Welcome to Lingoport's August 2012 WorldReady Newsletter

In this Issue

Top-Five i18n Considerations Webinar

Lingoport Dashboard: Visual data you can act upon

Globalyzer 4.1 Released

Question of the Month: Agile & i18n

Featured White Paper

Stay in Touch

Quick Links

Lingoport Resource Center Globalyzer Video Tutorial

About Lingoport

Hi Friend of Lingoport,

Here in Colorado, the kids are starting school in only two

weeks! That never seems fair, but I digress. Rumor has

it that people are taking vacations and work doesn’t

move along as fast in the summer, especially August.

It’s just a rumor. We’ve seen very heavy software

globalization activity among our clients and prospective

customers. That said, there is always new intensity that

happens in September. To help you prepare for that

rush, we are presenting a Top-Five Tips for

Internationalization Planning webinar on Wednesday,

August 22nd. We’ve seen that getting planning aspects

together can supersede technical details in terms of

successful project outcomes. I hope you can join us for

this 30-minute webinar.

On the product front, back in June we released Lingoport

Dashboard, a new product to help development teams

and management monitor internationalization code-

readiness and issues. Cisco’s internationalization expert

Gary Lefman joined us as a guest-presenter for two

Dashboard webinars. I recommend you watch the replay

of at least one of these webinars if you missed the live

sessions.

In July we announced the release of Globalyzer 4.1 and

you may also review a short webinar summarizing new

features here, and read about it here.

Development continues on a new product that provides

many time and engineering savings for string resource

management from release to release. You’ll be hearing

more about that in September, but it is a great

complement to Globalyzer and will make life a lot easier

for localization engineering on an ongoing basis.

Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Adam

Top-Five Considerations to Make When Internationalizing Software

In this fast-paced 30-minute webinar, Adam Asnes will present the top-five

considerations to make when internationalizing software to ensure that a project

end successfully

Join Adam on Wednesday, August 22nd at 11am PDT and learn how to go beyond

basic string externalization. There vital pieces to i18n puzzle, including budget,

expertise, test protocols and source quality that have to fit together to successfully

prepare an application for localization.

Registration for this webinar is available here

Lingoport Dashboard: Visual data you can act upon

In June, Lingoport released a valuable addition to its suite of products to help

companies ensure global readiness by visually tracking i18n issues within the code,

identifying which pieces of code need work and measure progress over time. A brief demo of Lingoport Dashboard is available below.

Recently, Lingoport held a webinar series highlighting the features of the newly

released Lingoport Dashboard. As part of a two-part series, Lingoport was pleased

to welcome Gary Lefman, Internationalization Architect at Cisco, to share his i18n

expertise as well as his vision for a global maturity model.

Part one of the webinar series highlighted how i18n source code quality could be

measured at a glance while part two drilled down to how development teams can

drill down into i18n issues as part of an ongoing build.

Globalyzer 4.1 Released - Internationalize Faster and More Effectively

In Lingoport's latest update of Globalyzer, we took some very clear ease of use

suggestions from some “power” customers and our own i18n services team. We

built on that to give developers faster and easier filter writing capabilities, and a

new heuristic system that prioritizes internationalization errors detected by

likelihood and severity for embedded strings, locale limiting

methods/functions/classes and programming patterns. This helps you get to the

most important i18n issues faster. Plus, we made it all highly configurable. What

that all means is that if you haven’t looked at Globalyzer in a while, it’s time to take

another look. There’s more, and you can read the release notes for more details.

We held a short webinar to highlight the features of Globalyzer 4.1 in July. The

recording of this webinar is available here (registration free).

Question of the month: Agile Development, SaaS and i18n

"Can you expand on i18n for a SaaS product or rapid (Agile) environment with

monthly localized releases?"

Answer: First of all, SaaS is a fairly common architecture these days, and agile is

one of our best friends with Globalyzer because the point of it is is to make

incremental changes to the code base. By its nature, if internationalization is a

requirement, you will want to do that as you go. So that fact that you have

Globalyzer, that you can run your code through it before testing makes a lot of

sense. It controls that internationalization potential technical debt, and as far as

the SaaS architecture, one of the strengths of Globalyzer is that it works with a lot

of different programming languages. Whether it’s Java, Objective-C for mobile

platforms or basic HTML, Globalyzer's advantage is that it's customizable with a

multitude of programming languages.

Featured White Paper: Measuring Internationalization with a Dashboard

What gets measured, gets done. Period. A recent Lingoport webinar poll revealed

that nearly 3/4 of all respondents experienced delays in releasing global software

products. Getting software products to market late can have a huge impact on a

company's bottom line and can put its reputation on the line.

We invite you to read this white paper and learn how globally oriented companies are now

able to track, analyze and act on code quality data to avoid costly mistakes.

Download here (will download in your browser)

Stay in Touch

Connect with us on Twitter @Lingoport and read our internationalization blog.

Find us online @ www.lingoport.com

Try Globalyzer free @ www.lingoport.com/globalyzer-trial

Call us at (303) 444-8020 or email us @ info@lingoport.com