Progressive Information Technologies Introduces VASONT

Will enable organizations to seamlessly transform multi-lingual content
Progressive Information Technologies, a leader in the information management and publishing services industry for more than 50 years, has announced that Vasont has complete Unicode Transformation Format-16 (UTF-16) support capabilities for multi-language translation management. Vasont is a powerful cross-media publishing system for content management that handles content from creation to publishing in a variety of formats, including Web, print, PDF, and CD-ROM. The integration of the Unicode international character sets within the Vasont system enables organizations to easily configure Vasont for language combinations of their content and to manage and edit their multi-lingual content from a single source.

Fortune 1000 companies are benefiting from this new feature because it minimizes their translation costs and ensures that the most current version of their original content is updated in other languages. Organizations can configure Vasont to automatically identify translation-only language components by flagging where the original language component has changed. For example, if an organization changes an English translation paragraph, Vasont would flag the corresponding Russian, Greek, Chinese, and French paragraphs because they would require translation, and the surrounding content that was not changed would be marked as not requiring translation. Additionally, through Vasont's sophisticated workflow feature, organizations gain more control over the editing and creation of content in all languages.

"We have global clients that need to communicate their technical documentation in multiple languages to their internal staff and customers," Richard Schiding, Progressive Information Technologies CEO, said. "Because Vasont supports the Unicode standard, it ensures multi-lingual content integrity. Vasont provides them with an accurate and faster channel to create, edit and update their content to the Web and to print."