All Roads Lead To Mecca: SDL Purchases an Arabic Language Service Company

This IDC Flash covers SDL's recent acquisition of Arabic language service company Lingua Franca and the release of SDL PhraseFinder. IDC believes that SDL has made a wise decision to provide service for what was until recently a niche language. The increasing relevance of the Middle East to both business and government demands that globalization/localization companies support Arabic languages. In addition, this terminology extraction product brings to market a technology component previously used internally by SDL in its Knowledge-based Translation System to automate translation, increasing throughput and reducing translation costs.