ARMEDIA WEAVES CONTENT MANAGEMENT LOGIC INTO COMPLEX LANGUAGE
By Angela Natividad

CMSWire, CA
Aug 27 2007

Along with the pleasure of growth comes the familiar pain of
multilingual translation.

Translation, a process that seems simple enough, actually requires
great skill – not all subcultures or age groups communicate in the same
way. Then there’s the matter of localization, or better tailoring a
product to a certain market, which is also an oft-overlooked element
of interpretation.

The point: translation is complex. With that in mind, Language Weaver
and Armedia have jointly released Machine Language Translation for
the enterprise CMS community.

The tool translates your text into the language(s) of choice via
EMC Documentum, a strong and scalable CMS that Armedia has been
fortunate enough to work closely with. And the Armedia/Language Weaver
partnership has sought to make the process of exchanging one language
for another as fluid as human translation (without the anal-retentive
human translator).

Complete content conversions are completed within minutes, across
any of Documentum’s online interfaces.

But the two companies don’t expect to stop at Documentum’s door.

Armedia plans on tapping a string of other, and older, content
management relationships in order to push this technology. These
include SharePoint and FileNet, as well as mainstream open source
solutions like Joomla and Alfresco.

Possibilities of integration are available across these channels
(though it isn’t clear whether the company will be meeting users
halfway or whether users can work said possibilities out on their own),
and available languages include the 37 language pairs supported by
Language Weaver.

If you’re feeling iffy about it, it bears mentioning that Armenia won
a contract to implement the solution for the Defense Intelligence
Agency. Would Defense Intelligence utilize a sub-par tool for its
intercontinental needs? Actually, don’t answer that.