Translation and Localization for Global Business

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Translation and Localization

for Global Business

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Expand Your

Boundaries

For more than 22 years, ADAMS Globalization has given the world’s leading high-tech companies the power to reach out to the global marketplace. With linguistic clarity and technical accuracy, ADAMS helps you take your message and products to the world with one consistent voice. No matter how sophisticated your product is, we can convey its details and value to your new market with technical precision and cultural insight.

Adams means quality in any language

• Software Internationalization and Localization

• Software Localization Testing

• Technical Document Localization

• Website Globalization

• Content and Terminology Management

• Desktop Publishing

• Internationalization Consulting

“ADAMS demonstrates the ability to work from a detailed project spec and deliver exactly what we need. Their translated documents are top-notch.”

Technical Publications Consultant, Western Digital Technologies

www.adamsglobalization.com

One solution

for a range of

localization needs

ADAMS offers an integrated suite of internationalization and localization solutions, including software localization and testing, technical document translation, website globalization, and locale-specific desktop publishing and graphic production. With our full range of services, you get a single point of contact: one experienced, efficient project manager dedicated to delivering your project on time and within budget. Our comprehensive approach to globalization and state-of-the-art technology ensures consistent high quality and cost effectiveness.

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ADAMS Globalization helps you achieve global success by ensuring your customers have a seamless, locale-specific experience. Our comprehensive software internationalization and localization services help you achieve faster time-to-market and lower costs. Rather than creating an extra step for your development team and delaying a project deadline, we can synchronize our development efforts with yours, thereby ensuring that your general availability (GA) release is a worldwide release. Our skilled localization

development engineers and I18n specialists help you develop a single internationalized code base. Our superior testing services and state-of-the-art testing lab ensure higher product acceptance rates, lower support costs and error rates significantly below industry standards. We also offer web-based test management, defect tracking and reporting with our proprietary LT Manager. ADAMS’ localization expertise includes all major platforms and development

environments.

Application development with the proper cultural sensitivity to achieve end-user acceptance in any market

We offer the following software internationalization, localization, and testing services:

• Software Internationalization (I18n)

Adds value to your source code and leverages the benefits of a single language-neutral code base compliant with established I18n, OASIS and Unicode standards

• Software Localization (L10n), including language translation and

cultural adaptation of software text strings and user interface elements

Increases acceptance of your product in the local marketplace by ensuring your software appears to have been developed specifically for the target region

• Software Testing, through the use of a state-of-the-art lab and

native-speakers for Localization (L10n) testing

Provides functional, cultural and regional platform testing by native speakers to ensure your international customers and end-users receive the highest quality

Software Internationalization,

Localization, & Language Testing

“ADAMS Globalization has consistently provided accurate translations that have empowered our developers to internationalize our applications in a timely, cost-efficient manner.”

Senior Software Development Engineer, AMD

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Localizing technical documentation entails far more than just translation. ADAMS has a centralized team of linguistic and technical quality assurance professionals, who are subject matter experts in various fields, from software and personal computers to medical and

petrochemical. They work closely with our worldwide network of native-speaking translators to deliver the highest quality and to ensure your localized documents are clear and compelling in any language.

Highly accurate and precise technical communication in any language

• Highly experienced project managers who serve as your single point of contact

A clear line of communication, cost containment, and adherence to project schedules, in addition to personalized and attentive customer service

• Rigorously tested, native-language speaking translators who understand specific

industry verticals

Consistency, a high level of quality and immediate access to your

target audience – a person who speaks the local language and understands the industry jargon

• State-of-the-art translation technology

Reduces your translation costs by as much as 80 percent, as we build your translation memory library for a single document, an entire documentation set, or future product versions

• Concurrent multilingual translations

Simultaneous worldwide release of your product in numerous markets

• Industry- or product-specific terminology management, through the

development and adoption of localized glossaries – before translation begins

Conformance to proprietary or industry-specific standards, improving document consistency and accelerating your translation project schedule

• Customizable proprietary Quality Assurance process

Your documentation maintains consistent quality and integrity in any language

Technical Document Localization

“It was by far the worst I’ve ever experienced in terms of an unrealistic deadline. [ADAMS] handled it with much grace under fire, however. I felt very much that you were my partner in achieving this feat; I could never have done it without you.” Project Manager for a Fortune 500 Company

“The manual is among the most complete and clearly written that we have had the pleasure to read.”

PC n°1 (formerly Génération PC) praising the French translation by ADAMS of documentation for Dell Computer Corporation

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From user guides to marketing materials, print to online, ADAMS’ production department uses the latest tools and technology to provide full-service desktop publishing (DTP) solutions. Our full range of multilingual production and graphics development services allow you to take full advantage of our two decades

of international cultural expertise. With the latest versions of Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, RoboHelp and other design and DTP software, we make sure your localized documentation is consistently of the highest quality.

Top quality, culturally appropriate print and graphics for any overseas market

• Culturally sensitive layout for electronic and print media

Ensures the right marketing message and high usability standards reach your target audiences

• Graphic editing and design

Ensures your graphics maintain their impact and integrity, and are culturally appropriate for the target market

• Application help and context-sensitive help production

Delivers localized online help functionality for multiple platforms and formats

• Print-ready graphics, PostScript, and Portable Document Format (PDF) files

Enables a professional printer to easily produce the final documents

• Multiple documentation formats from a single source of translated material

Avoids the need to format or translate the same information more than once

Desktop Publishing

“With ADAMS, I do not have to spend valuable time making corrections or reformatting translated documents, which has happened with other translation service providers. ADAMS continually produces documents that are consistently formatted and accurate, ready for me to send out with confidence.”

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You’ve invested time and money to develop an effective website. ADAMS makes sure your investment pays off when you globalize by performing a comprehensive assessment to determine your website’s localization readiness. This evaluation includes all aspects of your website, from graphics and design to code and functionality to ensure your

website will look its best and function as well as your English site in all target languages. We can streamline your web globalization process to keep your global web presence constantly up to date. Our web specialists are experts in the latest web technologies, including XML, Java, Flash, ASP, web services and database integration.

The global web presence necessary for penetrating new non-English-speaking markets

• Multilingual content management

The latest tools and methodologies to ensure content changes are easily managed for all languages

• Brand identity continuity in each local target market

Be confident that your branding and marketing message are appropriate for the target audience

• Culturally sensitive design and production services

Helps overcome the technical, cultural and linguistic hurdles faced when communicating with international customers

• HTML functional testing and certification

Ensures that your multilingual website retains integrity across multiple platforms, browsers and languages; also ensures the new site works as well as your English-version website

• Live online review of published web changes

Enables you to review everything remotely, in a secure environment, before we deliver the final website files to you

Website Globalization

“We have been very pleased with ADAMS’ translation services. Quick turn around and high quality of work in localizing our website has made ADAMS our primary translation resource.”

Director, Silicon Laboratories

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Contact us today and expand your boundaries!

Your efforts to globalize your products should become an integrated part of your development process. ADAMS enables you to reuse more and more of your already localized text and code as you move through your product release cycles. Develop your products – from the beginning – with globalization in mind.

Consulting and Readiness Assessment

Our experienced team of localization and internationalization experts will guide you around the pitfalls before you begin. To help you gain the most competitive advantage, ADAMS will assess your project and provide suggestions for minimizing costs and development time, as well as for maximizing the quality of the final product.

Internationalization Training

Our I18n training helps you streamline your development processes and write more localization-friendly code. ADAMS keeps you up to date on the latest in localization technology and trends.

Internationalization Consulting

Adams Globalization’s

Internationalization training

can help you:

• Develop fully internationalized, locale-neutral source code

• Streamline multi-language development cycles

• Achieve simultaneous worldwide release

• Adhere to I18n development standards

• Prevent costly, time-consuming localization errors

• Increase your ROI

“For our technical manual translation projects, ADAMS has consistently demonstrated exacting attention to detail and on-time delivery at a very reasonable cost.”

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www.adamsglobalization.com [email protected]

800-880-0667