Entering the growing market for Multilingual Website Management, UK-based globalization firm SDL International have announced the culmination of two years Research and Development with the first release of "SDLWebFlow", a tool designed to allow management of multilingual web sites.

 "I am pleased that SDL is first to market with an integrated solution of software toolset and localization services," said SDL CEO Mark Lancaster. "SDLWebFlow will change the way in which multilingual web site content is updated in a continually evolving English web page. Many of the manual time-consuming tasks are now automated and foreign sites can be updated quickly, efficiently and accurately," he continued.

SDL have used their experience with Clients such as Adobe, eBay, Goodyear and Kodak, as well as extensive consultation with professional Web Developers, to deliver a 'One-Stop-Solution'. Designed with specialist Web Development Groups in mind, SDL WebFlow is a suite of products and services which solve the key problems of managing multiple international web sites, including the following:

• Automatically detecting changes in the Source Website
• Managing the 'workflow' of translation decisions and routing
• Preparing content and controlling cost by using Translation Memory
• Handling localization as well as translation
• Publishing target languages automatically

"This is a unique proposition from one company. The product is a strategic component in our growth plans and will be the subject of continued and substantial investment," concluded Lancaster.