Internet and Technology

Article by Dave Kauppi

For the past 20 years you have built your information technology business. Your company has become part of your identity. Even when you are not at work, you are working, thinking, planning. You never stop. If you sell you are leaving behind much more than a job. In this article we will discuss some reasons that might indicate that it is time to sell your information technology company.

1. Late in your working life you are faced with a major system re-write, sales force expansion or capital requirement in order for your company to maintain its competitive position.

2. A large competitor is taking market share away from you at an accelerating pace.

3. Your legacy system or competitive advantage has been “leap frogged” by a smaller, nimble, entrepreneurial firm.

4. A major company just acquired a direct competitor and will be aggressively growing the business.

5. Your fire to compete at your top level is not burning as brightly as it once did.

6. Your kids are not interested or are not capable of running the business.

7. You have had a health scare and have decided to smell the flowers.

8. You have lost a major client of a key employee.

9. The market is hot and you decide to take some chips off the table for asset diversification.

10. You exit in an orderly fashion and from a position of strength as you intended.

Lets look at these in a little more detail.

Major capital investment, system upgrade or sales force expansion required – You are supposed to be diversifying your assets, not concentrating them even further. Think about a simple payback analysis. Does that extend beyond your retirement date? You want to be able to defend that investment with the energy and intensity you devoted when you were originally growing your business. Maybe it is time to bring in an equity partner with smart money, an industry buyer with the management depth, infrastructure, or distribution network to protect that investment. You might consider selling now with a three-year employment contract. Let the new owner fund the required capital investment and defend that investment with his larger capital base.

A Large Competitor is Taking Market Share Away from You – Believe me, the news is not going to get better. As an investor you would probably sell the stock in a company you owned if Microsoft or GE decided to assume a presence in that market. Business owners often struggle with objectivity when a similar event takes place in their own company’s industry.

Your Legacy Systems have been “Leap Frogged” by a Nimble Entrepreneurial Firm – This happens all the time and can cause an erosion of your customer base. Your inertia will sustain you for a while, but eventually you will begin to experience customer defections. You can either rewrite, acquire or sell. If you decide to sell, do so before losing too many clients.

A giant company in your industry just acquired one of your major competitors. Watch out, they did not make this acquisition to maintain status quo. They want to grow their market share. They will be coming after your clients. The good news is that as a defensive measure, one or more of their competitors will be compelled to make a similar acquisition. It is best to be aggressively ahead of the curve and get acquired while the market is hot and prices are being bid upwards.

Your interest and competitive fire is eroding. Let’s face it, if you are not growing, you most likely are contracting. Your competition was tough when you were on your game. Your family’s net worth is under attack if you are no longer fully committed.

Your original plan was to turn your business over to your children. They may not be interested or capable of competing at this level. Perhaps the greatest legacy you can leave to your kids is to convert your company into a diversified portfolio of financial assets that are far less risky than turning complex company in a highly competitive industry over to inexperienced managers.

You have a health scare and all of a sudden you start thinking of all the sacrifices you made and all the things you want to do before it is too late. Your list of goals is immediately changed from financial in nature to family, friends, travel, experiences, philanthropy, etc. You might want to listen to your heart this time.

You have lost a major client or a key employee. That can be a real blow to a business. The owner, by nature, is optimistic and believes that the lost business will soon be replaced and does not ratchet down the expense level to match this new sales level. If he does cut, inevitably, it is not fast enough and not deep enough. Maybe it is time to seek a buyer that could replace that business before your company’s value is severely impaired as your profits erode.

The market is hot and you decide to take some chips off the table for diversification. You may be thinking of retiring in four years, but a consolidation is occurring in your industry and valuations are up 20%. Sell at the top and sign a four-year employment or consulting contract. The odds are that if you exit on your original schedule, valuations will have settled back down to the norm.

You ring the bell and exit on your own terms, from a position of strength, exactly like you planned. You are well aware of the competitive forces in the market and the relative strength or weakness in valuation multiples. You have prepared your business to be attractive to a strategic buyer. Everything is going your way. You hire a good M&A advisory firm to present you confidentially to the most likely buyers. Several recognize your value and show interest. You are able to get a little competitive bidding going. Your transaction value rises and your terms improve. You pull the trigger and complete the sale. Mission Accomplished.

Hewlett-Packard Co. jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

Hewlett-Packard Co. jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

Hewlett-Packard Co.

jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

Hewlett-Packard Co. jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

Hewlett-Packard Co.

jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

Hewlett-Packard Co. jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

Hewlett-Packard Co. jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

Hewlett-Packard Co. jumped into the nascent tablet computing market Friday when it released its Slate 500, an $ 800 competitor to Apple Inc.’s 6-month-old iPad.

The Slate 500, which runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and is aimed at workplace users rather than consumers, goes beyond the iPad in some places, and stays behind it in others.

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With the emergence and growth of instant translation on the web, language service providers are constantly asked if they are worried about the future of their industry.

Despite all of the benefits of machine translation (MT), this burgeoning technology is still far from perfect. MT only works for certain language pairs that have sufficient data, and in addition, has a hard time dealing with the complexities of languages.

MT can render sentences completely unintelligible when translated into a language that employs different sentence structures and grammar rules. Sometimes, the translated document may end up looking like a string of random words, which can only be deciphered by a human being who knows both the source and target languages.

In other words, when accuracy and quality matter, a human translator is very much needed when MT is involved.

Quite often for MT-related projects, linguists are used to clean up the translated text, although the demand for exclusively human translation still far outweighs that of MT.

Industry wide, people recognize that although MT is the best solution for a specific, small segment of translation projects, MT is still not a desirable alternative to translation by an educated, well-trained and quality-controlled human translation team.

Use of Machine Translation in the industry

Contrary to popular belief that the translation industry feels threatened by machine translation, many translation companies do offer machine translation to their clients. Certain characteristics are normally required for a document to be considered for machine translation:
Large amount of text
Short turnaround time
Informal audience
Not for publication (research purposes)
Low expectation of resulting quality and accuracy
Relatively small budget for a large amount of content

If a project meets all of the above criteria, machine translation services may be a viable solution, and the rates and turnaround times can be a fraction of the cost of human translation.

(Gigabytes of data can be completed in days, instead of weeks or months)

MT is less expensive than human translation because the results are of much lower quality. While human errors are not an issue with machine translation, style and grammar are. However, if one simply wants the gist of a document (e.g. find keywords, names…), machine translation is an acceptable option.

Few machine translation databases are as advanced as Google’s highly used translation tool, which at this point, includes 64 languages. The accurate conversion from one language to another depends on the amount of data one has to build a database of words, terms and phrases.

Use of Translation Memory in the industry

Human Translators commonly use Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools on a daily basis to help complete translation projects. CAT tools, of which Translation Memory™ is the most common, help translators build their own database of terminology.

Translation memory is a commonly misunderstood tool that has risen in popularity in the past decade, not only with translators but with translation clients. Clients often request the use of TMs to ensure consistency of terminology across multiple projects, and the use of these tools is encouraged by translation companies.

TMs are a way for translators to record past translations for future use. While this was done manually in the past in the form of glossaries and tables, programs now exist to simplify the process.

Programs such as Wordfast, MemoQ, Trados and SDLX have made it simpler to use consistent terminology through long texts and multiple translations. These CAT tools save translated words, phrases and segments into data banks, where they are accessed when the same terminology shows up in the future. A current trend is emerging, where teams of translators can access and update the same TM database simultaneously, which can be a tremendous advantage for large projects with short time frames.

As a result, translators can avoid doing hours of research on a project they worked on days — or even years — before!

Between TM, MT and CAT, the translation industry is swimming in acronyms. Understanding the benefits of these tools will not only keep translation companies competitive, but it will help them, in this technological world, to stay afloat.

The world has changed a lot in the last decade and people have improved their living standards as well. The basic reason for this improvement in the last decade is the introduction of new technology. There have been a number of revolutions in new technology over the last decade, and progress is continually being made. Computing has changed as well. Now, users are not always aware of the myriad services they enjoy on a daily basis. They receive services, but they no clear concept of how these services work. They have only a basic idea of the services, but the platform of that service is hidden. Cloud computing is a type of computing in which a user cannot pinpoint the exact physical location of the service provider. They have the ability to access some services and they can utilize them as well, but there would be no chance for them to follow their data through the whole cycle.
Cloud computing utilizes a combination that includes numbers of services to the users. All users can access network storage, software and many other resources, but the exact location of the server and processing is a complete cloud for all these users. They could never guess the exact location of these resources. They get services from the network, but this network is actually a combination of different service providers. The concept of virtualization is also regarded as the same, and it can be considered the next alternative of this style of computing. This alternative concept means that there would be something in particular that is not actually there in a physical way. There is something hidden, which we call virtual.
This is quite relevant to the new style of computing in which users are unable to find the platforms of the services they use. They could be using some advanced networking features like NAS storage, and they would still be unaware about the exact location. This is the new style of technology, and the Internet has played a great role in the improvisation of this new computing style. Users are able to access the servers that provide them services. They are utilizing the services of all those servers, but they are unable to know that if the server is located in their own country or not. People all over the world use computers and they do get in touch over the Internet as well.