Succeeding in the Fast-Paced Digital Landscape: The Four Key Pillars of Optimizing Content Operations
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, effective content operations are essential to maintain a global brand and provide exceptional user experiences. There are four pillars of a brand’s content that are crucial to achieving success: people, processes, technologies, and centralized assets. People: Collaboration between corporate teams is essential for the success…
Multi-sourcing makes good business sense for localization services!
In today’s globalized world, it is essential for businesses to communicate with their customers in their local language to succeed. This requires localization services, which many companies rely on a single supplier to provide. While this approach may be convenient, it may not always be the best option, especially for…
Who is afraid of Business Intelligence?
The term “Business Intelligence” can sound daunting to many business leaders, with complex, expensive, and technological aspects often coming to mind. However, a BI implementation can be quick and straightforward while delivering crucial insights if approached with the right mindset. In the localization industry, BI implementations do not need to…
Why transparency in localization cost is important.
As a localization buyer, it is important to consider the true cost of various initiatives beyond standard operational KPIs, in order to assess supplier performance and gauge content strategy effectiveness. Direct costs, such as rate per word and project management, are typically analyzed, but hidden costs like the cost of…
Business intelligence meets localization
The localization industry has not had the same level of access to business intelligence (BI) as other industries due to the challenge of working with multiple systems with disparate data structures and limited analytics. However, open-source solutions co-developed by major data processing companies such as Google, Facebook, and Airbnb are…
What technology consolidation means for your localization strategy?
By all accounts, the localization industry is poised for continued growth, with economic indicators projecting it to reach US $79B by 2024. The language services sector has proven to be recession-proof, with economic activity bouncing back quickly in industries such as pharmaceuticals and manufacturing, and the accelerating pace of globalization…
Open Source – Should you use it and what to look out for
Open Source software solutions are increasingly available for a wide range of applications and systems. Despite this, many organizations are still hesitant to use Open Source broadly in their organization, instead using commercial offerings or even custom-developing solutions. However, Open Source is much better than its reputation suggests, and many…