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Services
The solutions
provided at Bowne Global Solutions (BGS) draw from our broad
range of globalization services, which include the following:
Localization
BGS adapts products to the needs of specific cultures and/or
locales. Our adaptation ensures compatibility, performance and
acceptance in more than 60 language markets worldwide.
Translation
BGS transforms text and documents into more than 60 languages.
Our in-country translators and network of 10,000 qualified
linguistic resources can translate information for use in local
markets.
Content
Creation and Content Management
BGS provides a full line of editorial services in all major
international markets including research, writing, editing, fact
checking and proofreading. Our skilled indexers have experience
with a variety of products including Web indexing for major
search engines. Our production teams provide the technical and
creative support necessary to ensure timely Web site updates in
one or more markets.
Technical
Writing
BGS creates product documentation for use in different language
markets, whether it is the user manual for an automobile or the
maintenance procedure for a power plant. We can also integrate
controlled authoring to create a standard terminology database
that ensures all documents conform to the standard style,
grammar and terminology when translated across languages.
Terminology
Management
BGS analyzes, identifies and transfers core product, software
and corporate terminology from ad hoc formats to a networked
database that can be easily updated, maintained and shared
throughout an organization. With Terminology Management, we can
create a standard language that helps improve a company’s time
to market, product quality and consistency, work efficiencies
and overall cost.
Web
Globalization
BGS adapts Web sites for use in specific languages, countries
and cultures. The process involves a careful review of the
current site and, where necessary, translation, modification of
images and graphics, architecture reengineering, testing and
formalization of procedures for future development.
Interpretation
BGS provides interpreters for hundreds of in-person and
over-the-phone assignments every day. We offer a full range of
interpretation services including consecutive interpretation,
simultaneous interpretation, telephonic interpretation and
interpreter training and testing. Our worldwide network of
thousands of professional interpreters are available to service
your interpretation assignments at the time and place you need
them.
Multimedia
Production
BGS adapts multimedia content to multiple language markets. The
content can include transcriptions, voice-overs, animation,
subtitling, seminars/Webinars, computer-based training, video,
etc.
Testing
BGS ensures that localized foreign market editions of products
and Web sites meet the performance standards of the target
markets. Our testing helps maintain quality standards across
product versions and geographic borders.
Internationalization
BGS conducts the prework to ensure that products in development
can be later localized or adapted to specific markets. For
example, we can internationalize software in development so that
it can later accommodate double-byte characters such as those
used in Asian languages.
Language
Quality Services (LQS)
BGS acts as a third-party consultant to verify the language
quality of translations regardless of whether the work was done
by BGS, a client or an independent vendor. Our consultants
ensure that the style and terminology used in the translation
meet the needs of the end user in the target market.
Multicultural
Brand Management
BGS adapts communications and branding so that they are
culturally relevant to the target markets and locales. We
develop style guidelines, evaluate company and product names,
audit in-country brand awareness and cultural perception,
perform cultural and linguistic analyses of marketing materials
and adapt advertising and collateral.
Cultural
Assessments
BGS researches the cultural nuances of target markets and
assesses whether products, communications and branding are
culturally relevant to the target markets and locales.
BGS
University
BGS provides customized training courses and seminars so that
our clients can increase their knowledge about
internationalization and localization. These courses introduce
concepts and skills that can be applied on the job and can
immediately reduce localization cost and improve time to market.
Consulting
BGS uses the experience of leading clients to help other
companies apply best practices to their globalization efforts,
from process redesign to vendor management consulting.
Elcano™
BGS' Elcano provides quick and easy desktop access to
high-quality, professional translation services via the
Internet. A simple four-step process provides instant price
quotes and connects you directly with our worldwide network of
qualified translators who cover 30 discrete language markets.
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