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Manufacturing 4.0 – the revolution has already...
Quality, consistency, speed to market, cost-effectiveness. Are you ready to deliver on these promises as the fourth industrial revolution takes shape? At...
How XTM Cloud enables linguists to work more...
A key requisite for a TMS is to be able to retrieve Translation Memories in the most efficient way. Indeed, the more these are leveraged, the more direct...
Setting the global content standard with DITA and XTM...
For an architecture that was initially designed for internal use at IBM, DITA has made a striking global impact. From May 10th to May 12th, Adobe will...
Did you know… Exploring what XTM Cloud 13.0 can...
On Monday 21st March, we launched XTM Cloud 13.0: The Pathfinder Release. We introduced a number of new exciting features and enhancements, which you may...
XTM Cloud 13.0: The Pathfinder Release
XTM International is delighted to announce the launch of XTM Cloud 13.0: The Pathfinder Release, which delivers a number of key enhancements to its...
Continuous Connectivity: Take Advantage of Advances to...
Connectivity improvements are entering a continuous deployment cycle. We have made our connector releases independent of the main XTM Cloud releases. This...
Adobe Summit 2022 – Setting the agenda for digital...
The Adobe Summit 2022 is over, but the topics discussed and the ideas generated will shape digital communication for months and years to come. XTM is proud...
Reaching for the Summit with XTM Cloud
XTM Cloud announces the new XTM Connect for Adobe Experience Manager. Content management and localization have never been more seamless and time...
The Lands Between – gaming localization and the...
When Bandai Namco Entertainment published Pac-Man 99 in April 2021, they introduced a vibrant new chapter to a 40 year old story. A maze game with Battle...
Getting Serious About Gaming Localization
Video game developers create a world for their users to live in. There are over 2.7 billion gamers worldwide, and in 2021 a series of COVID-enforced...
XTM Mobile 2.9
Find and manage projects on the go with XTM Mobile 2.9 Manage all your translation projects with confidence with the very first XTM Mobile release of 2022....
Five key lessons of 2021, and how a Translation...
The 2020s have started with uncertainty. It’s reassuring, then, to have technology we can rely on. In 2021, Translation Management Systems offered...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Twenty Five – The Gift...
Many of the gifts we give and receive today will reflect the state of technology development. Not too long ago, we were giving writing sets that simply...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Twenty Four –...
Delivering a personalized experience on a large scale may sound like a contradiction, but pioneers across different industries are making it happen. PA...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Twenty Three – 220 Ways...
We applaud moves towards greater diversity, and naturally that includes linguistic diversity. This week’s news that Eric Garcetti, the Mayor of Los...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Twenty Two – Bridging...
Covid-19 has impacted all demographics, and some have been hit particularly hard. Women, low-income workers, the youngest and the poorest have borne the...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Twenty One – Making...
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, December 21st is the shortest day of the year. On this Winter Solstice Day, the Earth tilts to its furthest...
XTM Mobile v2.8
Take a fresh look at language technology and project management with XTM Mobile 2.8. The seventh XTM Mobile release of 2021 invites users to end the year...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Twenty – Just Do It
Ties between Poland and the United States date back to the US War of Independence, when Polish generals Thaddeus Kościuszko and Casimir Pulaski led...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Nineteen – The Equalizer
Physiological studies of sports fans have found that, in team games, the moments that set pulses and hearts racing fastest aren’t winning goals....
XTM Advent Calendar Day Eighteen – Spinning a...
The weekend before Christmas is a favourite cinematic release slot, and this year’s highest profile example is Spider-Man: No Way Home. Reviews are...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Seventeen – Your Digital...
Fans of TV drama “The West Wing” may remember an episode which featured a map of the world turned upside down. A group of cartographers lobbied...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Sixteen – Strictly...
With the final of the latest UK series of Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday, this is as good a time as any to consider the links between dance and...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Fifteen – The Right...
What do women and men look for in a partner? There’s no uniform answer, and sometimes we don’t know until we find it, but research by dating site...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Fourteen – Hitting the...
Many employers claim they offer “a great place to work”. Some employers really do. Ranked number one in Glassdoor’s list of best places to work in...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Thirteen – Into the...
Facebook’s rebranding as Meta Platforms this year was partly a bid to refresh the company’s image and partly an attempt to stake a claim in what may...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Twelve – Attention to...
Attention to detail make all the difference. A one letter change in your zip code could send you to the other end of the country. A one per cent change in...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Eleven – Finding Your...
On this day in 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon. It was the final lunar mission of the Apollo program and it signalled the end of a chapter in human...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Ten – Five Out Of Five
When XTM International prepare for a new product release, we’re excited, full of anticipation and not the least bit complacent. A strong track record is...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Nine – Why not choose...
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...
XTM and SAP – The future is now
With a global streaming boom increasing the demands on localization resources, the need for innovation and reliability in machine translation could not be...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Eight – Own It
2021 has been a landmark year for Heretto. The Rochester-based content operations platform rebranded this summer, leaving behind the successful easyDITA...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Seven – The world on...
On this day in 1962, the Atlas supercomputer was unveiled at Manchester University by Sir John Cockcroft, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who was...
XTM International and SAP SE deliver machine...
LONDON, December 7, 2021 — XTM International (“XTM”), a leading provider of translation management software to global blue-chip clients, today...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Six – Red Light, Green...
The Korean thriller Squid Game has been a major hit for Netflix. it tells the story of people seeking to clear their debts by competing for a cash prize in...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Five – Inspiration in...
“The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Four – In Perfect...
On May 28th 585 BC a solar eclipse occurred over the Atlantic Ocean, casting a shadow that extended into the Middle East. It was such an awe-inspiring...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Three – Positive Intent
It may or may not surprise you to hear that the first patent applications for translating machines were made almost a century ago. A system for automatic...
XTM Advent Calendar Day Two – Connected
As we come to the end of 2021, it’s a good time to look forward to some of the anniversaries we’ll be celebrating in 2022. July 2022 sees the...
XTM Advent Calendar Day One – Word of the Year
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...
Black Into Gold
Late November news reports are quick to emphasise the commercial potential of “Black Friday” for global retailers. What began as an exclusively...
XTM Cloud 12.9 – Making a good thing even better
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...
Stay in the Zone
XTM LIVEStream 2021 brought together localization leaders across industries, nationalities and time zones to discuss the future of global communication and...
XTM Connect AEM v2.1.0 – “Join with us”
Many Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) users already benefit from XTM Connect – AEM to get their content translated via XTM Cloud. We have just launched...
XTM LIVEStream 2021 – Get in the Zone
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...
XTRF Joins XTM in the K1 Investment Management Family
XTM International is delighted to share that in late September, our friends at XTRF secured a growth equity investment from K1 Investment Management. This...
XTM Mobile v2.7 – Upwardly Mobile
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...
Top 5 TMS Essentials for 2022
How a Translation Management System can help you speak to the world As digital transformation enters the post-digital era, enterprises are facing new...
The Billion Dollar Question
XTM Livestream has become a highlight of the localization technology calendar, and this year’s event has been warmly welcomed by industry professionals...
The Thing With Feathers
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...
Crownpeak and XTM: Scale Up and Speak to the World
It’s been quite a year for Crownpeak. The market-leading headless CMS celebrated twenty years in business with well-deserved acknowledgement by review...
The Hard Yards
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...
Global Saké – The Leading Edge
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,...
XTM International Joins The HubSpot App Marketplace
GERARRDS CROSS, UK, September 28, 2021 – Today, XTM International announced that it is now listed in the HubSpot App Marketplace. App Partners are...
Taking You Where You Want To Go
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...
XTM International Announces New Integration With Adobe...
The integration harnesses the power of Adobe’s cloud-native solution and XTM’s flexible translation workflows to turbo-charge global growth.
Found in Translation
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...
Across oceans and borders
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...
John Herzig appointed VP of Sales
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,...
Where No One Has Gone Before
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...
If It Matters To You, It Matters To Us
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...
Feature Focus – Weighted Word Count in XTM Cloud
Timely project delivery is a juggling act. Project managers are on the front line, managing conflicting deadlines and often limited resources. Clients...
Kicko the ballo
Are British sportsmen and women finally waking up to the value of multilingual communication? During his eleven years at Arsenal, Aaron Ramsay endeared...
Word of the Week – Demand
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...
Delivering a Fair Advantage
Great performance is rooted in talent. When we talk about our favourite albums we’re more likely to highlight the musicianship than the sound...
Safe Passage
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...
Dutch Courage
Performances of character light up every Olympics, and some make a lasting impact. Two Dutch women, competing a lifetime apart, will always be remembered....
Making The Numbers Add Up
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...
Setting The Agenda
Sport thrives on the interaction between competitors and fans, and an Olympics held in the shadow of Coronavirus has inevitably been affected. But Olympic...
XTM Cloud and Kentico Kontent – Keeping the Client...
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...
Word of the Week – Filotimo
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...
Catch Us If You Can
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...
Germany In The Driving Seat
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,...
Excellence Is The Goal
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...
Word of The Week – Regular Expression
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...
Hello World
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...
First Day Nerves
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...
Jug Half Full?
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...
Bon Voyage
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...
The Harder You Practice, The Luckier You Get
“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...
Into the Mouth of the Wolf
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...
55 Years of Progress
As Euro 2021 has unfolded, XTM International’s Polish, Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, German, Swiss, French, Swedish and Danish employees have seen their...
Dream Team
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...
Word of the Week – Equalizer
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...
Moving forward with NLP Artificial Intelligence
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...
Anonymity – who’s on the other side of the...
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...
The Symphony Release: Get In Tune With XTM Cloud 12.8
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 – Selectivity
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...
XTM Cloud 12.8 – Connectivity
Connected systems are the future of localization and the Symphony Release brings you notably enhanced integrations between XTM Cloud and content...
XTM Cloud 12.8 – Productivity
The Symphony Release strikes exactly the right note to improve productivity without compromising quality. XTM Cloud 12.8 enables you to make bulk updates...
XTM Cloud 12.8 – Intelligent Simplicity
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...
One World – Connected
This week the World Health Organisation turned its attention to digital well being, and its first global report on Artificial Intelligence set out clear...
Quanos – Intelligent Simplicity
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...
For Sharing, For Everyone
Some people hoard their knowledge like water in the desert. Others see the world differently. Knowledge, like water, helps things grow. The word mentor...
Why Not Both?
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...
The Doctor Is In
Not everyone recognizes the social and economic benefits that Artificial Intelligence brings, but more and more stories are being shared that make those...
Word of the Week – Wellness
We’ve all heard stories of people working punishingly long hours, taking no breaks, neglecting their personal lives and their health. Thankfully,...
The Longest Day
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...
Holding Up Half The Sky
“Women Hold Up Half the Sky” Traditional proverb Russia may not have a spotless reputation when it comes to inclusiveness, but Russian women have...