January 2014
Using Localization Consultants
26/01/14 21:51 Archived in: E-zine
By Peter Kjeldsen,
There are many ways to use a consultant, but the main thing to keep in mind is that the consultant is there to help their client achieve a certain result. As an expert, there are many things the consultant can help the client with, however, the client must understand that it is only possible to benefit from expert advice if you act on it. Additionally, you have to be honest with yourself and the consultant in order for the relationship to work.
Using a localisation consultant can, in many instances, keep down the cost of your localisation projects. Let’s say you’re working for a software company who needs to localise one of their projects, and you have noticed that you get very different quotations from the localisation companies you have asked to quote. Some people would say; go with the least expensive solution, others would instantly rule out the least expensive solution in favour of a more expensive solution simply because they will be suspicious about the cheap solution.
No matter what you think, or the sales people tell you, the price difference is more than likely caused by you not controlling the quotation process properly. Read More...
There are many ways to use a consultant, but the main thing to keep in mind is that the consultant is there to help their client achieve a certain result. As an expert, there are many things the consultant can help the client with, however, the client must understand that it is only possible to benefit from expert advice if you act on it. Additionally, you have to be honest with yourself and the consultant in order for the relationship to work.
Using a localisation consultant can, in many instances, keep down the cost of your localisation projects. Let’s say you’re working for a software company who needs to localise one of their projects, and you have noticed that you get very different quotations from the localisation companies you have asked to quote. Some people would say; go with the least expensive solution, others would instantly rule out the least expensive solution in favour of a more expensive solution simply because they will be suspicious about the cheap solution.
No matter what you think, or the sales people tell you, the price difference is more than likely caused by you not controlling the quotation process properly. Read More...
Protect Your Investment in TM Technology
26/01/14 17:05 Archived in: E-zine
By Peter Kjeldsen,
Like in any other industry or business, it is of vital importance to protect your investments. With constant technology and tool changes you cannot expect to keep working with the same tool for the next 20 years. It is therefore important that you become somewhat independent of your various tools.
At the moment let’s say your company is using a TM tool. You invested a few years ago and bought 5 licences, you are now limited to using that tool and can only expand in that particular direction. If you want to change TM, the only way out of your dilemma is to buy an alignment tool for the new tool you are going to use and start aligning all your previous work and build a new TM database. But what happens if you've lost/deleted the original source language documents? Well, that question is very easy to answer - you can start building your new TM database from scratch. And I'm sure all your projected savings are gone with the wind, before your next pay review. Read More...
Like in any other industry or business, it is of vital importance to protect your investments. With constant technology and tool changes you cannot expect to keep working with the same tool for the next 20 years. It is therefore important that you become somewhat independent of your various tools.
At the moment let’s say your company is using a TM tool. You invested a few years ago and bought 5 licences, you are now limited to using that tool and can only expand in that particular direction. If you want to change TM, the only way out of your dilemma is to buy an alignment tool for the new tool you are going to use and start aligning all your previous work and build a new TM database. But what happens if you've lost/deleted the original source language documents? Well, that question is very easy to answer - you can start building your new TM database from scratch. And I'm sure all your projected savings are gone with the wind, before your next pay review. Read More...