Turning Data into Business Intelligence

Konstantin DranchMemsource

Building BI in a translation toolOur approach

1. Separate language data from metadata

visualisation tools API 3rd party BI

Memsourcetranslation platform

Elastic Searchdata warehouse

2. DIY metrics & dashboard builders

3. Embedding data into process

4. Higher data resolution over time

1. Project data

2. Job data

3. Segment data

4. Time tracking

5. Subsegment data

Thank you!

konstantin@memsource.com

Cloud tools lead to Big Data

Server tools: private data silos Cloud tools: centralized data

And the clouds are getting bigger…

In May alone, users processed 0.8 billion words in Memsource

Benchmarks: translation memory

Data for jobs where post-editing analysis has been performed, December 2015 - May 2016

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Benchmarks: machine translation

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Benchmarks: rising languages% increase Language Volume67,481.6 Marathi *3,087.7 Hindi *1,006.0 Latvian **784.3 Kazakh *689.1 Serbian *659.5 Finnish **657.5 Romanian *613.9 Vietnamese *592.5 Indonesian *585.7 Turkish **543.6 Hungarian *467.4 Italian ***457.2 Ukrainian *448.9 Chinese ****440.7 Swedish **428.8 Dutch **390.0 Norwegian *378.9 English *****335.2 Danish **

% increase Language Volume331.3 Estonian *319.2 Polish **318.5 Norwegian Bokmål *307.8 German ***306.9 Thai *299.7 Overall increase in volume295.8 Korean **269.4 Czech **268.3 Russian ****245.5 French ****241.4 Slovak *237.8 Portuguese ***237.4 Bulgarian *230.0 Arabic *200.9 Japanese ****194.8 Spanish ****137.8 Bulgarian *121.4 Greek ***

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