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CORPORATE TRANSLATION &

LOCALIZATION SERVICES

Tel: +34 900 828 961/+34 958 251 860 - Fax: +34 958 990 528 - info@abroadlink.com - http://www.abroadlink.comC/San Sebastián de la Gomera 12 - Granada - 18014 - España

If there is something that we have in common with the men and women that lived on the Earth five thousand years ago, it is the capacity that defines us as human beings: our capacity to create concepts and ideas to understand the world around us. As a company, our mission is to help corporate businesses link to cultural markets, passing on the concepts

and ideas within their products and marketing. Words and technology are the tools we use to make this possible. Our corporate philosophy is designed to accomplish our mission and spread our business concepts to our employees, freelancers and strategic partners. In the following pages you will find an introduction to these concepts.

FIRST CAME THE IDEA. THEN THE WORD. LATER THE TECHNOLOGY.

THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

HUMAN RESOURCESAs a service provider, AbroadLink values above all the capacity of the people working under our name.Our selection process aims at finding the right professionals who offer you a combination of talent, specialized skills, know-how and personal motivation.

THE RIGHT LINGUISTBesides the technical sophistication demanded by the translation industry today, we know that translation is our core business.Accordingly, our translators master the source language and have thorough understanding of its culture, are professionally trained translators, only translate into their native languages, know how to use at least one translation memory or localization software, work exclusively for the translation industry and have limited fields of specialization.

STRATEGIC PARTNERSSince forming in 2002, we have been actively developing partnerships to create synergies that expand AbroadLink’s technical and linguistic abilities and capabilities. Through this strategy, we are now in a position to be a single point of contact for our clients and offer them a broader range of languages and technologies.

Planning Together

BALANCE BETWEEN TIME & QUALITY

TIME TO MARKETAt AbroadLink, we are aware of our clients' need to have their products in the market as soon as possible. Therefore, we encourage our clients to let us know about their product development and documentation processes to find ways to shorten the localization time.

Our approach to translation is a practical one, which seeks to serve our clients' financial goals. Hence, it is important to understand that time restrictions may affect quality adversely; and that the highest quality involves more time and more budget.

ARE YOU IN A HURRY?ARE YOU IN A HURRY?

...NOSOTROSTAMBIÉN

WE ARE TOO.

THE COMPETITIVE EDGE Every new technology is an opportunity to differentiate us from our competitors and improve our mission of providing the best possible service to our clients.

CREATIVE SOLUTIONSAt AbroadLink, we would like you to identify us as problem solvers; as someone who makes your life easier.

We encourage and stimulate our partners and employees to stand out from the crowd by finding creative and efficient solutions to our clients' unique problems.

TECHNOLOGIESCurrently, AbroadLink uses the latest translation memory and localization software as an efficient way of translating all documentation consistently, streamlining and securing the handling of multiple file formats: .html, .xml, .chm, .exe, .rc, .qxd, .asp, .cfm, and many others.

Our DTP services cover a wide range of applications for Macintosh and Windows in virtually any language encoding.

MOVING FORWARDMOVING FORWARD

Technology Creativity

TIMELY DELIVERY GUARANTEE

We are committed to you, because we are committed to our business and success.

As a gesture of our commitment to our clients, we offer prearranged discount rates in the event that your project with us is not delivered on time because of any reason attributable to AbroadLink.

We strongly believe that our Timely Delivery Guarantee should become a standard in our industry to increase the responsibility of service providers to our industry clients.

COMMITMENT

WE KNOW HOW TO KEEP A SECRET

CONFIDENTIALITY We understand that the competitive edge of most businesses lies in the exclusivity of their technologies, processes and strategies.

For this reason, we handle your information with confidentiality and responsibility. Any communication between AbroadLink and its clients, or its partners and employees, is subject to our (and the client’s) Non-Disclousure Agreement to guarantee the maximum level of confidentiality.

We also ask our clients to have the same level of commitment to the information that AbroadLink may disclose to them during the provision of our services.

TRANSLATION IS NOT ABOUT WORDS...

Translation is not about words but about meaning. The translation process can bring about more than one result.

This explains why different translations of the same text, while all may be correct, can have different effects.

TRANSLATION IS ABOUT MEANING...

For this reason, at AbroadLink we apply the Skopos translation theory: the translated text needs to accomplish its goal (for example: persuading someone to buy a product, giving exact information even if it requires sacrificing style, receiving approval by a public institution...).

To achieve this, it is crucial that cultural aspects be considered during the translation process.

TRANSLATION IS AN ART AND A TRANSCULTURAL PROCESS

LET’S COMMUNICATE

A BETTER WORLDIn a business relationship, like in any other type of relationship, communication between parties is paramount to mutual satisfaction.

To streamline project management, improve our language services, and respond to all your expectations, we need to know about you, your processes, your offices abroad, distributors...

LET’S BE CLEARWe encourage you to let us know how can we improve our service to you.

Our goal is to customize our services for each individual client. Dedicating the resources and time to communicate is the key to enjoying the best of services, reducing budgets and increasing satisfaction.

PROCESSES

OUR WAYWe offer a range of service packages in order to satisfy the different demands of our industry.

Beyond these packages, our strategy is to design a process that blends with yours and that responds to your individual needs.

By combining the different stages involved in our services, we are able to establish a process that best suits our clients needs.

THE KEY TO SUCCESSIts all about establishing well planned and customized processes to the individual needs of projects or clients, efficiently integrating the latest technologies.

Tel: +34 900 828 961/+34 958 251 860 - Fax: +34 958 990 528 - info@abroadlink.com - http://www.abroadlink.comC/San Sebastián de la Gomera 12 - Granada - 18014 - España

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