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Global Content Creation Report
Overview
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Managing content is rapidly becoming one of the priorities of businesses throughout the world, but to this point very little information has been available on factors and trends in the creation of global content (especially multilingual content) and its management. LISA, in close association with SAP and LISA's OSCAR SIG as well as tools developers, has developed the first industry survey to specifically examine global content creation and management. The survey addresses widely-held expectations about the direction the field is taking, and provides new insight into the present and future states of global content creation.
Objective
The Survey's objective was to address both the authoring and localization processes and obtain an inclusive analysis of workflows, dependencies and trends for these two of the costliest components of the overall process, and provide facts that can be used by international products departments to plan activities and develop budgets.
Methodology
The survey was conducted on-line at the LISA website in September and October 2002. Respondents were asked to answer 40 questions about their companies, their international activities, and their use of key technologies and standards in creation and maintenance of global content. Companies of all sizes were invited to participate and over 150 companies responded.
Respondents
Some of the respondent companies include - Apropos Technology Inc. - Argos Company Ltd. - Avaya Inc. - Bantam Software - Bowne Global Solutions - Broekhuis Training BV - Celer Pawlowsky SL - Cerner Corporation - Church of Latter-Day Saints - Cisco Systems, Inc. - CLS Corporate Language Services AG - Creo Inc. - DCW Software - DOG Dokumentation ohne Grenzen GmbH - Eastman Kodak Company - eBay, Inc. - Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper Interaction - FileNET - Forbes Miel, Incorporated - Foreign Ink Ltd. - GAMAX - Geac Enterprise Solutions - Green Management & Contracting Corp. - Hewlett-Packard - Human Science - Hummingbird Ltd - IBM - Information Builders, Inc - Interverbum - Iomega Corporation - ISOGEN International - Lexi-tech International - Logitech Europe SA - Logos Group - Logrus International - Medtronic - Meta Language Engineering - Middle East Services Group - Molex - Moody's KMV - Océ Technologies - OpenTech Inc. - Oracle Corporation - PalmSource, Inc. - Peace Software - PerkinElmer Life Sciences - Pixelpark CEE Holding AG - Plumtree Software - PMG Group Holding BV - PTSGI - Rational Software - Real Idea Limited - Redaktionsbüro DAS TEAM - Rockwell Automation - SAP AG - SchlumbergerSema - Schuler Technodat GmbH - SDL International - SIAC - Siebel Systems - Siemens SprachenDienst - Singer Translations - SJTU Sunway Software Co.,Ltd - STAR-USA, LLC - Stellent, Inc. - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - SysKon GmbH - Tektronix Inc. - Government of Canada Translation Bureau - Thermo LabSystems - Timberline Software Corporation - Unisys Corporation - WH&P - Worksoft Creative Software Technology Ltd. - WRQ - Xerox Corporation
Key Findings
- What is the relationship between an organization's international sales revenue and their product/global support budget?
- How pervasive are XML-based and other open standards such as SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, VML, DocBook, WAI, SVG, OLIF, TMX, TBX, XBRL, EDI, ebXML and others used?
- How smoothly do companies make the transition between content authoring and content localization?
- How are companies using the Web to deliver content to their customers and partners?
- What are the usage-trends among companies deploying Content Management Systems, and language technology and authoring tools?
- And much more....
Who Will Benefit from this Report?
The report will prove to be of value to professionals and organizations currently creating global content, or planning on implementing global content creation processes. It will give them a chance to understand what works and what doesn't, what people are finding the most valuable, and what direction the global content creation field is headed. The survey provides the most up-to-date and focused overview of Content Creation with a GILT focus available and sets the standard for information in this area.
License and Purchasing Options
This publication is available free of charge to Corporate and Sponsor members of LISA. LISA's Introductory and Individual/Non-Profit members may purchase this publication for a discount.
A Business Unit License allows unlimited copying and distribution within a single business unit. An Organization License allows the same rights within all business units of an organization.
LISA Corporate and Sponsor: download
The survey and the proceeds collected will be used to:
- Sponsor OSCAR activities
- Feature standards sessions and education programs at LISA events
- Help LISA organize similar projects in collaboration with other standards organizations
