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1 Translation and Localization Services

2 Company Overview InterSol, Inc., a California corporation founded in 1996, provides clients with international language solutions. InterSol delivers multilingual solutions to the medical, life sciences, information technology, legal, financial, gaming, aerospace, automotive, advertising, and other industries. We serve the translation needs of business of all sizes. Our services include translation of medical and technical documentation, localization of software, user interfaces and online help systems, web sites, marketing communications, localization testing, and consulting and training Services are supported by the development of language technologies designed to assist in localization processes and projects. Our experienced staff is ready to help clients save time and money in the creation of localization ready content.

3 Fields of Specialization Medical Technical Software Legal Marketing Business

4 Technical Capabilities Using state-of-the art translation tools, InterSol, Inc. is able to deconstruct files to separate text from code. Experienced translators work with text only. Translated text is then submitted to our stringent quality assurance process. Finally, the file is reconstructed to match exactly the format of the original file.

5 CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) Tools InterSol applies technology to the art of translation through the use of various CAT Tools: Translation Memory Project Management Software localization Quality Assurance

6 Translation Memory It is a database that stores segments, which can be sentences, paragraphs or phrases (headings, titles or elements in a list) that have previously been translated, in order to aid human translators. Stores the source text and its corresponding translation in language pairs called translation units. InterSol creates translation memories and uses them in conjunction with SDL Trados Studio, a dedicated computer assisted translation (CAT) tool.

7 How does it work? The translator opens the source file and applies the translation memory so that any 100% matches (identical matches) or fuzzy matches (similar, but not identical matches) within the text are instantly extracted and placed in the target file. The translator then reviews the matches suggested by the translation memory and accepts, modifies or replaces them with new alternatives. Once translation unit is manually updated, it is stored in the translation memory for future use. No matches or new translations are translated manually by the translator and automatically added to the translation memory.

8 What are the business benefits of using TMs? Quality - Improved consistency of terminology within and across product documentation. On time delivery - Accelerated project completion. Very competitive pricing - Reduced cost of translations we never translate the same sentence more than once.

9 Project Management Tools Offer increased performance in organizing and optimizing the core activities involving multilingual processes. This includes efficient coordination of translations, systematic translation quality control, client review support, and thorough process auditing and reporting. InterSol uses project management tools to create and manage customized project flow solutions adapted to customer requirements.

10 Sample process flow

11 Sample reports Project Management Tools

12 Software Localization Tools Greatly simplify and accelerate the translation of user interfaces. Eliminate the need for programming experience on the part of the translators. Integrated with Trados, optimize both manual and automated localization workflows. InterSol uses software localization tools to handle a large number of software-specific file formats, including executable programs, resource files and XML based files. Text strings can be translated into numerous languages, including Asian languages (Unicode) and right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic.

13 Quality Assurance Tools InterSol uses a number of QA tools to assist with the verification of documents written in markup languages, such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and XML (extensible Markup Language). XML validation, for example, consists of checking a XML document to confirm that it is both well-formed and valid, ie., it follows a defined structure. A well-formed document follows the basic syntactic rules of XML, which are the same for all XML documents. A valid XML document also respects the rules dictated by a particular DTD or XML schema, such as a DITA map (Darwin Information Typing Architecture), according to the application-specific choices for those particular documents.

14 TM Discounts Savings and Discounts Reusable Total No. Words left Cost Savings Translations (%) of Words to translate Days Money Days Money 0% 100, , $15,000 0 $ - Volume Discounts Cost Savings Legacy translation Reuse 10% 10,000 90, $13,500 5 $ 1,500 20% 20,000 80, $12, $ 3,000 30% 30,000 70, $10, $ 4,500 40% 40,000 60, $ 9, $ 6,000 Accelerated project completion Process automation and optimization 50% 50,000 50, $ 7, $ 7,500 60% 60,000 40, $ 6, $ 9,000 70% 70,000 30, $ 4, $10,500 80% 80,000 20, $ 3, $12,000 Leverage Discount Price/Word No Match (0-74%) 0% Fuzzy Match (75-94%) 25% Match (94-100%) and Repetitions 75% Context TM and Perfect Matches 100% 90% 90,000 10,000 5 $ 1, $13,500 No Match: 0% match and 50 to 74% matches with previously translated sentences Fuzzy match: 75 to 94% matches with previously translated sentences Matches: Repetitions and 95 to 99% matches with previously translated sentences Perfect Matches: 100% Matches with previously translated sentences from previous versions

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We Answer To All Your Localization Needs! Str. Traian Nr. 2, Bucharest, Romania 8950 W Olympic Blvd, California, U.S.A (RO) +40.740.182.777 / (US) +1.213.248.2367 www.i-t-local.com; alex@i-t-local.com