Globalization Insider

Tickets to Portability

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:54:15 +0000

As with every recent generation over the last few hundred years or so, ours has seen its share of technological change and advancement, along with the accompanying requirements to adapt or be left behind.

Open Source: A New Approach to Have People Listen

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:05:11 +0000

A little more than ten years have passed since the dot.com boom, so I thought it would be interesting to find out what really happened. Where did all that money go, and what good came out of it? I suppose we could call this introduction “financial forensics.”

OAXAL: What Is It and Why Should I Care?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:56:25 +0000

As we watch the ever increasing adoption of XML in the publishing domain, it becomes more obvious that certain things were missing from the original, standard perspective. As proprietary solutions quickly appeared to plug the gaps, they came with the commensurate drawbacks: a lack of openness and a lack of transparency. Fortunately, proprietary solutions are no longer the only solution in the publishing domain. Open Standards are now being applied successfully to meet the challenges.

Supporting the Multilingual Information Society

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:01:07 +0000

Terminologies are not only fundamental in every subject field, they are indispensable in every language, whose language community wants to develop the language as a tool of scientific-technical communication and to participate in the global multilingual information society.

AdaQuest Launches A New Boot Camp for Localization/Internationalization

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:58:25 +0000

Hiram Machado, CEO of new LISA Member AdaQuest, Inc., was facing a serious problem – constantly increasing demand for project managers and engineers, but no reliable way to ensure that his company could meet it. He and his team took matters into their own hands and created a new boot camp to train Localization and Internationalization Engineers. The result? The first course will begin on October 4 this year. Machado explains in the following interview what prompted him to invest and where he and his team plan to go with the course.

A Wake-up Call for Chinese Outsourcing Companies

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:02:47 +0000

Grace Chen, a former CIO and CTO for Fortune 100 companies and now a successful investor and entrepreneur in the IT sector, has some advice for Chinese outsourcing companies: if your goal is to be a first-tier, global player, then you must develop a strategy that focuses on offering enterprise integration solutions. At the same time that you train your employees to move up to this level, you must enable your executives to be visionary, rather than execution-oriented. Here’s the how and why.

To Dot or Not to Dot

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:45:46 +0000

For the approximately 100 million Turkish speakers in the world today, their “ı without a dot” is a letter in its own right – and a very common one at that – with all the privileges and responsibilities that this entails.

The Post-Idiom World: High-Tech Companies Sound Off

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:33:03 +0000

One of the highlights of the “Cisco Day” (held during the recent LISA Forum USA at the end of June) was the panel organized by Richard Faubert (Cisco Program Manager and Head of the North America Idiom WorldServer Users Group). I had the honor of moderating the panel, which focused on the current state and future of Translation Management Systems in today’s post-Idiom world. Panelists included Adobe, AOL, AppleCare, Cisco, eBay, HP, NetApp, PayPal, Sun Microsystems and Common Sense Advisory.

Target India: Finetuning the Chinese Global Delivery Model

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:16:31 +0000

China is in a race with India to dominate the offshore software development sector. As a result, China’s globalization industry, which is considered a component of this sector, is changing just as fast as the sector itself.

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LISA Forum USA 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:32:16 +0000

When was the last time you got out of the office to spend quality time with other globalization professionals? If you can’t remember, then plan to join your colleagues in Silicon Valley during the LISA Forum USA for three days of workshops and two days of networking and program content when our theme will be Building a Globally Integrated Organization: Reducing the Learning Curve. Click here to register today.

The Local Face of Sun in China

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:31:32 +0000

Sun was one of the earlier companies in Silicon Valley to really focus on globalization and to set up teams and workflow to do it professionally. In the following interview, Sin-Yaw Wang (Vice President of Sun’s Global Engineering Organization) and Melanie Gao (Senior Manager in charge of Sun’s Asia Globalization Center in Beijing) share how Sun has integrated China into its globalization strategy. Wang explains his role as a U.S.-style “Dorm Director” for the China Team and his strategy for evangelizing open source in China. Gao shares the challenges she has encountered in building the team that localizes Sun’s software products into Simplified and Traditional Chinese and Korean and how her people are becoming the local face of Sun in China.