computer software professional services language localization component content management digital asset management founded 1992 headquarters maidenhead uk key people adolfo hernandez chief executive officer revenue 269.3 million 2012 1 operating income 35.8 million 2012 1 net income 20.9 million 2012 1 number of employees circa 5 000 2014 website www.sdl.com sdl plc is a multinational software and professional services company headquartered in maidenhead uk . sdl specializes in ; digital marketing software and services structured content management and language translation software and services including interpretation services . sdl are listed on the london stock exchange . sdl is an abbreviation for software and documentation localization . 2 3 contents 1 history 2 operations 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded by mark lancaster with nine employees in 1992 . it opened its first overseas office in france in 1996 4 and was first listed on the london stock exchange in 1999 . 4 the company has grown organically and via acquisitions . sdl acquired international translation & publishing itp in 2000 alpnet in 2001 and the machine translation mt assets of transparent language in 2001 . it bought trados a rival translation memory tm developer in 2005 . 5 in 2007 the company acquired tridion a content management system vendor 6 and pass engineering developers of passolo software . 7 in 2008 it bought idiom technologies a global information system management business . 8 in december 2009 sdl acquired fredhopper a dutch ecommerce onsite search and navigation onsite targeting and targeted advertising software vendor . 9 later that same year it bought xopus another dutch company and the leader in online xml editing . 10 in may 2011 sdl acquired dutch based media asset management company calamares 11 in 2012 the campaign management and social media analytics company alterian 12 and in 2013 bemoko a supplier of mobile web solutions . 13 operations edit sdl provides software and service solutions for language translation purposes . it has operations in 38 countries including italy france thailand japan and india . 14 see also edit sdl trados alterian references edit a b c preliminary results 2012 archived february 21 2014 at the wayback machine . what is the acronym of sdl in sdl tridion . retrieved 20 march 2015 . rogers bruce . sdl s acquisitions build marketing tech stack of the future . retrieved 2015 08 23 . a b sdl international history archived december 10 2008 at the wayback machine . sdl buys trados dead link citywire 20 june 2005 real story group sdl acquires tridion real story group 24 april 2007 passolo goes sdl tekom may 2007 sdl buys again picking up idiom real story group 11 february 2008 company overview of fredhopper ltd. businessweek sdl acquires xml editor xopus real story group 6 july 2010 sdl acquires dam vendor calamares start of the convergence of wcm & dam dam news 5 may 2011 sdl to buy alterian after raising bid the independent 3 december 2011 sdl plc acquisition of bemoko archived february 24 2015 at the wayback machine . sdl offices around the globe external links edit sdl official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sdl plc & oldid 735671967 categories companies based in maidenheadcompanies established in 1992machine translationcompanies listed on the london stock exchangehidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 22 august 2016 at 09 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view