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This year's conference agenda is packed with 30+ education-focused sessions and pre-conference workshops.
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Here is a "sneak preview" of just a few of the 30+ sessions scheduled for WorldSummit Europe 2007:
Case Study: WorldServer Integration with Software Localization Framework at Adobe
Des Oates, Adobe Systems
Neeraj Bezalwar, Quagnito Solutions
Adobe has been using WorldServer for localizing their documentation and websites. Software localization was however still being executed using conventional procedures. Due to the long history of software development at Adobe, it had many home-grown file formats and proprietary processes.
Adobe partnered with Quagnito to develop a seamless integration of their software localization framework with WorldServer using Web Services. The challenge was to develop a universal file format specification and outsource the translation to WorldServer.
This presentation gives an insight into the integration architecture, challenges and benefits of integrating the software localization process into WorldServer.
Choosing a GMS: What Matters to Clients, What Matters to LSPs
Véronique Ozkaya, Moravia Worldwide
At Moravia, as an independent LSP using independent technologies, we get to speak with a broad range of clients about their needs and requirements for systems to manage their global content. They come from different industries, are companies of various sizes; some have existing solutions in place, while others are just starting to explore what a GMS such as WorldServer has to offer, and what the best deployment model might be.
The speaker shares her practical experience with what matters to clients today; the questions LSPs get asked; what clients expect from LSPs as regards GMS; what their concerns regarding technology are; and how LSPs can best help clients in this respect.
End-to-End Terminology Management
Chris Wong, Idiom
WorldServer 9 enhancements help you to manage your terminology through a term's lifecycle. The speaker describes the numerous terminology enhancements such as import enhancements, the new term statuses, proposal framework, business rules, workflow, user interface, stemming support and security. These enhancements allow you to track and manage your terminology as it is acquired (import enhancements, proposal framework), validated (term statuses), changed (proposal framework, business rules, workflow) and used (stemming, searching).
The Global Customer Experience: From Acquisition to Retention
Don DePalma, Common Sense Advisory
Don discusses the Global Customer Experience Model as it applies to cross-border website interactions, drawing on Common Sense Advisory surveys of consumers and assessments of websites across the planet. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of what they need to do to attract, acquire, and retain customers - and how systematic global content and translation management are essential components. This presentation draws on new research that will have just been completed before the conference.
Idiom Vision
Eric Silberstein, Idiom
Idiom founder and Chief Technology Officer Eric Silberstein looks into his crystal ball.
Panel: Evaluating and Selecting a Globalization Management System - Best Practices
Will McCallum, Emirates Group
Render Chiu, AOL
Robert McIntosh, TomTom International
Mike Nawrocki, Idiom
Moderator: Mary Laplante, Gilbane Group
This session is designed for attendees who are currently evaluating Globalization Management Systems. Learn the steps and processes that companies such as Emirates, AOL, and TomTom performed during their GMS evaluations.
Evaluating Globalization Management Systems is not an easy task. There are many different approaches and products to consider, and your choice will have a profound effect on your localization strategy. Selecting the right solution is the first step in realizing your ultimate goals of increasing your output and improving the quality of your translations, while decreasing your time to market and costs.
During this session you will hear from some of the newest Idiom customers about the decision-making processes they used to make this critical decision. Panelists will discuss some of the best practices used and mistakes that might have been avoided throughout the selection process.
WorldServer and the Translation/Review Cycle
Dima Rogozin, Idiom
In this demo session, the speaker showcases the review capabilities of WorldServer 9 by walking through the primary translation/review cycle, looking at the WorldServer though eyes of different participants (translators and reviewers). He shows how translators and reviewers collaborate and interact through WorldServer to improve the speed and quality of translations.
WorldServer SDK - Time-Saver Extraordinaire!
Apoorve Chokshi, Business Objects SA
Oh, the possibilities! In this session we showcase the vast possibilities of efficiency gains possible using the WorldServer SDK. We review our development work, including: a Servlet to export multiple projects in a batch, a Servlet to move tasks of multiple projects in a batch, scripts to sanity check the XLZ package, an Automatic Action to sift through ditamaps to create projects, and UI hooks for displaying project reference info.
We review the efficiencies gained from the automation work as well as challenges we had and how we overcame them.
WorldServer TransPort: The Business User Portal
Marina Goldberg, Idiom
In today's enterprise software world, the term "portal" often describes a unified, highly customized interface to a collection of integrated services appropriate to a given set of business users. WorldServer offers out-of-the-box portal functionality for customers and LSP partners through WorldServer TransPort, as well as build-it-yourself portal options using the SDK.
This presentation offers an overview of TransPort, a new portal that allows users to interface easily with WorldServer 9 and exposes key project and quote creation and monitoring features to business users.
