FLAVIUS

Presentation of Softissimo

WP1 Project Management

FLAVIUS

Presentation of Softissimo

Reverso Intranet

Lexibase Intranet

Presentation of WP1

WP1’s tasks details

SoftissimoFLAVIUS

SOFTISSIMO designs, publishes and integrates language technologies for large corporations, institutions, education and the consumer market.

We help our customer to share information, automate translation process with a range of complementary solutions :

Reverso Intranet : an instant translation portal (text, web pages, documents)

Lexibase Intranet : electronic dictionaries

Toolbars (aka Reverso powertools) : access to the functions of translation from automation applications from MS Office type, Internet browser (IE, Firefox) etc

Web Services : integrate translation features in your favorite applications!

A unique assessment : more 200 major customers and so many projects of integration or linguistic adaptation.

Key figures: + 8 millions users, + 100 millions of translations a month, + 200 languages combinations

Softissimo FLAVIUS

Key dates :

1988 : first grammar checker for French - Hugo

1989 : first electronic dictionaries - Collins Online 1989

1995 : first « reasonable quality » translator for an affordable price

1997 : first PC translation software for non-English pair : French-German

1998 : first high quality translation software : Reverso Pro English-French

1998 : first translation solution for Intranet with large deployment : EADS, Thales

2004 : first portal combining translation and dictionary

2008 : first offer combining instant translation solution, collaborative dictionary for Intranet, translation workflow tool

SoftissimoReverso Intranet

FLAVIUS

Reverso Intranet is an instant translation portal :

Text translation, files, emails

Navigate and Translate : browsing in other languages (source text in tooltip).

Enriched access to dictionaries

Natural pronunciation of the original’s text and its translation

User-friendliness and the speed of a local application (AJAX)

SoftissimoReverso Intranet

FLAVIUS

Value for customers :

communicate effectively with foreign speakerscustomers, prospects, counterparts, partners, suppliersoral or written

understand the information immediately, whatever the language

translate and transmit the information in a foreign language

respect the terminology of the company for a better coherence and cohesion

Reduces the costs of translationDocuments not intended to be published

Keeps information confidential (no use of internet sites, non secured)

SoftissimoLexibase Intranet

FLAVIUS

Lexibase Intranet : electronic dictionaries

Rich and friendly (voice, conjugor, …)

Collins,

Specialized dictionaries(business/finance, industry/technical, medical/pharmacy…)

Collaborative dictionary (web 2.0)

Glossaries and company’s lexicons with a unique interface for the consultation of all the dictionaries and the groups of dictionaries.

Natural pronunciation

Reverso.netFLAVIUS

Reverso.net is the reference site for online translation:

Texts translations : quality, easiness, speed in more than 35 language pairs

Bilingual Dictionaries ( famous Collins dictionaries publishing), specialized dictionaries (medical, business, computer, …) and monolingual dictionaries (english, french)

Conjugator (english, french, spanish, german), interactive Grammar)

Popular and user-friendly Site

Also used for research purpose

SoftissimoCustomers

FLAVIUS

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WP1 : Project Management (1)FLAVIUS

Main objectives of WP1: establish planning, coordination of partners’s work and facilitate communication between partners

WP1 is composed of 5 tasks aiming to reach this objective : Task 1.1 : project coordination Task 1.2 : quality and risk management Task 1.3 : administrative and financial management Task 1.4 : implementation and reporting Task 1.5 : project web site

A document template will be sent to partners

Establish a mailing list for project internal communication (along with project web site)

WP1 : Project Management (1)FLAVIUS

Task 1.1 : project coordination

Organisation of regular meeting with partners : use of Skype software frequency and time of call meeting duration meeting agenda writing of minutes comments on minutes

Designing of a project website (see Task 1.5)

Provide partners with an up-to-date planning when required

WP1 : Project Management (2)FLAVIUS

Task 1.2 : quality and risk management

Discuss its challenges during each call meeting

Plan a dedicated full-meeting if needed (phone call, email)

Inform partners (phone call, email) about possible risks, delay s as soon as possible

Assess FLAVIUS platform (see WP 5)

Task 1.3 : administrative and financial management

Pre-financing received

Will be sent to partners eligible to pre-financing in the following days

WP1 : Project Management (2)FLAVIUS

Task 1.4 : implementation and reporting

Produce regular reporting to European Commission

Internal report :

Work Package Leaders to report during meetings

Partner to Coordinator when risk, delay is detected (phone call, email)

Project Manager • to inform about milestone, …• to warn partners when risk, delay issue is raised by a partner

WP1 : Project Management (3)FLAVIUS

Task 1.5 : project web site

URL : www.project-flavius.eu, hosted by Softissimo

Available by the end of June (?)

Use of Wikipedia software as CMS. Each partner will have a login/password to access the secure section of this website.

Content: Presentation of FLAVIUS project (home page) Presentation of each partner involved in FLAVIUS project. Partner login section (secure section for internal use only):

• Schedule of meeting• Name, email, Skype identifier, … of partner’s staff involved in FLAVIUS

project• Documents (technicals documents, images, …)

Partners will be responsible for writing their presentation. Partners are free to suggest/propose any relevant content And any other relevant matter