Multilingual Content News & Articles

For the second consecutive year, the recently consolidated under one brand SDL (news,site) releases the results from the 2009 Automated Translation Survey. Read on below for all the statistics.

OmniUpdate (news, site) released version 8.10 of its OU Campus Web CMS that is available in both SaaS/hosted and on-premise flavors. Some of the highlights on the new release include multi-language editing/preview and multi-output preview capabilities.

The new release allows OU Campus users to preview content rendered in various file type formats, such as .html, .pdf, .xml, .csv. The preview capability has also been extended to mobile layouts, as well as any UTF-8-compatible languages, including the two-byte ones.

The multi-output preview feature should be helpful for scenarios when a template is coded to handle multiple files formats, allowing content editors to preview all the outputs together before publishing to live.

When there are instances of the same piece of content existing in multiple languages, each of the language versions can be edited and previewed either individually or side by side.

OmniUpdate has had multi-browser preview functionality for quite some time now. It’s good to see the vendor finally paying more attention to the global, multi-lingual aspect of web content. In the meantime, the word on the street has it that we are already living on the edge of global content management crisis…

Gilbane has released a report that any organization catering to the global community needs to have a look at. It’s entitled Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Companies Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain — don’t be swayed by the less-than-captivating and very long title. It’s chock full of qualitative research on how global businesses are creating, managing and publishing multilingual content. The short answer is that they’re not.