Mark Lancaster, President and CEO of SDL International, has always had a vision for technology and how to integrate it intelligently and successfully with people and workflow. He has proven that he can achieve results and deliver on his vision, an accomplishment that few executives can claim over the span of their entire careers. Lancaster can. As SDL’s founder and as a co-founder of LISA, he continues to be a doer and a pacesetter for the industry.

As part of delivering on Lancaster’s vision, SDL recently launched its Knowledge-based Translation (KbT) System, a bold solution that integrates machine translation (MT), translation memory (TM) and workflow into one product. Many people have talked about doing this for years, but SDL is the first to deliver, to our knowledge. SDL has figured out how to combine process and technology through open standards to leverage the best of all three. The company has actively supported open standards for the language industry for several years, TMX (Translation Memory eXchange) in particular. We wanted to find out why.