Blast Radius Announces New Features to Support Content Creation and Translation for the Global Market at Lower Cost and Higher Quality; Company Announces First Commercial Native XML Authoring Solutions for Bidirectional Content.VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Note: This announcement is available in Arabic, English and Hebrew on www.xmetal.com. Blast Radius A blast radius is the area that will be affected when an explosion occurs. A blast radius is often associated with, but not limited to, bombs and other weapons. It is generally important to clear the blast radius before the explosion occurs, unless the bomb is intended to be an , the world leader in 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. content creation and collaboration solutions, today announced it will include bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. support for XML content creation in its upcoming release of XMetaL Author and XMAX XMAX Excursion Maximum (speakers) . Prior to this release, XMetaL fully supported the creation of content in Cyrillic and Asian languages, such as Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Russian. This release now incorporates the additional support of Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew. As a result of this new capability, organizations serving audiences in those languages, such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and and electronics manufacturers, can further capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. their content assets by translating web and print materials at a lower cost and with higher quality and consistency. Typical XML-powered content 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. projects yield enormous time savings due to better efficiencies introduced with localization systems and through parallel and componentized authoring and translation. One such organization is a global automaker that uses XMetaL to deliver personalized owner manuals for all its passenger and commercial vehicles in over 30 languages. "We can now expand the authoring and translation memory system to provide manuals in Arabic and Hebrew," says Uwe Reissenweber, Managing Director of docufy GmbH, a Blast Radius XMetaL partner that developed the ARKI content management system for this global auto brand. "Our client not only reduced its overall translation costs but also provides the same superior customer experience drivers worldwide have been accustomed to through the high quality manuals." A systems integrator installing Blast Radius XMetaL added, "Government, health and financial institutions continuously strive to provide better online service coupled with high quality and consistent content in the native language of both constituents and customers. This is an important milestone that allows us to better cater to the specific needs of our markets and provide superior content management and delivery services to our customers," expressed Avi Bida, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Malam Systems Ltd., a leading IT consulting and systems integrator based in Israel. "XMetaL has a legacy of innovation in structured content applications, including recently being the first to provide a production-quality content creation solution for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. The name of the architecture can be explained as follows:
Pricing and availability Organizations interested in evaluating or implementing the bidirectional support of XMetaL can now contact Blast Radius at products@blastradius.com About Blast Radius XMetaL Blast Radius XMetaL(R) is the world's leading XML content creation and collaboration solution, advancing the goals of globally-focused, customer-driven organizations. XMetaL's family of software and services enables your company to create, share, reuse, and deliver content more quickly and cost-effectively, across all customer channels, from sales, marketing, and customer service, to training and technical support. Visit xmetal.com to learn how leading brands such as Cisco, Daimler Chrysler, HP, Kodak, Microsoft, Philips, RIM, Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. , Sybase, Symantec, Texas Instruments and USA Today use XMetaL to bring products and services to market faster, with greater accuracy, and at lower cost. |
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