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The Think Global Awards were named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Corporate & Community - Community Engagement Event category in The 16th Annual International Business Awards®. The International Business Awards are the world's premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and…

Source Code Vistatec Open Source Code for JLIFF Library Phil Ritchie, CTO, Vistatec Vistatec recently announced that it will release the source code for its JLIFF library as open source.  JLIFF is an Internet and web services friendly version of XLIFF: a prominent interchange format used throughout the localization industry supply chain. JLIFF is a new…

Think Global Forum - European Launch Simon Hodgkins, Editor in Chief VTQ, Founder Think Global Forum Following the successful development of the Think Global Forum in the United States, this fast growing forum has now expanded into Europe. With an already established network of forums across the USA covering the Technology, Travel, Manufacturing and Life Science…

Deep Content ’Semantic Enrichment’ Phil Ritchie, CTO Vistatec Deep Content adds semantic depth to content. Deep Content uses technologies such as entity recognition and internet knowledge graph queries to automatically annotate words and phrases in your digital content with facts and links to pertinent reference resources. This adds semantic depth to the content itself thus…

Open Source ’Ocelot’ Phil Ritchie, CTO Vistatec Only a few short years ago the very first 400 lines of Ocelot source code were committed to GitHub. Ocelot was born out of a Vistatec business requirement to finesse the process of linguistic quality review, with the aim of improving some poor ergonomics, removing double-entry and integrating…

Go Global, Be Global Musings from LocWorld Portugal 2019 Aoife MurphyManaging Director Europe, Think Global ForumMajor Accounts Director, Vistatec It’s one thing to plan and execute your entry into a new market. But what comes next? How will you strengthen your brand? Support your customers? Maintain and grow your presence? Deal with local competitors? Align…

Fintech Innovation Showcase Bronwyn Hogan, VTQ A recent Fintech Innovation Showcase gave many leading Danish organizations an opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the industry and to learn more about the wider capabilities in the thriving Irish business landscape and Fintech scene. Mr Michael D’Arcy Irish Minister of State at the Department of…

Meet the Globalization Team Anna N Schlegel, Sr. Director, Globalization Programs and Information Strategy, NetApp NetApp has agreement on globalization priorities, investments, and processes to take the company globally. Yes, we do. This is a massive company-wide effort lead by our team, with CEO and staff buy in. Getting there has been a long journey!…

Get Your S.H.I.P. Together Interview with Dan Chappelle, President, The Wealthy Travel Agent Browyn Hogan, Creative Director, VTQ Agent? The mission of Chappelle Consulting International, doing business as “The Wealthy Travel Agent”, is to “Create Sales Leaders in the Travel and Tourism Industry.” The skillsets required to thrive have changed over the years, however, as an industry…

The Language of Localization Interview with Kit Brown-Hoekstra, Owner and Principal, Comgenesis Simon Hodgkins, Editor in Chief, VTQ The book “The Language of Localization” is the 3rd book in the series and gathers experts from around the world to discuss core concepts in localization. What motivated you to get involved with the book? As I…