Trisoft Expands Global Operations in North America
Growth Fueled by SDL Investment and New Hire of Chip Gettinger as VP of XML Solutions
SDL Maidenhead , United Kingdom20 May 2008 Trisoft, a leading provider of Component-based Content Management Solutions for technical documentation, today announced the rapid expansion of the Trisoft presence in the US, fueled by SDL’s recent investment and the new hire of Chip Gettinger as VP of XML Solutions. Founded in Belgium, with a large presence in Europe, Trisoft is experiencing growing demand for its software in North America and is stepping up its operations and hiring to meet demand. Trisoft empowers global organizations to deliver technical and product-related information to global markets more efficiently, more cost effectively and in less time. By allowing organizations to write once, translate once, and deliver personalized content, tailored to the right customer profile, the Trisoft solution is giving global companies greater business agility, driving down the cost of information development, enabling revenue growth, and increasing customer satisfaction. In December 2007, Trisoft received a 49% investment from SDL, the leading provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions. With SDL’s investment and global infrastructure, Trisoft emerges as one of the largest providers of Component-based Content Management Solutions that are fully DITA-aware and XML-enabled. This is a key requirement for businesses today. To respond to the growing demand by companies in the US to more effectively manage the creation of technical information and the globalization of this content, SDL and Trisoft have jointly opened a US-based practice, with offices in San Jose, California. The US practice is headed by Howard Schwartz, Ph.D., VP of Enterprise Content Management. Howard brings ten years of experience in globalization and Global Information Management.To help scale out the practice, the two companies announce today the expansion of the team with the hiring of Chip Gettinger, to be VP of XML Solutions. Chip joins Trisoft from Astoria software, bringing more than twenty years experience in the publishing, content management and XML solutions industry to SDL and Trisoft. Chip will lead Trisoft’s technical consulting efforts for clients wishing to take advantage of component-based XML and DITA solutions.“We are delighted with the impact of the SDL investment and our new hires,” said Miel de Schepper, CEO of Trisoft. “We now have a very strong and experienced XML/DITA team in the US. With the leading XML/DITA-based component management technology from Trisoft and the SDL infrastructure and globalization technology, we are seeing rapid adoption in the US market.”Mark Lancaster, Chairman and Chief Executive of SDL, commented, “The ability to reuse technical information across the enterprise and to deliver that content in a personalized way in all the necessary target languages is a key competitive advantage for global organizations. SDL sees DITA and XML as a key component of a company’s Global Information Management strategy. Global companies that are not seriously looking at the convergence of XML and Global Information Management will find they do not have the business agility they need to compete in today’s global markets.”For more information on Trisoft, please go http://www.sdl.com/trisoftlink
About SDL
SDL is the leader in Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage the delivery of global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed translation supply chain.Global industry leaders rely on SDL to provide enterprise software or hosted services for their GIM processes, including ABN-Amro, Best Western, Bosch, Canon, Chrysler, CNH, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Philips, SAP, Sony, SUN Microsystems and Virgin Atlantic.
SDL has implemented more than 480 enterprise GIM solutions, has deployed over 150,000 software licenses across the GIM ecosystem and provides access to on-demand translation portals for 10 million customers per month. Over 1,000 service professionals deliver consulting, implementation and language services through its global infrastructure of more than 50 offices in 30 countries. For more information, visit www.sdl.com
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About Trisoft
Trisoft is one of the worldwide leaders in Component-based content management systems for technical writing organizations. Trisoft’s software empowers global organizations to single-source content, easily sharing, reusing and personalizing content in various publication formats and in multiple languages across global markets. Through efficiency gains, Trisoft customers are able to speed time of information to global markets, drive down the cost of content development and translation, provide more agility for the overall business, and increase customer satisfaction through access to better information. Trisoft customers include a number of large consumer electronics and mobile communications companies as well as the following: Atlas Copco, DAF, Océ, Mitsubishi, NetApp, Still, Linde Material Handling, Nautilus, and VMware. Trisoft headquarters are in Mechelen, Belgium.Find out more on Trisoft please visit http://www.trisoftcms.comPaul Hampton (SDL)
+44 (0)1628 416331
phampton@sdl.com
Lisa Gillingham (Lewis)
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