21st Oct 2005 07:01
SDL PLC21 October 2005 SDL Shares Road to Global Information Management New products accelerate global content delivery Maidenhead, UK - 21st October 2005 - SDL International, a leader in the emergingmarket for global information management (GIM) solutions, today announced itsroadmap for combining the best of Trados and SDL technologies following the $60macquisition of Trados, Inc in July. Organizations struggle to optimize the complex, fragmented processes involved inmanaging global information. With today's announcements, SDL is enablingorganizations to standardize these business processes and easily shareinformation assets across the GIM ecosystem of corporations, language serviceproviders and freelancers. Before year end, SDL will release new, compatibleversions of SDLXTM, SDL TradosTM, SDL MultiTermTM, SDL TeamWorksTM and SDLTranslation Management SystemTM. All releases will support backwardscompatibility and will be provided as free of charge upgrades*. In 2006, SDLwill continue to roll out product enhancements that integrate the best of Tradosand SDL technologies, including updating SDL AuthorAssistantTM and SDL KbTSystemTM for accessing Trados translation assets. These announcements reinforce SDL's commitment to its customers and to itsbusiness partners in the GIM ecosystem. The new product releases leverage keyfunctional components from across the existing Trados and SDL products whilebuilding a new platform for product innovation. Migration from existing productswill be supported with SDL continuing to lead the industry in support ofindustry standards. "SDL is investing $10m per year in the technologies and business applicationsneeded to meet the GIM needs of global enterprises," commented Keith Mills,President Technology Division at SDL. "With the increased standardization andenhanced capabilities announced today, customers can optimize their processesacross the whole GIM supply chain to accelerate global content delivery." For translation memory, the new versions of SDLX 2005 and Trados 7 will sharekey functionality such as automated QA checks, segment commenting, import/exportfilters and SDL MultiTerm terminology integration. These releases will alsoallow for more efficient information exchange using SDL ITD, Trados TTX andindustry-standard TMX formats. SDL will be integrating SDL and Tradostechnologies to create a new single platform, SDL Trados, designed to movebeyond the boundaries of today's translation memory technologies. SDL MultiTerm will be the platform for all terminology management and the newrelease will benefit from full Unicode support, integration with translationmemory products and translation management products and a new web-based userinterface. Experience from SDL TermBase Online will be built into the new SDLMultiTerm platform. Knowledge gained from Trados GXT, Trados TeamWorks and SDL TranslationManagement System will be built into a new best-of-breed translation managementplatform. This will benefit from an enhanced API that provides access to GIMservices for easy integration into other enterprise applications. The newreleases of SDL TeamWorks and SDL Translation Management System before year endbegin this process, with SDL MultiTerm integration, LDAP support and many othernew capabilities. "We are seeing the market start to transition from the 100,000 SDL/Tradosdesktop installations of translation memory and terminology towards GIMsolutions," added Terry Lawlor, Vice President Worldwide Marketing at SDL. "Weare now deploying more than ten enterprise installations every month, withforward thinking companies in the GIM ecosystem, such as euroscript andInterSol, leveraging SDL technologies to also offer enterprise GIM solutions." About SDL InternationalSDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') is a leader in the emergingmarket for global information management (GIM) solutions that empowerorganizations to accelerate the delivery of high quality multilingual content toglobal markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existingbusiness systems to manage global information from authoring to publication andthroughout the distributed localization supply chain. Global industry leaders such as Audi, Bayer, Best Western, Bosch, Canon,Deutsche Bank, Kodak, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Reuters and SAP rely on SDL toprovide enterprise software or full outsourcing for their GIM processes. SDL hasimplemented more than 100 enterprise GIM solutions, has over 100,000 softwarelicenses deployed across the GIM ecosystem and its global servicesinfrastructure spans more than 50 offices in 30 countries. For more information,visit www.sdl.com. For information on SDL, please contact: Fiona CamdenTel: +44 (0)1628 410120Email: [email protected] * Free of charge upgrades are only available for customers who have alreadypurchased the latest version of the product and who have a current supportcontract, where applicable. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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