IBM

As one of the biggest and most diverse technology companies in the world IBM have pioneered many of the localisation processes that now pervade in the localisation industry. With the acquisition of SPSS in 2009 they are now also the leader in the area of predictive analytics.

A long established world leader in their field, IBM/SPSS recognise the importance of the non-English markets to their success and invest accordingly, producing ten language versions of their major products.

Having worked with Iota LS for eight years, IBM/SPSS recently migrated to a ten-language, simultaneous-ship model and now work almost exclusively with Iota LS for all of their localisation needs.

The secret to Chinese translation and indeed Documentation translation in general is in the proper application of DTP, which is short for Desk Top Publishing, and Globalization techniques. CRM Translation roughly equates to CRM Localization (or Localisation as it is known here). Going Global (or Globalization for short) is the Internationalization of German translation and Japanese translation through a L10N process. Marketing Localization or Marketing Translation is also a speciality for Moravia, simultrans and SDL, but they don’t do it well in my opinion. Saas Localization or Saas Translation is another tricky one. The services of Translation, Translation Services, Software Engineering and Software Testing are vital also, but Web Localization and Web Translation are big earners for us.
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