White Papers

Global Support

 'Any language you want - so long as it's English' Deliver a truly global support experience by leveraging SDL Language Technologies.

Authoring for Consistency and Reuse

Identify and address inefficiencies in the end-to-end process of producing technical and support documentation to reduce costs and improve quality.

Best Practice Steps for a Global Audience Website

SDL explains the steps an organization should take to develop a best practice global web site development strategy.

CxO Strategy: The Next Big Win: Localization

An overlooked business process that is crying out for central control and automation is localization.

Global Communication to the 21st Century Consumer

This white paper examines the need to communicate to consumers in their own language.

Global Ideas and Global Information

Together, SDL and Adobe Systems are revolutionizing how the world engages with global ideas and global information.

Global Information Management and Life Sciences

Implementing a Global Information Management (GIM) platform to support PIM in all languages, beginning with global XML.

Global Regulatory Challenges Drive Multilingual Regional Solutions

In this white paper learn best practices for addressing labeling language requirements.

Globalization Management Systems

See how Translation Management System can help reduce the most important localization cost factors via automation.

How to Internationalize Your Website

Create internationalized websites that can be easily adapted for any target audience without creating multiple versions.

How to Work with the Translation Supply Chain with SDL Trados Studio 2009

Download this guide for best practices when working with previous SDL Trados versions.

Machinery Directive

Understand the impact of the EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC on tranlsation and globalization requirements.

New Challenges in Global Branding

Download this executive white paper on ensuring consistent brand management throughout your corporate strategy.

Managing Terminology with SDL MultiTerm

This white paper details a case for distributed terminology management.

Multilingual Labeling

For most Life Sciences organizations, the multiingual labeling process is painful, expensive and error-prone. In this whitepaper SDL examines how Global Information Management (GIM) Solutions - combining best practice translation management, translation reuse and translation review interfaces - provide the essential business strategy and tools for managing the escalating requirements for local language delivery.

New Authoring Strategies Increase Reuse and Consistency

New authoring tools enable authors to leverage company content assets much earlier in the content creation cycle than ever before. By accessing authoring memory and approved terminology, authors can proactively increase reuse, improve consistency and reduce translation costs.

Online Support on the Global Stage

Delivering customer support in local languages can be complex. Learn how to achieve it in this white paper.

Operational Brand Management - An SDL Management Briefing Paper

 The fundamental aim of a corporation is to maximize return on capital. Global brand management – within an overarching global market strategy – must ultimately answer to this fundamental aim.
New technology and a growing acceptance of free trade have eroded traditional competitive advantages and for a growing number of firms, brand is a valuable asset in distinguishing a company in a crowded marketplace.

Opportunity in the Cloud

In this 8 page whitepaper, read about the opportunities for the localization industry if we embrace the cloud.

SDL Research - Automated Translation Survey 2009

Read this SDL Research report to discover the latest adoption rates and market trends on machine translation and human post-editing of machine translation within global business.

SDL Trados 2009 Technical White Paper

This Technical White Paper describes SDL Trados Studio 2009 and SDL TM Server 2009, the project
management and server-based translation memory (TM) technology for the world-leading SDL Trados
translation memory platform. It discusses key benefits, gives an overview of the technology concepts
behind the architecture, presents a benchmarking overview and touches upon deployment and
migration considerations.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the new features of the SDL Trados Studio 2009 application
and the , concept of translation memory. If you are not yet familiar with SDL Trados Studio

SDL Research - Terminology Survey 2010

Read the SDL Research report of the results of the 2010 Terminology Survey to discover what businesses and translators are saying about terminology management, its importance in a strategy for global content delivery and the business implications of managing terminology in a global business context.

SDL TeamWorks Technical White Paper

This whitepaper describes the key considerations when determining the optimal SDL TeamWorks deployment for your organization and provides hardware recommendations for single and multiple server deployments.

Terminology Matters White Paper

Companies are struggling to produce accurate and consistent global information for their local markets. Customer support costs are spiralling out of control, and growing content volumes are giving IT, Marketing and Sales departments a real headache.

The Strategic Delivery of Global Web Content

The internet has fuelled explosive growth in the last five years, opening up new opportunities for accessing global audiences and extending global revenues. It has, however, created a level playing field on which new entrants have been able to quickly establish a market presence.

Web Content within a Global Information Management Strategy

This SDL white paper describes effective design and implementation strategies that will help marketing and localization managers design and implement a truly global website.

What’s New in SDL Passolo

This white paper provides detailed information on the latest additions and improvements incorporated in SDL Passolo 2009

Managing Brands Globally through Operational Brand Management

It's no secret that a well-managed brand adds value to an organization. Many studies have been performed around the creation, evolution, and valuation of brands. This 1-page Executive Brief gives an introduction to the key issues.