Localization Process and Methodology

Localization MethodologyIt is necessary to establish a localization methodology when creating international products, a strategy forged and followed in the partnership between SolidWorks Corp., a leading provider of mechanical CAD software tools on the Windows platforms, and GlobalVision International, Inc., a specialist in software localization and translation services.

Why should one establish a localization process?
As software companies focus on their core competencies, they steadily become more receptive to the idea of outsourcing non-salient requirements to partners and vendors. With time-to-market pressures increasing, one area of obvious consideration is the outsourcing of some or all of the software localization and translation activities.

Software localization vendors create and maintain voluminous glossary databases … Read More


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GlobalVision International Augments its Top-Down Localization Process

Enabling GlobalizationGlobalVision International, Inc. has augmented the depth of its Top-Down localization process with sizable investments in Trados Translation Workbench, CatalystTM , HelpQA, WebWorks® Publisher, and VB Language Manager products, coupled with many months of internal development efforts to bridge the tools to form a complete and coherent localization solution.

The newly updated process leverages the latest off-the-shelf tools and integrates them to form a comprehensive methodology to deal with alignment, leveraging, translation reuse, glossary creation and management, while maintaining consistency and boosting efficiency. “We have integrated the best-of-breed tools in Translation Memory, resource file parsers, WYSIWYG dialog editors, glossary management, search engines, converters, processors and HTML generators, to create a … Read More


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GlobalVision International Announces Opening Offices in Eastern Europe

GlobalVision International, Inc. officially announced today the beginning of its operations in Eastern Europe, with the forming of a fully owned division in Bulgaria.

“Owning overseas production centers is a necessity in today’s global economy. They provide access to highly skilled talents at very competitive labor rates and enable international presence that is essential for the localization industry”, said Nabil Freij, President of GlobalVision International. “Our U.S. based customers continue to demand timely, cost-effective services, and we will continue to expand our overseas production centers to deliver.”

The newly formed production center will deliver engineering, QA, desk-top publishing, internationalization (double-byte, UNICODE and bi-directional enabling), as well as translation services to … Read More


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French, German, and Japanese Translation expertise

GlobalVision InternationalGlobalVision International, Inc. today announced that it partnered with Moldflow Corporation for the release of Moldflow’s Part Adviser 3.0 in French, German, and Japanese.

“Moldflow wanted full control over the timeliness and the quality of the international release of its Part Adviser product”, said Nabil Freij, president of GlobalVision International. “Our integrated localization process and expertise in CAD/CAM/CAE allow us to provide Moldflow with the quality they seek without impacting their release schedules.”

“We are constantly striving to provide the best CAE tools to the worldwide injection molded plastics industry,” said Peter Rucinski, Product Line Manager for Moldflow Corporation. “The release of Part Adviser 3.0 in local … Read More


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SolidWorks Corporation partners with GlobalVision International, Inc.

GlobalVision International, Inc. today announced that its partnership with SolidWorks Corporation allowed the release of SolidWorks 98 solid modeling software to be released in six languages simultaneously. In addition to English, SolidWorks 98 is fully localized in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

“Two key criteria to the success of the simultaneous release was the partnership and the process that we put in place between both of our companies”, said Nabil Freij, president of GlobalVision International. “Our elaborate localization methodology, coupled with SolidWorks’ intimate knowledge of the CAD industry, allowed us to leverage translation and terminology to shrink the project schedule from months to weeks.”

“Many … Read More


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GlobalVision International Announces GlobalVision Japan

Japanese FlagHudson, MA, April 17, 1998 – GlobalVision International, Inc. officially announced today the beginning of its operations in Japan, with the forming of GlobalVision Japan in Yokohama, Japan.

“Japanese has quickly become a cornerstone in the localization business due to the large Japanese market and the end-users’ hunger for Internet pages and software applications in their native tongue”, said Nabil Freij, President of GlobalVision International. “Our U.S. based customers continue to demand timely Japanese localization services and welcome our new addition with open arms.”

“We hit the road running” said Chie Sasaki, General Manager of GlobalVision Japan. “Since the first day we started looking into opening GlobalVision in Japan, we … Read More


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Sneak Preview Software Localization: Top-Down Implementation

Global SofwareWith low overhead and small startup costs, software companies are mushrooming everywhere to provide thousands of applications to niche markets. Once successful at home, they quickly move to expand globally to gain market share and increase revenues.

Young successful companies typically insist on focusing on technology leadership. This is what makes them successful in the first place. As they venture into international markets, many experience for the first time, global nuances that require special attention. The need to localize their software rarely made it into product requirement specs before a major customer, in an foreign market, demands it…
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Software Developer and Publisher, … Read More


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The Toubon Law

Are You Selling Your Products In France?
Are Your Products Localized?
Is Your Marketing Material Localized?
The Law Requires It!

The Toubon Law

The law of August 4, 1994 relating to the French language usage replaces the law of December 31st, 1975, by extending its field of application and reinforcing its provisions.

… This text … imposes the compulsory, but non exclusive, usage of the French language in specific fields in order to guarantee to the citizens the right to use their language on certain occasions in everyday life.

Applies to:

All documents used to inform the user or the consumer: labeling, leaflets, catalogues, brochures, and other briefing documents, …, … Read More


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