SDL Announces New Global Information Management Applications

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In a press release, published today, SDL International announced the latest releases of its enterprise GIM applications, SDL Translation Management System 2006 and SDL TeamWorks 2006.  

Delivering on SDL's roadmap, the open platform capabilities and customer-driven innovations offer customers even greater flexibility to orchestrate their global content supply chains, the company writes.

SDL GIM solutions manage content throughout the entire global information lifecycle - from authoring through content management to on-line and off-line publishing across world markets.  With over 100 installations of its enterprise software, most recently into GlaxoSmithKline, Honda, National Instruments, Siemens, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Linde, Plantronics, QUALCOMM and VWR, SDL has become the clear standard for enterprise GIM solutions.

SDL Translation Management System and SDL TeamWorks are key applications for GIM solutions, unifying the translation and localization supply chain and linking multiple vendors to provide the collaboration, control, integration and process flow required to prepare content for a global audience.

After the TRADOS takeover by SDL Inc in 2005 the company laid out plans to merge the two - previously rivalling - technologies. Combining enterprise scalability with the flexibility to precisely address customers' needs, the new releases integrate SDL and TRADOS technologies to deliver the best of both worlds. Whether working online or offline, all participants can now leverage the same standard technologies and have access to the same standards-based translation assets, such as translation memory and terminology. SDL GIM applications further protect those assets with full support for key content standards such as XML, DITA, TMX and XLIFF.

SDL Translation Management System 2006 delivers new capabilities for enterprise administration and integration, including LDAP for user authentication, enhanced Web services and richer metadata support to facilitate greater process automation.  Also included is interoperability with SDLX 2005.1, SDL TRADOS 7.1 for translation memory and SDL MultiTerm 7.1 for terminology management and enhanced standards support for processing DITA-compliant XML.

SDL TeamWorks 2006 delivers enhanced performance, scalability and usability, and adds innovative editing and review capabilities in an easy-to-use browser-based environment, as well as a new QA verification plug-in framework. Also included is simplified vendor interaction through a new browser-based vendor portal and integration with the latest SDL TRADOS 7.1 and SDL MultiTerm 7.1.

Keith Mills, President, Technology Division, SDL International, explains: "We have achieved another major milestone in our roadmap by integrating SDL and TRADOS technologies to deliver global information faster.  The new enterprise capabilities help our clients to generate increased global revenues, reduce process overheads and enhance their customers' satisfaction.  With today's announcement, we are extending our market leadership in GIM applications."

More details on SDL TMS 2006, SDL TeamWorks 2006 and Global Information Management will be presented in Web seminars during February.  To register visit  www.sdl.com/tms.

About SDL International

SDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') is a leader in the emerging market for global information management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed localization supply chain.

Global industry leaders such as Audi, Bayer, Best Western, Bosch, Canon, Deutsche Bank, Kodak, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Reuters and SAP rely on SDL to provide enterprise software or full outsourcing for their GIM processes. SDL has implemented more than 100 enterprise GIM solutions, has over 100,000 software licenses deployed across the GIM ecosystem and its global services infrastructure spans more than 50 offices in 30 countries. For more information, visit www.sdl.com.

Media contact

Fiona Ribeiro, Tel:  +44 (0)1628 410120, Email:  fribeiro@sdl.com

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