how cloud are you?
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TAUS Portland 2016
Panelists: Melissa Biggs, InformaticaMimi Hills, VMwareDavid Snider, LinkedIn
Moderator:Jessica Roland, SDL
How Cloud Are You?
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Your Moderator
Director of Strategic Accounts
Jessica Roland
Company Experience:
Years Experience:
o 15+ years (globalization client side)
Current: o Joined SDL in 2014
Job Title: o Director, Strategic Accounts
Areas of Focus: o Managed L10N teams of program managers,QA, Tools, and product managers
o Simship, end-to-end automation and source optimization
o Many years as an SDL customer on technologyand services
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Today’s Panelists…How Cloud Are You?
Sr. Manager of Globalization
Melissa BiggsSr. Localization Manager
David SniderDirector, Product Globalization
Mimi Hills
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Survey Results – How Cloud Are You? ○Where are your localization tools and data kept?
– 78% in some type of cloud (private, public or mix)
○Are your translators working online and real-time?– Majority both
○Are your reviewers working online and real-time?– Majority both
○Is your L10N tools model subscription-based?– Strong Majority not
○What type of L10N cycle are you on?– Only 16% waterfall
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David’s Journey
Company Experience:
Years Experience:
o 17+ years
Current: o Joined LinkedIn in 2014
Job Title: o Sr. Localization Manager
Areas of Focus: o Exploring new localization technologies and approacheso Leveraging "old" technologies like Machine Translation,
PEMT and Community Localizationo Localization in a hyper-agile, continuous deployment
environment o Vision: continuous localization in 100+ languages!
Sr. Localization Manager
David Snider
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Mimi’s Journey○Manages software localization and operations.
○Advocate for non-English-speaking, culturally diverse customers and works from this point of view to help grow VMware’s global revenue.
○Also directed globalization teams at Sun Microsystems and BlackBerry, Inc.
○Numerous other roles in project, program, and engineering management in R&D at Sun Microsystems, Apple, and other Silicon Valley companies.
Mimi HillsDirector, Product Globalization
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The Growth of the Cloud
2007
2016
2021
Traditional IT Private Cloud Public Cloud
Source: Pat Gelsinger’s Keynote, Vmworld Europe, October 18, 2016 http://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/learning/general-sessions.html
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When Does Public Cloud Exceed 50%?
Iaas Saas
2030: 52% Public Cloud
Source: Pat Gelsinger’s Keynote, VMworld Europe, October 18, 2016 http://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/learning/general-sessions.html
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Melissa’s Journey
Company Experience:
Years Experience:
o 22+ years
Current: o Joined Informatica in 2013
Job Title: o Sr. Manager of Globalization
Areas of Focus: o Global Marketing content for/in a B2B data management software business
o Web, campaigns, marketing outreach contents, trainingo Building out global experience using an optimized suite
of marketing and localization technologies o Vision for web globalization - globally targeted content,
delivered and tuned continuously to meet global needs
Sr. Manager of Globalization
Melissa Biggs
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Discussion Topics
○How has working in a Cloud infrastructure been beneficial to your team in terms of working easier and faster?
○What are examples of ways that your team is still not working at “Speed of Cloud”?
○What’s missing that would help you overcome these remaining obstacles?
○What are your top tips / “most-proud-ofs” for optimizing your team’s working in the Cloud?
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Survey Results
○Do you feel your team is working at the speed of Cloud?–Almost even Yes vs No
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Survey Results – All About The Tools
○If your team is not working at the “Speed of Cloud,” what are the obstacles?
– Lack of full automation - we're working on it.
– Still building many elements of our platform to better support continuous l10n
– Tools, translation vendor engagement models
– We're near, but we're still working on some tools improvements that will improve the continuous localization process
– Integration between CMS and TMS systems is not yet what it needs to be, but we're slowly getting there.
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