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Helping companies navigate the translation industry.Now in its third edition, this best-selling guide will help you select the right translation agency the first time. |
The Best-selling Guide Just Got Better
Three years ago, we set out to create a guide that would take the mystery – and the pain – out of selecting and managing a translation agency.
Today, more than ever, companies are turning to translation to help them succeed globally (and multi-culturally). And they are increasingly turning to this guide to help them navigate the translation industry. Today, this guide is widely used in hundreds of Global 1000 companies and hundreds more smaller and medium-sized organizations.
For 2005, we updated agency profiles (adding and deleting agencies along the way), and we have added new content throughout. As has always been our policy, we do not charge agencies to be included in this guide. We take great pride in offering a directory that is both objective and focused on helping clients make sound buying decisions.
This best-selling guide will help you select the right agency -- and save up to 33% on your next translation job. Now in its third edition, The Savvy Client's Guide to Translation Agencies will help you navigate the translation and globalization industry. Whether you need to translate one document or an entire Web site, this guide will provide invaluable and time-saving insights.
Companies that have benefited from this guide include:
- General Electric
- SAP
- Nokia
- Caterpillar
- Nextel
- Local, state, and federal Agencies
- Automotive manufacturers and suppliers
- Medical device manufacturers
- Translation agencies
- Multinational advertising agencies
- Web design agencies
Updated and expanded for 2005!
For 2005, we added nearly 20 additional agencies, new insights, and the latest industry trends. Here's what you'll find inside:
- Part I will help you better understand how the translation industry works. Learn the lingo, the major players, and the dirty little secrets.
- Part II includes valuable advice for selecting an agency and reading between the lines of a price quote. The tips offered here will save time and money on your next translation job. Several report purchasers have told us that the tips offered here have saved their companies thousands of dollars in translation costs.
- Part III includes a directory of 70 translation agencies from around the world, including the world's three largest firms. For each vendor, you'll find information such as key clients, industry specialty, sales contact and any unique capabilities that the agency offers. Agencies are categorized by location and specialty.
This guide will tell you:
- what your translation agency may not be telling you.
- how to read "between the lines" of your translation quote.
- how translation costs vary by language.
- what you need to know before taking your Web site global.
- how to differentiate among translation agencies.
- industry advice from some of the largest and most experienced translation agencies around.
- In short: this guide will make you a savvy buyer of translation services.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- How to Use This Guide
Part I: Translating the Translation Industry
- Making Sense of the Translation Industry
- Agency Trends and Innovations
- The Big Three: Bowne, Lionbridge, and SDL
- Making Sense of Software Tools
- What to Know Before Taking Your Web Site Global
Part II: Selecting the Right Translation Agency
- Five Things You Should Know About Translation Agencies
- Ten Questions to Ask Before Selecting a Translation Agency
- Translation Costs
- A Tale of Two Quotes
- Agency Q&A
- Translating for Spanish Speakers in the US: Q&A with Translation Source
- "Back Translation" and Beyond: Q&A with American Translation Partners
- Inside the Agency: Q&A with Eriksen Translations
- Price Quote Template
Part III: Agency Directory
- Agencies by Size
- Agencies by Location
- Agencies by Specialization
- Profiles of 70 agencies, including:
- All Tasks Translation and Localization
- American Translation Partners
- Argo Translation
- Argos Company
- Beijing E-C Translation
- thebigword
- Bowne Global Solutions
- Ccaps Translation and Localization
- Concorde Group
- Eriksen Translations
- Excel Translations
- Geneva Worldwide
- Globalization Partners International
- InterNation
- International Software Products
- InterSol
- Iverson Language Associates
- Liaison Multilingual Services
- Lingo Systems
- Lionbridge
- LLE Language Services
- Locasoft
- Logrus International
- LUZ
- McElroy Translation Company
- Merrill Brink International
- milengo
- Moravia Worldwide
- mt-g medical translation
- Netwire Consulting
- Sajan
- SDL International
- SH3
- Soget
- The Toin Corporation
- Translation Plus
- Transware
- viaLanguage
- Weblations
- Welocalize
- Wordbank Limited
- Zappmedia
"Excellent guide! It helped us make sense of the maze of translation quotes we've received."
-- Marketing director of a global retailer
About the Author
Over the past decade, John Yunker has worked as both a buyer of translation services and as a member of a translation agency. As a buyer of translation services, he learned firsthand the difficulties in obtaining accurate quotes and in comparing quotes between agencies. As a member of a translation agency, he helped clients save significantly on their projects while maintaining high quality throughout. In preparing this report John conducted interviews with dozens of translation agencies and their clients.
As founder of Byte Level Research, John has studied the translation industry for more than five years, authoring a number of landmark reports along the way. He is author of the widely acclaimed book Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies. This is the third year in a row that John has authored The Savvy Client's Guide to Translation Agencies.
