Better Translation Value
through Better Translation Management

Whether you are new to translation management, or a seasoned professional looking to improve your knowledge of tools and processes, you will leave our customized training seminar knowing how to implement best practices for your organization.

Our Localization 101 seminar comes in half-day, full-day or two-day versions, covering the key areas you need, such as:

The Strategic Role of Localization in Your Enterprise
What Your Management Needs to Understand About Localization
The Role of Metrics in Localization

Understanding Localization Concepts and Technology
Understanding Global Audiences
Key Concepts in Content Management and Single Sourcing
ABCs of Translation Memory (including Trados®)

Implementing Effective Localization: Workflows and Processes
The Information Life Cycle: Authoring and Content Management>Localization>Publishing
Writing for Translation
Using Global English, Controlled English, and More
Basic Translation Workflow and Processes
Publishing: Print, Online, Multimedia

Optimizing Localization: Trends, Issues, and Preparing for the Future
How to Build a Business Case for Localization in Your Enterprise
Key Trends: What´s Hot and What´s Not

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The SPECTRUM™ (TCM) Audit is an assessment tool based on the well-established Capability Maturity Model developed by the Software Enterprise Institute.

Our TCM Audit surveys the "readiness" level of your organization to implement the related areas of translation and content management. Your organization will benefit from the formal benchmarking against best practices, as well as the constructive approach we take toward helping your organization grow and "mature."

The audit surveys eight key Functional Areas within your organization, revealing both strengths and weaknesses, process gaps and overlaps. In each case, the result is a road map that will guide your organization into the future.

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Prisma Online is a secure web-based tool that lets you see exactly the information you need for all your projects at any time.

You can share your key project information with:

1. Translation co-managers
2. Your in-country reviewers
3. Third-party vendors

Key POL benefits include:
Check project status. Log onto POL 24/7 to check project status for active projects or view history of previous projects.

Online Glossary via POL GLOBALTERM™ adds consistency and reduces review cycle time. You get full access to your "official" terminology via an easy online look-up. Granting POL access to your reviewers and distributors lets them also access official terminology.

View PrisMetrics™. POL captures key project data and rolls it up to higher-level management views of translation performance, called PrisMetrics®. You can view graphs of your translation spending, turn-around time, cost per-word, and other key, customized variables.

Request quote and Initiate projects. POL´s PASSPORT® is a customized wizard that guides you through project set-up, asking you all the right questions to get a quote or initiate a project. Of course, you always have the option to call your Project Manager for live assistance.

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Would you benefit from having an on-site person—part-time or full-time—to help with the following?

1. translation coordination
2. project management
3. internal account management
4. training and coaching
5. change management toward being a more global organization
6. all of the above

Prisma OnSite™ is our placement service that provides you with an on-site Prisma coordinator to help manage your documentation, localization and global communication needs.

More than a "temp," the Prisma OnSite coordinator is backed up by the entire Prisma team to support you.

Our team takes care of document trafficking, version control, project spec gathering and coordination, and communication with Prisma and other internal stakeholders.

We also help you with process improvement, managing culture change, and workflow.

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GLOBALTERM™ Online Glossary is a terminology look-up tool. Simply type in the English term and GLOBALTERM shows you the "official" translation in your selected language(s).

The result is higher quality and consistency in your terminology, better review management, improved cost and cycle time, and stronger "buy-in" and value add from in-country reviewers.

You also achieve better graphics and layout management with GLOBALTERM´s Multilingual Style Guides. This online tool sets standards in most major languages for a broad array of applications, including FrameMaker, InDesign, Microsoft Word, Quark, PageMaker, and others. Combine standard linguistic conventions with your own corporate templates and style guides in one single online view.

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Your localization management goals include reducing costs, improving cycle times, and increasing quality. We build Six Sigma-level localization metrics into our workflow. Our PrisMetricsTM measures and tracks key performance indices by language, document type, line of business, and other customized views.

The result? You receive easy-to-read, real-time performance reports online, providing you with a clear, quantifiable picture of your translation spend. Your reports can even be customized or tailored to reflect input from your in-house Six Sigma champions or other managers.

PrisMetrics™ represents the highest level of partnership possible between Prisma and a client:

1. Processes become seamless
2. Cost reductions and efficiencies become transparent
3. Benefits are immediately passed on to the project budget

As a result, our common clients—your end-users and markets—receive the best value and highest quality possible

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