Author
Today global companies face an increasing demand for translated content. Duplicating the effort, time and money poured into the creation of the source product and materials across 40-50 language sets is not a scalable solution. Welocalize begins the localization process at the first stage of the supply chain: authoring.
Quality @ Source:
Working directly with our customer’s authors, technical writers, product development and course designers, we build in efficiencies at the source that significantly improve the localization process by eliminating duplicated work and increasing content re-usability. This includes integration with client build environments and content repositories, globalization best practices to ensure the message and structural elements of the content are prepared to be efficiently and accurately replicated, and standardized processes for the preparation of source files to ensure consistent deliverables for all products and language sets, increasing productivity downstream and decreasing costs for all markets.
Content Development & Adaptation:
Producing training, educational or instructional materials adaptable for every market is a difficult task. Welocalize helps clients author, design or develop e-learning courses that both meet global marketing requirements and increase re-usability. This includes developing content and graphics in a controlled environment that are clear, neutral and portable, reducing authoring and translation costs downstream. By creating course template libraries, Welocalize minimizes the effort to create new courses while improving overall readability and user comprehension of the source message and subsequent localized versions.
Consulting & Training:
Early during the concept and architecture phase of the project, Welocalize provides consulting that may involve face-to-face meetings with the client's marketing, product management, project management, development and quality assurance staff to evaluate system architecture, authoring strategies, global process workflow or technology and tools integration. Welocalize makes a material investment with clients to ensure efficient, expandable production processes that support successful global launches. We also conduct workshops and formal training for clients across their entire organization to share best practices for authoring, design and development that comply with client-specific, regulatory and international standards and procedures.
Translation Tools Integration:
From customization of open-source technology, to development of proprietary workflow tools, Welocalize offers the critical expertise to merge out-of-the-box technology with unique customer processes and requirements. Welocalize performs a holistic review of the client’s current IT environment and designs a technology implementation strategy tailored to the entire client supply chain. Systems such as this can be offered as standard implementations or as on-demand Software-As-A-Service (SaaS).
