Medialocate prides itself on being a true "full-service" localization company. We understand that in today's complex marketplace, with its multitude of sales, marketing, and regulatory requirements, companies need to be both visible and resourceful. They require customized and comprehensive language solutions that go beyond traditional text translation. Over more than two decades, Medialocate has built successful programs for hundreds of companies by providing wide-ranging services: from technical documentation translation, website localization and software engineering, to multilingual publishing, language automation, audio recording, and over-the-phone interpretation – we offer an array of services matched by only a few exclusive language providers.

Global Strategy Planning

Our Strategic Global Planning Services begin with a comprehensive understanding of your worldwide ‘go to market’ plan and associated business challenges. We then map your specific business drivers to a suite of globally proven program requirements and recommendations that enable Medialocate to develop success metrics that are measurable and provide you with a strong return on your investment. The Enhanced Global Strategic Service includes within its core offering, an emphasis on Global Strategic Planning, Global Market Research and Evaluation, Cultural Audit and Planning and an enhanced set of reports specifically designed to provide you with the tools to drive your business around the world.

Enhanced Global Technology

Medialocate's Enhanced Global Technology Service takes our proven ability to effectively integrate multiple technologies into a robust customer platform and adds Global Content Management, Customized Localization Workflow Development and internationalized software testing tools to round out a world class service that will allow our customer’s enterprise systems or point solutions to operate at the highest levels in the online marketing space.

Enhanced Creative Services

Medialocate's Enhanced Creative Service bundles our multidisciplinary approach to developing media (combining human, technical and business objectives) with an enhanced global production capability to provide a very successful and innovative digital design media. This service includes an emphasis on creating comprehensive global media and message, localization of all media, transcreation for local markets and cultural adoption.

Documentation Translation

Whatever your documentation needs may be, Medialocate can provide translation, editing, and proofreading into and from more than 70 languages. Our linguists have experience in many industries such as Information Technology, Manufacturing, Plastics, Chemicals, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Marketing, Education, Finance, Law, and Games.

All of our linguists are native speakers of the language they translate into, thus making sure that your translated documents read as if they were written in the target language and not as translations. From Press Releases to Operation Manuals, our services are 100% scalable, enabling us to manage multiple languages and deliveries concurrently, ensuring ever-critical simultaneous shipment of your products.

Website Localization

Your company's website is often the first point of contact for many of your customers. Having a website in multiple languages is a cost-effective way to expand into new markets and cultures. Adding Canadian French and Domestic Spanish to an English web site, for example, lets your customers know that you are committed to their needs.

Medialocate can handle any type of front or back-end technology you may be deploying, from html to xml, ASP, PHP or JavaScript all the way to SQL Server and Oracle, even content management systems such as Stellent, Vignette or Documentum. We have the technical expertise to provide you with a fully localized website to get you up and running in the shortest amount of time.

Software Localization

Let Medialocate be your software localization partner to ensure that your multilanguage products reach customers in a timely fashion, even simultaneously. We can work with you to make sure a product is fully internationalized so that localization will be a snap. We can also localize legacy applications, a great way to extract profit from existing product lines.

Medialocate has seasoned engineers who can handle multiple programming environments (C++, VisualBasic, Java, etc.) and multiple platforrms (Microsoft, Mac, Unix). We can work with your development teams to seamlessly integrate the design, development, implementation and testing phases into our localization process.

Testing

Medialocate has extensive experience in linguistic and functional testing, giving you the confidence that your localized web or software applications function as well as the original. We have a testing lab with multiple versions of Windows and Macintosh platforms operating in multiple languages, which can easily be configured to test almost any platform, environment, or language.

If you would like to have our testers come to your testing site, we can send qualified linguists who have expertise in a variety of fields. We can assist with test script creation, and help get testers up to speed with your particular application or testing needs.

More and more companies are reverting to testing their proprietary software in-house, rather than off-shoring this crucial step in localizing their products to distant places, where time-to-market, quality, security, and copyright laws often take a backseat.

Medialocate has provided on-site testing services in up to 32 languages simultaneously, allowing for instantaneous bug regression with faster time-to-market, while providing important background checks and security clearances for all on-site resources.

Audio/Video

Entertainment Games: Along with only a handful of localizers, Medialocate offers complete game localization to remove the language barrier for gamers of all ages. We work with all major platforms: PC, Mac, Sony Playstation/PSP, Microsoft XBox and Nintendo Wii. We can extract text from written and spoken dialog (audio, graphics and source code files), then perform the engineering to create localized versions. We also provide in-house and on-site testing to make sure the localized versions function just like the original.

Corporate Videos: Our clients rely on us to handle their audio and video projects, from instructional videos and corporate overviews to commercials, films and in-game movies. We work with voice talent from around the world, so your audience will hear and see someone with whom they can identify. We can offer you samples of potential actors that match your criteria (age, gender, tone, timber, etc.) and scale from a single narrator all they way up to a crowd of voices.

Multilingual Publishing

Entrust Medialocate to assist you with your multilingual publishing needs. We have wide-ranging experience handling translation of texts in many different layout applications, such as Adobe InDesign, FrameMaker, and QuarkXPress, as well as content management systems like Vignette or Stellent. We can generate templates which will make it simple to localize your documents into one or many languages, including charts and graphics.

When Medialocate handles your multilingual documents, many resources are involved to make sure your documents contain zero defects. Initially all documents are translated, edited and proofread by separate linguists. When your documents then move into our desktop publishing department, they are handled in four phases: layout formatting, graphics editing, linguistic QA and mechanical QA. So before we ship your final localized documents, a total of seven stations as well as your project manager will have been involved to attain the high quality you expect from your localization partner.

Translation Automation

Medialocate uses Translation Memory ("TM") technology which improves the overall quality of your translations and reduces the cost and turnaround times to you. Translation memory achieves this by automatically reusing existing translations, enforcing consistency between translations and the client glossary, even when different translators are used.

We are aggressive when it comes to creating and updating your master translation memory. While some companies jealously guard the memories they create when working on your projects, Medialocate prides itself on the fact that the client owns the translation memory. At any time, you can request that we send you the latest master memories. Why do we do this? Because we are very proud of our client retention record, and feel that only companies who fear losing clients would want to control the master memories.

Are you considering or already working with a TMS or GMS (Translation/Globalization Management System)?

From Translation Memory tools to diverse Workflow Management solutions, Medialocate is among the elite in implementing the latest language technologies. Medialocate deploys multiple versions of SDL's family of Trados, TM Server and WorldServer products, and can also accommodate Across' Language Server, as well as GlobalSight.

Machine Translation Feasibility Assessment

Is your company looking to maximize localization efficiency? Are you planning to introduce new localized products or enter new global markets? Are you considering Machine Translation (MT) but are unsure that your company is ready or unclear how to proceed?

In support of companies considering whether automated translation is right for them, Medialocate has created an MT Feasibility Assessment service. This service:

• Provides an introduction to MT and associated translation technologies
• Assesses a company's readiness for MT given its translation needs, its linguistic assets, and internal engineering and linguistic capabilities
• Explores translation automation options
• Describes how existing localization workflow will change
• Explains potential benefits, risks, and costs of MT
• Provides guidelines and roadmaps for getting started with MT

Medialocate's MT Feasibility Assessment service results in a foundation for making an informed decision on incorporating MT within your organization.

Interpretation

Medialocate delivers professional, fast, and cost-effective over-the-phone interpretation from English into more than 150 languages, all day, every day! Most companies are simply not equipped to schedule an interpreter or pull bilingual staff from their primary responsibility. Through use of state-of-the-art call center technology we offer a better and faster solution and we are just a phone call away, 24/7. Our interpreters have performed millions of interpretations and are certified, bonded, and professionally insured. And best of all, you pay only for the languages you need, when you need them, without worries about hectic scheduling or cancellation fees.

NEW: Ask us about our customized "Direct Response" program and greet your callers in their language through an interpreter serving as your company representative. We offer personalized greetings, live answers, warm transfers, along with customized call routing.

Cross-Cultural Training

Our Cross-Cultural Training refers to a variety of training courses designed for executives, managers, or teams that regularly visit a foreign country or who frequently interact with overseas clients or colleagues. Led by world-class consultants, our seminars aim to develop awareness of corporate culture, national culture, and the individual perspective in regards to values, morals, ethics, business practices, etiquette, protocol and negotiation styles.

Whether your company seeks to advance its competitive advantage in China or to achieve stakeholder buy-in in Germany, Medialocate’s cross-cultural training will equip participants with the key skills that will help in building successful business relationships.

Staff Augmentation

We work in partnership with our clients to create a flexible staffing plan that augments their core staff with the best experts available on an as needed basis. Clients increasingly find that using our flexible, expert linguistic and project management resources is the best way to meet continually shifting business goals. Whether on site or off-site, temporary or contract-to-permanent staffing, Medialocate provides individuals or entire teams to client projects to help deliver specific product components or to fulfill particular project functions. Those companies that have preferential access to seasoned professional resources when they need them and only for as long as they need them, have a decisive competitive advantage.

Global Social Media

Social media is a smart way to engage your target customers and partners, as well as gain the market intelligence you need to grow your globally-minded business. Medialocate can provide the strategy, tools, and execution you need to create a social media marketing plan that will increase your worldwide penetration. We will help you:

• Gain customer and partner insights
• Increase customer satisfaction
• Promote your brand awareness across the world
• Monitor, participate in, and even lead the conversation
• Leverage social networks like Twitter and Facebook, as well as blogs, forums, etc.
• Measure the results of your social media programs