SDL International, the world’s leading provider of translation services and technology solutions, announced today the availability of the SDL Translation Management System 2005, the total management solution for enterprise wide localization.

 Global organizations know the value of their global information. They have invested in authoring, content management and publishing systems, but are often constrained by translation and localization processes.

The SDL Translation Management System 2005 is the most advanced translation management system available. An evolution from the SDLWorkFlow product, it integrates with existing business systems across the content lifecycle to optimize all aspects of translation and localization. For global organizations such as Best Western, Bosch, Philips, Sun and Morgan Stanley, this addresses their critical needs to:

• Deliver global information faster to generate increased revenues from global markets
• Improve quality and consistency to ensure translations conform to quality criteria, adhere to legal requirements and support global branding
• Maximize leverage of global information assets to drive down cost of translation
• Provide greater management visibility and control to enable continuous process improvement
• Achieve rapid ROI to accrue benefits in weeks rather than years.

The SDL Translation Management System 2005 extends SDL’s market leadership in the management of translation processes and assets with many new and unique capabilities:

• Translation memory categorization, sequencing and prioritization
• Customizable quality assurance checks
• Easy-to-use web portals for all types of business user
• Comprehensive project and vendor management with automated work allocation
• Web services access to all translation assets
• Structured multi-vendor support for application within enterprise or language service provider environments
• Scalable, multi-threaded architecture

“The SDL Translation Management System 2005 significantly enhances the productivity of translation processes,” commented Mark Lancaster, Chairman and CEO of SDL International. “Our enterprise translation technologies are used by more organizations than anyone else’s. TMS delivers exactly what our customers have asked for - easy integration with existing authoring, content management systems and unstructured content, enabling organizations to shorten time-to-market for the delivery of high quality multilingual information.”

To find out more about SDL Translation Management System 2005, visit www.sdl.com/tms.