Lexikon™ Glossary Management Solution

In competitive global environments that encompass ever-splintering strategic business units and distribution channels, the costs associated with ineffective terminology management systems have become the crux of success and failure. Terminology databases (glossaries) ensure greater consistency in documentation and minimize the risks of miscommunications that yield customer dissatisfaction and product liabilities. Leveraged successfully across all corresponding Web sites, software products, and marketing communications, a strategic terminology management system reduces localization costs, improves product quality, and expedites time-to-market.

Strengthens quality of global communications and branding Expedites product time-to-market Reduces global product development costs Develops enterprise subsidiary buy-in Supports industry standard localization processes Empowers users of all levels to focus on terminology — not glossary management Eliminates need to install, update, and transfer software and files Manages version control. Users access real time information Scales to meet changing enterprise needs Hosts an unlimited number of user connections with 16-bit encrypted security Automates communication with server-generated email notification system Optimizes enterprise knowledge base collaboration Unicode-compliant and dynamically hosts any language combination including bi-directional and double-byte character sets Automates time-consuming business processes

Addressing the long-term language needs of clients operating in global business environments, ENLASO proudly presents Lexikon, a highly customizable glossary management tool that enables enterprises to manage their terminology effectively and automate their internal glossary management processes.

Recognizing that glossary management is a discipline that involves the entire product development lifecycle, ENLASO Corporation has developed a process-driven enterprise terminology management system. Lexikon empowers users of all levels to successfully create, manage and publish rich glossaries in a single database. With highly intuitive workflow automation, end-users are relieved of the burden of keeping a glossary up to date and can concentrate on terminology — rather than on glossary management.

As a database-driven Web application, Lexikon transcends the limitations of traditionally "flat" spreadsheet files allowing unprecedented freedom to add, update, and access terminology in real-time. Lexikon is completely Unicode-compliant and dynamically hosts any language combination, including bi-directional and double-byte character sets.

In addition, Lexikon allows for hierarchical terminology storage, thus allowing multiple subcategories to co-exist within a master glossary. This empowers customers with diverse business units, product lines, contexts, and end-users to manage a truly enterprise term base with the sensitivity of local control.

Lexikon Manages Glossary Version Control
As Lexikon is a real-time Web-based application, global users always access the most current glossary version. Traditional version control challenges are eliminated by serving all glossary terms in a single database, accessed by everyone on the project team.

Lexikon Automates Project Communications
Lexikon automates critical process communications with a server-generated email notification system. Based on assigned project roles and user privileges, contributors, reviewers, linguists, vendors and other key stakeholders in the glossary creation and maintenance process receive information as their contributions are required.

Lexikon Resolves Issues at the Content Creation Stage: Term Voting Interface
By allowing key stakeholders to put new terms up for a vote for other interested parties, Lexikon can eliminate any miscommunication as to how a term is branded, perceived and ultimately translated.

Lexikon Embeds Terms with Contextual Support
As quality language translation is not simply a word-for-word conversion, neither is the effective populating of a quality glossary database. Lexikon complements term entries with form entry fields that support deeper contextual information needs with descriptive data. Terminology can also be sorted by subcategories, further enhancing an end-users ability to choose the right term for the right situation.

Users Can View Glossaries in HTML
Lexikon allows users to view the glossaries and glossary terms in an HTML format — in any language. Lexikon's HTML preview allows users to easily reference and compare terms — across languages, in a WYSIWYG display with all corresponding contextual information.

Lexikon Advanced Search Functions
Lexikon features sophisticated glossary search functions that provide users with direct access to local and remote glossary data, during both content development and translation stages. Users match glossary terms based upon word stems using advanced algorithms.

Lexikon Seamlessly Integrates Other Applications
Lexikon can be easily integrated and customized at the (a) user interface level, (b) the API level, and (c) the import/export level. Existing terminology data held in publishing environments, spreadsheets, databases, and other formats can all be imported into Lexikon with no data loss. Lexikon can reciprocally export glossaries into standard file formats, such as tab-delimited text files (.txt) and comma-separated value files (.csv), Microsoft Excel (.xls), HTML, DXLT (XML standard), etc.

Lexikon FrameMaker® Plug-in
A testament of Lexikon's integration capabilities into content creation and editing environments is a plug-in that interfaces with Adobe® FrameMaker® for the PC. This plug-in provides users with direct access to local or remote glossaries from within the FrameMaker editing environment.

Lexikon Facilitates Industry Standard Localization Processes
Lexikon is the product of a process-driven enterprise localization solution. Based on industry accepted quality localization best practices (determined by Localization Industry Standards Association), Lexikon clearly defines and enforces roles and responsibilities among end-users.

Implementing Lexikon Into Product Development Environments
Glossary management systems are only as valuable as the quality of data that is leveraged from them — across the entire client enterprise. Therefore, as part of ENLASO’s mission to provide customers with efficient and streamlined localization processes, Lexikon's customizable glossary management solution is ensured in ENLASO's experienced implementation and training process.