Alchemy CATALYST Overview
Alchemy CATALYST is the market leader in total visual localization technology. 80% of the world's largest software companies use Alchemy CATALYST to accelerate entry to international markets, improving revenue growth opportunities and reducing their costs.
Alchemy CATALYST saves you time and money by seamlessly integrating editors and tools for Translators, Localization Engineers, QA Specialists, Project Managers and Software Developers. By using CATALYST's integrated translation environment with its unique Expert technology, projects will take less time to complete, quality will be improved, Engineering and QA cycles times will shorten and the overall cost of localization will be reduced.
Total Visual Localization Solution
Alchemy CATALYST is built around a highly intuitive integrated localization environment (ILE) ensuring that you have access to the services and utilities you require for all stages of the localization workflow. Alchemy's ILE is robust and secure ensuring data integrity at all times. It integrates sophisticated project management functionality that lets you create large multi-lingual translation toolkits that can be distributed efficiently to your translation partners and agencies.
Alchemy CATALYST is a total visual localization solution for digital content files and all Microsoft Desktop, Internet and mobile applications. This reduces the complexity of handling, distributing, translating and updating large number of varying file formats. In one seamless visual environment Alchemy CATALYST provides tools and utilities for all the key players in a localization project. You'll discover very quickly that Alchemy CATALYST is more than just a translation tool !
- CATALYST includes a suite of visual editors that ensures that translators can always see their work within context and in a WYSIWYG manner. Each visual editor validates translations automatically ensuring that the translator delivers fully tested and verified translation back to the project manager. Glossary support and spell checking features are included as standard is all editor environments. By ensuring that validation checks are carried out during the translation process, the Engineering and QA cycles times are dramatically reduced, shortening the localization project schedule and reducing lead-time to market for your translated product.
- CATALYST provides you with a suite of Quality Assurance tools that you can use to validate software and helps files. These range from layout validation, clipped text, duplicate hotkeys, missing parameters or controls and spell-checking. Using CATALYST's Runtime Validation Expert, you can also check your software as it is running and automatically detect errors introduced by dynamic dialogs and text substitutions. This frees up your QA specialists to focus on functional testing of the product rather than cosmetic testing.
- CATALYST comes complete with a range of tools and utilities that assist Software Engineers in locating and fixing problems and updating User Interface, Help and XML based files to new revisions. The Engineer can develop custom editors and validators using the CATALYST SDK and any text file can be parsed and included in the Translation Environment by using CATALYST's Text Parser Expert. Engineers can use CATALYST's Visual Comparison Expert to determine the differences between product revisions and to determine the impact on their QA and translation schedule due to textual changes.
- CATALYST incorporates a number of essential Project Management tools to ensure that projects can be managed smoothly and consistency throughout your organization. You can produce a basic word count report or a more complex update word count. These reports can be used to scope the cost, time and complexity of your localization project. You can prioritize what resources need to be translated first, use the memo function to send messages to translators and track revisions and translation histories of all translated objects. You can attach Glossary files to TTKs (Translation Tool Kits) and export your translations into the industry standard translation memory interchange file format (TMX).
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