Overview: Alchemy Language Exchange

Alchemy Language Exchange is an Internet-enabled, high-performance Translation Memory (TM) database server. Powered by either a SQL Server or Oracle database back-end, Alchemy Language Exchange is a solution for companies that require Internet connectivity, solid performance, scalability, robustness, interoperability, flexibility and security in the management of their linguistic assets.

Alchemy Language Exchange enables organizations to achieve:

Improved business agility – The ability for organizations to rapidly respond to changes in the business climate. Language Exchange makes it easy to find and leverage reusable translation assets and services to quickly adapt localization activity to changing requirements.
Effective reuse of translation assets and services – The success of a cost effective, localization process is directly dependent on the reuse of translation assets and services. Language Exchange provides a powerful means to ensure translation assets and services are consistently contributed to and easily discovered
Higher quality translation services – A localization operation cannot be successful without consistently high quality and relevant translation services. Language Exchange provides the structure and control necessary for enforcing pre-translations reviews and approvals.

Alchemy Language Exchange provides a standards-based means for publishing and discovering reusable translation assets and services. Available as an independent product or integrated with Alchemy CATALYST, this enterprise-class repository allows organizations to easily standardize publishing, discovery, approval and interoperability of translation assets and services.

Benefits

Alchemy Language Exchange is designed to support and grow with the needs of all players in the translation ecosystem, from translators to project managers, from authors to reviewers, from DTP specialists to IT experts. As a high-performance enterprise TM Abbreviation: Translation Memory repository, it offers the following benefits for all users:

Ease of access via Internet-enabled Translation Memory – make linguistic assets available to all players in the localization process via secure internet accessibility
Seamless integration with Alchemy CATALYST – Fit Alchemy Language Exchange easily into your existing localization process
Work in parallel - Run common localization tasks in parallel, maximizing your translation and engineering velocity and improving time to market.
Robustness and reliability – Alchemy Language Exchange is built using the latest enterprise level DB technologies and WEB 2.0 architected to support enterprise-scale deployments
Higher ROI and lower TCO – Seamlessly integrated with Alchemy CATALYST and published Web Services API makes integration and automation of localization tasks an easy undertaking
Security of investment in previously translated assets – Harvest and recycle existing TMs and investments in translation

Features

Internet-enabled Translation Repository.

With it’s unique WEB 2.0 architecture, users can share translation memories in real time over the Internet, greatly enhancing traditional translation and engineering processes and facilitating easy maintenance of TMs. Since Alchemy Language Exchange is built using the very latest high-performance database technologies, it offers unrivalled response time over a network connection making your translations available anytime, anyplace, any platform.

Robustness and reliability.

Since Alchemy Language Exchange is built on the most established relational database technology available today, giving it a reliability and robustness unmatched by any other TM system. Microsoft SQL Server, including the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Oracle back-ends, including the latest release of Oracle 10g, are supported.

Higher ROI, lower TCO.

Productivity gains enabled by the breakthrough performance of Alchemy Language Exchange allow for an unparalleled return-on-investment (ROI) and radically reduced overall translation costs versus traditional desktop bound TM systems. A trouble-free rollout process and the flexibility to integrate into all common IT environments, allows you to leverage your existing IT skills in the Windows world, and lowers your total cost of ownership (TCO).

Integration and automation.

A sophisticated set of APIs allow Since Alchemy Language Exchange to be integrated into any kind of translation or globalization workflow and all common CMS and GMS systems. Through these APIs, it is possible to fully automate critical translation processes such as re-use analysis, pre-translation and QA consistency checking.

Security of investment.

Translation memories built within Alchemy Language Exchange become more valuable as they grow over time, securing your investment. By investing today, you gain early and lay a solid translation technology foundation for future benefit.