of those ages 18 to 36 expect to engage with a company whenever and on whatever channel they choose.
Source: Website Magazine, August 2015
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How to Update Your Hiring Process for the Tech Generations
Article discusses how important it is to go mobile in the hiring process and cites SDL research
Source: Tech Cocktail, August 2015
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Customer Experience Failures are More Likely to be Remembered than Successes - An Interview with Paige O'Neill of SDL
Today’s interview is with Paige O’Neill who is Chief Marketing Officer of SDL, a global Customer Experience software solutions provider. Paige joins me today to talk about SDL’s latest global Customer Experience Thought Leadership research into when Customer Experience fails (and when it triumphs), exactly what happens, and why?
Source: Adam Swinscoe Blog, August 2015
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CMSWire TweetJam: MarTech Convergence #CXMChat
SDL CMO, Paige O'Neill is featured in the August 27, 2015 Tweet Jam discussing marketing technology solutions and what brands should look for when implementing new technology.
Source: CMS Wire, August 2015
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Harness the Power of Personalisation
A recent report by EConsultancy in association with SDL revealed retailers place the most value on customer purchase history and digital behaviour when making predictions about their customers.
Source: Power Retail, August 2015
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Timeline: The Deals that Defined the Marketing Automation Industry
January 2012: Customer experience specialist SDL buys Alterian for just under $107 million. Alterian offers SDL a faster track into marketing resources management and web content management.
Source: Which 50, August 2015
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Machine Translation to the Rescue
Global companies have a big language problem to solve. Language barriers drive a wedge between companies and their customers, negatively impacting the relationship and stifling growth.
Source: Marketing Charts, August 2015
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What are Consumers' Top Customer Service Irritants?
"Other results from that survey indicated that a majority of respondents want call center agents to acknowledge the importance of their problem. That and an apology seemingly can go a long way: in a global survey conducted by SDL."
Source: Marketing Charts, August 2015
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Wearable Tech Will Be the Game Changer for Marketers & Advertisers
"Coupled with projections of wearable sales potentially reaching over 130 million units by 2018, the widespread reach and immediate access could be a game changer,” Taufa said. “And of course with wearable technology comes more personal customer data to better deliver greater context, relevance, and customisation to the end user."
Source: B&T, August 2015
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Gartner's WCM Leaders Reveal What's on the Horizon
Dominique Leblond, senior vice president of product management at Maidenhead, England-based SDL, told CMSWire SDL is focused on helping companies bring the world to their brand through continued innovation.
Source: CMS WiRE, August 2015
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The Journey from Web CMS to Digital Experience
“Modern WCM systems offerings and what organizations do with them has surpassed the definition of the Web CMS, according to Dominique LeBlond, senior vice president of product management at Maidenhead, England-based SDL, a Gartner Web CMS leader. “Today’s experiences are no longer just static brochures that are limited to the desktop and instead have become interactive and span desktop, mobile, tablet and other digital channels,” LeBlond added.
Source: CMS WiRE, August 2015
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Gartner Names Web Content Management Leaders
“Gartner ranks vendors based on completeness of vision, which focuses on the vendor's potential and points to its future chances of success and ability to execute, which rates how well a vendor sells and supports its WCM products and services globally. Gartner only looked at vendors with at least $15 million in WCM software revenue in 2014.”
Source: CMS WiRE, July 2015
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Millennials Want Web Content in Their Preferred Language
Quote: "Advanced language translation tools can help brands deliver the right content that incorporates not just language and location but regional dialects and conversational phrases too. While all customers will appreciate this, this level of personalization will go a long with millennials in particular.”
Source: Website Magazine, August 2015
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SDL launches Trados Studio 2015
“Trados Studio 2015 boasts a new user interface built for personalization and designed to increase productivity while ensuring the highest level of translation quality, all in a look and feel that works best for each individual user, according to SDL.”
Source: KMWorld, August 2015
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Don’t Just Personalize Customer Experiences, Localize Them
“Every brand knows that broad, blanketed marketing messages are no longer effective. Personalized customer experience is becoming more vital than ever to an organization’s success, yet only 1% of businesses are providing excellent customer experiences according to Forrester’s latest report on the topic. While marketers understand the importance of personalization, many still continue to miss the mark.”
Source: Multichannel Merchant, August 2015
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Amplifying the Customer Experience Online
"Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) must look at how they can reach, inspire and create a brand presence across the digital domain, instead of just creating an online vending machine," says Kevin Ross, General Manager, ANZ, SDL. "To do that, requires both the marketing and Information Technology (IT) departments working together to deliver the right content, to the right customer, at the right time contextual to that customer's journey," he advises.
Source: NASDAQ, July 2015
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Collect the breadcrumbs, connect the dots and serve up success: The importance of customer experience consistency
“Today’s customer journey is increasingly fragmented and complex as consumers interact with brands offline and online across multiple channels. We might have a quick browse online during our lunch breaks, skim through Facebook on the commute home and have a casual glance at our iPads while watching TV. To add to this, customer expectations are skyrocketing, making the modern consumer both harder to track and harder to please.”
Source: Dynamic Business, July 2015
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SDL Introduces Trados Studio 2015
“SDL introduced SDL Trados Studio 2015, the next generation of its translation software. With a new user interface built for personalization, SDL says Studio 2015 is designed to increase productivity while ensuring the highest level of translation quality, all in a look and feel that works best for each individual user.”
Source: EContent, July 2015
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Brands Must Cater More to Global Shopping Behaviors
“When running a global business, how do you ensure that your organization is capable of understanding and distinguishing the differences in worldwide shopping behaviors? Today it is not only crucial to recognize how consumer habits and preferences vary from country to country – it is necessary in order to stay ahead of competitors.”
Source: Business2Community, July 2015
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CX Experts Share their top tips to motivate their teams
“Employees who take pleasure from what they do will naturally provide a better experience to the customer. Engaged employees are loyal, and loyalty, if correctly channeled, leads to increased productivity which, in turn, leads to a better customer experience and ultimately improved company performance.”
Source: UK Customer Experience Awards, July 2015
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Why Millennials Demand Social Login
“What’s more, enabling social login makes it significantly easier for potential customers trying to register on a company’s website while using mobile devices, a common occurrence for the average millennial as they spend so much time on their phones. A push of a button is quick and easy while typing out multiple fields on a touch screen gets annoying very quickly.”
Source: Business2Community, July 2015
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5 Travel Marketing Trends Your Brand Needs to Adopt
“Global travel brands must satisfy the needs of passengers and guests both in person and online, in real-time and across multiple languages. This means ensuring a seamless, consistent experience across channels and interactions. To achieve this, marketers must adjust their strategies as customer behavior and preferences evolve, keeping these five digital travel trends in mind.”
Source: Marketing Tech Blog, July 2015
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Top Five Global Trends Shaping the Travel Industry [Infographic]
“Mobile's effect is enormous on travelers: "62% think it's important for hotels to allow bookings on mobile devices," according to the following SDL infographic. Moreover, 56% of travelers use their smartphone to check flight status.”
Source: Marketing Profs, July 2015
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5 Digital Trends Impacting the Travel Industry
“For global travel companies hoping to stand out from the crowd and really capture consumers’ attention, they must address the points of friction slowing down a customer’s journey. Travel professionals must satisfy the needs of passengers and guests both in person and online, in real-time and across multiple languages. That means ensuring a seamless, consistent experience across channels and interactions.”
Source: Website Magazine, July 2015
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15 Most Insightful Examples of Econsultancy Research in 2015 (so far)
Our study, The Retailer’s Imperative: Strategic Approaches to Customer Experience, conducted in partnership with SDL, asked "how important is integration across customer experience management technologies?"
Source: Econsultancy, July 2015
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Using Big Data to Empower the Consumer
"According to a recent survey by SDL, about half the consumers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia are willing to share personal information with vendors in exchange for loyalty programs and/or product/service incentives."
Source: Dataveristy, July 2015
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Welcome to Summer’s Version of Black Friday
"While sales and promotions are a good way to attract shoppers, many consumers would actually pay more for a better experience. Among the retailers participating in ‘Black Friday in July,’ the one that will win is likely to be the one that not only has the best deals, but offers the best and most personalized experience as well.”
Source: Total Retail, July 2015
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Language Translations: Machines vs. Humans
"In this third installment, I will again address language translation. I’ll explain how so-called “machine” translations cannot be solely relied upon — they require a human review for accuracy and readability."
Source: Practical Ecommerce, July 2015
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Have Mobile-driven Sales Events Gotten Out of Hand?
"To execute a successful campaign, brand strategies should be aligned across all channels – as an inconsistent experience will frustrate shoppers and drive them away,” she said. “Retailers should also think about how they target mobile communications."
Source: Mobile Commerce Daily, July 2015
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The Power of Free
"In 2014, customer experience solutions firm SDL published a study which found that 55 percent of its 300 Millennials surveyed interacted with brands on social media in exchange for free products. Around 62 percent did so in order to receive discounts. Consumers understand the price of ‘free’ and are happy to pay it."
Source: The Next Web, July 2015
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Amazon’s Prime Day Causes Some Stir for Other e-Retailers
"Paige O’Neill, chief marketing officer for digital technology vendor SDL, says the key to weathering the Prime Day storm is for retailers to keep the focus squarely on the customer."
Source: Internet Retailer, July 2015
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5 Trends Shaping the Digital Travel Customer Experience (Infographic)
"The travel industry is one of many that have been disrupted by digital innovations. More consumers are turning to online marketplaces to review their options and book travel. An infographic from SDL, a provider of customer experience management solutions, outlines how travel trends are shaping the future of the digital shopping experience."
Source: AdWeek, June 2015
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Curing 3 Common Real-time Marketing Mistakes
"Customers have changed their expectations for engagement and in order to remain competitive you need to make rapid changes to adapt," concluded O'Neill. "Make sure you are constantly re-evaluating your tactics to provide the best omnichannel experience, as the new channels and methods of engagement customers are using today are only the beginning."
Source: The Wise Marketer, June 2015
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Case Study: Roompot Parks
"As Mario Lere, Lead Online Technical Project Manager for Roompot recalls,“We wanted to easily set up promotions on our website and allow our customers to make a selection based on their personal preferences for specific properties."
Source: Figaro Digital, June 2015
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Five Trends in Travel Customer Experience (Infographic)
"That the travel industry is undergoing major changes under the influence of digital developments, without saying do more. Mobile plays an important role, more than half of the travelers checks all mobile in. Online reviews are not indispensable. SDL brings together the five major trends."
Source: Emerce, June 2015
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Marketing Automation isn’t Dead – It’s Evolving
"In recent years, marketing automation has started to gain a negative reputation. Consumers are fed up with being spammed; and as a result, they are deleting, unsubscribing and disengaging. However, just because marketing automation includes “automation” in its name, it doesn’t mean that every communication powered by marketing automation technology is broadly blast to all consumers."
Source: Digital Marketing Magazine, June 2015
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Are These the Three Most Common Real-time Marketing Mistakes?
"Results from a SDL study of more than 1,800 millennials (aged 18-36) reveals that today’s consumers (and soon to be buyers of your products and services for their companies!) no longer care about where they are or what device they are on when interacting with a brand. Consumers expect brands to travel with them by responding to and anticipating their needs."
Source: MyCustomer, June 2015
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Don’t Get Lost in Translation, How Automation can Deliver Superb Experiences
"Results from a SDL study of more than 1,800 millennials (aged 18-36) reveals that today’s consumers (and soon to be buyers of your products and services for their companies!) no longer care about where they are or what device they are on when interacting with a brand. Consumers expect brands to travel with them by responding to and anticipating their needs."
Source: Travolution, June 2015
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You Only Have 8 Seconds of Attention: How to Connect with Your Audience Lightning Fast
"The Internet has put whole libraries of information at the fingertips of anyone with a mobile phone. This great democratization of information is in many ways a good thing, but it has stretched one resource rather thin: attention. There are so many demands on the attention of the average media consumer that any one piece of information—a post, a video, an image—has only 8 seconds to grab a viewer."
Source: Social Media Today, June 2015
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Marketing Chart: How a Customer Experience #Fail Affects Brands
"Our recent research shows that consumers expect great experiences but are much more likely to remember negative experiences — and take them viral," Paige O’Neill, CMO, SDL, said. "Four out of five customers who leave the brand after a negative experience say they will never come back. With this is mind, brands need to make customer experience a priority."
Source: Marketing Sherpa, June 2015
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Marketing Automation Isn’t Dead – It’s Evolving
"In recent years, marketing automation has started to gain a negative reputation. Consumers are fed up with being spammed; and as a result, they are deleting, unsubscribing and disengaging. However, just because marketing automation includes “automation” in its name, it doesn’t mean that every communication powered by marketing automation technology is broadly blast to all consumers."
Source: Comm Pro Biz, June 2015
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Top 3 Tips to Improve Customer Experience
"One surefire way to guarantee an unwavering, effortless customer experience is to minimize your brands biggest areas of failure. Do this by pinpointing where your customer experience falls short and produce meaningful solutions that will salvage customer relationships during a time of need. By understanding where you can improve your CX, organizations can work to eliminate these failures in order to turn negative experiences into positive ones," said Paige O'Neill, CMO, SDL."
Source: BizReport, June 2015
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Mark Lancaster - SDL
"Mark Lancaster doesn‘t consider himself an entrepreneur, but he did see a gap in the market, and had the personal ability to found and create a £260 million turnover business which now leads the world in integrated translation software and customer experience services – not forgetting his innovative approach to the use of cloud technology."
Source: Business Magazine, June 2015
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Meeting Global Customer Demands with Localized Experiences across Channels
"Local cultures and preferences are typically accounted for in brick-and-mortar stores, but these intricacies are often not reflected online. However, recent global research from GfK shows why retailers can no longer think of in-store and online shopping as separate entities."
Source: Fourth Source, June 2015
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Multichannel Marketing Seminar Round-Up
"As consumers, we don’t really care whether we’re online or offline, we want a consistent, relevant and engaging experience."
Source: Figaro Digital, June 2015
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Removing Barriers
"Whether consumers are traveling for business or leisure, the travel process itself can be an added inconvenience. In fact, when it comes to family vacation planning, 89% of Americans say they become more stressed."
Source: Leisure & Hospitality, June 2015
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Language Translation Tools for Ecommerce Sites
"Another best-of-breed product that can be used by retailers in this category is SDL, which offers a rich machine-translation environment that allows utilization of a translation memory."
Source: Practical Ecommerce, June 2015
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New Study Shows What Millennials Want From Their Banks
"SDL research revealed the dominant convenience seeker category consists of individuals with high potential to become loyal customers when offered what they crave – prompt customer service interactions, quick solutions and easy-to-access products."
Source: B&T, June 2015
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Just make it Simple, Millennials Tell Bankers
"Highly connected and highly empowered, this generation is a holy grail for marketers,” said Kevin Ross, SDL general manager, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). “While Millennials are one of the most studied generations to date, research around their banking preferences and attitudes is limited."
Source: Which-50, June 2015
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Why You Should Treat Your Employees like Your Most Loyal Companies
"Millennials have very little tolerance for long response times. They prefer instant gratification, and want information available to them from any mobile connected device at any given moment. According to an SDL survey, millennials touch their smartphones 43 times per day, and 30% admit to touching more than four devices over the course of 24 hours."
Source: Fast Company, June 2015
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Expert: How Customer Experience Fails Impact Brands
"While companies might view a minor breakdown in their customer experience offering as a modest misstep in the customer relationship, unfortunately the customer will most likely not hold the same view. In fact, the term failure is relative - even failures on a small-scale can be big in the mind of the customer, and it doesn't take much to happen."
Source: BizReport, June 2015
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Welcome to the 8 Second Era
"More than ever, consumers are overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of content and offers available on every channel. The attention span of the average consumer has dropped to just 8 seconds today. How do you keep pace with consumers’ demands?"
Source: Figaro Digital, June 2015
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Would Your Brand Win The Customer Service Popularity Contest?
"In a recent Aspect Consumer Experience Survey, 76 percent of consumers surveyed view customer service as a true test of how much a company values them. Yet an SDL survey of nearly 3,000 indicates that 55 percent of consumers can’t remember a single recent customer service success."
Source: Business2Community, June 2015
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Armed with the Right Strategy, Instagram is a Valuable Marketing Weapon
"Paige O’Neill, chief marketing officer at SDL, which provides services for managing a brand’s digital footprint, offers up another important best practice — don’t use Instagram in a vacuum environment. By this she means retailers can’t just put the Instagram strategy out on its own. It needs to be part and parcel of the overall promotion, engagement and consumer-focused marketing program."
Source: Retail Customer Experience, June 2015
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11 Ways to Attract Millennials to your Blog
"15 recently published statistics that explore marketing through the lens of instant digital gratification."
Source: Marketing Profs, June 2015
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Survey Reveals the Cost of CX Failures
"Consumers have high expectations for brands today and little patience for a break-down in experience," said Paige O'Neill, CMO, SDL. "While the good is expected, the bad will go viral. Keeping this in mind, organizations must have an integrated strategy in place that caters to each individual consumer and empowers employees to meet customers' needs."
Source: BizReport, June 2015
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Bad Experiences Driving Customers Away from Firms
"While the good is expected, the bad will go viral. Keeping this in mind, organisations must have an integrated strategy in place that caters to each individual consumer and empowers employees to meet customers’ needs."
Source: Business Reporter, June 2015
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Deliver an Omnichannel Experience – Regardless of Channels
"It’s no secret that we are living in an age of omnichannel engagement. Today’s customer, empowered by a plethora of digital devices, can choose when, where and how they want to interact with brands."
Source: Customer Experience Magazine, June 2015
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Pressure Grows on Datacenter Operators to Wind-down Investments
"If there’s one thing you should worry about most when making a 15-year investment in costly infrastructure, it's the fact that you don’t know what you’re going to be doing two years from now."
Source: ComputerWeekly, June 2015
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Why You Need to Race the Clock to Make an Impact
"With the rapid adoption of tablets, smartphones and accessible Wi-Fi, today’s generation of internet consumers live in a time of instant gratification. Instant gratification coupled with more competing content has led consumers to become more discerning and ruthless."
Source: Dynamic Business, May 2015
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Generation Rules in Digital Marketing
"Whether consumers are traveling for business or leisure, the travel process itself shouldn’t be an added inconvenience. Yet, when it comes to family holiday planning, more than a quarter (27%) of Brits find the planning, booking and preparation a source of great stress."
Source: The Wise Marketer, May 2015
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Get to Know Paige O'Neill
"The insights gained through my experience in strategically building brand awareness are echoed in my current work at SDL, where my charter involves differentiating the company in the incredibly crowded marketing technology landscape and building our brand against the larger, established marketing clouds. The combination of my product marketing knowledge and extensive background in communications and PR has given me a unique lens with which to approach my current role at SDL."
Source: Marketing Magnified, May 2015
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VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER: IT’S TIME FOR A GLOBAL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE WAKEUP CALL
"SDL’s research is brutal when it comes to consumers explaining the reality of a failed Customer Experience. Only 1 in 5 will consider doing business with you again and 4 in 5 will NEVER come back! If they do return, they will not forget what you did to them – 59% will have less loyalty towards you."
Source: Ian Golding, May 2015
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Customer Experience failures cost you 65% of sales
"While organisations may perceive this type of CX break-down as a minor misstep in the customer relationship, the consumer sees this as a major failure. Once a customer experiences what they consider a major CX failure, the brand risks serious consequences. Specifically, 64% will stop recommending the organisation, start looking for an alternative brand or actively disparage the company via word of mouth, social media or other online channels."
Source: The Wise Marketer, May 2015
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Marketing to international audiences
"A number of the biggest social channels are now genuinely global; Twitter and Facebook both support over 70 languages. However, the online social scene is by no means the same in all markets. If you were reading this in Russia you might favour Yandex as your search engine; if you were in China then the chances are that renren might be your biggest online influencer."
Source: eSeller, May 2015
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SDL offers 100 language pairings on new translation system
"The XMT engine, referred to as ‘the next generation in machine translation’, is a complete re-write of the MT system. It was created in SDL’s own research labs and its main function is to improve the quality of language pairings that are difficult to translate, such as English to Chinese."
Source: Travolution, May 2015
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Don't let the wrong choice of words hurt your e-commerce strategy
"The content must be personally relevant and contextual to a customer’s situation. A mother with two young children travelling to London is not after the same information as when she is travelling there alone on business trip."
Source: Travolution, May 2015
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Customers to Brands: Wake Up and Smell the Customer Experience Opportunity
"There is often a discrepancy between what consumers say will bring them back as a customer versus what will actually work. For instance, while 30 per cent of consumers say showing them how the business has improved as a result of their failure will bring them back to the brand, this only works for 8 per cent."
Source: Figaro Digital, May 2015
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The price of failing the customer: study
"Almost all (90%) of those experiencing a failure went on to spend the same or less with the brand during the following year. The 10% who spent more said they had no choice because they were locked into a contract or had no other alternative. In the year after a failure, brands will lose 65% of the revenue previously contributed from those customers who had experienced the failure."
Source: Internet Retailing, May 2015
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“Horrible” customer experiences can be avoided for the price of a cheap lunch
"Grilling thousands of consumers across the world about what they conceived to be major customer experience (CX) failures over the last ten years, SDL found these so-called “horrible” failures required less than an hour’s time and less than the cost of lunch (albeit on the pricier side) to defuse."
Source: MyCustomer, May 2015
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SDL and Tahzoo surf digital transformation wave
"Another thing that sets SDL apart in my view is its investment in research. CMO Page O’Neill presented highlights from a recent study which reinforced (for marketers) why customer service is a crucial part of the end-to-end experience."
Source: Customer Think, May 2015
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12 Interesting and Fun Digital Marketing Stats From the Last Week Including which brand 'won' Mad Men
"Whether it’s on the street or online when it comes to customer experience, global brands need to take into account a number of variables to communicate with consumers in a way that is personalized and relevant. Knowing the customer’s location, time zone, language, gender, device and preferences are all important to making the brand experience as contextual as possible. "
Source: Retail Merchandiser, May 2015
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Machine translation technology from SDL
"The company reports XMT improves the quality of translations of informal and “social” language by 62 percent when compared with traditional machine translation technology, enabling multilingual social media monitoring, communication and intelligence analysis."
Source: KMWorld, May 2015
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What Wins Customers Back After A CX Failure?
"Customers most often ascribed failures to the post-sale support of the customer journey stage, with long waits/poor response times (35%), poorly empowered (31%) and trained (30%) customer service the most commonly-cited reasons for CX failures. So can customers be re-engaged?"
Source: Marketing Charts, May 2015
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Failed Customer Experiences Are Destroying Your Marketing
"Perhaps the scariest result of this survey is that SDL found that many users that suffered from a bad customer experience actively tried to disparage the company every chance they could by word-of-mouth and that includes social media and other online publishing channels."
Source: Marketing Tech Blog, May 2015
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SDL Launches Customer Journey Analytics and Social Media Monitoring
"Marketers can optimize campaign effectiveness by understanding which messages resonate with customers, what part of the customer journey might need attention, and the unique nuances between markets around the world. They can also identify best and worst practices for effective product launches by analyzing what factors have driven success or failure for competitors, both domestically and internationally."
Source: DestinationCRM, May 2015
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The Global Customer Experience Wakeup Call
"When the customer experience goes wrong what is the impact to your business? This infographic by SDL takes a good hard look at the impact of customer experience failures at the global level."
Source: Multichannel Merchant, May 2015
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SDL Unveils Next Gen Machine Translation Technology
"Developed by the SDL Language Research Group, XMT is a rewrite of machine translation technology developed to address the limitations of previous generations of machine translation. Current machine translation technologies apply a one-size-fits-all solution to all language pairs."
Source: EContent, May 2015
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New Global Research from SDL Reveals Insights into Customer Experience Failures
"“Once a customer experiences what they consider a major CX failure, the brand risks serious consequences. Specifically, 64 per cent will stop recommending the organisation, start looking for an alternative brand or actively disparage the company via word of mouth, social media or other online channels."
Source: Engage Customer, May 2015
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SDL Debuts XMT Machine Translation Platform
"“The platform allows different translation algorithms to be used for different language pairs. It also allows for the development and deployment of new MT capabilities, including SDL Language Learning. This will bring artificial intelligence to machine translation by empowering the engines to learn and apply individual user language preferences."
Source: eWeek, May 2015
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55% of Customers Can’t Remember Having a Successful Experience [Infographic]
"“According to the study, customer service failures happened during all stages of the buying process. one-in-five failures happened pre-purchase, one-in-three happened post-sale. Unfortunately, 17 percent of customer experience fails occurred at the first point of engagement with the brand; six percent of repeat customers reported major experience failures."
Source: AdWeek, May 2015
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Digital Experience Accelerator, Accelerates Digital Experience
"“Developing a polished digital presence in a timely manner—in the form of a website, social media channel, etc.—is pivotal both for marketing efforts and for achieving a desirable customer experience. This is particularly important as customers—Millennials especially—continue to demand an omnichannel customer experience."
Source:TMCNet, May 2015
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SDL Introduces New Digital Experience Accelerator
"“SDL's Digital Experience Accelerator delivers customers a fast return on investment while driving continuous innovation in web development. Using SDL's web experience management technology, organizations can now deliver web and mobile experiences with minimal development and setup effort through the re-use of content, assets, customer profiles and rules."
Source: EContent, May 2015
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SDL Helps Enhance the Customer Experience
"“Today's brands require responsive, flexible and integrated platforms to build relevant and innovative experiences that create a constant connection with their consumers,” said John Cavacas, Head of Technology at Blast Radius. "
Source: Website Magazine, May 2015
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SDL Helps Enhance the Customer Experience
"“Today's brands require responsive, flexible and integrated platforms to build relevant and innovative experiences that create a constant connection with their consumers,” said John Cavacas, Head of Technology at Blast Radius. "
Source: Digital Marketing Magazine, May 2015
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The Three Most Common Real-Time Marketing Mistakes
"As consumers flock towards mobile devices to do everything from reading the news to executing complex banking transactions, the demand on marketers to engage with them in real-time and create better experiences has never been greater. These consumers are creating and making available so much data that they expect brands to deliver compelling, relevant and highly personalised experiences. "
Source: Digital Marketing Magazine, May 2015
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SDL Campaigns: Journey IDs, Real Time Events, eCommerce Optimization and More
"Predictive modeling tends to be more about predicting future behavior based on past behavior and known profile information. But the key to delivering great customer experiences and making a customer more valuable is to combine predictive analytics with current context."
Source: Digital Tech Diary, May 2015
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New hires at SDL
"SDL, a provider of global customer experience management, has added several new staff. Kaarin Gordon is vice president of life sciences, Paul Barth is vice president of sales for language technology and Jessica Roland, Alison Toon and Peter Coleman are strategic account directors."
Source: Multilingual, May 2015
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Meeting Global Customer Demands with Localized Experiences Across Channels
"Contextual online shopping experiences are particularly important when it comes to reaching digitally savvy millennial shoppers. It is projected that this generation will soon reach $2.45 trillion in global spending power, so engaging with them should be a major priority for retailers. In a survey of 1,800 millennials worldwide, SDL found that language plays a critical role in how this important demographic makes purchasing decisions."
Source: Business2Community, April 2015
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Are OTAs Really Killing Brick And Mortar Travel Agencies?
"In the same Google study, more than 75 percent of leisure travelers reported using an OTA because it offered the best travel deals. Similarly, SDL reports that consumers are overwhelmingly concerned with price over loyalty programs and rewards."
Source: Forbes, April 2015
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Complete, cross-channel marketing from SDL
"The new version is said to help organizations engage with customers in a manner that goes beyond basic relevance, incorporating specific, contextual data across all touch points. Further, says SDL, marketers can now access and organize all available and relevant customer data."
Source: KMWorld, April 2015
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London and South entrepreneurs create 32,000 jobs and turn over £2.8 billion
"Stuart Watson, UK Entrepreneur Of The Year Leader said: “We need entrepreneurs now more than ever. They have been achieving success and defying the odds in times of change and upheaval, recognising opportunities to act quickly and decisively to gain market share and traction for their ideas and innovation."
Source: Ernst & Young, April 2015
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SDL Banks on Data Integration in Latest Update
"Marketing is now getting organized down to individual interactions that can be optimized with consumers. A lot of that is driven obviously by mobile devices. There is a lot of personal data that you can capture about a consumer but there's also a lot of really interesting contextual data. What are they doing right now?"
Source: CMSWire, April 2015
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Latest Version of SDL Campaigns Powers Companies in Marketing Interactions Across Channels
"Global brands may utilize new features like ‘Real-Time Marketing’ which uses historical transaction details, current relevant data and demographic information to drive real-time marketing use cases. The ‘Journey ID’ feature can be leveraged to automate the manual processes of organizing, consolidating and making the available client data usable to the marketers. This ensures that all the touch-points in any multichannel campaign are optimized."
Source: MarTech Advisor, April 2015
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SDL Goes On the "Campaigns" Trail
"He added: "This week, a new version of SDL Campaigns, a component of the SDL Customer Experience Cloud (CXC), has been released - designed to help organizations orchestrate and optimize customer interactions across all channels through one single view of the customer.""
Source: Website Magazine, April 2015
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Top 3 tips to ensure content is global-ready
"He added: "Today's consumers live in multilingual setting. An example comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which found that by 2060, those of Hispanic or Latino origin will make up 28.6 percent of the total population. An SDL study also found that 46 percent of the millennial population currently is more likely to purchase a product or service if information is in their preferred language. This is a huge opportunity for brands to embrace localization strategies grounded in customer engagement preference for the most personalized customer experience."
Source: BizReport, April 2015
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Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi participates at SDL Innovate 2015 in Amsterdam
"He added: "We have a tremendous amount of content going online, and are in extensive conversations with educators on how best to engage with Sharjah’s citizens to optimise their ‘Citizen Experience’. With Sharjah24.ae, which is an electronic newspaper, published and operated by the government, we tell our story without offending others and make the world understand where we are coming from.""
Source: WAM, April 2015
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Who Leads in Multichannel Campaign Management?
"To get into the door for this Gartner MQ, vendors must have at least three of the following six capabilities: predictive analytics, campaign optimization, multidimensional segmentation, event triggering, real time recommendations or multichannel lead management."
Source: CMSWire, April 2015
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Campaigns are extinct: How millennials can improve your marketing strategy
"In the spirit of YOLO, or 'you only live once', millennials often prioritise experiences over hard earned material possessions. Traditional behaviour and consumption patterns have shifted, and instead of searching for content, this generation will spend time carefully curating feeds so that they don’t miss a single unique, shareable experience."
Source: MyCustomer, April 2015
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Translation challenges stymying online communication
"When businesses fail to adhere to the growing demands of globalization, they lose out on opportunities to foster deep relationships with customers. One of these demands is the ability to translate content into the language of the customer. All too often, language has become an afterthought in an organization's customer experience strategy, not taking cultural nuances and idioms into account."
Source: BizReport, April 2015
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Meeting Global Customer Demands with Localized Experiences Across Channels
"Contextual online shopping experiences are particularly important when it comes to reaching digitally savvy millennial shoppers. It is projected that this generation will soon reach $2.45 trillion in global spending power, so engaging with them should be a major priority for retailers."
Source: Fourth Source, April 2015
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SDL Unveils New Industry Specific Language Platforms
"The SDL industry language platforms are fully customized for the requirements of each industry to ensure accurate, consistent translations across languages for a more relevant experience. Each platform integrates SDL’s existing translation technology and services and can be further customized to meet specific requirements."
Source: Website Magazine, April 2015
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Better To Buy Or Build A Way To Reach Your Goals?
"From 2005, we saw how vital content — and managing it — were for our customers, especially as they migrated to the Web," Lancaster told IBD."
Source: Investor's Business Daily, April 2015
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Enhancing Customer Journeys across Multilingual, International Markets
"If you begin the content creation process thinking globally and specifically of the needs of each market from the start, you are far more likely to write and structure your content in a way that is easier to both translate and localize."
Source: Figaro Digital, April 2015
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Navigating Localisation and Translation to Deliver a Seamless Global Customer Experience
"To master the customer experience journey, marketers have to take into account how customers want to interact and that differs by country, culture and industry. Each industry has its own unique needs and challenges when it comes to language and translation. So it’s vital you personalise your marketing messages and copy based on the unique and specific requirements associated with your industry and target audience too."
Source: Digital Marketing Magazine, April 2015
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SDL Launches Industry Specific Language Cloud Platforms
"Each industry has its own unique needs and challenges when it comes to language and translation. For example, life sciences companies require high quality, technical translations as they exist in highly regulated markets where an inaccuracy could impact a patient, while travel and hospitality companies must translate billions of words of customer reviews as quickly as possible."
Source: EContent, April 2015
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Industry-specific language cloud platforms
"SDL, a provider of global customer experience management, has introduced industry-specific language platforms, including language technology and services that are customized for the requirements of each of eight industries such as travel, life sciences and manufacturing."
Source: Multilingual, April 2015
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Meerkat, BuzzFeed, and the Apple Watch Come to Content Marketing
""Branded Utility is all about creating relationships; to do this you need to be able to communicate and engage your audience in a language that they both understand and relate to," says Kirsty Waller, vice president of marketing – language solutions at customer experience company SDL, of the app."
Source: Clickz, April 2015
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Are You Ready for Market Consolidation and MarTech Spending?
"Marketers need to take a step back and think about what this means for them and their organizations. The CMO’s purchasing power will continue to grow, with spend shifting more and more to digital."
Source: CMSWire, March 2015
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Predicting the future
"SDL offers consultancy to help tweak these “good enough” models for each client. “They will improve the business but won’t be perfect, so the next step is to further edit and optimise the model,” says Schweer."
Source: Database Marketing Magazine, March 2015
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CMSWire Tweet Jam: Defining 2015's CMO #CXMChat
"The Chief Marketing Officer's role has grown in both significance and complexity in recent years. As the expectations and demands on CMOs continue to evolve, what new challenges await them? What can they do to stay ahead of the curve? "
Source: CMSWire, March 2015
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Is it time for CIOs to step up and rule the digital world?
"Pitching its platform to a chief experience officer only means SDL faces a dragged-out sales cycle as the chief experience officer tries in vain to sell to other business leaders. In lieu of a chief experience officer, Lancaster would rather see the CEO issue a customer-experience mandate for all departments to follow."
Source: CIO, March 2015
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Life sciences company adopts new technical content solution
"Delivering high-quality timely publications in closely regulated industries became challenging because the company was using different vendors to localize content in as many as 16 languages, as well as multiple content management processes and workflows. Writers found it difficult to identify and reuse existing content. After reviewing various options, Waters chose the SDL Knowledge Center to organize and manage its technical content."
Source: KMWorld, March 2015
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Three Steps for Modernising Enterprise Customer Experience
"To compete as a customer-centric organisation in 2015, companies must break away from the status quo and modernise, to deliver a global customer experience across all channels, devices and languages. There are three things marketers can ensure they’re doing right away to move toward this modernisation: utilise a cloud delivery model, leverage available customer data effectively and make language and culture a priority."
Source: Digital Marketing Magazine, March 2015
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Marketing clouds: who’s winning, who’s new, and who is completely and utterly confused
"That includes companies such as Sitecore and SDL on the customer experience side, and startups such as Sailthru and AgilOne on the omnichannel side."
Source: VentureBeat, March 2015
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Typical 24: Dennis Van der Veeke, SDL
"Working with the crew. I get my energy from people. As long as they are helping me or the company to move forward I can sustain very high energy and creativity. Of course the key is getting energy out of success. That drives my enjoyment of work. I'm a guy who only wants to focus on the positive. Negativity is a distraction."
Source: IDG Connect, February 2015
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Avoid Impulse Buys when Shopping for Marketing Technology
"If you serve a market with a small number of potential customers, automation may not be a big deal for volume but you may need a way to tailor your web and mobile presence to specific companies and even specific individuals in that company."
Source: CMSWire, February 2015
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SDL: 80% Of Retailers To Increase CX Budget In 2015
"CX is becoming so important to retailers that 89% of them either strongly agree or agree that “customer experience is their brand.”
Source: Retail TouchPoints, February 2015
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Another Study Shows Big Gap Between CX Goals, Realities
"About 97 percent of the marketers responding rated CX technology as "important" or "essential" to their growth. But only 40 percent described their systems as integrated and cross functional."
Source: CMSWire, February 2015
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5 Tips to Move From Transactional to Meaningful Customer Relationships
"The most important findings, from the perspective of customer service, is that these consumers naturally hop from one channel to the next in dealing with a company and that they expect a consistent “voice” across those channels."
Source: Forbes, January 2015
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The cost of incomplete data
"Your company may have a super CMS, great analytical software and a website that optimizes the customer experience, but if these systems don’t interface together, your view of the customer will be limited at best."
Source: eConsultancy, January 2015
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Marketing Technology Picture Getting More Complex For Modern Marketers
"Modern marketing techniques are enabled by technology tools that allow more personalized customer experiences, better targeting and more insightful analytics. But the number of tools is growing dramatically, complicating the decisions marketers must make."
Source: Forbes, January 2015
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Marketing Tech Landscape: 'Inspiring, Frightening' [Infographic]
"Marketers' technology sophistication has grown quite a bit," Brinker told CMSWire. "Marketing is working more closely with IT and is getting the benefits."
Source: CMSWire, January 2015
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How To More Effectively Market To Millennials: An Interview With CMO Paige O'Neill
"Millennials’ behaviors and preferences are changing the way brands have traditionally engaged with consumers. This demographic is part of the “always-connected” generation and therefore expects content to be delivered across devices, channels and in the language they prefer."
Source: Forbes, January 2015
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