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Software Localization

A critical factor for the international success of software

Need to achieve sim-ship of software in multiple languages?

Facing new challenges integrating Agile development and localization?

Losing ground to competitors because global time to market is too slow?

Localizing in an "Agile" World

A successful global product launch requires early planning for software internationalization and localization. By considering other languages from the start, software can be built to make localization easy. Additionally, with the right technology and processes, software localization can be integrated into an Agile development methodology.

With software localization technology, organizations can enhance the speed and efficiency of the software engineering process and ensure the finished product will be easy to translate into new languages. Within an Agile development methodology, translation drops can be accepted more frequently, which has many benefits for global product launches:

How it works

SDL's Software Localization and Internationalization technology greatly speeds up the translation of user interfaces for many different types of software, including embedded and packaged software, web and PC software, mobile and enterprise software. It helps engineers check translated interfaces regularly throughout the agile development process, and assists translators, who do not have programming experience, with visual, in-context translation of resource files. Throughout the release process, QA teams benefit from seeing incremental developments in their native language, improving consistency and reducing errors in each testing phase.

With these solutions, software engineering and localization teams can take the essential step towards global engineering excellence by enabling visual, in-context and continuous localization to be integrated with today's agile development processes.

If you would like further information about software localization please see our dedicated page - what is software localization?

Software Internationalization and Localization Solutions

SDL Language Technologies offers several software internationalization and localization solutions to meet global product development needs:

Translation and Localization Professionals
SDL Passolo Professional

The Professional edition is suited to localization engineers and software engineers working on small to medium-sized software projects. Many powerful internationalization and localization functions are included in the product, and there are optional add-ins for exporting translation data that can be leveraged during translation of the relevant manuals and online help.

Small and Medium Localization Teams and LSPs
SDL Passolo Team

The Team edition offers the additional benefit of being able to create and administer a certain number of translation bundles. Translation bundles can be processed using SDL Passolo Translator edition, available as a free download on this website. With a Team license, it is possible to delegate entire projects to external translators, including the task of adapting and testing the dialog layouts.

Large Localization Teams and LSPs
SDL Passolo Collaboration

The Collaboration edition offers the further benefit of providing technology to support and speed up the workflows associated with an agile development process. It enables a localization team to push through frequent changes from software development to translators without delay, removing the time and cost issues normally associated with synchronizing updates.