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.”

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