SDL MultiTerm Desktop 2009

SDL MultiTerm Desktop 2009

Do you spend a lot of your time researching terminology? Is the quality of translation affected by inconsistent terminology? Do you often notice inconsistencies in terminology in source content?


Product Brief

SDL MultiTerm Product Brief

This product brief gives you essential information about terminology management and SDL MultiTerm. It describes the key features and benefits of using SDL MultiTerm as your terminology management solution.

What's New in SDL MultiTerm 2009

SDL MultiTerm® 2009 is the successor to SDL MultiTerm 2007. This document highlights the main feature enhancements of this release.

SDL MultiTerm Datasheet

This datasheet on SDL MultiTerm provides all the features and technical detail that constitutes a terminology management solution from SDL. Information on the features, system requirements and descriptions of each of the components is listed in this technical-focused document.
  • Highlights
  • New Features
  • System Requirements

Highlights

SDL MultiTerm Desktop 2009 is the desktop terminology management tool from SDL. It can be used out-of-the-box by the translator and terminologist alike as a standalone desktop tool to manage all your terminology, or its power can be enhanced in the translation environment with its integration with SDL Trados Studio 2009 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Key Features and Benefits

Ensures accuracy, consistency and quality in translation
  • Integration with SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1 ensures that your translations are more accurate, consistent and of a higher quality
  • Capacity to store an unlimited number of terms in unlimited languages allows you to manage the terminology for any translation project
Increases productivity in translation
  • Customize your termbase to your needs, adding descriptive fields to provide more information about the term and save time in researching
  • Ability to insert digital media files such as images, sounds or video and to hyperlink to URLs and other terms to give an extra dimension to your termbase
Helps provide consistent source content for more accurate and easy translation
  • SDL MultiTerm’s integration with authoring tools means that the source content ready for you to translate is using consistent
  • Ability to import and export terms from different technology environments, such as Microsoft® Excel, as well as compatibility with existing terminology formats such as the XML standard formats of TBX (TermBase eXchange) and OLIF means that you can easily share and work with existing terminology data

New Features in SDL MultiTerm 2009 Desktop

SDL MultiTerm 2009 is the latest version of SDL MultiTerm. Many brand new features have been added to improve the way you work with terminology. The key new features are:

Brand new user interface improves usability

  • Improved and updated user interface with fresh look and feel with more intuitive menus and navigation allow for easier termbase editing and adding of terms

Enhanced integration

  • Enhanced integration within SDL Trados Studio 2009 Service Pack 1 (SP1) now allows users to edit terms directly from within the translation environment, as well as view customizable search results with the new ‘Hitlist’ search feature

Improved efficiency

  • Advanced search ‘Hitlist’ display enables you to customize how search results are viewed. Choose to display not only the term, but also its translations, synonyms, description or status and more. This feature is also integrated into SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1 

Open standards support

  • Ability to import and export terms from different terminology environments through compatibility with TBX (Term Base eXchange format - the open, XML-based LISA standard for sharing terminology data)

System Requirements

SDL MultiTerm 2009 client software runs on Microsoft® Windows® XP and Vista with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher installed. As minimum hardware requirements, we recommend a Pentium® IV-based computer with 1 GB RAM and a screen resolution of 1280x1024. For optimum performance, we recommend 2 GB RAM and a more recent Pentium or compatible processor.