From Data Woes to Data Flows

Derek Coffey WelocalizeTomasz Mróz XTRF

How many tickles does it take to make an

octopus laugh?

How many tickles does it take to make an

octopus laugh?

Ten Tickles.

Drive out waste.

What are our Data Woes?

Every LSP manages two sets of Data -

Every LSP manages two sets of Data:

- The Translatable content

Translatable content - Version 1

Translatable content - Version 2

How we measure how busy we are

How we need to measure how busy we are:

How many individual projects do we create?

How many unique activities or tasks do we track with our supply chain?

Every LSP manages two sets of Data:

- The Translatable content

-The Project Management & Accounting content

PM and accounting data - The Excel era

PM and accounting data – The ‘Access is now part of office’ years

PM and accounting data – Web App’s

PM and accounting data – Client needs a portal

TMS Connectors

So surely a vendor portal fixes the

issues?

Vendor web services

Diversity in our Supply chain -

Use Excel & Outlook….

Use a Proprietary system

Use XTRF or Plunet

Use another licensed product

Planning to implement a licensed solution

Don’t need to access the vendor portal.

Significantly reduces our Supply Chain PM overhead.

Can see new tasks as they are created by our PM’s.

Queries they create in their system appear in ours.

We are sharing a single set of data – accuracy.

Vendor web services

Supply Chain proprietary systems

WHAT IS XTRF ?

• It is a web-based platform, that supports management of translation and localization projects and the full scope of business processes related to those projects. This means handling files, preparing and delivering documents, e-mails and information.

• XTRF enables management of Customers’ and Vendors’ database, Invoices, Sales and Business KPIs.

• A system which helps companies to substantially reduce the costs and to improve overall efficiency by accelerating and automating business processes.

OBJECTIVES OF XTRF & FALCON INTEGRATION

• Quick response time to the proposed jobs requested by Welocalize

• Minimizing the individual project costs. No manual retyping information

• Quick delivery of great numbers of projects

• Savings and better service provided

WORKING WITH FALCON WITHOUT INTEGRATION

1. Login to Falcon (couple times per day)

2. Checking new tasks

3. For each new Falcon task – new record in your system (quote or project)

4. Retyping, retyping, retyping…

5. Checking resources, starting new project,

6. Accepting the quote/Starting the project – in both systems.

7. Login to Falcon (on Project delivery)

WORKING WITH FALCON WITH INTEGRATION

1. Automatically created quotes with all Instructions & calculations

2. Falcon updated on Project closing.

3. … no login into Falcon

4. … no retyping

Demo

Contact

Derek Coffeywww.welocalize.comDerek.Coffey@welocalize.com