Over the last twenty years, the localization industry has matured from a part-time profession into a full-fledged enterprise with its own well developed quality standards, processes, and technologies. The rapidly globalizing world economy is further accelerating the growth of the localization industry along with the industry's accompanying technology solutions that are essential to continuous improvement in service, quality, and productivity.

The Recycling Economy
The design it once and use it many times approach played a fundamental role in the industrial revolution in the early 20th century. If not for duplicated and reusable parts used for assembling everything from bicycles to cars, most of us would still be walking on foot to and from work today. The same is true for documentation development and subsequent localization. Various tools and technologies have been developed to aid with the recycling of reusable information from content to terminology and even project management information. For example, a content management system or CMS allows authors and technical writers to recycle text blocks, a globalization management system or GMS allows a localization vendor to recycle workflows, a translation memory or TM system allow translators to recycle translation segments. There are also other tools such as terminology management which allows important terms to be reused during localization, and L10N engineering management which allows resizing and formatting information to be recycled.

Because of the availability of these L10N technologies, companies have been able to achieve better and more consistent quality, increased productivity, and reduced time to market.

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