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Translation Management

In the increasingly global economy, companies often generate forty to sixty percent of their revenue outside of their home markets, putting a high priority for getting information to local customers in their language and with cultural nuance.

Translation and localization are fundamental processes within a global information management (GIM) solution. Moving content through the localization supply chain consists of many different tasks, but they fall into just two broad categories: tasks related to translation and localization, and tasks associated with managing the transaction.

Translation and localization activities include all linguistic tasks related to the actual rendering of source words into target languages. These tasks require knowledge of the context of the content and access to translation assets, such as translation memory and terminology. Translation management delivers the contextual information to the translator, provides access to centralized translation assets, improves the quality and consistency of the localized material and reduces translation costs.

Transaction activities include project management, vendor administration, workflow, costing, content and translation asset management, quality assurance and other activities as content passes through the entire localization process. As content becomes more modular, updates more frequent and the end-to-end process more complex, translation management handles these complexities, applies consistency and traceability to the processes and significantly reduces transaction costs.

The SDL Translation Management System and SDL TeamWorks are key applications within a GIM solution, unifying the translation and localization supply chain and providing the collaboration, control, integration and process flow required to prepare content for a global audience.