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About 20 percent of survey respondents confuse TMS for Business Management Systems (BMS). What's the difference and why does it matter?

26 January 2020

Automating Business Management in Translation: The Why and the How Public

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TMS stands for Translation Management System. However, there’s no exact standard within the translation and localization industry as to what comprises a TMS. Some providers and users of these solutions are adamant that TMS is a system that has management functionality and does not necessarily have Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) features. But we call any such technology a Business Management System (BMS) since that’s what it does: it helps manage business operations.

10 December 2019

The Translation Management System Mosaic: Different Colors, Shapes and SizesExclusive for Nimdzi Partners

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We live in a world that is becoming more and more audiovisual. Audiovisual is the new universal language. We learn with videos instead of books, thanks to the proliferation of video tutorials on YouTube or e-learning platforms such as Udacity or Coursera.

3 November 2019

Subtitling for an Inclusive Society Public

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It comes as little surprise that Life Sciences is a sector firmly on the rise. While access to healthcare is democratizing across the globe, the growing needs of patients go hand in hand with technological advancements transforming the way businesses operate.

22 October 2019

Life Sciences Vertical ReportExclusive for Nimdzi Partners

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Blockchain and bitcoin have been around for more than a decade now, but most of us mortals are still struggling to understand how all this technology comes together, without even considering its implications for the language services industry. Let’s give it a try.

22 September 2019

Blockchain in the Language Services Industry Public

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From typewriters to machine translation, technology has continuously transformed language services. The future capacity of companies and individuals to win business and influence the industry depends on having a technological advantage. Locations with hubs of impactful and popular language technologies will attract better talent, create more jobs, and enjoy economic development more than others. So, […]

4 August 2019

Top Language Technology Countries Public

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Unlocalized text embedded in graphics, truncations, grammar issues… Are those relics of past mobile game localizations? Unfortunately, no. Even today, in Q3 2019, you may install a game on your smartphone that boasts of supporting more than 20 languages, and you are still not safe from localization fails. Internationalization and All That Jazz5 steps to […]

21 July 2019

Internationalization: 5 Steps to Prepare a Game for Localization Public

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USD 500 million in data services and machine intelligence work. This is what Appen, Lionbridge, Pactera, Welocalize, Alibaba LS, and other techy language service providers (LSPs) will likely generate in revenue this year. That’s close to 7 percent of revenue generated by the global Top-100 LSPs, and it’s on par with the volume they derive […]

14 July 2019

Data Services: Why They Are Not a Miracle Cure for LSP growth Public

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In a galaxy not too far away, neural machine translation (NMT) has been on everyone’s lips, lauded as the next best thing since… machine translation. While NMT has been around for a number of years now, you could argue the hype (and the expectations) surrounding it are as strong as ever. Or is it? We […]

9 July 2019

NMT: The Hype Is Dead, Long Live the HypeExclusive for Nimdzi Partners

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Throughout history, the game changer for business has always been technology. Manufacturers replaced artisans, factories took over from manufacturers, automation and telemetry made most of the repetitive manual labor obsolete. From personal computers to the Internet and mobile commerce, in the past 30 years, the world has seen the emergence of the digital economy which […]

25 June 2019

Artificial Intelligence: Localization, Winners, Losers, Heroes, Spectators, and You (Whitepaper)Public

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