Interesting piece on APM’s Marketplace program (here) about the increasing importance of analytics in digital advertising. Surprise, surprise! Companies want to save money and increase productivity and, in this regard, digital media analytics (aka metrics) have been branded “transformational”.
There’s a very similar movement afoot in the translation industry. For starters, translation management systems (like GlobalLink Project Director) have been helping device manufacturers get a better handle on their translation metrics for several years now. Reports generated from TM leverage and review statistics help demonstrate reuse savings and increase translation review productivity, for example.
The next step in this (r)evolution is end-to-end digital labeling and translation analytics – a strategy that ties together translation management systems with component content management systems and guided authoring tools to maximize reuse and compliance, minimize content costs and translation turnaround…oh yeah, and metrics. Lots and lots of metrics.
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