Sodexho Alliance Achieves Internet sites Harmonization with Tridion's Web Content Management Suite.Renowned Company Selects Tridion to Easily and Quickly localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. Content for its Customers NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Tridion, a leading global provider of web content management (WCM WCM Web Content Management WCM World Class Manufacturing WCM Warning Coordination Meteorologist WCM Wireless Connection Manager WCM Wavelength Channel Module WCM Württembergische Cattunmanufaktur (German cotton manufacturer) ) software solutions, today announced that Sodexho Alliance, the leading global provider of Food and Facilities Management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. services, has selected the Tridion Web Content Management Suite to be the driving force behind the launch of its estimated 50 new global websites as part of the company's initiative to unify its branding and messaging. With the help of Tridion's enterprise class and intuitive product suite as well as the software's multi-lingual and multi-site capabilities, Sodexho Alliance has already launched updated sites in Belgium, France and UK sites in the accelerated time of three months. Sites are accessible via the Sodexho Alliance portal page www.sodexho.com. "As a member of the Global 1000, a significant challenge for us is consistently representing our brand internationally across numerous web sites and through multiple languages," said Gabriele Maltinti, the Group e-Communications Director of Sodexho Alliance. "Tridion's unique BluePrint Management capability will allow us to apply a cohesive brand across all of our websites by creating content templates that we can reuse and localize according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the local needs of our 76 country audiences." Sodexho Alliance approached Tridion with an aggressive timeline of three months to launch the project's first websites. The company therefore required a WCM tool that could handle the needs of a large, global organization but could also be easily and quickly implemented by both the technical and non-technical corporate communications teams. Sodexho Alliance was impressed with Tridion's breadth of functionality and the software's ability to enable the two teams to intuitively launch multiple country websites with multiple languages in a very short period of time. The process to select Tridion was a collaboration between Sodexho Alliance's US-based Information Technology team and the France-based Corporate Communications department, who were determined to find a product suite that would help their brand become not only synonymous with food services food services Hospital services A 24/7 department in a hospital that provides for the nutritional needs of inpatients–eg, those needing special diets, preparing meals and transporting them to the floor and, through the cafeteria, the hospital staff and , but as a complete provider of management services for corporate, government, educational and social organizations. Both teams were particularly impressed with the ability Tridion gives those responsible for editing content to do so without the typical technical challenges of other tools and without the risk of diluting the Sodexho Alliance brand. "Sodexho Alliance's selection of Tridion reinforces the fact that our WCM suite is the ideal choice for the large, global enterprise looking to implement a Web Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation initiative," said Erik Aeyelts Averink, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Tridion. "We look forward to helping other legendary organizations market to their diverse Global audiences while maintaining brand unity." About Sodexho Alliance SODEXHO ALLIANCE, founded in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, is the leading global provider of Food and Facilities Management services, with more than 332,000 employees on 28,300 sites in 80 countries. For Fiscal 2006, which closed August 31, 2006, SODEXHO ALLIANCE had sales of 12.8 billion euro. Listed on Euronext Paris and on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. , the Group's current market capitalization Market Capitalization A measure of a public company's size. Market capitalization is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares. It's calculated by multiplying the number of shares times the current market price. This term is often referred to as market cap. is 6.9 billion euro. About Tridion Tridion is the leading provider of best of breed enterprise class Web Content Management solutions. Tridion's solutions empower enterprises to provide compelling, consistent and personalized customer experiences across multiple web sites in multiple languages and through multiple (online) channels. Its unique 'Building Block' architecture and 'BluePrint Management'[TM] technology allow enterprises to vastly improve customer experience by providing a consistent corporate image, multilingual localized content, accelerated time-to-market, and overall improvement of content quality, all while reducing operational costs. Over 400 customers rely on Tridion's Web Content Management solutions, including ABN AMRO, Agfa, Alcatel, Canon, Goodyear, Heineken, Honda, KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) , Renault, Suzuki, Toyota, ING, ReedElsevier, and Unilever. |
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