June 2016

Users can now more easily collaborate with global sales teams with real-time multilingual translation within the Salesforce platform

WAKEFIELD, Mass., 22nd June, 2016 – SDL (LSE: SDL) today announced it has launched Global Team, a new app on the Salesforce AppExchange that empowers businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways across more than 100 languages.

Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, SDL Global Team is currently available on the AppExchange.

87 per cent of visual hacks were successful

Bracknell, UK, 21 June, 2016 – 3M, the science-based technology company, has revealed the results of a UK and worldwide experiment that demonstrates ’visual hacking’ is a significant risk .

In the UK, the rate of successful visual hacks – many of which were achieved by viewing people’s computer screens – was 87 per cent, compared to an average of 91 per cent worldwide. Alarmingly, the ‘white hat hacker’ was confronted in a global average of only 32 per cent of occasions.

There is always some new technology in the website development realm. This is probably because website development is the most demanded of services currently. Everyone wants a website in this day and era. There are corporations that want to build an online presence and bloggers who want to share their opinions concerning this and the other. Web development and design is not what it used to be some ten years ago. There are so many things that have changed and all in a bid to make the quality of the products so much better.

Magnolia, the rapidly growing Swiss CMS vendor, launched an innovative new solution - Magnolia Now™, a cloud-based digital experience platform - at its seventh annual conference in Basel, Switzerland on June 8-9. Magnolia Now takes the hassle out of the deployment and operations of content management and gives companies the ability to go to market fast. It will be available from November 2016 in a variety of packages.

Software as a Service (SaaS) can turn out to be the Sales and Marketing’s biggest demon if the business plan is a faulty one. The SaaS model itself has little to take blame. SaaS was to be shared with entities that could construct the ideal enterprise level solution and provide its constant support during the implementation. It doesn't always work out that way, but some solutions work better than others.  

Hadoop like many of the other big data solutions has been a game changer. Unlike other big data solutions, Hadoop is more accessible. Amongst others, its benefits include:

Whenever a new version of the SharePoint is about to be launched this “migration fever” catches many who just can’t wait for the dose of the feature-packed new SharePoint. But, an unsuccessful migration will only make things complicated, and you may find yourself riding on the road to nowhere. Nevertheless, the hard work pays off. The right preparations will ensure that you do the migration right and the SharePoint 2016 does exactly what it promises to do: work wonder for your organization’s collaborative content development.

Here is a list of top five points that you just can’t skip before you migrate to SharePoint 2016.

Survey reveals that mobile operators need to devise innovative data service plans to avoid churn

REDWOOD CITY, Calif – June 08 2016 – Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetize encrypted mobile data, today announced significant results from a population-weighted survey of over 2,000 European mobile subscribers. Key findings reveal that more than half of subscribers (57.3%) across the UK, France and Germany would consider switching mobile operators in order to get unlimited video.

Global leader in content delivery streamlines website management for its own multilingual web properties to deliver improved customer experience and reduce internal costs

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – June 07, 2016 – SDL (LSE: SDL) today announced that Akamai, the global leader in content delivery network services, has rebuilt its corporate website and increased the effectiveness of its multilingual marketing efforts by leveraging SDL’s web and language technologies alongside specialized language services.

Early this year, I decided to take a very long break from blogging about content management systems. At the time of my announcement, I hinted that you might hear from me time to time as I still want to be an advocate for people and companies I believe do "good work" in the CMS industry.