Enterprise Internationalization and Automation
There are some technology companies where thinking globally has been fundamental to their operations for years and years. I’m
referring to companies like IBM, HP, Yahoo, Google and the like. These companies all made significant investments in their global
infrastructure, sales teams, products, development and strategic planning. It didn’t happen by accident. And as these companies
develop new products or acquire companies, they look to leverage them across that global infrastructure quickly and profitably. Glo
companies are good prospects for my company in our internationalization products and services business, because they tend to be m
experienced in their understanding of engineering challenges, knowing that it takes people, tools, time and money to globalize
software so that they can gain the best return on their product distribution and sales infrastructure.
One very potent way to make software globalization fundamental to a company’s mindset is to make internationalization a fully
integrated and automated part of software development practices. There are all kinds of tools, checkers and environments to help
developers create interfaces, access and transform all kinds of information buried in databases, support coding constructs, manage
memory and perform application modeling. With that in mind, we’ve been hard at work with a major new Globalyzer release, clearly
aimed at supporting entire development departments and enterprises, automatically using batch processes on servers to monitor
internationalization progress as well as on the desktop where issues can be individually examined and fixed. While that has always be
our aim, we’re now getting there in more robust ways that track internationalization status over time over multiple programming
languages and even over multiple products.
Internationalization Articles
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For those non-developers reading this, let me explain what I mean about automation in this context. When engineers cre