Translation Management System News & Articles

Translation management systems are constantly evolving. Overtime they have become intertwined with global content management and as a result, multilingual content management was born.

The way content is developed linguistically and managed is also changing. Recently we spoke with Matt Hauser, director of technology sales for Translations.com, a provider of language services and translation-related technologies, about the changing landscape of translation and global content management systems.

In the competitive world of localization it's not unusual for companies to make exaggerated claims about their products to get a little bit of attention. So in October 2007, when Clay Tablet (news, site) said v2.0 of its Translation Management system could integrate any content management system with any translation system, there may have been a few raised eyebrows.

However 18 months and no complaints later, Clay Tablet has unveiled v2.5 at the Localization World Conference in Berlin which continues until tomorrow. This version comes with two new features: InSync Master Asset Management (MAM), and MultiPoint Flexible Routing technology (MFR).

In a positive and delicious way, that is... In an effort to extend the reach of its regulatory compliance and document management offerings, Open Text (news, site) has partnered with Lionbridge (news, site) to provide joint customers with development services of the aforementioned solutions.

Led by Lionbridge, the alliance is specifically targeting the pharma industry, but it seems that other industries can take advantage of it as well.

SDL Tridion (news, site) has released a connector for the print publishing favorite Adobe InDesign.

Merging the worlds of print and web will allow organizations to re-use content for different output channels, while doing creative work in InDesign. Ideally, the goal is to achieve greater message consistency and efficiency.

The linguistic landscape of the World Wide Web is changing. Though at times English seems like the most widely spoken and used language, we are humbled to remember that there are hundreds, if not thousands of languages.

When it comes to the web, Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America and by 2012 it will have three times as many. Such stats should serve as a wake up call for the many global businesses still needing to improve the way they create, manage and publish multilingual content.

By making the web much more compatible and engaging for non-English speaking or writing users (who until now have had to suffer through complicated keyboard maps or the struggle of querying in a language that's not their own) globalization innovations will allow all users to connect and communicate in their language of choice.

For those of you that brushed off the idea of open source translation management, or never dared to dream of something so too-good-to-be-true, hold on to your hats because Christmas has come early.

Sponsored by Welocalize, GlobalSight for Clay Tablet 2.0 is set to release on January 5th as the first open source translation management system ever.

As you probably know, an important element of content management is translation management. Companies want to be able to communicate with as many different people as possible, and most of them do that by using a translation management system that works in conjunction with their CMS.

The great thing about GlobalSight is that instead of working in conjunction, it's designed to provide support for Clay Tablet 2.0 to enable connectivity to a wide variety of content management systems and repositories. Can you imagine the impending possibilities? This approach is said to ensure "out of the box" connectivity to several different content management systems and integration possibilities with most others.

GlobalSight will launch as the first open source TMS product that provides a scalable translation management platform for companies to manage, translate and deliver global content. .

“As we are approaching our launch date to release a more scalable version of GlobalSight, we cannot meet all requests for enhancements -- those will be addressed by the open source community," admits Gary Prioste, VP of Technology Services at Welocalize. “Clay Tablet 2.0 provides a neutral and prevalent platform to connect with a wide variety of content repositories. By using the Clay Tablet SDK, GlobalSight users will be able to connect quickly and easily to their content management system of choice.”

To stay in the know, visit www.globalsight.com.