Atlas Copco Selects Bowne Global Solutions for Web-based Service Enhancements; Industrial Products Giant Employs Multi-language XML Solution for Customized Documentation.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2001 Bowne Global Solutions, the globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation business process solutions division of Bowne & Co, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BNE BNE Biblioteca Nacional de España (National Library of Spain) BNE Board of Nurse Examiners BNE Buffalo Niagara Enterprise (economic development organization; New York) BNE Branch If Not Equal ), today announced that it has been selected by the Atlas Copco group of industrial companies to manage the technical translation and localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. of its compressor product documentation. The relationship is designed to allow Atlas Copco to offer its global client base customized product information for their highly specialized compressor systems. Atlas Copco will deliver tagged English XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. files to Bowne Global's industrial engineering linguists who return the translated files, allowing for conditional publishing. Product configuration or serial number designations deliver customized documentation that eliminates redundancies that exist with the current methods. As a global company Atlas Copco has a leadership presence in many markets. An important element of the project is the ability of Bowne Global to manage the complex terminologies, initially in 17 languages. Of those, six languages (Russian, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Czech) require entirely new documentation, related terminology and translation memory. Significant efficiency contributions are also expected from Bowne Global's proprietary multilingual terminology management tools. "We are excited to work with such an established leader in the global industrial products market," said Carl Glaeser, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bowne Global Solutions. "The European team that have been working with Atlas Copco are confident that our terminology tools and content validation processes will deliver significant benefits to this project and, longer term, throughout the company's global operations." "As a group of international companies we understand the synergies and efficiencies that can be achieved by consolidating some operations," said Jan De Cock Jan De Cock (b. Brussels, 2 May 1976) is a contemporary Belgian visual artist. De Cock creates large structures - usually in plywood - that refer to early modernist and suprematist sculpture and architecture. He also creates photographical and video work. , Technical Publications manager of Atlas Copco Oil-free Air division in Antwerp -- Belgium. "That fact that Bowne Global has linguistic expertise in our field, and can coordinate the production of deliverables in all the languages we support, made them the obvious choice for us as we strive to improve our customer services." About Atlas Copco Atlas Copco is an international group of industrial companies with its head office in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2000, the Group had revenues of more than SEK SEK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Swedish Krona. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 46 billion, with 98 percent of revenues outside Sweden, and more than 26,000 employees. Atlas Copco companies develop, manufacture, and market industrial and professional tools, compressed air compressed air, air whose volume has been decreased by the application of pressure. Air is compressed by various devices, including the simple hand pump and the reciprocating, rotary, centrifugal, and axial-flow compressors. equipment, construction and mining equipment, and assembly systems and offer related service and equipment rental. For additional information go to: www.atlascopco.com. About Bowne Global Solutions Bowne Global Solutions is the leading provider of comprehensive globalization solutions and technology -- enabling its customers to reach their customers in any part of the world. Bowne Global's team delivers international marketing strategy consulting, technical documentation authoring and translation, software internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation , technology product localization, and web content creation and management combined with machine translation and related linguistic technologies to the world's most respected companies. With this suite of integrated globalization services, Bowne Global enables industry leaders in the technology product, corporate online learning, automotive, aerospace, medical, telecommunications and digital entertainment industries to compete and grow global market share through locally-relevant, culturally-connected products and services. Bowne Global Solutions is a division of Bowne & Co., Inc. (NYSE:BNE), the world's largest financial printer and also a provider of outsourcing services, legal software and digital print-on-demand solutions. |
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