Alchemy CATALYST™ 3.1 - Free Enhancement Pack Released

New start-up offers free enhancements to customers

DUBLIN – January 10, 2001 – Alchemy Software Development Limited, a translation tools provider, announced a free enhancement pack release for Alchemy CATALYST™ 3.0 and Corel CATALYST™ 3.0. Alchemy CATALYST™ 3.1 now offers a variety of new functionality enhancements and productivity features.

For instance, Alchemy CATALYST™ 3.1 now has a unique runtime validation expert that accurately validates software products for cosmetic errors creating a detailed report in a matter of seconds. An Engineer can view and select errors from this report and Alchemy CATALYST™ will load the relevant file and position the cursor at the error location for immediate fixing. This feature, unique to Alchemy CATALYST™, significantly reduces the time to fix cosmetic bugs helping to speed up product delivery and improve quality.

Alchemy also announces enhancements to its generic text parser technology. It now supports over 17 different file types (including JavaScript, PerlScript, Java code files and Microsoft VisualBasic forms). This means that most product ancillary files can be included within one translation toolkit and translated, engineered and validated within one tools environment.

Other enhancements include extensive support for TMX, enabling translation memories and glossaries to be interchanged with other industry leading tools vendors like Trados and extensions to the command line interface to facilitate build automation and batch updates.

“This is a free enhancement pack update to our customers”, said Tony O'Dowd, CEO and President of Alchemy Software Development, “that delivers greater translation and engineering productivity. Our runtime validation expert will dramatically reduce the time to resolve localization bugs while the ability to share translation memories and glossaries between different tool vendors will improve translation quality and consistency.”

“It's a demonstration of our commitment to our customer base”, said Enda McDonnell, Director of Development of Alchemy Software Development, “who need faster turn-around times not only in translation but engineering and testing. As Alchemy CATALYST™ spans the entire localization process these are achievable within one integrated tools environment”.

The enhancement pack is available for free download to all users of Alchemy CATALYST™ 3.0 and Corel CATALYST™ 3.0 at www.alchemysoftware.ie.

Alchemy Software Development Ltd. has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland at Harcourt Business Centre, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.

Alchemy Software Development Limited
Alchemy Software Development is a company formed by the original developers and designers of Corel CATALYST™, an integrated translation environment and a pioneer in visual translation and engineering solutions. The founders of the company have established a company dedicated to the support and ongoing development of this technology leader.

Alchemy' technology is designed to boost the efficiency and quality of globalizing software products and is used by over 270 software development and globalization companies worldwide. With an established user base of over 4,000 users, Alchemy CATALYST™ is used by translators, software engineers, quality assurance specialists and project managers and is referred to as the Gold Standard in Localisation.

Corel Corporation Limited holds a 24.9% stake in Alchemy Software Development Ltd.

For more information on the company and its products, please refer to www.alchemysoftware.ie.