Trias Politica BV, a newly created subsidiary of Compendium Group BV in The Netherlands, recently launched a European information portal service for corporate and government bodies. The site provides these organizations with vital information, articles and documents from the public sector and offers specific coverage of competition and tendering issues.

 
Compendium and SDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') have now announced a contract for SDL to implement their "Enterprise Translation Server" (ETS) solution, to optimize the Compendium online subscription service for its multilingual audience, allowing for instant translations of document searches.

SDL's ETS will add realtime translation functionality to this portal infrastructure, and was chosen for its translation speed, its ease of integration with the portal search technology and its dictionary management functionality - allowing the import of Compendium's rich thesauri and glossaries.

The online translation service will support French and German to English translations in a first stage, then expand to cover all European languages as the service is rolled out to a larger multi-language audience. SDL will create Trias Politica specific dictionaries from the text material and thesauri already available to achieve the highest quality translations possible.

Compendium realize that some users will expect a 'perfect' translation of a legal document for further publishing and so SDL will also provide an online link to their human translation service, enabling a quick and professional localization service for selected users.

Commenting on the agreement, Mark Eligh, Director at Compendium, said:

"Trias Politica Online makes public sector information from throughout the EU accessible for its users. Instant translation is an important ingredient in realizing this. We were impressed by the performance of SDL's "Enterprise Translation Server" and are working hard to get it tuned for the specific type of documents we work with, so it meets with our quality requirements. If this service catches on with our users we will also be stepping up the number of language directions."

Hedley Rees-Evans, SDL's Marketing Director confirmed:

"SDL is the leader in the provision of multilingual support solutions, where our Enterprise Translation Server breaks down international communication barriers by enabling real-time corporate collaboration and enterprise content management across multiple languages. With the best performance available from such systems, ETS offers real productivity gains to our customers and enhanced comprehension for the international user."

About Compendium / Trias-Politica

Compendium is a leading group of consultancies dedicated to create value from professional procurement and supply chain management for the private sector. In the public sector, Compendium advises on and supports the execution of complex tendering and contract management issues. Compendium employs over 100 professionals and is active in most West European countries. The client list records over 250 organizations, most of which are major corporations and public bodies.

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