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Software Localization Service: Three Considerations When Moving to Agile Localization

More and more software groups are turning to agile working as a way to speed up development and ensure they are producing the products and features their end users need most.

As a localization professional, you may be asking yourself (or maybe somebody else is asking you) if localization should be done in agile as well. It’s an important question and you should take the time to consider and weigh the options before jumping into the model, or making an informed decision to not do localization in agile (also an option).

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Six Professional Translation Lessons Learned from Conducting a Multilingual Survey

I am inspired to share a few lessons my team and I learned while we conducted our recent Social Media Survey. We offered ours in about 20 languages, and even though Lionbridge is all about translation and localization, we learned some new lessons specific to conducting multilingual surveys:

Lesson #1: Keep it simple. You’re going to translate and localize, review, check, fix, re-check, and test the survey in every language before you even launch it. You’re going to communicate, remind and be available to answer questions in every language during the survey period. Continue reading »

Global Content Management Solutions-Localization Engineering of Global Content

Throughout the many years in which I’ve been professionally involved in the field of Localization Engineering, I can’t remember how many times I’ve been asked the question, “so, what exactly is it that you do again?” Some of my closest friends have stopped trying to understand… Continue reading »

Professional Translation-13 Main Tasks of a Language Service Provider

An LSP works with you to enable the launch of your products into your target markets. An LSP has access to multiple professional resources. (Lionbridge works with nearly 22,000 qualified translators.) Only an LSP has the breadth of resources and scale to tackle a large, multi-language project. 

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Certified Translation: Five Important Things You Get from a Language Service Provider

Your company needs to translate its products, documents, or web content, and it may seem like the easiest solution is to find a bilingual person in your department to do the translations. But is that the best strategy? A bilingual co-worker typically doesn’t have the time or skills to properly translate your content. Not to mention, it will be next to impossible to find a polyglott who speaks all the different languages you may require! A typical translation project involves much more than just translation.

If you want the translated information to have a professional presentation – one that reflects the caliber of your business – you will also need desktop publishing, file engineering, and project management to coordinate all the steps. Continue reading »

Translation Localization Services: Top 10 Reasons to Centralize your Translation

You may be using several language service providers (LSPs) to handle the translation of your content. If you are, you probably already know that it takes a lot of effort to manage multiple LSPs.  As you add languages and products to your project list, it becomes more time-consuming and complicated to manage. 

But why should you centralize? What are the benefits? Doesn’t having more than one LSP provide more flexibility and better pricing?

Here are the top 10 reasons to centralize: Continue reading »