Let’s start by dissecting a multi-sided service platform using WELD. Choose your own adventure here. You can choose Angie’s List, Airbnb, Rover, or whatever you like. The main thing to remember is that all of these systems provide a few key features. 1. Matchmaking 2. Payments 3. Service listings and […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Most companies don’t wake up and decide that the whole world needs their product. They are too busy trying to make the product successful in one region to think about what it will require (cost, time, money, development, marketing, etc.) to make their product successful worldwide. The impetus for global […]
MT as a walled garden Don’t get me wrong there is a lot of value in MT. And with advances in NMT there may be a point where certain types of translation reach human quality without humans. But for now human quality requires humans as translators, reviewers, post-editors, or in […]
So maybe you’ve found this mildly interesting if you are actually in a position to move a whole company’s localization processes or you’re good at imagining such opportunities into existence. But I don’t expect the opportunities I had come along often or they can be made. More likely you work […]
I begin with a Mark Twain quote because the data for localization is confusing to outsiders and it really serves to insulate the industry from scrutiny. For LSPs and MLVs it is a great way to say you pay one cost but we deliver more value than we charge you. […]
Data in WELD I use the term data rather than content since I am referring to not only content, the content lifecycle, content metadata, but also information that is essential for the enterprise operations. This is not always content-like marketing. It could be database tables, noSQL key-values, or any other […]
I break the tools into 2 categories 1. Content lifecycle tools 2. Translation management tools. I briefly touched on translation tooling in the discussion on production. The tools of localization are to speed and improve translations as well as simplify the overall localization process for the vendors, translators, and localization […]
The necessary infrastructure So if localization production is the tip of the iceberg in Whole Enterprise Localization design what is beneath the surface? I’d argue that the next most important element is the back office operations. To scale, and to continually meet the needs of an enterprise, the localization team […]