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Acrolinx 3.0 to Offer "SEO While They Write" to Content Authors
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Posted by
Rebecca Ray
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December 24, 2012
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is similar to flossing one's teeth – everyone recognizes it's best done on a regular basis. However, it would be a whole lot easier if it were integrated upstream in the content creation step (see "Writing for Global Audiences," Nov10).
Currently, most companies deal with SEO in one of two ways. Some firms throw
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TermWeb Hooks Up with Ontram
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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September 23, 2011
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Terminology management tool supplier Interverbum Technology will announce its TermWeb integration with Ontram at next month's tekom in Germany. This link-up highlights the increasing importance of managing terminology in the large-scale content applications developed with translation management systems (TMSes) such as Ontram.
Interverbum managing
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Much Ado about Standards – Finally
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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July 14, 2011
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Just as LISA shuttered its site at the end of February, it hosted a Standards Summit near Boston. The Summit drew a small but dedicated cadre of professionals interested in setting standards for the language sector. Delegates represented industry associations, language service providers (LSPs), academics, language tool suppliers, and a small group
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Kilgray Launches TM Repository Product
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
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June 7, 2011
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Kilgray, the Hungary-based technology vendor responsible for MemoQ, has released a new product called TM Repository with functions for managing translation memory units and databases across multiple projects, vendors, and computer aided translation (CAT) tools. This application does not include its own translation environment. Rather, the system ingests
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SDL Makes Play for Global Video Asset Management
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
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May 4, 2011
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SDL today announced the acquisition of Calamares, a technology vendor based in the Netherlands with a media asset management solution. The cloud-resident software “allows enterprises to centrally compose, enrich, publish and distribute video and other rich-media assets” and will boost the SDL Tridion product line for web content management
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Web Content for India: Are You Localizing or Sanskritizing?
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Posted by
Vijayalaxmi Hegde
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February 16, 2011
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When we recently reviewed some websites localized for Indian audiences, we noticed a complex and persistent trend common to translation in India. Most of the sites we visited were in Hindi and contained technical information. But, they were heavily Sanskritized, making the content incomprehensible to the average Indian reader. The text was so full of
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Multilingual Technical Publishers Extend their Capabilities
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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November 11, 2010
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Until six years ago, tekom’s annual tcworld conference in Wiesbaden, Germany served the Mittelstand of small and medium-sized German manufacturers and their need for technical documentation. Five years ago, Common Sense Advisory teamed up with GALA (the Globalization and Localization Association) to program a localization track for the annual
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LSPs Must Adapt and Adopt, or Be Assimilated
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Posted by
Rocio Txabarriaga
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August 5, 2009
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The 10th annual conference of the American Translators Association Translation Company Division (ATA-TCD) was held this past weekend in Quebec City, Canada. At first glance, the titles of the presentations seemed to cover familiar topics, but in the actual discussions, both the speakers and participants evoked a sense of urgency and a need for "something
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Content Management Consolidation Continues
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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June 29, 2009
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This morning, SDL announced that it would pay US$14.7 million to acquire XyEnterprise in its latest move to expand its global information management capabilities. The acquisition is the most recent example of consolidation in the fragmented content management system (CMS) sector. SDL acquires good technology at an attractive price (1.48 times revenue
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TMS Contenders Jockey for Position
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma, Benjamin B. Sargent
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December 5, 2008
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This week, suppliers of translation management systems issued a flurry of press releases as they raced for position in this evolving market segment. Across reaffirmed its pledge to remain independent, while Lionbridge renewed its commitment to the sector with a new program and new hires. SDL and Welocalize also weighed in with news before most people
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What a Difference 18 Months Make: Translation Management Systems
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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October 2, 2008
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When we last drilled down into the translation management system (TMS) segment in early 2007, we found a near dead heat in features and functionality among two commercial contenders, Idiom and SDL. A year and a half later, the race has grown more interesting. SDL now offers Idiom as one of its brands. Some players have pumped up their investment to
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Predictions for 2007: How Right Were We?
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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December 20, 2007
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Last December we stared into our crystal-ball-as-a-service software to predict what would happen in 2007. Here's how we did:
Translation automation technology and distribution morph. We predicted rapid product turns, innovated distribution, and new market models from smaller firms; increased use and consideration of statistical MT solutions;
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Lionbridge Opens On-Ramp to Freeway and Announces CMS Partners
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
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November 20, 2007
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Next week the content management crowd will converge on Boston for the annual Gilbane Conference (where we will speak about globalization standards). Expect plenty of announcements about the next version of your favorite CMS product. But Lionbridge cut to the front of the line by making its show announcement today during the slow-news-in-the-U.S. Thanksgiving
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Translation Request Broker Promises to Unify CMS and TMS
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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October 17, 2007
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Ironically, one of the biggest stumbling blocks to efficient global content management has been the pain of "translating" CMS requests for multilingual content into formats that translation management systems (TMS) can fulfill. Where interfaces do exist, they typically take the form of connectors supplied by a TMS vendor and specific to its own TMS
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A Step Forward for Sharing Language Data
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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March 16, 2007
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The Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) is a group of like-minded organizations interested in advancing the state of the art for machine translation. Noting that organizations are being pressured to "translate ever more content in an increasing number of languages," TAUS members (multinational companies, government agencies, and language industry
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Content Management Vendors Improve Their Globalization Stories
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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August 23, 2006
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In March we evaluated 16 leading content management solutions on 6 axes of global enterprise support, including core CMS technology, process automation for multilingual content, translation support, and the localization of the CMS itself. Since then some suppliers have been busy rolling out new features to improve their globalization bona fides and
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Content Management Poised for Upswing in Asia?
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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March 28, 2006
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In our recent research on content management at the global enterprise level, we noticed that none of the well-known CMS software suppliers offered any Asian companies in Asia among their customers. Some gave us Asian companies in the States and the U.K. as references, while others suggested that we speak with expatriate American and English firms using
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