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MT: Militant Translators plan retirement

Friday, 16 November 2007

Opticentre continues its assault on static translators and inefficient ‘agencies’ by joining the Euromatrix project which aims to create statistical translation systems between all European languages .
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Triple Play: Q3 financials reviewed

Friday, 19 October 2007

Opticentre the world’s largest dedicated provider of service solutions for accelerating and optimizing global publishing initiatives today announced it tripled the number of new customer wins for its latest fiscal year from Q3/06 thru Q3/07. Significant customer momentum capped a year also highlighted by strategic technological and human resource additions to the Opticentre corporate stable. .. more »

Host With the Most

Monday, 10 September 2007

Opticentre, the world’s largest dedicated provider of service solutions for accelerating and optimizing global publishing initiatives, announced today the opening of an independent data center to provide enterprise customers and language service providers with a secure and robust hosting environment to enable them to manage all global information requirements in a secure and highly reliable manner. .. more »

Market goes GAGA for Irish Gaelic

Thursday, 16 August 2007

Opticentre, optimizer of fast, accurate workflow for busy global localizers, has stepped in to fill the supply deficit for 2 new EU languages: Irish (GA/Gaelic) and Bulgarian. .. more »

Opticentre OCR capacity multiplies

Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Opticentre – a provider of solutions for migration to structured documentation - has doubled OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capacity at its Legacy Conversion Unit (LCU) in its Plovdiv TechPubs hub. .. more »

Auf Wiedersehen PASSOLO

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Opticentre, purveyors of accelerating workflow and tools to fast-moving localizers , wishes to congratulate their partners, the team at PASSOLO upon their successful sellout to SDL plc . .. more »

Optimize this. Adobe CS3

Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Opticentre – the world’s smartest provider of DTP for localization – is holding a series of workshops for those who want to get up to speed on the new versions of Adobe CS3. .. more »

Opticentre Affiliate Program for Technical Writers

Tuesday, 10 April 2007

Opticentre is already the world’s largest dedicated provider of DTP and multilingual publishing layout services to the world’s most demanding software releasers. We’ve achieved that because we consistently exceed the expectations of these hyperactive clients in their 3 key areas of concern: .. more »

Opticentre services do not cost the earth

Friday, 09 March 2007

Opticentre – the world’s largest dedicated provider of multilingual technical publishing solutions – is determined that its aggressive growth and related energy needs don’t cost the earth. .. more »

Flex 2 and Action Script 3.0 added to menu at Opticentre

Monday, 19 February 2007

Opticentre, hosting solutions for some of the world’s most demanding global corporations, has upgraded its entire FLASH team to the very latest Flex 2 and Action Script 3.0 technologies. .. more »

Opticentre installs first SuperComputers for Localization

Monday, 12 February 2007

Opticentre evangelists of the world’s smartest automating toolsets to add velocity, slash costs and raise quality for localization service providers the world over have set the technology bar even higher with their latest infrastructure upgrade. .. more »

Every 3rd language FREE with Opticentre templates

Monday, 12 February 2007

Nobody knows DTP for localization quite like Opticentre does, and especially not the design companies who create the original source templates that come our way every day. When not designed with multilingual localization specifically in mind these source templates are costing you unnecessary time and money while increasing error scope. .. more »

Opticentre opens dedicated FQA center

Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Opticentre – famous for zero tolerance of quality errors - has just opened a dedicated FQA (Final Quality Assurance) center at the main hub at Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The FQA center builds on the increased volume of business at Opticentre from LSPs who need handbacks from in-house teams or other vendors totally screened for errors before final delivery to clients. .. more »

Opticentre adds Print, Shipping and Fulfillment

Tuesday, 24 October 2006

Opticentre always aims to offer total solutions to the world's multilingual documentation and software localization shippers for whom time is certainly money.
As of 1st January 2007 - when Opticentre's main production hub at Plovdiv, Bulgaria joins the European Union customs barriers and associated delays will vanish. This will finally enable Opticentre to offer the final elements of the total technical publishing solution, i.e. printing, fulfillment and shipping directly to the endpoint .. more »

Opticentre and Idiom partner in Distribution and Systems Integration

Wednesday, 11 October 2006

London, United Kingdom - Oct 11, 2006 - Idiom® Technologies, Inc. (Idiom), the leading independent provider of scalable software solutions for accelerating and optimizing globalization initiatives, today announced that Opticentre, a pioneer of localization solutions, has joined the growing Idiom Global Partner Network™ .. more »

Opticentre Consultancy Days at TCWorld 06

Tuesday, 03 October 2006

Opticentre, proud proponents of the smartest solutions to save you time and money on you multilingual documentation release processes, will be on hand at the world's biggest Doc-fest, Tekom/TCWorld 06 .. more »

Idiom WorldSummit comes to Europe

Thursday, 21 September 2006

Opticentre, evangelists of the world's best workflow systems to help clients accelerate simultaneous releases while slashing costs and enhancing quality and consistency, are delighted to have been invited to take part in the first Idiom WorldSummit Europe to run from December 4 thru 6 in Dublin, Ireland .. more »

DTPizza

Thursday, 07 September 2006

Opticentre, DTP and Multilingual Layout Provider to the world’s most demanding documentation release providers has a remarkable on-time delivery record. Opticentre actually benchmarks with Domino's Pizza .. more »

Taboo or not to be: PASSOLO 6.0.02 released

Thursday, 31 August 2006

PASSOLO 6.0.02 users will never again have to apologize to raging marketing people thanks to the “blocked word list” editor – one of a host of hot new features in the latest mini-release from the world leader in full visual software localization. .. more »

New Development Center

Thursday, 3 August 2006

Opticentre, the world's fourth generation localization pioneers, has opened a new Development hub at its main base at Plovdiv Bulgaria. Speaking today, Opticentre CMO Stefka Chaprazova said .. more »

Happy Birthday, America! Enjoy a gift from PASSOLO!

Tuesday, 4 July 2006

On July 4, 1776, America claimed independence from Britain and Democracy was born. Every day thousands of speakers of different languages leave their homeland to come to the "land of the free and the home of the brave" so they can begin their American Dream .. more »

Opticentre wows the WebTechies

Monday, 3 July 2006

Opticentre, evangelists of Backshoring for the world's most demanding localization organizations enjoyed a tremendous reception at the 3rd annual WebTech conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria over the weekend June 30 thru 01 July. Presenting with Florian Sachse from partners PASSOLO .. more »

Opticentre is No. 1 for Customer Service!

Wednesday, 19 June 2006

Opticentre, the localization Backshoring specialists that put velocity, quality and cost back in the control of the customer, are delighted to highlight some other aspects that our customers really care about, but other vendors choose to ignore .. more »

Opticentre talks about Localization 4.0

Wednesday, 24 May 2006

Opticentre's CEO Joseph Deignan will deliver the keynote at the Seminar on Team Translation at ELTE University Budapest on Saturday 27th May.
"Localization 4.0 is all about greater collaboration as we empower translators to get to work on the estimated 90% of potentially useful global content that should be translated but is currently avoided by the enterprise space for a variety of surmountable reasons .. more »

PreOrder your new copy of PASSOLO and Score!

Thursday, 18 May 2006

PASSOLO, the reigning software localization world champion has notched up some spectacular scores in recent trials with their new signing, the multi-talented PASSOLO 6.0, wowing software localization players, fans and spectators the world over. Some fantastic encounters have been engineered, with pundits left marveling at .. more »

Germans get to sunbeds first!

Friday, 12 May 2006

The phenomenon of German localizers, otherwise famous for their technological prowess ("Vursprung durch Technik"), getting to the sunbeds first in the morning at the world's finest resorts has taken a sharp increase this year, baffling anthropologists everywhere.
Researchers at Opticentre wondered how it could be that they had such high productivity and still managed to grab those sunbeds so early. Poolside observations and interviews at tropical resorts found the simple answer: PASSOLO 6.0 .. more »

FREE guest passes to Localization World with PASSOLO!

Thursday, 11 May 2006

While Germany fills up with football fans this year, Localization World is going to la playa, and all the team at PASSOLO hopes you can come join us for some fun in the sun.
PASSOLO has already been crowned world champion software localization tool with a top score at the recent CSN awards, so we feel we can afford to take our eye off the ball in Germany for a few days and come to Barcelona .. more »

PASSOLO 6.0

Monday, 8 May 2006

PASSOLO, voted the world's favorite software localization tool, is delighted to announce the release of PASSOLO 6.0. This exciting new advance in localization technology is packed with an array of hot new features designed to exceed the expectations of all the different and converging players in the localization/release process, from R & D people to Web to Translation departments, to Help to QA .. more »

PASSOLO is the Best. It is official!

Friday, 28 April 2006

Opticentre, the champions of added velocity, lowered cost and enhanced quality on global software release processes is delighted to congratulate PASSOLO on receiving the industry's ultimate accolade, the "Localization Technology of the Year" award at the CSN Awards in Miami, FA. Speaking today after the announcement, Opticentre's Chief Tools Strategist, Armand Murphy said "this award just reinforces the long-held conviction of the world's most efficient ISVs that PASSOLO is unrivalled in enabling product simship .. more »

Another tour date! WebTech 2006

Friday, 21 April 2006

Opticentre, pioneers of hosted localization process workflow have announced another date on their Summer "work smarter, not harder" World Tour - a sort of homecoming in Sofia, Bulgaria on June 31 and July 1 at the WebTech 2006 conference.
Opticentre's CIO Michel Tutundjian announcing the show today said: "Opticentre will be the major event sponsor at this well-established Mecca for PHP developers in South-Eastern Europe, and we - along with our partners PASSOLO, Heartsome, Idiom and Globalyzer - will stage some very exciting content, presentations .. more »

Even more Eggstra Offers

Tuesday, 11 April 2006

Opticentre, the only hosting option for the world's fastest and most profitable software organizations when it comes to getting their products onto the shelves in multiple countries on the same day had an extra busy Easter dealing with the hordes of enquiries for it's "FREE!: Eggstra Add-ins for PASSOLO" campaign .. more »

Opticentre offers crystal balls!

Tuesday, 21 March 2006

Opticentre, the world's first true enabler of faster, better, cheaper global software and documentation release processes provides it's customers with future-proofed solutions every day simply because it knows what is coming next in the industry, and makes sure to train up its experts in it.
Rather than crystal balls, Opticentre relies on the valuable editorial content of Multilingual Computing as one of its primary sources of information to gauge what's hot, what's not and .. more »

Read all about it

Friday, 17 March 2006

Opticentre, the world's first true facilitator of optimized hosted workflow to enable enterprise clients add velocity, enhance quality, slash costs and realize simship on their global release processes is delighted to see itself profiled in some of the industry's best media this month, namely Common Sense Advisory and ClientSide News .. more »

Love your TM! Heartsome Optimizes!

Wednesday, 15 March 2006

Opticentre, the world's first true facilitator of optimized hosted workflow to enable enterprise clients add velocity, enhance quality, slash costs and realize simship on their global release processes is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Heartsome Holdings Pte. Ltd, developer of the Heartsome new generation Translation Suites .. more »

Opticentre liberates Central Europe

Friday, 10 March 2006

Opticentre, the world's first true facilitator of optimized hosted workflow to enable enterprise clients add velocity, enhance quality, slash costs and realize simship on their global release processes is delighted to announce a seminar in association with the Central European Tuesday Business Network designed to enable optimized localization for the 1000s of up and coming IT companies in the region .. more »

PASSion for the worlds best tools

Wednesday, 22 February 2006

Opticentre, the world's first true facilitator of optimized hosted workflow to enable enterprise clients add velocity, enhance quality, slash costs and realize simship on their global release processes is delighted to announce a premium partnership with PASS Engineering GmbH, developers of PASSOLO, the choice of the world's most on-time and .. more »

Technical Publications Workshops

Tuesday, 21 February 2006

Opticentre, the world's first provider of Hosted Globalization Solutions, has announced an extension of its series of workshops for Technical Publications people: "Optimizing TechPubs: writing for translation". This comes after an oversubscribed workshop series in .. more »

Good things come to those who are done waiting

Tuesday, 06 March 2008

Tired of waiting? With Opticentre you wait no more. We deliver projects when we say we will, on time, on budget and at costs and quality that cannot be matched. .. more »

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