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The Oxford English Dictionary has selected its word of the year. The choice for 2021 is “vax”. It’s been difficult to avoid the word, or some...

Late November news reports are quick to emphasise the commercial potential of “Black Friday” for global retailers. What began as an exclusively...

As we approach the end of 2021, XTM International is closing the loop on a series of notable product developments with XTM Cloud 12.9, the final release of...

XTM LIVEStream 2021 brought together localization leaders across industries, nationalities and time zones to discuss the future of global communication and...

Many Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) users already benefit from XTM Connect – AEM to get their content translated via XTM Cloud. We have just launched...

A successful localization program puts your name on everyone’s lips and your product on everyone’s wish list. To achieve it you need to balance...

XTM International is delighted to share that in late September, our friends at XTRF secured a growth equity investment from K1 Investment Management. This...

In the two months since the release of XTM Mobile 2.6, further progress has been made in making this product a must-have tool for language service...

How a Translation Management System can help you speak to the world As digital transformation enters the post-digital era, enterprises are facing new...

XTM Livestream has become a highlight of the localization technology calendar, and this year’s event has been warmly welcomed by industry professionals...

My mother only spoke one language. In her case, it was enough. When I left home for University, she gave me a poetry anthology that included my favourite...

It’s been quite a year for Crownpeak. The market-leading headless CMS celebrated twenty years in business with well-deserved acknowledgement by review...

An XTM Cloud user told us recently that his client wanted to translate their company’s website into Japanese. We told him that no, they didn’t. The...

Some products are successful in one market but fail to find an audience in others. When it comes to drinks, Scotch Whisky, American Bourbon, Argentinian,...

GERARRDS CROSS, UK, September 28, 2021  – Today, XTM International announced that it is now listed in the HubSpot App Marketplace. App Partners are...

World Tourism Day, celebrated each year on September 27th, is a day to remember the value of traveling, and embracing new languages and cultures. This year...

The integration harnesses the power of Adobe’s cloud-native solution and XTM’s flexible translation workflows to turbo-charge global growth.

At the beginning of 2021 Emma Raducanu made a hopeful post on her Twitter account asking if A-levels were happening this year. Although her talent and...

Today is a red letter day for pioneers. On August 25th 1875 Captain Matthew Webb made the first observed, unassisted swim across the English Channel. It...

We are proud to announce that John Herzig has been appointed VP of Sales for XTM International. From a base in Chicago John will lead the US sales team,...

Science fiction fans won’t need reminding that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was born 100 years ago today. His legacy extends far beyond...

When you’ve been a market leader for two decades it’s tempting to assume that you know what your customers think. At XTM International we resist that...

Timely project delivery is a juggling act. Project managers are on the front line,  managing conflicting deadlines and often limited resources. Clients...

Are British sportsmen and women finally waking up to the value of multilingual communication? During his eleven years at Arsenal, Aaron Ramsay endeared...

Demand has more than one meaning, of course, but in an economic sense it refers to the desire and ability to buy. It’s the engine that drives...

Great performance is rooted in talent. When we talk about our favourite albums we’re more likely to highlight the musicianship than the sound...

The final athletics event of the Tokyo Olympics saw Kenya’s Eliod Kipchoge retain the marathon title he won in 2016. Kipchoge’s sporting journey has...

Performances of character light up every Olympics, and some make a lasting impact. Two Dutch women, competing a lifetime apart, will always be remembered....

The addition of skateboarding to the roster of Olympic sports has given these Games an injection of fun and dynamism. While some of the competitors have...

Sport thrives on the interaction between competitors and fans, and an Olympics held in the shadow of Coronavirus has inevitably been affected. But Olympic...

None of us can afford to be left behind when it comes to digitization of our working practices, and we can’t afford to neglect the client experience...

Five years ago, Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring his country’s Civil War to an...

As Olympic competition continues in Tokyo this week, all eyes will be on two very different types of contest. The first is one we’ve seen many times...

The floods that swept through central Europe this month were shocking for the loss of life and material damage they inflicted. Angela Merkel’s comment,...

Ten years ago the world looked on in dismay as north-eastern Japan was devastated by natural disaster. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami followed by...

The term regular expression, sometimes shortened to regex, refers to a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern. Many of us apply regex every...

52 years ago today, two men walked on the Moon. A species that until a few decades before hadn’t mastered powered flight of any kind sent two of its...

Have you ever started a new job and been overwhelmed by the sheer weight of learning involved? New colleagues, new systems, new terminology. It can all add...

What makes a champion? Many of the qualities were on show yesterday at Royal St George’s Golf Club. At the age of 24, Collin Morakawa won the British...

What’s your favourite train journey? For some of us it might be the one that takes us somewhere new. For others it might be the one that brings us safely...

“Golf is a game of luck. The harder I practice, the luckier I get” Ben Hogan Today, the world’s finest golfers are teeing off at Royal St George’s...

Some people will have woken up this morning without much enthusiasm for the start of the week. Monday isn’t everyone’s favourite day, but one person...

As Euro 2021 has unfolded, XTM International’s Polish, Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, German, Swiss, French, Swedish and Danish employees have seen their...

In the last set of external exam results published in Britain before COVID-enforced lockdown, it was revealed that, for the first time, more girls than...

When Alvaro Morata scored for Spain with ten minutes remaining in their Euro 2021 semi final with Italy last night, he breathed new life into his...

The 2020s are going to bring major developments in language AI to the fore. In the not too distant future we’ll see AI produce content on a large scale...

Riding the wave of the England football team’s success at Euro 2021, this afternoon Emma Raducanu, an 18 year old wild card ranked number 10 in Britain...

XTM Cloud 12.8, the Symphony Release, is here. Smart applications of NLP Artificial Intelligence, innovative problem solving and even more links with...

XTM Cloud 12.8 offers you the tools you need to play all the right notes. Enhanced Filter templates for Excel and MultiExcel files enable you to hide...

Connected systems are the future of localization and the Symphony Release brings you notably enhanced integrations between XTM Cloud and content...

The Symphony Release strikes exactly the right note to improve productivity without compromising quality. XTM Cloud 12.8 enables you to make bulk updates...

At XTM International, we don’t over-complicate problems. We prefer to focus on solutions, and the simpler we can make them, the better. The Symphony...

This week the World Health Organisation turned its attention to digital well being, and its first global report on Artificial Intelligence set out clear...

In 1995, with the internet in its infancy, Bill Gates appeared on the David Letterman talk show and attempted to explain how this new communication network...

Some people hoard their knowledge like water in the desert. Others see the world differently. Knowledge, like water, helps things grow.  The word mentor...

Every day we’re invited to choose sides on all sorts of issues. Some are trivial while others can have a major impact on our lives. Sometimes we don’t...

Not everyone recognizes the social and economic benefits that Artificial Intelligence brings, but more and more stories are being shared that make those...

We’ve all heard stories of people working punishingly long hours, taking no breaks, neglecting their personal lives and their health. Thankfully,...

Today is the 2021 summer solstice, the day when, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun follows its longest path through the sky and reaches...

“Women Hold Up Half the Sky” Traditional proverb Russia may not have a spotless reputation when it comes to inclusiveness, but Russian women have...

At XTM International, nothing matters more than the success of our customers. With that in mind we’re delighted to announce the creation of our Customer...

Digital Transformation is a true global effort. Enabling multilingual deployments is a key component of that process. Customer support in any form needs to...

There is knowledge, and then there is expertise. We all have knowledge in one field or another, but when the word expert began to appear in the English...

“I think that diversity is probably the biggest weapon that we have in our dressing room. You always get different views, different solutions.” Roberto...

The next time someone tells you that virtual conferences don’t work, tell them they should have attended LocWorldWide44. A lot of hard work and expertise...

There’s always a way to add value for our customers. Over the past year, many people whose jobs previously sent them travelling to all corners of the...

One of the most appealing things about technological progress is the element of personalisation it brings. The more we innovate, the more we can focus on...

Creating and managing terminology is a crucial first step towards localizing material into multiple languages. Do it well, managing the process at source...

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” At XTM International, we believe our clients and partners deserve the best of...

News today that the 2021 Olympics – already delayed by a year – may not go ahead at all, was disappointing for sports fans everywhere. For Japanese...

What’s your definition of “Quality”? At XTM International we believe quality means quite simply doing what you say you will do. Quality is a promise...

How can we retain our humanity and continue to use our ingenuity in the age of Artificial Intelligence? That’s one of the core questions under discussion...

Are you feeding your donkey sponge cake? Are you letting frogs out of your mouth? Providing a language service isn’t just a matter of translating words...

Consumers love to absorb information and entertainment via video, and this trend will continue to shape global communication in the 2020s. Not...

In the context of this planet’s history a thousand years is a blink of an eye, but when we compare human communication in the early Middle Ages with the...

When you have a market-leading product that gives users a platform to create engaging digital experiences, why would you limit your ability to share it?...

Crowds are returning to major sporting events. Yesterday marked the beginning of the French Open tennis championship. 12,500 fans will be admitted each...

What happens when you marry artificial intelligence and human brain power in translation? Smarter language technology will give the linguist greater choice...

In the summer of 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was still in his first term as US President, Berlin was divided into four different zones but didn’t yet have a...

It seems the average human attention span has taken a nosedive since the beginning of the 21st century. Research indicates that we can’t give a single...

The translation industry has evolved over the past years moving from monthly behemoth projects to small, frequently updated projects. The number of target...

“To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through: that is to be a nurse” Rawsi Williams, Nurse Advocate...

Almost 85% of technology buyers look for integrated systems. And it’s easy to understand why. We live in a data-driven world. By 2025, it’s estimated...

The link between nationality and economic prosperity brings a fresh challenge each time a new set of statistics is made public. We can’t deny that...

Video is king and rightly so – it just gets results. When asked, 84% of people agreed that watching a video pushed them to buy a product or service....

Forward-thinking manufacturing companies have always invested in labour-saving technology, so it’s no surprise to see sector leaders taking a smart...

Happy Constitution Day (Święto Konstytucji Trzeciego Maja) to everyone in Poland. Happy Castilla-La Mancha Day (Día de Castilla-La Mancha) to everyone...

When people complain about mobile technology, they’re often referring to classic “first world” problems. The avalanche of communication tools...

Human brains are hardwired to make assumptions about words and their meaning. “Sir Anthony Hopkins als bester Schauspieler gewann bei den Oscars 2021.”...

With financial year-end fresh in our minds, it’s a good time to reflect that an annual report is more than just a set of figures. It’s a statement of...

What time is it? ¿Qué horas son? Wie spät ist es? 现在 几点钟？ The answer depends on your location, in more ways than one. If it’s 9 am in...

It’s a mobile-first world, and that’s as true for localization managers as it is for everyone else. Whether they need to make important changes to a...

The latest version of XTM Cloud, “Intelligent Connectivity”, delivers a step forward in user experience. In a nutshell, enhanced technology and...

XTM Cloud 12.7 is here with revamped workflows in XTM Connect. This means more efficient transfer of content between XTM Cloud and Adobe Experience Manager...

XTM Cloud 12.7 gives Administrators increased flexibility to create analysis templates directly from the user interface. Project Managers will benefit from...

XTM Cloud 12.7 delivers enhanced machine translation matches using the XTM Cloud translation memory in partnership with SYSTRAN. We’ve also enhanced...

In XTM Cloud 12.7, translation quality and speed go hand in hand. We recognize the potential of visual assets and if they speak the language of your...

XTM Cloud 12.7 delivers a catalogue of enhancements in NLP Artificial Intelligence. Import TM, create glossaries all in one step Terminologists and Project...

“Our workflows are a result of legacy technologies that we are currently modernizing and will be automated in the near future. Our data and content...

The third and latest edition of XTM LIVEStream is over and we would like to thank all attendees, speakers and sponsors for making this a fantastic event....