How to improve your ROI by Localizing and Globalizing
A winning software localization project involves a thorough understanding of the management, translation, DTP, engineering and testing components process.
Here is possible to learn about key techniques essential for the success of each step of the localization process.
o Gain a better understanding of what components to outsource to a vendor
and why.
o Explore the impact of initial project review and how this effects the success
of the project.
These are the point to evaluate:
- Gaining a new perspective on the of localization business
- Estimating the costs of expanding to new markets
- Learning key techniques in managing localization projects
- Using tools that accelerate the work and improve overall quality
- Succeeding with vendor evaluations
Whether you are a novice or experienced, you will gain new perspectives on promoting and conducting localization projects, so that they can be run efficiently and provide the highest return on investment.
For better results, you need to:
- Analyze project opportunities and ROI
- Make design and architectural changes that considerably reduce software and documentation localization costs
- Integrate and synchronize localization milestones with development milestones
- Learn about translation memory, terminology management, globalization management and other methodologies.
- Examine vendor selection process and how vendors distinguish themselves
- Review typical cost-benefits of tools and methods used in localization processes Who Will Benefit From This Article And Why?If your company expects to participate in the global economy, then it is important to you to understand how to localize products efficiently, so that you get the best possible return on investment, and enter new markets quickly.
Executives, International Directors
- Understanding the business aspects of localization and the nature of localization processes can be essential to the successful globalization of your company.
- Recognizing inefficiencies in localization processes that can become cost-prohibitive to entering new markets.
Project and Localization Managers
- Identifying tasks and milestones key to localization and synchronizing them with other processes.
- Identifying and recommending development strategies and techniques that can lower localization costs and improve time-to-market.
- Choosing the best vendor for your project.
- Working with tools that accelerate projects and improve quality.
Marketing and Product Managers
- Prioritizing international requirements on software and localization processes and communicate them to development organizations.
- Estimating the effort to localize an application.
- Identifying obstacles to globalizing applications. Reduce lost sales, provide support for multinational enterprises, and enable expansion into new markets.
Webmasters, Development and QA personnel
- Learn about processes to implement software just once for all markets, rather than supporting multiple versions.
- Learn how to reduce the software changes from third parties, and your integration headaches.
- Learn about tools that accelerate projects and improve quality.
- Working with graphics.
- Trading off early localization against ongoing development revisions.
Proper training will reduce future localization costs, improve time to market, work effectively with localization partners or help you and your staff and to insure your company be competitive in the global economy.
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