Translation and Localization services are essential for companies that market or wish to market their products in more than one country. But what not everybody knows is that hiring a professional translator is not enough to ensure these companies success in a globalized world. High-performance translation agencies understand this very well. It is no wonder that they adopt different measures to ensure a service with the highest level of quality.
In today’s article, we’ll cover five skills that translation agencies master and how they can contribute to your business success. They are: use of technologies, handling of different types of files, a network of expert translators, project management, and agility.
- Mastery of key market technologies: aligning human capital with technology is a recurring practice within high-performance translation agencies. They link the most complete translation tools (CAT Tools) to a preparation structure, which ensures the correct and safe handling of the files by analyzing and correcting any problems that may hamper translation within the software. Additionally, the agencies synchronize the CAT Tools to a robust server, which automatically backs up translations, eliminating the risk of loss throughout the process. Using these software programs also brings advantages such as textual quality, file integrity, recurrent backups, information confidentiality and possibility of monitoring the project evolution in real time.
- Handling of any type of file: Translation agencies have a team of specialists in layout and editing capable of working with files of the most varied types and formats, using the main graphic publishing software on the market. They are responsible for editing the post-translation material, leaving it structurally faithful to the original file and ready for publishing or graphic production, and for the extraction or re-creation activities, in case the file to be translated consists of a non-editable format, such as PDF files or images.
- Network of linguists around the world: The leading translation agencies on the market adopt a system of continuous evaluation of their linguistic partners network, which periodically checks the translations’ performance, consistency, and quality standard. With each project, the professionals are ranked according to their score, with this being one of the criteria to receive more projects or not. The creation of the supplier bank starts with an extensive work of captivation, screening, and selection of translators.
- Project Management: When hiring a high-performance translation company, you will have a designated Project Manager to evaluate all the work variables to be undertaken to formulate the best strategy for your need. Among the main responsibilities of the Project Manager in translation agencies, we can highlight the understanding of the project scope, the elaboration of instructions for the professionals involved in the work and the translation planning considering scope, term, and budget. In short, this professional will be responsible for delivering the project with the highest level of quality within the agreed time, offering convenience to the client, who will be spared the administrative burden of managing the many variables of a project.
- Agility: uniting know-how, well-structured process, technology and a team of experts, translation agencies stand out by ensuring the delivery of large volumes in limited time frames. These companies’ professionals are used to dealing with emergencies and are, therefore, always available to help customers solve problems and challenges through customized solutions for each case.
Why hire translation agencies with these distinctions?
Clear communication is one of the basic premises for any successful business and that is why hiring an agency that understands the strategic importance of translation and localization services can make all the difference to your business.
As you can see in the topics above, a good translation agency will have a set of actions structured to meet the specific needs of each customer, such as involving different areas throughout the project and offering complementary services, such as translation memory management, glossary development, style guide creation and diagramming.
All these measures help minimize the chances of failure throughout the project, thus ensuring a premium quality translation.
To understand more about how the structure of a translation agency can favor the delivery of a high-quality level material, we recommend reading the article we wrote about this subject.
About Netwire
Founded in 2000, Netwire is a multilingual solution enterprise that provides translation and localization into any language in the world. Headquartered in Brazil, the company has an office in Argentina and presence in North America and Europe. With a robust infrastructure involving state-of-the-art technologies and the best professionals in the field, Netwire ensures high volume processing with high quality standards in short deadlines, precise control and project management, accurate selection of native translators in all four corners of the world, rapid learning of customer preferences, secure and real-time data storage, information traceability and timely delivery of the final material.
This solid foundation on which Netwire services are anchored ensures a superior level of quality over other translation agencies in the market. In the past five years alone, the company processed over 110 million words, delivering an average of 400 projects per month. This experience has increasingly awakened the interest of global brands that comprise its portfolio of clients and positioned Netwire as the ideal company to meet any translation demand. Request an estimate via website or by telephone and guarantee the best solution for your business!
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