Alchemy Software Development pioneers new visual localization technologies
Dublin, Ireland — August 18th, 2003 — Alchemy Software Development Limited, the leading translation tools provider, today announces a major upgrade to Alchemy CATALYST, their visual localization environment which will be available to clients in September. It also announces its Early Adaptor Pricing Campaign that reduces the cost of upgrading for its worldwide clients.
Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 is the most significant upgrade to their award winning and industry leading Alchemy CATALYST product line. Combining sophisticated visual environments for all of the most popular development platforms, database and XML/XLIFF technologies, it ensures that localization projects take less time to complete, quality will be improved, Engineering and QA cycle times will shorten and the overall cost of localization will be reduced.
"High-quality translation of software applications is crucial to the success of multi-national companies." said Tony O'Dowd, CEO Alchemy Software Development, "Today's highly competitive markets require solutions that lower overall costs, reducing time-to-market and improving quality. Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 meets these requirements head-on. Using advanced Translation Memory technology and an intuitive interface, it compliments the work of localization professionals helping them work more efficiently and produce higher quality translations."
"Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 is a unique visual solution for the localization industry", said Enda McDonnell, Chief Architect Alchemy Software Development, "Just as visual development tools improved developer productivity and efficiency, Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 will do the same for localization engineering and translation teams"
Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 includes the following pioneering and innovative features:
- Enhanced! ezMatch Technology Using Alchemy's ezMatch Translation Memory technology, you never have to translate the same sentence twice. Its unique Fuzzy and ID matching technology maximizes the amount of translation leveraged thus reducing your translation costs and engineering cycles.
- NEW! Translate Data Content Exploiting the latest technology for accessing many database types, such as Oracle, IBM DB2, MS SQL, Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 comes with a visual environment that lets you simply select the data content you wish to translate using SQL statements, then drag the resultant data into your Project TTK and start translating!
- NEW! Develop your own custom parsers without coding As the leading innovator in localization technologies, we realize that your localization engineers don't have time to write complex file parsers. This is why ezParse™ was developed. This technology combines the power and flexibility of regular expressions with a visual development environment. ezParse™ makes it simple and quick to develop text parsers for virtually any file type. ezParse™ also supports the most popular encoding systems such as UTF-8, UTF-16 and Shift-JIS. 2
- NEW! Visual XLIFF Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 comes with the world's first visual XLIFF translation environment. Now you can have all the power and flexibility of visual tools working directly on your XLIFF documents.
- Enhanced! Microsoft .NET Visual Component Our market leading solution for Microsoft .NET applications now supports the direct translation, testing and engineering of .NET binary application files as well as RESX source files. Our Visual .NET Component also builds language assemblies directly from your Project TTK files. Just translate and extract to produce your international application.
- NEW! Powerful Translator Toolbar Our new Translator Toolbar centralizes all the activities and functionality that a translator uses in one highly functional and intuitive interface. Combined with our advanced glossary manager, visual tag editor and integrated spelling and validation tools, it reduces the complexity of translating ensuring that your translators can focus on the quality and precision of their translations!
- Enhanced! Secure XML Environment Our award winning secure XML technology has now been extended to provide exception lists for text segmentation and introduces a new technology called Nav-Points. Using Nav-Points you take greater control over how XML documents are visually displayed. You can also split large XML files into smaller segments using Nav-Points as references points.
- NEW! Project Translation Environment With the introduction of Alchemy CATALYST 5.0, the entire user experience has been revamped! Enhancements include Quick Launch Taskbar, all new power toolbars for visual editors, a new User Profile Manager to help you share your configuration preferences amongst your localization teams, a completely new Project Navigator that combines Replica™ and advanced filter functionality in a simple to use interface and a new licensing model that avoids the use of hardware dongles!
Driven by innovation and breakthroughs in translation technologies, Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 delivers visual localization solutions to help boosts speed, improve quality and reduce the localization cost for all localization professionals. Its highly visual localization environment integrates powerful project management utilities and services and includes highly productive and secure environments for translators, developers and localizers.
Alchemy Software Development Ltd. has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland at Harcourt Business Center, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.
Early Adopter Pricing in Effect Until September 18th, 2003
Currently available, Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 offers a preferred-pricing discount structure for orders placed before September 18th, 2003. Pricing is dependent on configuration. Customers will be able to purchase at significantly discounted rates for their Developers, Localizers and Translators. To learn more about Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 functionality, features and special early adopter pricing structures please refer to www.AlchemySoftware.ie or contact one of Alchemy's worldwide partners.
Alchemy Software Development Limited
Alchemy Software Development is the market leader in visual development tools for the localization industry. Multinational enterprises developing applications for Java, Windows9x, NT, ME, 2000, XP, SymbianOS, .NET, and XML, use Alchemy technology to accelerate entry to international markets, improving revenue growth opportunities and reducing their costs.
Alchemy's technology is designed to boost the efficiency and quality of globalizing software products and is used by software development and globalization companies worldwide. With over 8,000 licenses installed worldwide, Alchemy CATALYST is used by translators, software engineers, quality assurance specialists and project managers and is referred to as the Gold Standard in Localization.
Corel Corporation Limited holds a 24.9% stake in Alchemy Software Development Ltd. Alchemy Software Development has offices and facilities in Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United States.
For more information on the company and its products, please refer to http://www.alchemysoftware.ie/
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