Hardware Outsourced Testing

Facilitating Hardware Industries with Globalization Solutions

For manufacturers of IT hardware, from servers to storage platforms, global markets, especially those in Asia, offer tremendous opportunities for both commercial B2B and for consumer products. Some markets, like China and India, offer opportunities both for reducing production costs by outsourcing development and for tapping new revenues. Established markets like Japan offer profitable possibilities, especially for makers of innovative consumer hardware — if they are designed, marketed, and supported properly.

To succeed in these global markets, IT hardware companies must ensure their products are compatible with local infrastructures and business processes. They must provide documentation and support tailored to the needs, language, and culture of local users. Outsourcing the performance and functional testing to world class testing centers exposes the product to the real-world deployment environment and ensures that it will operate as expected, and can be benchmarked against a defined set of competitors.

Having an experienced partner with industry-leading, integrated development, outsourced testing, and localization capabilities delivered on a global scale enables your success. Lionbridge is helping the world's leading IT hardware manufacturers achieve their globalization objectives with:

• Product localization services to ensure IT hardware and embedded software are fully compatible with existing infrastructures for each target market
• Outsourced testing services that measure performance, functionality, and competitive benchmarking to make sure that the product delivers as expected
• Translation and localization services for the full range of user resources — from printed documentation to online Help Files and graphical user interfaces — to accelerate time-to-market and reduce costly customer support calls
• eLearning services that provide rapid, cost-effective training to global sales forces in their native language, accelerating training and enhancing sales success
• Outsourced technical writing services that quickly develop all user and device level documentation, in translated, or translate-ready format, for rapid deployment in global markets

Lionbridge provides the scalability to launch products in multiple global markets simultaneously, without increasing the burden on in-house staff. Its world-class testing environments are ideal for outsourced end-user scenario, certification, and competitive analysis testing for hardware manufacturers in all markets.