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SDL MultiTerm Server 2009

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Managing Terminology with SDL MultiTerm White Paper

SDL MultiTerm has led the market for terminology management since 1990. It is a mature and proven solution, enabling corporate and industry terms to be stored and shared across the enterprise, including those within a distributed environment.

Product Brief

SDL MultiTerm Server 2009 Product Brief

SDL MultiTerm® Server is a centralized and scalable solution to store, manage and share terminology, both internally and externally throughout the translation supply chain. Through its centralized approach, SDL MultiTerm Server ensures consistent, high quality and low-cost content from the source through to translation, enabling you to control and maintain multilingual branding.
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SDL MultiTerm Server 2009

Discover the Power of Sharing Terminology

SDL MultiTerm Server provides one central location to store and manage terminology. By providing access to all those involved with applying terminology, including engineers and marketing, translators and terminologists, it ensures consistent and quality content from source through to translation.

Benefits

Centralization

  • Increase translation productivity and reduce translation costs by applying server-based terminology within the translation environment through SDL Trados Studio 2009
  • Share and leverage your terminology assets across multiple users to ensure organisation-wide consistency
  • Customize your terminology approval process by managing users and defining roles and access rights for your centralized terminology

Consistency

  • Guarantee that content is consistent in the source by applying consistent terminology during the authoring process
  • Improve the quality and consistency of your translations by applying centralized terminology during the translation process
  • Ensure consistency throughout the organization with access to SDL MultiTerm APIs, allowing connectivity through third-party applications

Branding

  • Centrally manage your organization’s key terminology to ensure brand consistency
  • Protect your brand with advanced security features, allowing you to define different levels of access to your terminology
  • Apply your branding to the user interface of the online terminology tool SDL MultiTerm Online

Features

Share terminology across multiple users.
Create, define and manage users of terminology that allows sharing of centralized terminology to ensure consistent terms are applied in all global content.

Cutting edge architecture.
Based on SDL Common Enterprise Application Framework (CEAF), SDL MultiTerm Server delivers the performance, user management and scalability that allows you to manage large-scale termbases across multiple users.

Integration with SDL Trados Studio and SDL MultiTerm Desktop.
Access server-based terminology from with the term recognition feature in SDL Trados Studio and apply it during the translation process to ensure organization-wide consistency within your multilingual content.

Sophisticated access rights and security management.
Only allow the right users access to the right terms to ensure that your terminology and brand are protected. This allows you to define a sophisticated terminology management process that allows users to be assigned different roles within your business process.

What's new

Truly scalable, organization-wide terminology management.
Using the open, scalable framework of SDL Common Enterprise Application Framework (CEAF), SDL MultiTerm Server delivers increased performance, simplified user management and handling of server-based terminology.

Brand new SDL MultiTerm Online user interface.
Completely refreshed and updated user interface for the online terminology tool, SDL MultiTerm Online.

Quicker access to terminology assets.
Microsoft® Windows authentication allows users to sign into the SDL MultiTerm Server 2009 environment with the same log-in to their Microsoft Windows environment.

Advanced user management.
Manage users and access rights to terminology and translation memories through integrated user management for both SDL MultiTerm Server 2009 and SDL TM Server 2009.

Improved termbase maintenance.
SDL MultiTerm Server 2009 logs every terminology search that does not yield a result so that missing terms can be tracked and added to the termbase.

FAQs

SDL MultiTerm Server 2009: Top 5 Frequently Asked Questions

Is it a straight forward upgrade from SDL MultiTerm Server 2007?
Will APIs be available for desktop, team and server?
Can I install SDL MultiTerm 2009 and SDL TM Server 2009 on the same machine?
Do I need Microsoft SQL Server to install SDL MultiTerm Server 2009?
What is the compatibility with previous versions?

Q: Is it a straight forward upgrade from SDL MultiTerm Server 2007?

SDL MultiTerm Server: Yes. Uninstall existing Server components, Install MultiTerm Server 2009, and then migrate the existing user records via the MultiTerm Server Upgrade Wizard into CEAF.

Q. Will APIs be available for desktop, team and server?

Yes, APIs will be available in the upcoming months and throughout 2010. We are committed to creating a community of developers and to open APIs. We will soon launch a new program to encourage application development and easy access to APIs

Q: Can I install SDL MultiTerm 2009 and SDL TM Server 2009 on the same machine?

Yes.

Q: Do I need Microsoft SQL Server to install SDL MultiTerm Server 2009?

Yes. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is supported.

Q: What is the compatibility with previous versions?

All data is 100% compatible, the SDL MultiTerm XML exchange format will allow termbases from previous versions of SDL MultiTerm to be upgraded for SDL MultiTerm 2009

SDL MultiTerm Online

What’s New for 2009: SDL MultiTerm Online 2009 has a brand new user interface.
SDL MultiTerm Online is the web terminology portal that provides access to and manages server-based terminology any time and from anywhere in the world. By providing quick and easy access to centralized terminology, as well as possessing many of the key features of SDL MultiTerm Desktop, SDL MultiTerm Online helps promote terminology management across multiple departments of the business.

SDL MultiTerm Team

Discover the Power of Sharing Terminology within a Team

SDL MultiTerm Team 2009 provides a solution to sharing terminology within a small workgroup or team, extending the functionality of SDL MultiTerm Desktop to up five users within a LAN environment. Benefit from the power of sharing within a team, without the complexity of a large-scale server solution.

Key Benefits

Simplicity

  • A simple, scaled-down solution to sharing your terminology
  • Quick and easy access through SDL MultiTerm Desktop and SDL Trados Studio

Consistency

  • Control consistency and standards in source content by applying consistent terminology during the authoring process
  • Improve the quality and consistency of your team’s translations by applying centralized terminology during the translation process with SDL Trados Studio and Active Term Recognition

Productivity

  • Increase translation productivity within your team by applying the latest approved terminology when translating with SDL Trados Studio
  • Reduce errors and review time by ensuring approved terminology consistency from source through to translation

Key Features

SDL MultiTerm Team extends SDL MultiTerm Desktop by supporting shared terminology management in smaller groups for up-to five users working together in a Local Area Network (LAN).

SDL MultiTerm Team includes all SDL MultiTerm Desktop components, but adds server power to small teams. Based on SDL MultiTerm Server technology, its design allows connectivity via client application such as SDL MultiTerm Desktop, Microsoft® Word and SDL MultiTerm Extract. Lightweight deployment allows SDL MultiTerm Team to be setup easily with a simple clickable installation.

System Requirements

Operating system support: SDL MultiTerm Team supports Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems can be used.

Hardware: SDL recommends running SDL MultiTerm Team either on a mid-range server or mid-range desktop computer. Mid-range servers are recommended for optimum performance. A mid-range server typically has an Intel Xeon CPU, 4 GB of RAM and at least 100 GB of free hard disk space; a mid-range desktop computer has a recent Intel or AMD CPU, 3-4 GB of RAM and the same amount of free hard disk space.