Blast Radius Announces New Features to Support Content Creation and Translation for Global Market
Blast Radius Announces New Features to Support Content Creation and Translation for Global Market at Lower Cost and Higher Quality
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Vancouver, BC, January 10, 2006--(T-Net)--Blast Radius announced it will include bidirectional support for XML content creation in its upcoming release of XMetaL Author and XMAX. Prior to this release, XMetaL fully supported the creation of content in Cyrillic and Asian languages, such as Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Russian. This release now incorporates the additional support of Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew.
As a result of this new capability, organizations serving audiences in those languages, such as financial services, consumer goods and electronics manufacturers, can further capitalize on their content assets by translating web and print materials at a lower cost and with higher quality and consistency. Typical XML-powered content localization projects yield enormous time savings due to better efficiencies introduced with localization systems and through parallel and componentized authoring and translation.
One such organization is a global automaker that uses XMetaL to deliver personalized owner manuals for all its passenger and commercial vehicles in over 30 languages. “We can now expand the authoring and translation memory system to provide manuals in Arabic and Hebrew," says Uwe Reissenweber, Managing Director of docufy GmbH, a Blast Radius XMetaL partner that developed the ARKI content management system for this global auto brand. "Our client not only reduced its overall translation costs but also provides the same superior customer experience drivers worldwide have been accustomed to through the high quality manuals.”
A systems integrator installing Blast Radius XMetaL added, “Government, health and financial institutions continuously strive to provide better online service coupled with high quality and consistent content in the native language of both constituents and customers. This is an important milestone that allows us to better cater to the specific needs of our markets and provide superior content management and delivery services to our customers” expressed Avi Bida, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Malam Systems Ltd., a leading IT consulting and systems integrator based in Israel.
“XMetaL has a legacy of innovation in structured content applications, including recently being the first to provide a production-quality content creation solution for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA),” said Dr. Bruce Sharpe, Vice President of Products at Blast Radius. “It was natural for us to add support for right-to-left languages and we are thrilled to include this capability in our next release.”
Pricing and availability
Organizations interested in evaluating or implementing the bidirectional support of XMetaL can now contact Blast Radius at products@blastradius.com
About Blast Radius XMetaL
Blast Radius XMetaL® is the world’s leading XML content creation and collaboration solution, advancing the goals of globally-focused, customer-driven organizations. XMetaL’s family of software and services enables your company to create, share, reuse, and deliver content more quickly and cost-effectively, across all customer channels, from sales, marketing, and customer service, to training and technical support. Visit xmetal.com to learn how leading brands such as Cisco, Daimler Chrysler, HP, Kodak, Microsoft, Philips, RIM, Southwest Airlines, Sybase, Symantec, Texas Instruments and USA Today use XMetaL to bring products and services to market faster, with greater accuracy, and at lower cost.
Contact:
Tara Murray
PAN Communications
978-474-1900
blastradius@pancomm.com
Teresa Cheung
Blast Radius
604-647-6500