Highlights

The SDL MultiTerm Widget is the latest innovation in the SDL MultiTerm product suite. It is a simple application that allows anyone to easily check the meaning or translation of a word as they read, write or translate.

 - Increase the value of your brand - ensure everyone in the organization is using the same company language

 -Access words from anywhere - check your company terminology from within a browser, DTP tool, text editing tool and many more

 -Connect to online content - look-up words from online dictionaries and search engines such as Wikipedia or Google Dictionary

 -Share knowledge across your organization - ad-hoc users of terminology, such as Marketing professionals, can have quick, easy access to company terminology

The SDL MultiTerm Widget is the perfect solution to maximizing your investment in company terminology and language by ensuring that everyone has access to the right words, in their language, when they need them.

Benefits

 - Maximizes your investment in content, localization and global branding- with everyone in your organization using the same wording and language, your investments in content extend their value throughout the business and help communicate consistent information to customers worldwide

 - Connects silos of content creation within your business to ensure consistent information- through easier sharing of language and wording between departments and business units, consistency is more easily achieved

 - Better customer experience at all content touchpoints - consistency of information from pre-sales to after-sales ensures a better customer experience at all touchpoints

 - Easier sharing of knowledge and terminology assets - easy access through the SDL MultiTerm Widget facilitates terminology and knowledge sharing across departments

 - Exposure of terminology across the business to maximize your investment in terminology management - the SDL MultiTerm Widget will help you evangelize the importance and the benefits of terminology management by providing everyone with quick, easy access to the assets you’ve built up

Features

 - Check any word, from any environment – simply highlight text in any Windows application and using a shortcut key the Widget will find the right word and its translation from your terminology or from online resources and dictionaries

 - Access any online dictionary – the SDL MultiTerm Widget can access any of your favourite online resources for dictionary content, such Google Dictionary or Wikipedia.

 - Customize to add your own resources – if you have a favorite online resource for looking up words and translations, customize the Widget to access it directly

 - Fits in to your existing solutions – direct access to server-based or file-based terminology and the ability to lookup words from any Windows application

 - Simple user interface – easy-to-use application for people not familiar with terminology management

 - Check words that are embedded in images – with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can even look-up words embedded within images such as JPEGs or PNGs

FAQs

A list of the most Frequently Asked Questions about the SDL MultiTerm Widget. If your question is not answered here, please contact us.

Besides MultiTerm termbases – what other search engines or online dictionaries are supported?
The pre-configured engines are:

www.google.com

www.google.com/dictionary

www.bing.com

www.linguee.com

www.wikipedia.org
 

Can I add another search engine?
Yes, you can configure the SDL MultiTerm Widget to access other search engines or online dictionaries. The specification of how to do this is available on SDL OpenExchange

Is the SDL MultiTerm Widget difficult to configure?
No, not at all. It is designed for very easy use, not only for language experts or power users of terminology for but anyone in a company who wants to look up a word.

What’s the difference between SDL MultiTerm Online and the SDL MultiTerm Widget?
SDL MultiTerm Online is a browser-based application, enabled not only for looking up terminology but also editing data:

·         No software installation required

·         Read-Write, including termbase maintenance features such as export and import

·         Only for server termbases, not local data

·         More steps required to quickly look up a term

SDL MultiTerm Widget is Windows application, focused on ease-of-use:

·         Software installation required

·         Read-only (at this stage)

·         Support for local and remote termbases

·         Extremely quick access to data

·         Support for other Internet search engines and online dictionaries

 

Does the SDL MultiTerm Widget work externally, outside of the organization?
Yes, much in the same way that SDL MultiTerm Online can be made accessible to external sites, SDL MultiTerm Widget can be installed externally and access an SDL MultiTerm Server termbase elsewhere.

Does it work offline?
Yes, you can connect to local termbases that do not require an Internet connection to be searched.

Can I edit my terminology?
No. At this stage, you are only able to search for words in the termbase.

Does it work with remote termbases?
Yes, even with multiple SDL MultiTerm Server-based termbases.

Does it work on the Internet or only in LANs?
It work in both intranets and the Internet.