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| Newsletter - June 2008 |  
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| Welcome to Aspire Systems’ monthly
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It’s a well-known fact now that markets have and are continuously expanding - making the world a flatter and more global place. In this scenario, it becomes imperative to have your software products global-ready. As a Fortune 500 company (On average, international Fortune 500 companies earn $25 of additional revenue for every $1 spent on localization, and many software giants have more than half of their sales coming from non-English countries today) there is no choice but to be globally ready and the budget for globalization efforts are clearly defined. But as a fledging start-up or a mid-sized company, you probably have to make a choice between early investments in globalization when the pay-off for it is still uncertain, and using those resources to develop newer features in your product. You may already have a globalization strategy in place or may be just now planning to make your software global-ready or perhaps re-engineer your technology so that it delivers value across geographical boundaries through a single code base. Whatever your goals are, Aspire Systems brings you some tips, best practices and success stories on Globalization this month Real-life examples of On-demand product development success Product Internationalization of a document management system Aspire's product engineering team internationalized a legal Document Management System to support Hebrew and English at the GUI and content level. They had to overcome GUI design challenges for Hebrew (written from right-to-left) in terms of displaying content and navigation. Aspire also had to bring in Latin character support and map Hebrew to Latin and vice-versa as Hebrew was not supported by the product's existing three-tier architecture framework. Localization of a business process improvement solution A provider of business process improvement solutions wanted to re-engineer their product to include localization support for all their international clients. Aspire helped them localize their product for different languages, currencies, number and date formats. This in-turn reduced the customer’s professional services workload considerably. Related Articles Seven Habits: Tips from the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) to be successful in globalization The best global websites – and why Globalization technologies: Language tools and tools to manage the globalization process Facebook’s Community Translation: Savvy or Just Cheap? Invisible
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