euroscript Selects SDL to Scale and Enhance Globalization Services

euroscript and SDL team to deliver more comprehensive global information management solutions

SDL Maidenhead , United Kingdom
25 August 2005

SDL International, the world’s leading provider of global information management (GIM) solutions, announced a strategic solution purchase by euroscript Group. As one of the world’s top ten language service providers (LSPs), euroscript will standardize on the SDL platform on a company-wide basis to solve key challenges in its growing business, and to deliver higher-quality, more responsive services.

 

euroscript is a leader among LSPs that deliver content through the globalization supply chain – a process that spans from authoring to content management to localization to publishing. Increasingly, LSPs are required not only to provide localization services, but to extend the value of global content to each phase of the chain. To address this challenge, LSPs are turning to GIM solutions, which streamline and integrate the globalization supply chain, and help LSPs shorten time to market for their customers and improve the quality of LSP services.

An example of the strategic services that euroscript provides is a project for the European Union (EU), a large euroscript customer. The EU called for euroscript to work in more than twenty languages, and manage thousands of small globalization projects, which represented a major increase in project volume. euroscript also delivers projects in the private sector, where they provide domain expertise across diverse vertical sectors that include automotive, material processing, and medical technology. Adding complexity to these requirements, euroscript needed to coordinate and manage work from nine different locations, including offices in Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe, supporting over 300 translators and project managers.

To provide state-of-the-art GIM, euroscript chose SDL’s industry-standard GIM platform, which includes SDL TRADOS Translation Memory Server and SDL MultiTerm Term Server. On top of this platform, euroscript and SDL developed a complete system for insource/outsource project management, which scales to support thousands of globalization projects simultaneously, while minimizing IT support. This solution will be seamlessly connected with EMC-Documentum’s enterprise content management system through SDL’s pre-integrated, out-of-the box application that leverages existing Documentum systems and workflows.

“SDL’s technology frees us to focus on our core business – delivering the highest-value language services for key industry specialities,” said Mark Evenepoel, euroscript’s Managing Director. “With SDL we can optimize the entire content globalization process, reducing inconsistencies and redundancies. SDL also helps us better manage our worldwide network of service providers.”

Going forward, euroscript and SDL will collaborate to provide GIM solutions, as explained by Jochen Hummel, General Manager for SDL EMEA: “SDL and euroscript share the same vision about global information management. Rather than just outsourcing global content production and reducing costs, enterprises that use SDL technology and euroscript consulting and services will benefit from decreased time to market and improved quality of global content. Working together, SDL and euroscript can meet and exceed our clients’ needs for rapid deployment of GIM solutions.”

About euroscript

The euroscript Group is the eighth largest translation service provider, with its headquarters based in Luxemburg and offices in Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Switzerland serving hundreds of clients worldwide. euroscript has a history of building linguistic know-how, enabling them to cope with any form of economic communication in any language, and to successfully manage multilingual documentation whilst still maintaining an ultimate standard of quality. This know-how forms the basis for euroscript’s core competency: process-oriented multilingual data and document management. For more information, visit www.euroscript.com.

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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Nicola Bogle (SDL)
+44 (0)1628 417225
nbogle@sdl.com