Global Brands Choose SDL to Power Their Web Experience
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Global Brands
Choose SDL to
Power Their Web
Experience
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SDL Helps the World’s Best Brands Deliver
Exceptional Customer Experiences
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To remain competitive, today’s
businesses must meet consumer demand
for personalization and relevance during
all brand touch points.
“[With SDL] …companies
predict what their customers
want and effectively engage
them across multiple languages,
cultures, channels and devices.”
Christine Crandell, Forbes.com
A global customer experience requires an
integrated approach to brand management,
multi-channel engagement, web content
management and audience targeting.
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BBVA uses SDL technology to create
customer value and help them place the
customer at the center of their business.
With SDL Web, they give 7 million customers
across more than 30 countries control over
their online experience, an effort that
receives positive feedback from customers.
Our main objective is to provide a
great customer experience, and the
easiest possible path to the
information they are looking for and
to the tasks they want to perform.
Today, we speak our customers’
language. We recognize that the
world is changing and that the
banking industry needs to change
with it.
Ignacio Ortega
Director, Internet & Mobile Channels
BBVA
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With SDL, Allianz Global Assistance is able
to provide content in 58 language to 33
operational divisions across 34 countries,
who can then adapt it for their operations and
events, while maintaining a unified message
across the group..
…[SDL] allowed us to centralize the
distribution of content to our websites
while at the same time helping teams
in each subsidiary improve the
material published.
André Lavaix,
Corporate Internet & Intranet IT Manager
Allianz Global Assistance
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Now that business users are
empowered to make changes on the
website, our resources are utilized
much more efficiently. …we have
improved our speed to market and
our operational processes have
become streamlined.
Ravi Nair
Head- Alternate Channels
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
With SDL, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has
a scalable, user-friendly web content
management solution to support its
diversified banking services. The SDL Web
solution for ADCB was implemented in 21
days.
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It’s this flexibility that we have with
our SDL Tridion platform which
allows us to offer our customers the
information and products they want,
in the style that works for them.
Jeremy Walters
Head of Systems Development
Virgin Money
Virgin Money chose SDL Web to support its
strategic push to move its customer base
onto its website, where it is able to
communicate its product range and brand
more effectively.
Today, the company can efficiently launch
sites and web pages, and deliver
personalized content to its customers.
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Business users, who are not at all
technical, now contribute directly to
the website, which is a huge benefit.
This allows us in the IT department
to get involved in more complex
tasks.
Raj Pareek
Manager of eGovernment Services
City of Boston
With responsibility to communicate accurate,
consistent and timely information to more
than half a million residents, the City of
Boston chose SDL Web so it could empower
each department to update and add pages
on their own.
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Using SDL has revolutionized our
working practices. What we do now
is easier and faster and what we
publish is of a consistently high
standard. We have better control
over the website, so we can focus on
the areas that are of greatest interest
to our users.
Cliff Beale
Web & Information Services Manager
RSPB
As the largest conservation organization in
Europe, Royal Society for the Protection of
Birds (RSPB) chose SDL to ensure
consistent content and message
management, governance and keep up with
technological improvements.
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The new site provides a much clearer
information pathway for prospective
students. Moving forward we will
continue to improve the website to
ensure that their online experience of
Middlesex is both informative and
intuitive. We can now more clearly
identify where visitors respond to calls
to action and we feel that it is easier for
visitors to navigate through, and
respond to, our online content.
Richard Garratt
Corporate Marketing Manager
Middlesex University
Middlesex University leverages SDL Web to
provide a stable platform for its website and
an intuitive, informative online experience for
students its 34,000 students globally.
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Instead of people reading about a
debate or a change in this or that
law, they have a direct link to what is
happening in Parliament.
Willem-Jan Gevers
Senior Adviser on Online Media
Ministry of Justice
The Dutch Ministry of Justice is the largest
government department in the Netherlands
and controls 100 websites. The department
chose SDL Web to effectively centralize and
streamline its web content.
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Before the integration was done, it
used to take three weeks for
approved content to become
accessible on the portal. Now users
bypass the IT department, adding
content as and when they want.
Nicolas Costes
eBusiness Director, EMEA
Goodyear Dunlop Europe
Goodyear leverages SDL web to centralize
content creation for its 120 websites across
30 languages.
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Localization is key in global
marketing. Marketing in the US is
completely different than marketing
in Europe or Asia. You need to tell
your story and present your products
differently in these markets.
Falko Lameter
CIO
Kaeser Kompressoren
Kaeser Kompressoren, a leading global
supplier of compressed air technology, chose
SDL Web to support customers in more than
100 countries.
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Before we worked with SDL, content
maintenance and brand control was
close to impossible. BluePrinting was
our biggest and most important
strategic decision. I believe we are
now only confined by our own
imagination of what we can do
online.
Dellwyn Oseana, Project Coordinator,
Internet Development Group
Ricoh Europe
The European Ricoh Group markets its
products under a number of different brands.
With SDL, Ricoh is able to communicate with
the different brands, localize regional
content, maintain brand consistency and
provide content in many different languages.
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We realized we could improve our
reach if our websites were in local
languages, so we decided to
implement a global web content
management solution.
Olivia Gambin
Web Communications Manager
Atlas Copco
Atlas Copco, a world-leading provider of
industrial productivity solutions, selected SDL
Web to manage multiple languages for
communications with its global audiences via
the web. Today it saves approximately 40
hours per page in publishing time.
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The SDL Tridion system is flexible
enough to meet our local business
objectives since distributors can work
on their own websites with their local
content. The platform offers
globalization capabilities in
combination with localization
opportunities.
Erica Zandelin
Manager of Internet Communications
Scania CV AB
Scania operates in over 100 countries and
wanted an online solution that offered cost
effective communication to build its global
presence, while allowing a locally tailored
approach and market share expansion.
Scania chose SDL Web because of its global
content management capabilities.
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Local web managers can translate
and localize the content but we have
kept the overall design and assets
for both the website and newsletters
at the European level to ensure
brand consistency. …. we reached
the sales and reservation targets
within a short time frame, which
indicates to us that it’s a successful
site.
Stefan Versluis
Content Manager
Yamaha Communications Division
Yamaha Motor Europe chose SDL Web to
improve the usability and online experience
for its 44 websites across Europe. Today, the
company delivers an engaging customer-
centric site that engages users through the
point of sale.
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Our customers have now their
needed information available in their
local language, fast on every device
that they are using.
Kari Leppänen
Owner, Online Marketing &
Communication Solutions
KONE
KONE, one of the world’s largest producers
of ‘people-moving’ equipment, chose SDL
Web to provide better interactive experiences
and engagement across its corporate site,
and over 50 regional websites across 30
languages. To date, the company has
achieved a 20% lift in conversion rates.
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At Repsol, we benefit from a tool that
allows editors to create, maintain and
publish content in a fast and efficient
way. The SDL technology helps us to
achieve that in a cost-effective way
and keep our costs in check.
Pilar Marqués
Vice-Director Online Communication
Repsol
Repsol, a large international oil and gas
company, selected SDL Web to ensure its
websites reflected the company’s
international status across many languages,
while maintaining brand consistency across
30 countries.
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SDL’s web content management
solution enables us to serve
visitors according their individual
needs.
Michaël Vandenbergen
Corporate Communication Manager
Tessenderlo Group
The Tessenderlo Group, an international
chemicals company with more than 100
branches in 20 countries chose SDL Web to
easily reuse content across websites and
because of its powerful multilingual support.
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The Unilever brand is vital to the
organization. The timescale for our
project was extremely tight and
there’s no way that this could have
been achieved without the SDL
team.
Katherine Attoe
IT Manager
Unilever
The Unilever portfolio includes 400 brands
focused on health and wellbeing. The
company chose SDL Web to support its roll
out of new branding to its 240,000
employees in 150 countries and 3rd party
agencies.
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The success of transforming our
sites is now very obvious. In fact, we
view SDL not only as a content
management solution but as a brand
consistency control system too.
Tim Mott
North America eBusiness Solutions Director
Sodexo
Sodexo, the leading global provider of food
and facilities management services, covers
80 countries and has hundreds of public
facing websites. It chose SDL Web to
manage its corporate website and ensure
brand consistency, while providing content to
support local languages and markets.
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Now we roll-out marketing
campaigns and sales promotions to
more than 60 countries – in the local
language – in just a few days. We
only need to develop our campaigns
and promotions once, which is a
huge benefit as it saves us time and
money.
Alexander Mul
eMarketing Director
KLM
KLM chose SDL Web to enable consistent
branding across a complex network of
websites that also address local customer
needs.
KLM also uses SDL for all its online
interactive marketing campaigns, as well as
for sales promotions.
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We use SDL Tridion to engage
with our customers through
multiple channels, including web,
mobile, SMS, e-mail and digital
kiosks. ...Since we implemented SDL
Tridion, we enjoyed more than a
40% increase on our online traffic
across multiple channels. We’ve also
enjoyed an easier and faster content
management process within the
organization.
Abu Dhabi Airports Company
Abu Dhabi Airports Company chose SDL
Web to protect its online brand and create
brand consistency across multiple channels.
ADAC websites have increased traffic by
40% and gained international recognition and
a broad range of awards for the way in which
it successfully addresses the customer
journey.
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Our new mobile website has proven
successful on several levels. We’ve
extended our reach and offered our
guests yet another convenient, easy-to-
use method to interact with us. Secondly,
we have already received compliments
from our guests about how smoothly the
mobile site works and how quickly it
performs. Thirdly, the number of bookings
we received through the mobile site
surpassed our expectations. The
investment we made was returned within
two months.
Christoph Oberli
VP eCommerce & Interactive
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Mandarin Oriental centrally manages
websites for each of its 26 hotels in English
and six additional languages – Japanese,
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,
French, Spanish and German using SDL
Web.
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[SDL] efficiently structures
enterprise-wide processes for the
creation, management, distribution
and delivery of business critical
content across multiple websites,
portals, e-applications and paper-
based publications.
Mike Simon
Senior VP of Corporate Communications
Emirates Group
Dubai-based Emirates, one of the fastest
growing airlines in the world, uses SDL Web
to enable the airline to reach a wider
audience, and replicate common information
across all its domains.
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We looked at a number of content
management systems. We felt that
SDL provided the solid platform,
sound security model, architecture
and hosting capabilities we needed
for the IONOS solution. In addition,
its multi-language and multi-site
management capabilities meet the
real needs of both travelers and
airports.
Ryan Scott
Director
SapientNitro
Denver International Airport (DIA) is
consistently recognized as a leader
internationally when it comes to world class
customer service. SDL worked with partner
SapientNitro, to update DIA’s existing
website and develop a mobile application to
enhance DIA’s customer service offerings.
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We recognize that today’s traveler
uses external review sites and other
sources for information when they
research and plan their trips. So
we’ve included links on our main site
that lead website visitors to both
social media and external review
sites. Rather than creating this
functionality on our own site, we
decided to use the sites that people
already go to.
Tomas Vanderplaetse
Online Marketing Manager, Tourism
Flanders
Tourism Flanders promotes Flanders
internationally as a tourism destination to
increase the number of overnight stays in
Flanders. It chose SDL Web to provide a
consistent identity and online experience for
their regional markets.
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Any time our organization is
mentioned in the press or media, or
a topic related to child poverty
becomes prominent, our website can
be inundated with visits. We need to
make sure that we can respond as
quickly as possible, so that we can
channel resources to the right area
and provide the information visitors
are looking for.
Taylor Holmes
Senior Web Product Manager
Compassion International
Compassion provides child development aid
to more than one million children in 26
countries. Since implementing SDL Web, it
has seen a 350% increase in traffic, along
with increased conversions.
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We have been able to develop a site
which tailors its style for different
devices. This gives us the ability to
present information, features and
functionality in different ways to
different audiences based on what
we know about their devices,
features and functional capabilities,
and enables the delivery of a much
more personalized experience.
Andy Nash
Digital Project Manager
Macmillan
Macmillan Cancer Support is dedicated to
helping with all the things that people
affected by cancer want and need. It chose
SDL Web to address the growing demand to
deliver its content via mobile.
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Success businesses across the globe are using SDL to deliver
relevant, integrated customer experiences across channels.
For more information, visit
www.sdl.com/cxweb
With its leading position in the Spanish market and over seven million customers in more than 30 countries, banking firm BBVA continues to focus on creating customer value through both its online and offline channels. One of BBVA’s core corporate principles is placing their customers at the center of their business. BBVA wanted to make sure it followed through on this commitment to customers by giving them control over their online experience. Following the launch, using SDL Web, the team saw very positive social media buzz around its innovative approach.
Allianz Global Assistance is a leader in travel insurance, assistance and personal services. The company has 33 operational divisions in 34 countries on five continents. With nearly 13,000 employees, the Group works in over 58 languages, relying on a network of 240 representatives worldwide and 400,000 service providers: These include doctors, nurses, child care professionals, tradesmen, contractors, repairers, mechanics, breakdown vehicle firms, garages, vehicle hire companies, airlines and more. With SDL, Allianz Global Assistance is able to provide global content to all of its subsidiaries, who can then adapt it for communication operations linked to specific events whilst maintaining a unified message across the group.
Based in the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank is a diversified full service bank. Other than its banking services that span wholesale and retail banking, ADCB is active in the areas of treasury derivatives, infrastructure finance and wealth management. ADCB chose SDL Web for its scalable, user-friendly web content management solution and it was implemented in 21 days.
Virgin Money, part of the Virgin Group, is a rising star of the financial services sector. Virgin Money made a strategic push to move its customer base onto its website where it is able to communicate its product range and brand more effectively. Virgin Money is present in the UK, the US, South Africa and Australia. The company chose SDL Web to efficiently launch sites and web pages, and deliver personalized content to its customers.
Originally built in 1996, the City of Boston’s customized website grew organically with many homegrown applications but over time it became cumbersome and labor-intensive to update. With responsibility to communicate accurate, consistent and timely information to more than half a million residents, the City of Boston chose SDL Web which to empower each department to update and add pages on their own.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is the largest conservation organization in Europe, with more than one million members. Wildlife and the environment are under increasing threat and the RSPB uses its online presence to inform, campaign and generate funds to support its work. To ensure consistent content and message management, governance and keep up with technological improvements, the organization chose SDL Web.
Middlesex University, an internationally recognized tertiary institute, serves more than 34,000 students. In addition to its London location campus, the university has campuses in Dubai and Mauritius and 21 offices around the world. Of the student population, more than a quarter are from overseas. Middlesex University chose SDL Web to provide the University with a stable platform for its website, which is a key communication tool for them with local and overseas students
The Dutch Ministry of Justice is the largest government department in the Netherlands. Although 1,800 civil servants work in its offices in The Hague, a much larger number of 55,000 are employed in executive departments that deal with the law. The Ministry of Justice controls some 100 websites with its home website being www.justitie.nl. SDL was selected to devise and implement its web content management solution to centralize and streamline its web content.
Goodyear’s products are available in more than 40 European countries. With different websites for each of the main brands in each country as well as several service and B2B sites, its internet presence grew to more than 120 different websites in about 30 different languages. Using SDL Web each brand has a parent or ‘master’ site where content is created centrally and then it has many sub sites – one for each country.
Kaeser Kompressoren is one of the world’s leading suppliers of compressed air technology. From the aircraft industry to pharmaceuticals and from beverage manufacturing to toys, Kaeser products are used in nearly every industry and companies of all sizes. With materials, services and an international supply chain in every country, Kaeser operates as a true global organization.
The group has customers in more than 100 countries and is supported by a comprehensive sales and services organization.
Ricoh Europe B.V. in Amstelveen is the European headquarters of Ricoh Company Ltd. As a leading global manufacturer of office equipment, it provides printers, multifunctional products, fax machines, software solutions and services for the whole document life cycle. The European Ricoh Group markets its products under a number of different brands – Ricoh, Lanier, Nashuatec, Rex-Rotary, and Gestetner. SDL gives the company the ability to reuse common regional content, remain brand consistent and provide content in many different languages as well as allow local markets to upload their own information to their own country websites.
Atlas Copco is a world-leading provider of industrial productivity solutions. It’s products and services range from compressed air and gas equipment, generators, construction and mining equipment, industrial tools and assembly systems, to related aftermarket and rental. The group’s global reach spans more than 150 markets. The company looked to SDL Web to manage multiple languages for communications with its global audiences via the web and now saves approximately 40 hours per page in publishing time.
Atlas Copco, a world-leading provider of industrial productivity solutions, selected SDL Web to manage multiple languages for communications with its global audiences via the web. Today it saves approximately 40 hours per page in publishing time.
Scania operates in over 100 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Scania is a world leader in heavy trucks and buses, engines and services, and has more than 35,500 employees. Scania wanted an online solution that offered cost effective communication to build its global presence, while allowing a locally tailored approach and market share expansion. Scania realized that the ideal solution involved the establishment of a central web marketing communication platform. Scania chose SDL Web because of it’s global content management capabilities.
Yamaha Motor Europe (YME) excels at giving visitors an interactive online experience, which is easy to use and rich in visual appeal. YME is responsible for 44 websites across Europe, including yamaha-racing.com – the global website for all Yamaha racing news. The company continually strives to improve customer usability and extend the online experience. Creating a customer-centric site that engages users and takes them to the point of sale is central to its online marketing strategy and they chose SDL Web to make it possible.
Kone is one of the world’s largest producers of ‘people-moving’ equipment and in 2014 for the fourth year in a row, the company was featured on Forbes’ list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.. Its goal was to provide better interactive experiences and engagement across its corporate site, and over 50 regional websites in more than 30 languages around the world. To meet customers’ expectations, KONE also wanted to move all its country sites to local domains, and engage visitors on mobile phones and tablets. KONE chose SDL Web to meets its goals and saw aa 20% lift in conversion rates across 50 regional websites in 30 languages.
KONE is one of the world’s largest producers of ‘people-moving’ equipment. Its goal was to provide better interactive experiences and engagement across its corporate site, and over 50 regional websites in more than 30 languages. KONE chose SDL Web to meets its goals and saw aa 20% lift in conversion rates.
Repsol is a large international oil and gas company, operating in more than 30 countries around the world. It is the leader in Spain and Argentina and one of the ten largest private oil companies in the world. Repsol is also the largest private energy company in Latin America in terms of assets. Its websites need to reflect Respol’s international status by being available in many languages and deliver localized content yet remain consistent in branding. The company chose SDL Web to enable its multi-language, multi-country and multimedia communication strategy.
The Tessenderlo Group is an international chemicals company with more than 100 branches in 20 countries. The group is a world leader in most of its product areas and had consolidated revenues in 2007 totaling € 2.4 billion from its three business groups; Chemicals, Plastics Converting and Specialties. The company chose SDL Web to easily reuse content across websites and for multilingual support.
The Unilever portfolio includes 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing. More than 2 billion times a day, someone, somewhere is choosing a Unilever product. This statistic is hardly surprising when you consider the number of world-leading brands that are incorporated under the Unilever umbrella – names such as Knorr, Birds Eye, Becel, Flora, Lipton, Lux, Dove, Sunsilk and Axe/Lynx, to name just a few. To roll out a new logo to its 240,000 employees in 150 countries, and its third party agencies worldwide, Unilever chose SDL Web. The 25 different icons that make up the ‘U’ in the logo represent the company, its brands, the idea of vitality and the benefits the organization brings to consumers and the world we all live in.
Sodexo is the leading global provider of food and facilities management services and is number two in the world in service vouchers and card, providing services to a diverse array of clients including businesses, public agencies and institutions, health care facilities, defense agencies, universities and schools. The company has 28,300 sites in 80 countries, and hundreds of public facing web sites. They chose SDL Web to manage its corporate website, ensuring they retain brand consistency and present a common look and feel that would be instantly recognizable, while providing content about its wide range of service offerings in many languages as well as the capability for the posting of local information on each country website.
KLM the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. The airline focuses on servicing all customer segments via online sales channels in the most efficient and effective way. Key to this strategy was to find a proven solution to facilitate efficient marketing and sales activities across all channels. KLM chose the SDL Web solution as the platform for their online presence as it enabled consistent branding across a complex network of websites that also address local customer needs. KLM also uses SDL for all its online interactive marketing campaigns, as well as for sales promotions.
KLM focuses on servicing all customer segments via online sales channels in the most efficient and effective way. It chose SDL Web as the platform for their online presence to enable consistent branding across a complex network of websites that also address local customer needs. KLM also uses SDL for all its online interactive marketing campaigns, as well as for sales promotions.
Abu Dhabi Airports Company is the owner and operator of five airports in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi International Airport is the key hub in the region. In addition, ADAC manages seven subsidiaries to provide a full range of aviation services to its customers. As part of its online strategy, ADAC decided to use a single platform for its content management system. ADAC chose SDL Web to protect its online brand and create brand consistency across multiple channels. ADAC websites have now gained international recognition and a broad range of awards for the way in which they successfully address the customer journey.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is renowned for providing guest-centric technology to all of their customers worldwide. Today, Mandarin Oriental centrally manages websites for each of its 26 hotels in English and six additional languages – Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Spanish and German using SDL Web.
Dubai-based Emirates is one of the fastest growing airlines in the world and has received more than 250 international awards for excellence since its launch in 1985. Implementing SDL Web enabled Emirates to reach a wider audience, and replicate common information across all its domains
Denver International Airport (DIA) is consistently recognized as a leader internationally when it comes to world class customer service, airport amenities and traveler-friendly features. To support the ongoing vision to provide excellent customer service, DIA approached airport consultancy SH&E, an ICF International company, and SDL partner SapientNitro, to update their existing website and develop a mobile application to further enhance DIA’s customer service offerings.
Tourism Flanders’ overall goal is promote Flanders internationally as a tourism destination and to increase the number of overnight stays in Flanders. Tourism Flanders provides local markets with website design, branding and navigation and social media integration, making it easier to provide consistent navigation and identity for their regional markets with SDL Web.
Compassion International websites have experienced up to a 350% increase in traffic and the conversion rates for the overall site have also increased considerably using SDL Web. Compassion provides child development aid to more than one million children in 26 countries. Compassion’s four main programs are Child Survival, Child Sponsorship, Leadership Development and Complimentary Interventions. All of these programs follow the development and growth of children from infancy right through to adulthood. In addition to these programs, Compassion also raises money as a response to crises
Macmillan Cancer Support is dedicated to helping with all the things that people affected by cancer want and need. When the organization identified a need to address the growing demand to deliver its content via mobile, it turned to SDL.