Full Content Lifecycle Management
Providing Guidance from Content Development to Localization Solutions
The cost of producing multilingual documents is directly related to the approach companies take to creating their source files. Subtle changes in terminology, style, or workflow can dramatically impact the quality and consistency of source documents and their multilingual versions.
The Lionbridge Full Content Lifecycle methodology improves the quality of source language materials and provides a Content Management-based IT infrastructure to manage the process, while ensuring that all content is ready for global distribution.
Lionbridge Full Content Lifecycle:
- Enhances the global user experience
- Compresses release cycles
- Improves the reuse of information
- Improves the consistency of information
- Improves collaboration between writers, editors, reviewers, and project management teams
- Allows globally dispersed teams to work together on documentation projects
- Reduces the cost of creating multilingual technical publications
- Ensures consistency of the user experience across all regions
The Full Content Lifecycle methodology ensures seamless integration between each stage of the technical publications development process:
- Plan: Lionbridge consults with clients on writing for a global audience, documentation strategy, and XML authoring
- Create: Lionbridge writers, illustrators, editors, and engineers create localization-ready content within structured and unstructured authoring environments, using leading content management systems
- Translate: Lionbridge engineers localize content into the designated languages
- Publish: Lionbridge publishes content in multiple formats, across many languages, cultures, and time zones