About SDL

SDL is the world leader in Global Information Management

Our mission is to help corporations drive global brand consistency and accelerate time-to-market by providing software and services to manage the delivery of all corporate information into different languages.

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SDL is a global company with over 50 offices across North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Our headquarters are in Maidenhead, UK, and we are a publicly traded company on the London stock exchange (symbol "SDL").

Our role in the world is to help companies ensure that their message (and hence their brand) is delivered consistently across the world in any language. We also help companies to accelerate the time it takes them to deliver new product to market by ensuring that all content is delivered efficiently, at low cost and with high quality into any required languages.

We call this process “Global Information Management” (ie: the management of delivering all corporate information to a global audience). It is an essential business strategy that companies must adopt in order to meet the exponentially increasing requirements of language - involving people, processes and technology.

SDL offers a range of products and services to the market. These include:

Enterprise technology that allows global corporations to author content for a global audience with a consistent terminology and an efficient translation process using centralised on-demand translation management services.
Desktop technology used by over 80% of the world's professional translators
True global web content management allowing corporations to build and maintain multi-lingual content across multi-site webs
The largest internal network of professional translators to assist corporations in translating content into any language
Knowledge-based translation services using a combination of automated translation and human editing to deliver multilingual content at up to 50% faster and 40% lower costs than traditional translation services.

We have a wide range of customers that use our technology and services ranging from consumers to small businesses and large global enterprises such as Best Western, Canon, CNH, Dell, Emirates, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Philips, salesforce.com, Sony, Virgin Atlantic.

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