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Translation and localization services come in various shapes and sizes, ranging in their uses from industry to industry and being utilized by companies all around the world. This is why scientists and technicians around the world are constantly attempting to find new modes of conserving and creating different types of energy that are longer-lasting than the ones we have now. One of the biggest necessities for localization is through growth into another market, in energy, this is usually because of resource potential in another part of the world, be that: oil in the middle-east, wind turbines in Europe or rigs across the ocean. Stressing the importance of localization is one thing, but getting it right is a fine degree that many companies take years to hit, requiring the need of companies like Janus Worldwide to help them in their quest for growth around the world. There is no industry in the world where the future is set, for that matter it’s almost impossible to predict where and how the industry will go.

Today, the translation industry is growing faster than ever before. The widespread introduction of new technologies and innovative processes is opening up new horizons for both language service providers and their Russian and international clients. Despite the unprecedented development of process automation and long-term relationships with clients, success would be impossible without talented and dedicated employees. Employers are therefore obliged to respond to modern challenges and revise their traditional approaches to employee hiring and incentives.

The gaming industry is a huge, varied, and ever-evolving market that reaches hundreds of millions of fanatics around the world. There are numerous ways localization can take effect, the most obvious of which is translation; through subtitles, change in user interface and through voice-overs or dubbing of characters. Janus have over twenty years of translation experience in several different industries, with ten of those years being in video games. The two biggest areas of work for Janus are linguistic and function testing. Knowledge of context is key in localization. Function testing looks less at the impacts of language, and more at the impact specific cultures have on the product, or way the product will run. Luckily, we have companies such as Janus to help the world experience different forms of media by adapting products in the most appropriate and adequate ways dependent on culture.

The times of learning in a classroom and teaching new employees the ropes face-to-face has long passed, as the learning industries have changed for the better and in a more efficient manner, allowing more and more people to understand industries digitally, in their native languages. In regard to specifics, some may wonder why localization is necessary in the training industry, but let’s look at the concept as if a business had left its native country, and was instead in a region where their language was not widely spoken. When companies go through this localization process, they pave the way for paths that never could have existed, and they keep those paths maintained for the future to come. Janus Worldwide makes sure that whichever of our many qualified linguists you’re working with, they’ll be well versed in the specific field you need help in. This way, terminology, abbreviations, common modes of speech and language are conveyed perfectly, in every single language you need. We need more – more languages, more dialects, more fields of practice, more qualifications and skills to choose from for the global users.

Quality localization of any product, whether it is a website, training course, software, smartphone application or game console, is impossible without functional and linguistic testing.