Alchemy PUBLISHER introduces a new choice for localization professionals

Alchemy PUBLISHER is the next generation TM solution for documentation

DUBLIN, May 14th, 2010 – Dublin, Ireland – May 14th 2010: Alchemy Software Development Limited, the world leader in visual localization solutions, today announced the release of Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0, the newest generation of the world’s most popular visual localization technology that provides advanced TM for documentation.

• Double the costs of traditional TM solutions: Using Alchemy’s next generation, object-oriented Translation Memory technology, ensures that you never translate a sentence twice and it can be re-used several times. This improves productivity and results in significant translation savings. Additionally, since Alchemy’s TM technology also re-uses layout information, you also enjoy significant savings in Desktop Publishing costs. Savings of 50-60% are possible depending on the quality of your translation memories.
  
  
• Higher Quality Translation: Alchemy PUBLISHER hides the complexity of Framemaker, InDesign and QuarkXPress documents, presenting text for translation in highly visual and contextually rich editing environments. This enables the translator focus on the accuracy and precision of their translations, helping organizations improve the quality of their translations and improving their corporate brand image.
  
  
• Rapid Return On Investment: Organizations that deploy Alchemy PUBLISHER within their localization workflow will enjoy savings on direct translation costs combined with productivity gains Desktop Publishing and testing. Coupled with faster release times to international markets, these benefits make a rapid return on investment a certainty.

“Alchemy Software Development has been the market leader for TM solutions for software applications and web content for the past number of years", said Tony O’Dowd, President Alchemy Software Development, “and we’ve taken this technological advantage and focused it on solving the challenges inherent in translating documents. This new innovation makes it easier for our clients to translate technical publications reducing their translation costs and quicken their entry into new overseas markets”.

“Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0 is the next generation Translation Memory for documentation”, said Phil Shawe, CEO of Translations.com, “It offers a fresh approach and new innovations into how documents and content are translated. It provides an alternative choice to an industry that is held captive by a single technology provider that boarders on a nearly monopolistic situation.”

Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0 supports all the industry standard documentation formats, such as, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, MS Word, XML, SGML, RTF, DOCX.

It can re-use virtually any translation memory so that clients migrating to this next generation TM technology can re-use previous translation investments. Translation Memory adopters for Alchemy CATALYST, GlobalLink, Wordfast, TRADOS Translators Workbench, SDL TM Server, SDL Idiom, TMX and XLIFF. It also provides a Machine Translation connector so that documentation formats can be MT’ed.

For more information on Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0 , please refer to http://www.alchemysoftware.ie

With over 25,000 licenses worldwide, Alchemy CATALYST is the dominant choice among professional development companies, localization service providers and global technology leaders such as Siemens, Corel, Philips, Canon, JD Edwards, VistaTec, Lionbridge Technologies and SDL International.

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