This complimentary report comes at a critical moment as two prerequisites for accelerated innovation and greater interoperability, industry-wide language data sharing and open translation platforms, have become reality. This report outlines the industry's development focus in the coming years, highlighting the types of decisions companies are making, spotlighting a few case histories and predicting how events will unfold.
Amsterdam, June 30, 2008: Forty organizations active in buying and supplying translation services and technologies have jointly established a new industry association aimed at sharing parallel language data with the objective to stimulate innovation and automation of translation activities. The TAUS Data Association (TDA) will host translation memories and glossaries in all languages structured by industry domains and company indexes. TDA will give free access to its databases for the look-up of translations of terms and phrases. Members will be able to select and pool data to increase translation efficiency and improve translation quality.
The localization industry is often proud of its role as the critical facilitator for enterprises and organizations wishing to "go global". Yet it has been surprisingly slow to accept the full strategic consequences of embracing innovation. Innovation in the localization space has often been limited to incremental steps: cost reductions and service upgrades. But the innovation really needed in the industry goes much deeper. It is very hard to do, especially if the image of who our customers really are starts to blur. The urge to change goes beyond the traditional client-supplier relationship and involves a global audience of end-users, citizens, patients and tax payers.
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