Looking Ahead...

posted 2008-02-13 08:54:31
by Andrew Thomas

Monday was an historic day for the localization industry. Two leaders in Global Information Management came together with SDL’s acquisition of Idiom. I’m excited about what the future holds. I firmly believe we will be able to transform globalization. Consider this: a single solution for the whole market place with complete compatibility across the board. Industry-standard Desktop CAT tools integrated with centralized Server TMS that is also integrated with CMS and MT. That is now possible in the very near future.

It amazes me that we live in The Communication Age, where anyone can talk to anyone else via text, audio, or video, regardless of where they are in the world. And yet we still can’t communicate if we don’t speak a common language. We may still be a few years (or decades) from anything like Star Trek’s universal translator, but businesses can’t wait for that kind of future technology to solve their globalization woes. They need solutions today.

Like it or not, faster and easier communication has brought about global competition. Whoever gets their product out first, wins. Businesses either adapt to this truth or perish, and the only real way to solve this problem is implementing true Global Information Management processes. Our combined GIM technology supports these efforts. We are the only solution provider in a position to deliver this to business today, and it will only get better with time.

This is not at the sacrifice of Idiom’s firm commitment to freedom of choice. We recognize all members in the global information lifecycle – content creators, language service providers, and translators have choices. We want to support these choices while simultaneously providing an end-to-end solution.

Gilbane gets it. However some others do not.

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