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| News & Knowledge - News Archive | | | | | | Customer News
October 2008
Consulting Firm CSC Chooses XTRA
CSC, a leading global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company, has begun working with XTRA for its multilingual ad-hoc translation requirements.
September 2008
Sales Trainings Localized for DELL's New Channel Partner Program
As part of an international team put together by Dell, XTRA's task was to work closely together with agencies specializing in other areas and localize content for classroom-based training sessions into the FIGS languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German), as well as Dutch, Czech, Polish and Norwegian.
May 2008
HP Services Relies on XTRA to Localize Trainings into Six European Languages
Again, Hewlett-Packard decided to rely on XTRA's expertise in localizing training content, this time involving the translation of sales trainings into the FIGS languages (French, Italian, German, Spanish), as well as Dutch and Russian.
March 2008
XTRA Writes Documentation for DAIMLER and Translates it into Five Languages
Within a three-month timeframe, XTRA was asked to write the documentation for STAR Diagnosis, a workshop diagnostic system developed by IBM, and translate it into English, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Client feedback: "Thank you very much for your excellent and very professional work!"
February 2008
XTRA Localizes Photo-Booth and Photo-Laboratory Software into 9 Languages
XTRA has recently successfully completed the localization of a major software release for a leading manufacturer of commercial photo booths, mini-laboratories and automated Internet ordering and printing systems. Thousands of photo booths and photo laboratories worldwide will run with this software from March onwards.
January 2008
XTRA Localizes TYPO3-Based Website
In close cooperation with the responsible Internet agency, XTRA has localized a website of a global high-tech company that was developed with the Web content management system TYPO3.
October 2007
XTRA to Localize 14-Country Online Survey on IT Outsourcing
In close collaboration with an international team of agencies, XTRA has provided localization and testing for an online marketing research survey hosted on InsightExpress. Languages involved were German, French, Italian, Latin-American (Mexican) Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. Feedback received: "The way that you two interact with customers is outstanding--not just the professionalism, but the way that you explain the why's and how's of things and convey humanness through this black-and-white medium. Puts you ahead of the competition".
September 2007
XTRA to Localize Flash Application on Mobile Phones into 20 European Languages
Quality and speed--this was our commitment which prompted a leading manufacturer of mobile phones to choose XTRA for the first time. XTRA was charged with localizing a Flash application promoting the music features of its newest generation of mobile phones. We kept our promise: all twenty languages went live within just 10 days.
June 2007
XTRA to Localize Training Courseware for Hewlett-Packard ("HP") into 16 European Languages
HP relied on XTRA to localize a comprehensive web-based training (WBT) from English into German and fifteen other European languages. XTRA's tasks in this challenging project included not only the localization of the course content, but also managing in-country reviews and approval by HP--all within a four-week timeline.
March 2007
XTRA to Localize Ecomagination Website for General Electric ("GE") into 5 European and Asian Languages
XTRA has just completed the localization of GE's Ecomagination website (www.ecomagination.com)--a website developed in Adobe Flash that is dedicated to GE's commitment to protect the environment. Tasks in this assignment included translation and in-context review of screen and video content for all site languages (German, French, Hindi, Japanese and Simplified Chinese).
January 2007
General Electric ("GE") Continues to Rely on XTRA for the Translation of Quarterly Financial Results
According to GE, it is thanks to "XTRA's impressive response times and reliability" that GE has chosen XTRA's translation services for the translation of digital content for GE's corporate website. This includes highly critical assignments such as the translation of quarterly financial results into 25 languages with turnaround times of less than two hours.
April 2006
XTRA Provides Translation Services for Global Health Campaign
On World Health Day, April 7, 2006, GE Healthcare launches the "Picture a Healthy World" campaign in the heart of New York City as the kickoff for a global initiative to promote early health. With chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer on the rise, the campaign aims to reinforce the approach of Early Health as something everyone can participate in. By sharing your photo, your lifestyle and how you stay healthy, the Web-based campaign is a viral experience expected to attract tens of thousands to participate. To reach a global audience, websites are going to be launched in several languages - all localized by XTRA.
March 2006
XTRA Best Rated Vendor in Multi-Thousand Page Bid
The bid involves the translation of specifications of several ten thousand pages from German into English. The documents are to be used by an international team of software architects, developers and programmers during the development of comprehensive retail application. Out of half a dozen suppliers evaluated, XTRA was rated best vendor ("1+") in terms of translation quality and number in price (only outrivaled by an offshore vendor). Based on the results of the evaluation, the client intends to place substantial work with XTRA over the next months.
February 2006
XTRA Makes It to Final Round of RFP for Localization of Encryption Solutions
XTRA participated in a Request for Quotation of a leading manufacturer of encryption and digital-signature solutions who invited select translation companies to participate. While the final choice is still to be made, XTRA is proud of the intermediary result: "We are pleased to inform you that your proposal has qualified as one of the three proposals that made it to the final round of selection. Of more than a dozen vendors who participated in the bidding, only three companies including yourself qualified for the final cut".
January 2006
General Electric Relies on XTRA for the Translation of Quarterly Financial Results
According to GE, it is thanks to "XTRA's impressive response times and reliability" that GE has chosen XTRA's translation services. The contract covers the translation of miscellaneous digital content for GE's corporate website. It includes highly critical assignments like the translation of quarterly financial results into more than 15 languages with turnaround times of less than two hours.
December 2005
XTRA Provides Turnkey Website Solution to Swiss Private Wealth Management Company
Invest-Partners AG (www.invest-partners.ch), a leading Zurich-based Private Wealth Management consulting firm, asked XTRA and their Japanese partner Webproject.jp to offer a turnkey solution for re-launching the company's .ch and .jp websites in English, German and Japanese. Except for the provision of content and review, the client decided to completely outsource the entire project from design to site implementation.
November 2005
XTRA Localizes Flight Booking System for Low-Cost Carrier
Hapag-Lloyd Express, a 100% subsidiary of TUI AG, the largest travel and tourist company in the world, relied on XTRA's expertise to offer their clients the possibility to select from seven different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, and Croatian) when booking flights through the Internet.
October 2005
XTRA to Localize WBT Courses for Hewlett-Packard
The project successfully completed in October included the localization of Web-Based Trainings (WBTs) from English into German. XTRA's responsibility was to translate the content provided in MS-Access databases and perform the QA of the localized WBTs. XTRA reported the QA results to the contractor in charge of implementing the WBTs and tracked the issues until resolution.
September 2005
XTRA and Leading Web Agency Launch Marketing Campaign
21TORR, a leading digital media agency, and XTRA jointly launch a so-called "Double-Happiness" campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to propose an outsourcing alternative for the simultaneous international roll-out of web campaigns for companies that operate internationally. Click here to read the press release (in German).
August 2005
XTRA Provides Translation and Linguistic QA for GE Switzerland Website
General Electric, ranked number 5 in the 2005 list of America's largest companies, relied on XTRA's localization expertise to relaunch the company's website for Switzerland. Tasks included review and adaptation of the German-language content and translation of the entire site content into French and Italian.
July 2005
XTRA Chosen as Worldwide Supplier for Localization of Print Management Solution
XTRA is proud to announce that it has been awarded a contract for localizing a multi-platform output management solution by one of its long-standing clients. The contract covers localization of the graphical user interface, translation of related documentation, internationalization testing, test case design and language verification testing of the GUI using different browsers and platforms. The contract stipulates simultaneous worldwide release and covers German, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian, Japanese and Chinese versions.
June 2005
Localization of Web Specials for Leading Manufacturer of Mobile Phones
To promote sales for the company's latest generation of mobile phones, Siemens Mobile (siemens-mobile.com), one of the leading mobile phone manufacturers, relied on XTRA's Web translation expertise to localize sophisticated XML-based Flash applications. After successful completion of one pilot language, the project has been extended to seven languages in a second step.
May 2005
XTRA Provides Translation Services to Leading Funds and Investment Companies
Clerical Medical, part of the HBOS (Halifax and Bank of Scotland) Group, selected XTRA to outsource translation work with short turn-around times in support of CM's internal translations department.
April 2005
Localization of Prototype for Leading Mobile Communications Company
XTRA announces successful completion of translation work performed on prototypes for Vodafone (vodafone.com). The contract covered three Western European websites.
March 2005
XTRA Translates Web Content for Leading Fortune 500 Enterprise
General Electric, one of the world's largest enterprises, relied on XTRA's translation expertise to translate first-level pages of GE's website for the Czech market. Web content for other emerging markets is to follow later this year.
February 2005
Agilent Selects XTRA as Translation Services Supplier
Agilent Technologies, with approx. 28,000 employees worldwide a leading provider of innovative solutions for communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, selected XTRA as a new vendor for translation services.
November 2004
Extended Language Coverage for Localization of Web Campaigns
XTRA's language offering provided to Hewlett-Packard has been extended to 28 countries in the EMEA region involving 18 languages. The service offering provided includes turnkey localization of Flash applications for HP's corporate website hp.com.
August 2004
Provider of Automotive Retailing Software Solutions Selects XTRA to Localize Dealer Management System
XTRA was chosen to provide French and Italian versions for a comprehensive automotive software solution based on Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision. Particular challenges of this project were terminology research, managing consistency, and taking care of engineering issues to assure successful implementation of the localized software versions.
March 2004
IBM/Lotus Choose XTRA to Provide German Translation Services and Testing for Lotus Products
XTRA's German translation team is thrilled to localize exciting products for the industry leader in messaging and collaboration software.
February 2004
Best Performance Results in 10 Years of Business Relationship with IBM - Long-term Contract Signed
Both the outstanding performance results for quality achievements in 2003 and a recently signed 3-year contract confirm XTRA's successful approach of providing first-class translation services to long-term clients. Services provided include translation, quality assurance and testing services.
December 2003
Hewlett-Packard Selects XTRA as Multilingual Provider for European Web Campaigns of hp.com
In recognition of XTRA's work performed in the past, XTRA was awarded a contract covering translations for 2 web campaigns of hp.com, the company's corporate website.
September 2003
HP Colour in the Office Website to be Launched in 15 European Languages - Localized by XTRA
Visit the HP Colour in the Office website to see how XTRA managed to localize this sophisticated website aimed at promoting the use of color printing.
July 2003
New Hilton Website Available in German - Translated by XTRA
Visit Hilton's newly launched German website to get an impressive demonstration of the talent of our German translators and their work performed over a period of 4 months.
March 2003
JDA International Relies on XTRA to Localize French Online Help of Merchandise Management System
Learn how XTRA and their French partner successfully managed to localize a complete HTML-based online help system within a very tight timeframe.
January 2003
HP Selects XTRA as Preferred Supplier of Localization Services for EMEA Languages
Contact us to learn how XTRA works with HP to provide high-quality translation and localization services.
November 2002
XTRA Provides Solution to Localize Sophisticated Data Stream and Forms Application into German, French, Spanish, and Italian
XTRA was chosen to provide an extensive range of services on a long-term basis including consulting, engineering, editing, localization, testing, translation of documentation, and creation of online help. The product will be presented at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover.
August 2002
Amdocs Selects XTRA to Localize Critical Customer Information for German Clients
XTRA teamed up with the world's leading provider of CRM, billing and order management solutions to the communications industry to provide high-quality vital company news to their clients.
September 2001
IBM Learning Services Selects XTRA to Localize Series of e-Learning Courses into German
XTRA successfully localized a series of Web-based training courses during the past 12 months - without a single change request, on time and in budget.
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January 2009
XTRA Reports 25% Increase in Revenue
Despite the difficult general economic climate, XTRA has reached its growth targets for FY 2008. Turnover was up 25.2 % on FY 2007. Thanks to a high single-digit profit margin it was possible to increase the leverage limit further. XTRA intends to continue managing its further growth without any external funds.
November 2008
XTRA Celebrates 15th Anniversary
40 people from all over Germany came to celebrate XTRA's 15th anniversary. Thank you for being with us on this unforgettable evening.
October 2008
New Version of XTRA/net Released
After having assisted our customers Clerical Medical and Heidelberger Leben (HBOS Group) to manage more than 1,000 translation jobs over the past 18 months, version 1.1 of the self-service translation portal developed and hosted by XTRA has now been released.
June 2008
XTRA to Become English to German Translation Vendor for Siebel CRM
Following successful collaboration over the past 12 months on the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards's product lines, ORACLE also assigned XTRA responsibility for a further product line, Siebel CRM.
February 2008
Sales Grow by 22%
In the past financial year, XTRA managed to increase its sales by 21.9% compared to the previous year. This increase was based primarily on winning new customers. Thanks to a high single-digit profit margin it was possible to increase the leverage limit further. XTRA intends to continue managing its further growth without any external funds.
January 2008
XTRA Evaluates Industry-Specific Workflow Solutions
Following the decision to offer the Web-based workflow application, XTRA/net, in future exclusively as a self-service portal for language services, XTRA is now evaluating the workflow applications available on the market. The focus is specifically on adaptable solutions developed for the localization industry, such as Plunet BusinessManager.
December 2007
Realignment of XTRA/net as a Self-Service Portal
In the future, XTRA will exclusively provide XTRA/net, which was originally designed as a comprehensive, Web-based project-management solution for project managers, partners and customers, as a self-service portal. This solution is aimed at language services that have to coordinate translation orders from internal customers.
October 2007
XTRA to Exhibit at Annual TEKOM Conference in November 2007
Want to learn more about XTRA? Then the Annual Tekom Conference taking place from November 7th to 9th, 2007 in the Rhein-Main Hallen in Wiesbaden, Germany is the place to go. Come visit us at booth 100 in hall 10. Or click here to arrange a meeting with XTRA's Managing Director.
June 2007
XTRA Becomes Translation Partner of ORACLE for English to German
Among several potential translation agencies evaluated, XTRA was chosen as the sole provider of English to German translation services for all JD Edwards and PeopleSoft applications. Both parties expressed their determination to invest in a long-term business relationship.
May 2007
HBOS First Client to Make Use of XTRA/net Self-Service Portal
"In view of limited internal resources, how can we quickly effectively manage translation requests from our internal clients with maximum flexibility and control?" This was a question we were asked by our client HBOS. Nice challenge! 14 days later, we implemented a browser-based solution consisting of a self-service translation portal developed and hosted by XTRA. From now on, internal HBOS clients will use the translation portal to request translation services. HBOS's internal language department decide on a case-by-case base whether a translation should be done internally or outsourced. Interested? Click here to request a case study or more information.
January 2007
XTRA Becomes Translation Partner of SAP for English to German
Following an in-depth review of XTRA's translation processes and capabilities including a full-day onsite assessment at XTRA's offices in Böblingen, SAP decided to accept XTRA as a new SAP Translation Partner for English to German translations. Both parties agreed they hope this would be the beginning of a long-term business relationship.
February 2006
XTRA Hires New German Translator
After successfully completing a three-month trainee program, XTRA decided to offer the trainee a full-time position. The new staff member brings in experience in the medical and IT fields. XTRA now employs 15 full-time employees in its Böblingen office, mostly dedicated to English to German translation and localization projects, multilingual project management and quality assurance.
October 2005
XTRA Hires Full-Time Staff for the Development of XTRA/net
In order to accelerate the release of version 1.0 of its web-based project management solution XTRA/net, XTRA raised the budget assigned to software development and hired a full-time software engineer. Version 1.0 is expected to contain comprehensive workflow functionalities. In a first step, it is intended to be shared with partners and clients in the 2nd half of 2006.
July 2005
Launch of XTRA's Project Management Solution Scheduled for 1st Half of 2006
The official launch of XTRA's proprietary workflow application is scheduled for the 1st half of 2006. The web-based project management system will provide extensive functionality for Project Managers, Partners, and Clients.
January 2005
XTRA Reports 11% Increase in Revenue
2004 saw an 11% increase in revenue over 2003. The increase was due to business expansion with long-term IT clients. Unlike many competitors, XTRA was not affected by price erosion. Says XTRA's Managing Director Stefan Lampert: "Our business model involving operation from one central office, minimal sales and marketing costs, and delivery of service solutions of outstanding quality allows us to be highly competitive without compromising profitability".
December 2004
XTRA Welcomes New Staff Member
Following the company's recruitment strategy of providing full-time employment perspectives after successfully completing a trainee program, XTRA welcomes a new staff member to support the German translation department and multilingual project management.
April 2004
XTRA to Launch New Website
Three years after the last relaunch, XTRA's new website goes live. Visitors will be able to select their location/language to view part of their preferred locale. Among the new features of the website is a Books section.
January 2004
XTRA Reports 17% Increase in Sales For 2003
Despite a difficult economic climate in the high-tech industry in 2003, the company reports a 17% increase in sales versus 2002 (2002 vs. 2001: 18%). In view of renewed and new contracts signed early in 2004, XTRA's Managing Director Stefan Lampert is optimistic that it will be possible to "continue this trend and reach the company's long-term growth target of 20% per year in 2004."
November 2003
Long-standing Staff Member Becomes Shareholder
Having been a staff member of XTRA since the very beginning, Sylvia Gogol becomes a shareholder of XTRA. She is responsible for the divisions Finance and Accounting.
August 2003
Press Release - XTRA Offers Selected IT Service Providers Strategic Partnership
In response to the growing demand for integrated full-service solutions, XTRA launches an initiative for building strategic partnerships with selected IT service providers. The following questions and answers provide... Read more
July 2003
Press Release - Multilizer and XTRA Sign VAR Agreement
Multilizer, Inc., a developer of globalization technologies, and XTRA have announced a strategic partnership and signed a VAR agreement on delivering Multilizer technology to the German market.
"Germany is one of Multilizer's top markets already and with this partnership... Read more
February 2003
XTRA Adds SDLX to its Portfolio of Supported Translation Memory Tools
After thorough evaluation, XTRA decides to use SDLX for a complex multi-language website localization project involving various web and multimedia file formats.
December 2002
XTRA Reports 18% Increase in Sales for 2002
"Given the turbulent situation in the IT industry and short budgets for new projects," says Managing Director Stefan Lampert, "I think we can be very satisfied with the past year. The ongoing commitment of existing customers in the past year and recently signed long-term contracts provide promising perspectives for XTRA's 10th year."
February 2002
XTRA Staff Faces New Challenges
After one of the two company's managers decided to leave the company, founder and Managing Director Stefan Lampert decides to set up a team of Project Managers to take on new responsibilities.
August 2001
XTRA Expands Base of In-country Localization Partners
Following our announcement in April to expand our future offering of high-quality translation services to IT companies in 30 target languages, we have been very busy evaluating translation companies as prospective Localization Partners. After a... Read more
July 2001
Corporate Localization Strategy Seminar
XTRA Translation Services is proud to host the Corporate Localization Strategy Seminar on August 30, 2001 at the Airport Conference Center in Frankfurt/Main. This seminar is intended to... Read more
April 2001
XTRA Expands Language Coverage to Fill Industry Gap for High-Quality Translation Services
To better serve international clients, XTRA Translation Services is expanding its language offering to 30 target languages. Through cooperations with... Read more
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