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Taking our own medicine
by Jesper Overgaard Andersen
“When translating our website, www.oversaetterhuset.dk, into Swedish, English and German, we used the functionality which we developed in collaboration with Synkron A/S (now DynamicWeb) in 2005,” says Torben Dahl Jensen, Language Technology Manager in Translation House of Scandinavia. “With the Via Translation Manager application, you can reduce the time normally spent cutting web content from a Danish version and pasting it into other language versions by up to 95 per cent,” Torben continues.
“Using the application ourselves was a very useful exercise, and we can now pass on our experiences to those of our customers who want to have their SynkronVia website translated,” says Birgitte Forné, Sales & Marketing Manager.
You are welcome to contact Birgitte Forné at bfo@oversaetterhuset.dk if you want more information about Translation Manager or about website translations. Translation House of Scandinavia has also been involved in developing similar tools for other CMS systems.
EU contract for Translation House of Scandinavia
by Anja Lund
A weekly translation volume of 50,000 words is produced by a team of highly experienced trade mark translators in collaboration with other experienced internal and external translators.
The 15-person strong team is, of course, managed internally by two dedicated in-house project managers.
The night is dark as gold
by Jesper Overgaard Andersen
For several years, Translation House of Scandinavia has enjoyed an exemplary collaboration with the Danish law firm Kromann Reumert on handling urgent English-Danish legal translations; when we received an enquiry to assist in connection with Carlsberg and Heineken’s acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle, we immediately sprang into action. On the face of it, the assignment looked like a normal rush job – however, we ended up working well into the very early hours. As usual, we put together a team of experienced legal translators, and kept in regular contact with the legal team at Kromann Reumert. The 40-page translation was delivered on time on Wednesday, but it soon became apparent that, because of the ongoing negotiations, the original document would have to be revised before it was ready for publishing.
So, while the parties negotiated for all they were worth, we translated and updated the latest versions in real time throughout Thursday-Friday night, which involved no fewer than three revised versions of the document. In order to meet the final deadline – 7.45 Friday morning – beauty sleep was put on hold by our dedicated team. Of course, the fact that the takeover, the biggest in Denmark to date, was successful for Carlsberg makes the assignment even more interesting to think back on.
