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In today’s global economy, businesses are expanding their reach beyond their domestic borders. To succeed in foreign markets, it is essential to provide products and services that resonate with local customers. This is where localisation – the process of adapting content, products, and services to meet the cultural, linguistic, and other requirements of a particular market – comes into play.

Whether you are a growing company or have a global presence, you probably need to manage several translation projects at the same time, and you are probably looking for ways to optimise your workflows and improve the quality of your translations. Using a translation project management platform may be the perfect solution for you. At Janus Worldwide, we have created and perfected GTP, a platform that enables you to manage all your projects in one place and much more. Here are some of the advantages of working with GTP.

Written by Michael Reimer
“How do I find the right language service provider for my company?” Are you the decision-maker for organizing translations in your company, and are you faced with the task of optimizing external resources? Are the translation volumes and the number of required language pairs increasing? Is the requirements profile becoming more and more diverse? In addition to translations, do you need interpreters, video localization, or proofreading of translated texts for quality assurance? Then it really makes sense to rethink and reorganize the language services for your company. There are many ways to find a new service provider, one of which is through a call for tenders. But is a call for tenders worth the effort, and how do I tackle the issue so the right provider is actually found in the end?

Any new product intended for a wider audience than just local users should be translated into certain languages of regional markets. PC games are no exception, and their localization must adhere to a range of rules. Along with accuracy, their translation also requires end-to-end adaptation and fluency as perceived by native speakers of the target language. Additionally, hard character limits may be imposed on individual text segments to ensure that their translation fits within assigned margins, is correctly broken into lines, and more. It is also essential to check the entire translated text directly in the game to ensure it is appropriately placed in the context of specific situations and gameplay elements. This is the multifaceted work that Janus Worldwide’s Game Localization Department handles.

The R&D team has successfully completed a project to create a clearly structured vendor evaluation system that enables more objective assessments to be carried out. This then helps to refine the selection of vendors for subsequent projects, improving the quality of the work produced.