Alchemy CATALYST helps organizations localize faster for international markets

Alchemy CATALYST 9.0’s new breakthrough desktop translation memory maximizes translation reuse and shortens project cycles

Dublin, Ireland – October 25th 2010: Alchemy Software Development Limited, the world leader in visual localization solutions, today announced the release of Alchemy CATALYST 9.0, the newest generation of the world’s most popular visual localization technology.

Alchemy CATALYST 9.0 supports all aspects of the localization workflow, from translation, engineering, testing and project management. Using Alchemy CATALYST 9.0 you can enjoy:

• Huge Localization Costs Savings: Using Alchemy’s ezMatch™ Translation Memory technology, ensures that you never translate a sentence twice and it can be re-used several times. This improves productivity and results in significant translation savings. Additionally, since ezMatch™ technology also re-uses layout information, you also enjoy significant productivity gains in localization engineering and testing. Savings of 50-60% are possible depending on the quality of your translation memories.
  
  
• Higher Quality Translation: Alchemy CATALYST hides the complexity of underlying technology and file formats, presenting text for translation in highly visual and contextually rich editing environments. This enables the translator focus on the accuracy and precision of their translations, helping organizations improve the quality of their software applications and improving their corporate brand image.
  
  
• Rapid Return On Investment: Organizations that have deployed Alchemy CATALYST within their localization workflow have enjoyed savings on direct translation costs combined with productivity gains in engineering and testing. Coupled with faster release times to international markets, these benefits make a rapid return on investment a certainty. In a typical deployment, a return on investment can be achieved in three to six months or shorter.

“In today’s challenging economic climate, our clients require solutions that lower overall costs, reduce time-to-market and improve quality.” said Tony O’Dowd, CEO Alchemy Software Development, ” The Alchemy Scheduler meets this requirement head-on. It’s one of the new innovations that helps Project Managers use workflows to automate many of their daily tasks in preparing, analyzing and pretranslating projects. Combine this with our new groundbreaking Alchemy desktop TM, Project Managers can now increase their productivity by working on several projects simultaneously.”

“Alchemy CATALYST 9.0 is especially powerful on Microsoft .NET and WPF applications”, said Enda McDonnell, Chief Architect Alchemy Software Development, “Using our technological advanced display and rendering engine for .NET applications, we can now achieve higher more visual display of Microsoft WPF applications too. This simplifies the localization, engineering and testing of these complex web based applications.”
For more information on Alchemy CATALYST 9.0, please refer to http://www.alchemysoftware.ie

Alchemy Software Development is a division of Translations.com, the worlds largest privately owned localization service provider and market leader in legal, medical and web-based translations services.

• NEW Alchemy Desktop TM: This is ground breaking translation memory technology with a host of new time-saving features such as context matching, super–fast concordance searching.
• Enhanced PerfectMatch™ Translations: Reach new levels of precision with automated recognition of context for segments stored in your TM.
• NEW Scheduler: Create automated workflows with the innovative Scheduler. This allows you to work across several languages simultaneously improving productivity and efficiency.
• NEW Translation Re-cycle: Take precision to a higher level! With Translation Re-cycling, your most recent translations are propagated throughout your current project and presented as translation suggestions in the Translator Toolbar. This improves consistency within the files currently being translated.
• NEW Performance Accelerators: Use the new accelerator feature and extend the power of the Translator Toolbar by adding web services. Simple to configure, yet powerful to use!
• NEW Multilingual Experts: Add increased velocity to your localization process! All Alchemy Experts now work with the Alchemy Scheduler making it easy to work with several languages simultaneously. A real productivity booster for Project Managers and Engineers!
• NEW Embedded Systems: A new Size property has been added to the meta-data for each segment. This property can define segment size limitations and font information, based on characters or pixel values. This makes it ideal for translating mobile phones applications, embedded system software or even in-car display units.
• NEW Alchemy SDK 9.0: Use the Software Development Kit to extend the features of Alchemy CATALYST and fine-tune it for your localization process. Include FREE with the Developer/PRO edition, it brings a whole new dimension to the word ‘customizable’.
• NEW Swap Language: Create new source languages for your translation projects using this new feature. It takes your target language and converts it to the source language in a Project TTK. This can then be used as a new source for subsequent translations. Simple, yet powerful!
• NEW Quick Info: Ever want to know the wordcount or translation analysis of a Project TTK in File Explorer. Now you can, just hover over it with the mouse and it will reveal all!
• ENHANCED ezType™ Technology: ezType is predictive text tailored for the professional translator. It now intelligently scans your TM, Glossary and Machine Translated material to present the best possible candidates for predictive typing. An essential feature for improving productivity and accuracy!
• NEW Analysis Expert: Analyze the number of segment matches, count unique and repetition words and determine how many fuzzy matches can be re-used. The Analysis Expert works with all industry standard TMs (.TM, .TTK, .PPF, Alchemy Language Exchange, TRADOS TMW, SDL TM Server, TMX, TXML, XLIFF, TXT) to determine how you can maximize the re-use of previous translations and reduce your cost of translation further!
• NEW Clean Up Expert: Consolidate multiple Project TTKs into a single, highly portable desktop or server-based TM using the Clean Up Expert. Now you can have a single TM containing all your translations for your projects! How’s that for a neat trick!
• NEW Support for new file formats: A whole range of new file formats have been added to address the growing need of our clients who regularly work with a growing and diverse range of formats. New formats now support are: Drivers (.sys), Control Panel Apps (.cpl), ActiveX (.ocx), Multilingual Language Packs (.mui), Codec files (.acm, .ax), Screen Savers (.scr), Borland Library Files (.dpl, .bpl) and ZIP archives (.zip)
• ENHANCED The Complete Microsoft .NET Solution: Localize all variants of Microsoft .NET technologies within a single, highly visual environment. Supporting all versions of the Microsoft .NET framework, we’ve got you covered!
• NEW Visual Editor for Microsoft WPF: Our WPF Translation Editor now supports the display of standard and custom widgets using a ground-breaking visual technology to provide highly realistic rendering of even the most complex of web based WPF applications.
• NEW Comprehensive Online Help Solution: With support for the new Microsoft Help 3.0 standard, now almost every online help system can be localized, tested and engineered within Alchemy CATALYST. And, as we promised, it’s all done within WYSIWYG editors!
• NEW Productivity Enhancements: Alchemy CATALYST 9.0 sees major changes in the user interface which drives more productivity for translators, engineers and testers. As an example, engineers can now visual navigate the contents of a project using thumbnail images; translators can quickly determine how consistent their translations are; translators can now use ezType to accelerate the selection and translation of source documents. Less engineering and testing is now required for content files since these are all now worked-on in true-visual editors.
• NEW Machine Translation: Experience the power of 2! Combine the accuracy of TM with the flexibility and speed of Machine Translation, all in a single highly interactive project environment. Connectors available FREE with the product are Google Translate and PROMT.
• NEW Complete open standards support: Increased compatibility, no matter what the format, including XLIFF, TBX, XML, TMX, TXML and all TRADOS desktop and server based TM technologies.