Testimonials

Hear from some of our current supporters about why they have chosen to make a financial contribution to the GALA Standards Initiative.

		"The Level is proud to be a founding member of the GALA Standards initiative as we help organizations control the creation, localization and delivery of content to audiences worldwide using The Level’s Global Content Management Software. We recognize that strong support for standards benefits the localization community and helps address the complex issues we face. By supporting the standards initiative we are better placed to act as advocates for our clients on utilizing best practices and technology to more efficiently and effectively deliver their multilingual web presence."
		Michael Read, Founding Partner & CEO
		The Level, Canada

		"Amway is excited to be part of GALA's Standards Initiative. Building a centralized localization operation from the ground up requires a lot of expertise and knowledge that isn't always easy to assimilate from the many sources and opinions available. In addition, trying to establish best practices and align with industry standards in order to get buy-in from your executive sponsors can be difficult without actually being able to cite guidelines and determine which practices are actually "best". Having access to this kind of information when you're creating an organization is half the battle and would eliminate the need to recreate the wheel."
		Catherine Guinon, Manager Localization & Content Management
		Amway Corporation, USA

		“Since 2004 Ccaps has been a proud member of GALA, contributing as much as we can to the success of the association. When we heard about the GALA Standards Initiative, we felt that we could not ignore such a great enterprise and decided to become a sponsor. Being at the forefront of such important venture confirms our commitment to the development, improvement and standardization of translation and localization processes, while the ultimate goal of our participation is to benefit both the community and the entire Ccaps supply chain, from external vendors to internal collaborators, and, above all, our clients."
		Fabiano Cid, Managing Director
		Ccaps, Brazil

		"There are few industries where apples and oranges are compared as often with one another as in the language industry. Take pricing for example: there are so many approaches that it is difficult for clients to objectively compare prices. Should they set a word or line rate? Based on the source or target text? And what is a line exactly? 50 gross characters? Or is that 55? There are many areas in our industry that require standardization in order to make communication between the LSP and the client easier - that is why we support the GALA standards initiative."
		Peter Kreitmeier, Deputy CEO, Director of Translation Services
		itl AG, Germany

		"Regardless of the complexity of projects, we can easily find different terms that clients refer to for the same process, different QA criteria, job definitions, different styles of packages, inconsistent procesess and packages even within the same projects from the same client. They may cause an unnecessary, additional time and effort which may result in preventing LSP from managing projects fast and effectively and enabling to deliver the quality work. I believe we need a holistic and systematic approach on common attributes across the overall localization practices, which helps numerous localization providers and translators as well as clients make it's own process around it."
		Sujeong Lee, President
		E4NET, Korea

		"iDisc, a software development and technical translation company, believes that the only way to last in the industry is to provide the best and most efficient service to our customers. This has allowed us to stay in business more than 20 years. We believe in eliminating redundant steps from the supply chain; every participant in the translation process should keep to their value-added core activities. Automation should take place whenever possible all along the way. Access to information is a human right and a critical service for mankind, and translation makes this access possible. We uphold standards to facilitate this."
		Xavier Maza, Language Services Manager
		iDisc Information Technologies, S.L., Spain

		"As a supplier/vendor to over 300 LSPs globally, we at STP Nordic may be in a better position than most to see first-hand the huge variation in quality "standards" and matrixes, workflows, tools, file formats, conversion processes etc. that afflicts our industry. I have heard some industry colleagues claim that the time "wasted" on achieving compatibility/interoperability accounts for up to 10% of their company expenses, and it wouldn't surprise me. I am therefore more than happy to support strong and well-founded initiatives such as GALA's to improve the technical standards landscape for the long-term good of our industry."
		Jesper Sandberg, Managing Director
		Sandberg Translation Partners Ltd, United Kingdom

		"We thank GALA for inviting Clear Words Translations to be part of this ambitious project for research and development of clear, industry-specific standards. Efficiency and quality are the pillars of our company. We believe that the efficiency that this initiative will deliver is vital for the localization industry. Its benefits will result in greater professionalism and quality, more consistent business criteria, and resolution of conflicting and costly processes. All of these will benefit clients, who will see the difference in services delivered, a difference which will be decisive when choosing service providers."
		Hugo Torres, Managing Director
		Clear Words Translations, Argentina

Making Standards Work for the Localization Industry

The GALA Standards Initiative is a non-profit effort organized by the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA). Information contained in these pages is subject to periodic update. Questions and comments may be sent to .

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