Translation Management
Streamlining the multilingual content creation process
In the increasingly global economy, companies often generate forty to sixty percent of their revenue outside of their home markets. This focus on global markets puts a high priority on getting information to customers in their chosen local language.Translation and localization are fundamental processes within any Global Information Management (GIM) solution. Moving content through the localization supply chain consists of many different tasks, but they fall into just two broad categories: activities related to the translation and localization of content, and activities associated with managing the tasks and processes needed to support localization.
Translation and localization activities include all linguistic tasks related to the actual rendering of source words into target languages. These tasks require knowledge of the context of the content and access to translation assets, such as translation memory and terminology. Translation management delivers the contextual information to the translator, provides access to centralized translation assets, improves the quality and consistency of the localized material and reduces translation costs.
Transaction activities include project management, vendor administration, workflow, costing, content and translation asset management, quality assurance and other activities as content passes through the entire localization process. As content becomes more modular, updates more frequent and the end-to-end process more complex, translation management handles these complexities, applies consistency and traceability to the processes and significantly reduces transaction costs.
The SDL Translation Management System and SDL TeamWorks are key applications within a GIM solution, unifying the translation and localization supply chain and providing the collaboration, control, integration and process flow required to prepare content for a global audience.
Customer Results
Many companies are using the SDL Translation Management System as the heart of their GIM solution. In each case they are reducing the time and effort needed to support a global market while dramatically reducing their localisation costs. To see the detailed benefits that they are achieving view one of the case studies listed below:
