While Wim Elfrink makes headlines as Cisco’s chief globalization officer and developing human capital around the globe, Brian Shorey and his team have the more mundane task of globalizing the company’s internal systems. Last week, Cisco held a vendor-palooza to which program manager Richard Faubert invited language service provider partners (and us) to learn about […]

Major high-tech suppliers like Adobe, Autodesk, Cisco, EMC, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, PTC, and Sun Microsystems have signed on to support the TAUS Data Association (TDA). TAUS, the Translation Automation User Society, launched its data sharing initiative a little more than a year ago. At the end of June, the TDA will formally incorporate in Amsterdam […]

We’re always struck by the low incidence of CAT tool purchase and usage among freelancers. Every translator should be using one, but the cost, complexity, and annual upgrade typically turn them off. Instead, most buyers of computer-aided translation tools are language service providers who lend licenses to their freelancers and subcontractors on a per-project basis. […]

The challenge with rankings like our Top 25 Translation Companies is that successful language service providers don’t stagnate — and they keep on publishing results. Fortunately for us, the news from RWS — the U.K.-based company ranked number 10 in our list — corroborates our assessments about growth in the translation business. RWS’s fiscal year […]