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October 24, 2006
Dutch DocZone For A Multi-Lingual World
In his Lunch Over IP blog, journalist Bruno Giussani, writes about the battle that Systran, the French translation software company behind Babblefish, is having with the European Commission over unauthorized modification of its code. It is a dramatic reminder of some of the unexpected risks of protecting valuable IP (as in intellectual property).
It also reminded us to publish our profile of DocZone, a Dutch software company that wants to mitigate the costs of producing multi-lingual documentation with an XML solution, which it sells via the software as a service model.
DocZone's has already invested its own money in the development of the application, offering it to those that have to publish product documentation, training manuals, and web sites in multiple languages and want output to "any format" cheaper and faster.
Doczone's Cool Showcase Customer is Spyker, The Dutch Supercar Maker. (image: SpykerCars)
It calls its software an "all inclusive XML solution" that has among others things, a built in content management system (based on X-Hive CMS software - Docato) and workflow support, as well as integrated translation technology. It is sold as a service at a monthly fee - which means it's easy for customers large and small to begin to use it, according to co-founder Frank Ter Reehorst.
The three-man founding team have all run businesses in the content management or translation areas before starting up. Along with Reehorst, the founders are Henk de Jonge, who established and still owns translation agency Scriptware and Dan Dube who is the managing director of the US operations, who has experience in implementing standards-based CMS systems.
Read - The EU Commission's intellectual property problem (lunch over IP)
Read - Spyker Cars signs 5-year contract with DocZone.com | DITA
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