SDL International®, a leading provider of globalization products and services, today announced SDL Localization Suite, a comprehensive set of products for seamless localization. SDL Localization Suite offers localization agencies significant cost and time savings, giving them a seamless set of products to assist in the translation and QA process for software, and document translation, and editing through to test validation.

 
SDL Localization Suite is an integrated, cost-effective solution targeted at sophisticated localization agencies and corporate localization departments that want to make the best use of their resources as well as make the localization process more efficient. This unique localization solution provides products for key members of the localization group, including project managers, software engineers, localizers, translators, authors and QA engineers enabling them to improve productivity. The SDL Localization Suite includes Translation Memory product SDLX®, software editor SDLinsight, machine translation product Transcend®, and testing tools HelpQA, HtmlQA and ToolProof, the user interface bug detector. This set of advanced tools all work together seamlessly to increase localization productivity and quality.

"For the first time, localization teams can make use of a seamless set of localization tools that all plug together to make the localization process more efficient and less painful. The SDL Localization Suite was developed to help localization groups get a better return on investment than is traditional for the localization industry and hence raise the quality and profile of the industry in the long term," stated Mark Lancaster, chairman and CEO at SDL International. "The SDL Localization Suite is priced to allow companies to get immediate return on their investment, and with the continuous stream of new and innovative products SDL International is bringing to the market, it will be an excellent cornerstone for any localization team."

Tools and Features

Featuring SDL International's industry-proven tools, the SDL Localization Suitem includes:

• SDLX – Translation Memory tool that extracts previously translated terms and phrases from a database for re-use. SDLX can reduce translation time by up to 40 percent.
• Transcend – machine translation engine that provides an instant first-pass translation of text. The engine can be refined with use to improve accuracy over time.
• SDL TermBase – a terminology database of concepts that are represented in one or more languages.
• HelpQA – an RTF tool that provides testing validity of help files.
• HtmlQA – an HTML tool for testing the validity of HTML-based online help files.
• SDLinsight – an advanced localization environment for Windows resource scripts and 32-bit Windows executables.
• ToolProof – an automatic user interface bug detector.

With the purchase of the SDL Localization Suite, customers are entitled to a one-year membership in the SDLX Localization Premier Club, which provides discount benefits.

Language Support

The SDL Localization Suite Translation Memory and QA tools support any language including double byte and bi-directional languages. Transcend machine translation supports the following language directions:

• English to French
• English to German
• French to English
• English to Spanish
• English to Italian
• Spanish to English
• English to Portuguese
• Portuguese to English
• German to English
  

Pricing, Availability and System Requirements

The suite is priced at US$2,495.00 and will be available in September 2001. SDL Localization Suite runs on Windows 95, 98, Windows NT® and Windows 2000.