Project Management is the discipline of planning, organising, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Translation projects involving multiple languages are a perfect example to describe the complexity and challenges facing project teams every day:

• Rule number 1 - no two projects are the same
  
• Objectives have to be analysed accurately and the process design will require regular adjustments depending on technical requirements
  
• The planning is critical so the availabilities and skill sets of all resources, internal and external, need to be monitored closely
  
• Project budget has to be confirmed by customers and tasks need to be assigned. All financial transactions have to be supported by correct administration
  
• Quality control has to be built in during critical phases in the project cycle
  
• Communication with all stakeholders, customers, vendors and internal resources has to take place in the most efficient way, so that no relevant information is overseen
  
• Generation of reports resulting in business intelligence that drive management to adjust their strategies if needed

Most project management systems are designed to deal with these challenges: most of them offer an efficient approach for scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration, communication, quality management and administration. However the language industry has a specific set of additional challenges that can only be addressed by systems designed with their business model in mind.

Cross Language has taken a stable, robust open source technology, project open, and adapted it specifically for language professionals – we have built a powerful interface and added specific modules which focus on the day-to-day challenges thrown up by multiple language translation projects - YOOprocess. Read more.

YOOmanage is hosted infrastructure that offers functionality to automate the translation workflow, and includes a translation editing environment that interacts with translation memories, termbases and machine translation technology. Read more.