Many organizations underestimate the depth of cultural and local insight needed to execute worldclass translation and produce culturally sensitive translations in high volumes. Since translation is not their core competency, they often lack the resources, time and skill to manage all of their translation needs in an effective and consistent manner. Specialist skills and tools and a global infrastructure are required in order to create, manage and publish global information. What is needed is a trusted partner with the experience, knowledge and resources to manage translations on a global scale. The answer is SDL. Learn more: www.sdl.com/services

1. Solution Brief
SDL Language Services
Trust your global information
assets to SDL
Many organizations underestimate the depth of cultural and local insight needed to execute worldclass translation and
produce culturally sensitive translations in high volumes. Since translation is not their core competency, they often lack the
resources, time and skill to manage all of their translation needs in an effective and consistent manner. Specialist skills and
tools and a global infrastructure are required in order to create, manage and publish global information. What is needed is a
trusted partner with the experience, knowledge and resources to manage translations on a global scale. The answer is SDL.
As the world’s leading services our local office structure provides you
provider dedicated to the needs of with local, in-country contacts for Business Structure
global organizations seeking reliable, regional management and We are organized in multilingual
scalable and proven solutions to their in-country review. management divisions that work
localization and translation needs, closely with our in-country offices to
SDL continually invests in innovative Quality and Consistency form one global organization. At the
processes, technology and tools, and With over 800 linguists on staff, SDL divisional level, we operate like a
the people necessary for delivering employs more native-speaking small, highly responsive company
cost-effective and value-driven subject matter experts than any other that offers a focused account team to
services to our customers worldwide. company. This allows SDL to allocate manage your projects and provide the
We provide a global infrastructure to resources to projects in a flexible and highest level of customer service.
meet our clients’ needs rapidly and responsive manner to ensure timely At the global level, your account team
with the highest levels of quality. delivery to client requirements. will leverage the local expertise and
In addition, SDL is able to use the linguistic excellence of our in-country
same resources for each project for an offices to provide you with the
Unlike any other localization individual client, ensuring the highest highest quality translations for
company levels of quality and consistency for every project.
every project.
Technology
Global Reach Stability SDL owns and develops world-
With over 70 offices in 38 countries, With over two decades of experience leading software that streamlines the
SDL spans all major business in the localization industry, we have translation process and reduces the
markets in order to be close to your demonstrated steady and measurable costs and amount of translation
customers. This ensures that your growth, making us the lowest risk required to support global markets.
localized content and products will be localization partner. Since we are In fact, over 80% of the global
well received in local markets publicly traded on the London Stock supply chain for translation uses SDL
and will maintain your corporate Exchange, there is complete visibility tools to deliver their services.
brand. It also allows you to have into our financial operations and This gives us an advantage as a
centralized account management growth, giving you the security to translation partner because we have
with local deployment of your know that you can create a long-term firsthand knowledge and support for
projects and the ability to scale relationship and safeguard your this technology, giving you the high-
quickly and effectively. In addition, language assets. est quality output – fast.

2. Automotive intelligent Machine Translation (iMT)
“SDL is an important partner in helping us build A breakthrough in automated translation
stronger relationships with our customers. Their
solutions introduced best practices and efficiencies to Cost Efficiencies With organizations facing the increasing
our localization teams and processes – keeping costs SDL works with customers to drive pressures of high volumes of content
in check while raising our productivity and the
cost efficiencies by leveraging needing to be turned around rapidly
quality of the final communications products.”
translation memories, decreasing and at lower cost, many look for
Volkswagen
time-to-market, reducing quality automated translation solutions.
Electronics and High-tech issues and utilizing our own Machine translation alone can provide a
“Our partnership with SDL has enabled us to reduce technology to make the translation certain level of support to customers,
translation costs more than 30% and improve process more efficient, more yet quality is often an issue. For
time-to-market for our multilingual product
consistent and less expensive than companies wishing to maintain
marketing communications. It used to take 4 months high-quality content while looking for
other translation companies. We
for new product information to reach local web sites, the help of machine translation, SDL
now it’s available for publication within weeks.” consistently deliver cost savings iMT is the solution.
Philips through our extensive network of
in-country resources and also provide SDL intelligent Machine Translation™
Manufacturing our clients with low-cost solutions (SDL iMT™) provides high-quality
“We particularly appreciate the fact that SDL
in offshore Centers of Excellence for translations, accelerated time-to-market
approaches our projects from a customer
perspective and comes up with innovative solutions
desktop publishing, engineering and reduced total cost for the world’s
over and over again. This allows us to concentrate on and testing. leading brands. The power of the
our core business because we know that our solution lies in the combination of
translation projects are in safe hands.” SDL customers achieve greatly sophisticated machine translation
Bosch reduced time-to-market and far technology with other translation
automation technologies and human
greater productivity at significantly
Life Sciences post-editing to produce high-quality
“With SDL, we transformed our business. We
less cost translations.
improved the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of SDL has over 5,000 global customers
our global product information, and reinforced our including some of the world’s most
worldwide standing for quality and performance.” recognizable brands: BMC, Coca-Cola, Drive revenues in new global markets
• Build a better business case for entering
Siemens McDonald’s, Microsoft, IBM, GE and new markets
Intel. Of the world’s 50 top global • With fewer humans involved in translation,
IT and Software
“SDL translates our products into 16 Languages
brands, 42 are customers. By trusting costs are reduced up to 40% compared to
including tier 1 languages Brazilian and Spanish. your multilingual information assets traditional translation methodologies
… the feedback from the production teams has been to SDL, we will help you shorten
very positive… We have been extremely impressed time-to-market, improve your High-quality translations
with the high quality project management.”
customers’ experience and enhance • The combination of sophisticated machine
Oracle
your global brand. translation software and human linguistic
skills provides greater consistency
Finance and Legal of translations
“SDL’s leading Multilingual Content Management We are here to support you, • Combines terminology extraction,
system was deployed to maximize the return on whatever your need: translation memory, machine translation
investment. The site database manages around 1,000 and translation management technology to
template files and graphics, built dynamically.” provide high-quality output
• Document localization
Morgan Stanley • A knowledge base is updated to store
• Linguistic and functional testing human linguistic modifications to
Media and Publishing • Desktop publishing continually improve translations
“With SDL’s combination of market-leading
technologies and global services infrastructure, • Client-side project management
we will achieve shorter time-to-market, increased • Software engineering
Accelerate time-to-market
translation reuse and greater consistency in our • With translation throughput at 3 times faster
multilingual communications.” • Interpretation than traditional methods, time-to-market is
Gallup typically reduced by 50% or more
• Web publishing
• A translation management system
Gaming
• Transcreation automates the distribution of files for
“Valve has created some of the world’s most translation, working faster and more
• Linguistic quality assurance
popular and successful games—and that efficiently than humans
continued global success rests on providing consist-
• Globalization consulting • New or updated content can be recognized
ently high-quality, timely, localized versions of the as material for translation as soon as it has
• Terminology management
games. We trust SDL to manage our end-to-end been updated and automatically passed
Global Information Management process and the
• Source language optimization through the system
quality of work they do is reflected in how well our • Multimedia and media services
games are received around the world.”
• iMT
Valve
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