News and Press ReleasesMore press releases | Learn more about ProZ.com Connect!Translation industry newsSDL Trados Studio 2009: Let the Translation Technology Revolution Begin Backed by thousands of beta testers and a rapidly growing worldwide community of fans, the eagerly anticipated SDL Trados Studio 2009 is released today SDL Today's announcement marks one of the most important and highly anticipated product launches in the history of the translation industry. SDL Trados Studio 2009 represents over $100m investment in research and development into translation memory technology and is the culmination of 25 years of solid translation technology expertise. It is an incredible step forward for translation technology, promising to propel customers to new levels of speed and quality. The product development process has taken place in close collaboration with SDL’s customers and includes the most extensive beta program in the industry, with over 1,000 companies and thousands of testers actively participating. Additionally, over 100 suggestions submitted through the dedicated site for customer ideas: ideas.sdltrados.com have been included in the release. SDL Trados Studio 2009 has been designed to satisfy the needs of all translation professionals - translators, project managers, reviewers or terminologists - from within one integrated environment. Its innovative new features, cutting edge API and open standards-based platform, as well as the ability to scale from the single desktop to the large enterprise, ensures everyone in the translation supply chain will benefit from this innovative release. Paul Mangell, VP of Sales and Marketing at Alpha CRC, a leading LSP and Premier SDL Language Service Provider Partner says, “We have been actively involved with the development of SDL Trados Studio 2009 through the beta program and have very high expectations of its effect on our productivity and quality, as it gets rolled out to our production team. SDL has been very receptive to feedback and we are already seeing momentous improvements in the product’s numerous new features and functionality.” The exit survey results from the SDL Trados Studio 2009 beta programs are already indicating an increase in productivity for 80% of testers of up to 50% over previous versions. A selection of some of the new features driving productivity improvements are:
“We have been overwhelmed by our customers’ positive response to SDL Trados Studio 2009,” commented With over 170, 000 software licenses worldwide, SDL Trados is the most popular translation software worldwide and forms the basis of the Enterprise GIM technology platform that the entire translation supply chain connects to. To find out more about how SDL Trados Studio 2009 promises to revolutionize productivity and to place an order please visit: SDL Trados Studio 2009 About SDL
SDL is the leader in Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage the delivery of global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed translation supply chain. For more information please contact:
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