Localization Services

The use of multi-lingual software has become a standard requirement in doing business today. Companies rely on software to communicate world-wide. To be most effective, software must support the end-user's local language and local culture. This is why localized software has become a necessity for all businesses wishing to expand to overseas markets.

Companies realize that global markets are a must in order to expand their software distribution. But to penetrate an overseas market, the software must be localized to a country's language and culture before it can be marketed successfully in the targeted country.

Given the large capital software vendors already invest in developing a product successfully for the U.S. market, many companies have concluded that their product is too valuable to be left un-localized and underutilized. Localizing existing products is the only way to capitalize on the existing product investment while still expanding market share. Skandis Systems provides this entry into the global market by providing clients efficient and cost-effective global solutions.

Defining the Problem

The lack of an effective localization strategy leads to the use of inappropriate coding techniques in many organizations. Businesses have engineers dedicated to application development, but these engineers may not always incorporate international coding conventions. Each target country has its own language and cultural issues requiring specific skills and knowledge not necessarily required for engineers proficient in an English-only environment.

Skandis Systems can provide these special skills and comprehensive knowledge to assist your development, QA and documentation staff to successfully localize your products. Our solutions are cost-effective and efficient, making outsourcing a viable alternative to an inhouse solution, while at the same time, allowing the client's own inhouse team to concentrate on new product development.

Solving the Problem

Skandis Systems SoftGlobalization & WebGlobalization are designed to enable companies make the most of their existing application development strategy. Skandis Systems integrates localization techniques into each customer's own development, QA and documentation infrastructures.

	Support complex, heterogeneous applications: Skandis Systems SoftGlobalization^® & WebGlobalization^® tools and services are designed to work with several languages, including C/C++/C#, Java, JavaScript, VisualBasic, VBScript, and HTML in multi-platform, heterogeneous environments including including Windows, Unix, Linux, desktop, mobile and embedded platforms. SoftGlobalization^®'s tracking facility provides our engineers with version control of issues and fixes, enabling members to track implementation throughout the engagement.
	Quick Identification: Skandis Systems tools allow our engineers to analyze the existing application and quickly identify localization issues in the code. SoftGlobalization^®'s powerful recognition and search capabilities enable Skandis Systems to track and detail documentation issues for later localization during implementation. Based on these preliminary evaluations, project leaders can assess the application for a targeted language. This assessment forms the preliminary design specification which is provided to the customer, along with a project schedule and implementation estimate.
	Support standard file formats & tools: Skandis Systems' linguists and engineers are multi-lingual and are skilled in Web development and QA as well as a variety of translation tools, including Trados and SDL. We offer localization of these digital formats: ASCII Text, HTML, RTF, Microsoft Word^®, PowerPoint^®, Excel^®, Adobe FrameMaker^®, PhotoShop^® PDF, TIFF, EPS/DCS, JPEG, GIF, PICT, BMP, WMF, Microsoft Help & resource files, Unix message catalogs as well as database content.
	Support European and Asian languages: Skandis Systems offers localization services, including translation, into all European, South American and Asian languages.
	Multi-lingual Quality Assurance: Application-specific testplans should test for functionality, stability, consistency and, to be certified under a specific platform, for compliance. Our experience in Windows, Linux, Unix, mobile and embedded platforms is leveraged to efficiently and cost-effectively develop multi-lingual compliance testplans specific to a client's application requirements.
	Integration of product and documentation: By providing a single point for the localization effort, Skandis Systems ensures consistency throughout the product and documentation. Translators and engineers collaborate on product and documentation glossaries to ensure wording and depiction are consistent throughout all products and documentation.
	Secured and Confidential Access: Skandis Systems protects customers' valuable software from unauthorized use or modification. Client's non-disclosure agreements are executed prior to any file transfers or analysis. Together with Skandis Systems' security procedures and secure environment, including our high-speed, secure VPN, clients are assured of the confidentiality we place on each engagement.
	Adaptability to an organization's practices: Skandis Systems works within the customer's development framework, minimizing the effect localization has on development, QA and documentation. Skandis Systems' technical transfer further ensures the client's inhouse team can continue to maintain the product after localization.

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