Technology Overview
The translation supply chain is a dynamic engine that integrates a myriad of workflows, technologies and people. From authoring and product development, through translation, to testing and market validation, global organizations must streamline the exchange of information across a growing number of stakeholders to achieve a higher output of global content at a faster pace and within a fixed or sometimes diminishing budget.
Welocalize’s technology stack organizes and optimizes all of the moving parts in the translation supply chain to increase efficiency and transparency at every step. Using a hub and spoke model, Welocalize leverages best-of-breed technology within an open-source framework to provide the integration and functionality needed for next-generation translation supply chain management.
GlobalSight is the central hub in the supply chain that provides a robust open-source platform for managing, translating and delivering ever increasing volumes of global content. With zero license fees, GlobalSight offers a low-risk, flexible and sustainable technology at a fraction of the cost of commercial Translation Management Systems in the market today.
CrowdSight is a “thin client”, open-source application that sits on top of GlobalSight. To support quick-turn translation of on-demand content, CrowdSight streamlines the translation process by leveraging the appropriate group of stakeholders or “crowd”. It allows clients to bypass the traditional localization cycle to generate on-demand translations that leverage the right resources within tight delivery schedules.
InSight is transforming visibility into the supply chain as an application that provides clients with the business intelligence reports necessary to improve strategic decision-making for sales, marketing and production across all target markets. InSight is a dynamic reporting dashboard that provides real-time intelligence on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to help clients map their localization spend to their business objectives.
MarketSight is an online translation marketplace designed specifically to meet the needs of Sales & Marketing departments inside multinational, multilingual companies. The application automates much of the process associated with translating sales and marketing materials. MarketSight is an enterprise, web based application which can be deployed in a simple, software as a service (SaaS) model. The on-demand project request system allows local vendor selection, project work-flow and budget to expenditure reporting. The reporting feature also includes information on program statistics and vendor comparisons.
