E-localize

Localisation for Middle Eastern and African languages

Operating since 2000 from a large city, e-Localize describes itself as a language service provider. It describes itself as a fully fledged supplier of localisation for regional languages, and as one of the leading locations for Middle Eastern and African languages. The firm's site says that, with more than one hundred employees, it is the continent's second largest language service provider, a ranking the firm gives itself. It began as a modest office for software localisation at the start of the new millennium, and it credits its growth to reliability, customer focus and a pursuit of quality.

Language services for MENA

The firm calls itself an expert for the Middle East, North Africa and Africa, and says its language services cover localisation, translation, revision and interpreting. Its portfolio has grown over time to include translation of terminology, multilingual search engine optimisation and localisation of content management system material. The firm describes its own machine translation engine, together with its post-editing service, as focused strictly on Arabic. It says this makes it cost efficient to handle very large volumes of standard texts.

Transcription for specialist fields

Transcription covers audio, video and speech recordings in specialist fields such as medicine, pharmaceuticals and technology. The firm says it can add translation on request, so that a recording can be transcribed and then rendered into another language. The service is one part of the full range of language work it offers.

eLocalize Publishing and eBooks

The firm's publishing arm, which it calls eLocalize Publishing, turns content into digital media of all kinds. It says it creates eBooks in any language, and that its digital publishers have produced a large share of the eBooks available in Arabic. Alongside eBooks, the firm builds online applications and localised eLearning courses, which it describes as integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and localised content at any scale.

Design, layout and data preparation

Graphic designers produce corporate material such as leaflets, manuals and catalogues, and they create illustrations, images, animations and animated illustrations. A desktop publishing studio transforms texts in all languages into layouts in many kinds of layout software, for projects of any size. An integrated data engineering department handles the preparation and post-production work before and after localisation, including the many file formats that projects involve.

Standards and long-run growth

The firm says it works to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 17100:2015, the standards it names for quality and for translation services. Its team of more than one hundred employees is described as constantly growing. The firm says its focus on continuous development of its operation has supported a sustainable and rapid expansion, and that it has worked for years to raise its services, quality and performance.