Content developers and translators don't need HTML expertise. Once they complete the translation-approval cycle, the software automatically generates multilingual Web pages, eliminating the need to cut and paste content onto HTML pages. It also provides a workflow system so that GEIS can define stages for routing multilingual content throughout their global organization. Ambassador is a Unix application that runs on Sun Solaris servers, using databases from either Oracle or Sybase. With the software, it takes five to seven weeks to translate and deploy each additional language.
Some companies prefer to automate the process even further.
Then it delivers that material to an Idiom translation partner, receives the translated information, delivers it to the approval person and automatically updates the Web site. And because software automates the process of transferring content to and from translators, errors are reduced. Developers don't have to incorporate materials back into the Web site, nor do translators touch the code. Like other e-commerce software from companies like Connect, Intershop, Microsoft, Netscape and Open Market, BroadVision's software includes localization services and content management tools. WorldPoint is another vendor using database-driven software to solve the translation problem.