There's more to localizing software than just translating the interface. But underestimating or enduring development surprises mean expensive halts and delays to global release plans. This webinar is focused on helping managers, localization professionals and engineers in understanding and planning for software engineering for the world. Learn the basics of engineering Locale support requirements to an overview of Unicode and how to implement it to support complex character sets like Chinese and Japanese.

You'll learn a Return on Investment approach to optimizing globalized software development for world-market requirements.

This Webinar covers:

• Understand the basics of the software globalization process
• Requirements
• Technologies
• String Management and Encoding
• Locale-limiting methods/functions/classes
• Analyzing your code
• Planning a budget
• Architecting a solution to release
• Keeping software globalized
• Return On Investment Model (ROI)
• Most importantly, come away with understanding what goes into making globalized applications that are built to compete effectively in rapidly growing markets.

About the speaker:

Adam Asnes founded Lingoport in 2001 after seeing firsthand that the niche for software globalization engineering products and services was underserved in the localization industry. As Lingoport's President and CEO, he focuses on sales and marketing alliances while maintaining oversight of the company's internationalization services engineering and Globalyzer product development. Adam is a frequent speaker and columnist on globalization technology as it affects businesses expanding their worldwide reach. For creative inspiration and fun, Adam enjoys cycling and Colorado's Rocky Mountains.

Who should attend?

• Localization Managers
• Product Managers
• Engineering Management
• Anyone steering their company toward more efficient software globalization releases

This audio conference is rated General Interest.