Software Development, Outsourced Testing and Globalization

Helping Software Companies Succeed in Global Markets with High Quality Products

The rise of Internet connectivity and "on-demand" applications are exerting tremendous pressure on software developers competing in today's global technology marketplace. Software companies must continually refresh their technology, providing a continuous stream of new application enhancements to markets around the world.

On the other hand, they must tightly control their development and support costs. As they target new markets, software makers face the added challenge of maintaining a stable code base and controlling versions across multiple countries, languages, and cultures.

To succeed in these global markets, software companies must ensure their products are compatible with local infrastructures and business processes. They must provide documentation and support tailored to the needs, language, and culture of local users. And they must control costs and accelerate time-to-market by outsourcing the development and testing of the application to remain competitive.

Outsourcing the performance and functional testing to world-class testing centers exposes the product to the real-world deployment environment and ensures that it will operate as expected, and can be benchmarked against a defined set of competitors.

Software Globalization and Testing Services

Having an experienced partner with industry-leading, integrated development, outsourced testing, and localization capabilities delivered on a global scale enables your success. Lionbridge is helping the world's leading software companies achieve their globalization objectives with:

• Outsourced development services that allow companies to scale their development talent "bandwidth" quickly and cost-effectively to meet the demands of new markets
• Product internationalization services that ensure software applications support the many data encodings necessary for multilingual content management, as well as the currency formats, calendars, input methods, and other adaptations required to meet the cultural, legal, and technical requirements of regional markets
• Software testing services that allow companies to perform development and testing in parallel, accelerating market availability of new products, versions, and features
• Translation and localization services to ensure that the application is fully supported in the target languages — from the user interface to technical documentation and online Help Files — to accelerate time-to-market and reduce costly customer support calls
• eLearning solutions that provide rapid, cost-effective training to global sales forces in their native language, accelerating training and enhancing sales success
• Technical writing services that bring outsourced technical writing resources to complete user documentation and Help Files, all written to ease the translation process to ensure rapid global rollout of applications

Lionbridge provides the scalability to launch products in multiple global markets simultaneously, without increasing the burden on in-house staff. And we reduce cost and complexity by providing a single, flexible source to manage both the development and testing of the application, as well as a wide range of software internationalization, content, and technology localization services, for markets around the world.