Localization News & Articles

With more and more organizations taking global content management and localization more seriously, the race for the best translation management solution is on.

Most recently, a new solution by Vasont and Lionbridge made it to the market. The challenge here is not only to provide an efficient solution for managing and translating content, but also to translate the importance of global content management to customers.

Vasont Systems, a provider of component content management solutions, integrated its Vasont Content Management System (CMS) with Freeway, the Web-based translation management platform from Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.

Lionbridge is known for its globalization efforts and translation, testing and development outsourcing services. This direct integration between the Vasont CMS and Freeway provides clients with a more efficient method of translating content and monitoring the status of translation projects.

Using the Vasont Translation Package with the Freeway integration, customers can initiate translation quotes or translation projects to Freeway directly from the Vasont interface.

Content and status information are automatically sent back and forth between the Vasont CMS and Freeway during the translation process. Clients can monitor the status and history of high-level projects, or of detailed subprojects for each language, using Vasont’s new translation window.

It often seems that the primary purpose of localization is to create unreadable English that is cheap to translate into unreadable German.

Where, you ask? This time around — in Boston. The upcoming Gilbane Boston 2008 Conference gives us thrills, that’s how exciting the conference program looks. Gilbane announced that the conference will focus on exploring the intersection between social media and content management.

With social media and social networking forecasted by Gartner to be some of the hottest strategic trends for 2009, organizations need to be better prepared to integrate successful combinations of Web Content Management, enterprise search, text analytics, social computing and more to achieve greater results.

Straker, with its ShadoCMS v8.5 Web CMS, and Across Systems’ Language Server teamed up to deliver a new localization interface, providing an automated process from web content creation to translation management, publishing and handling of dynamic multilingual content.

The partnership promises to deliver savings above 60% for companies that manage large-scale translations of dynamic web sites. Better late than never, as they say. So, welcome to the global content management party!

Alterian, an integrated marketing platform provider, released the upgraded Immediacy WCMs 6.1. In its latest version, Immediacy features Language Pack capabilities enabling users to work in their local language preference.

Release 6.1 also utilizes many of the latest web technology standards, including AJAX, and improved performance “to blistering levels.”

Following up on its latest study on how global businesses need to actively create, manage and publish multilingual content, the Gilbane Group is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 24, at 2 p.m. EST.

The webinar is dedicated to helping companies develop enterprise strategies that are crucial for creating, managing and publishing multilingual business communications.

Following a recent surge in globalization and multi-site management popularity, web CMS provider Sitecore has released Foundry 2.0. The enhanced tool addresses the need of international companies to maintain a consistent global brand while allowing regional affiliates to localize their websites.

Recently we reported about how global businesses need to become, well, more global. At least in the way they create, manage and publish multilingual content. Companies need to think more strategically about global content management, if they are to be key players in the global marketplace.

In an effort to provide more context to the conversation and profile an active contributor to the translation and localization industry, we spoke with Paula Shannon, senior VP and chief sales and marketing officer of Lionbridge Technologies.

It seems the SDL acquistion of Idiom stirred up a little action in the translation management industry.

ThebigwordGroup has set out to offer an alternative to SDL/Idiom that is scalable and has little capital investment on the front end. Hmmm...sounds intriguing.

Following closely on the heels of SDL’s acquisition of Dutch Web Content Management vendor Tridion, XyEnterprise and Idiom are joining forces on behalf of clients seeking content creation, management, translation and delivery solutions in one platform.

The World Wide Web Consortium has been keeping us busy and is at it again, working to provide standards aimed at bringing some measure of sensibility to the wild world of web content.

Earlier this month, the W3C released a new Web Standard designed to help bring content to a broader international audience. Most recently they are focusing on internationalization tools for XML and XHTML content.

Web Content Management vendor Ektron, Inc. has taken aim at web content localization. The latest updates to their CMS 300 and CMS 400 .NET products include powerful new tools and support for translation, localization and the workflow needed to accomplish both.

Ektron’s CMS products support the complete translation and localization process by creating a tight integration between a Website’s native-language content and translated content within one content management solution (CMS).