Case Study

BasWare Oyj

"MULTILIZER delivered all the features we needed in our multilingual localization project"

BasWare Corporation

BasWare, Inc. is an internationational software house whose ecommerce and financial steering software are used in over one thousand organizations in different business areas in over ten European counties as well as in the Australian market. BasWare is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange HEX.

BasWare seeks growth from different language areas

BasWare seeks for growth in the volume in trading abroad, especially from Europe. That is why software has different language versions so that they speak the user's language. "Producing different language versions is an integral part of the development process for us. The terminology varies between counties, so we couldn't use only English in our software", states Johanna Puro-Grönblom from BasWare.

BasWare localizes products with MULTILIZER®

"Last year we started a project in which we studied how to make the production of different language versions more efficient in one of our product families. Terminology validation, terminology re-usage and fast time-to-market for different language versions were our objectives. We found that Multilizer delivered all the features we needed in our multilingual localization project", Puro-Grönblom continued.

Experiences in using MULTILIZER®

The translatable data resides in application's .INI files, which contain the native terms in the production phase. Localization expert opens the .INI file in Multilizer and Multilizer seeks automatically the translatable terms. If the target language has been previously translated, the terms have been saved to the Multilizer translation memory. In this case the new language version can be produced completey automatically so that the localization expert does not even have to know the target language. On top of that, Multilizer is extremely easy to use and no programming exprerience whatsoever is required from the user.

"Our validated terms go to Multilizer translation memory which means that translations made with the translation memory are 100% accurate", states Pur-Grönblom.

New terms that are not found from the translation memory are sent to a translation company for translation using the built-in deploy mechanism in Multilizer. The package sent to the translators can contain comments, instructions and screen shots of the translatable contents. When the translation is completed, the translation company sends the terms back to BasWare where they are imported to Multilizer's translation memory so that they can be used in future translations. After this Multilizer creates automatically the translated (localized) files.

Terminology control, better overall quality, fewer resources needed and faster time-to-market!

"Multilizer has made the terminology control and consistency control considerably easier. Also, the need for resources has reduced when developing different language versions and the time-to-market is faster as well. Multilizer is easy to use and it doesn't require programming experience. Migration from our previous localization technologies to Multilizer was easy and we have always received customer support when needed", Puro-Grönholm says.

BasWare Corporation

BasWare Corporation is a profitably growing international software company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange HEX. Founded in 1985, BasWare develops, markets and sells packaged software applications for e-Business and financial management. BasWare's software is in use in over a thousand organizations in various business sectors, in both the private and public sector. BasWare’s software package for electronic business is the market leader within Scandinavia and Financial Management software package leads the market in Finland.

BasWare is headquartered in Espoo, Finland with subsidiaries in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Denmark. The partnership network covers the markets of the Scandinavia, Great Britain, the Benelux countries, German speaking Europe as well as Australia. BasWare's net sales in 2001 were 12.4 million euro with total of 168 employees at the end of the year.