3. Closing the gap between expectations and what’s available in the translation vendor world Innovation and technology are changing the landscape very rapidly. Service providers are looking for new niches in the market and introduce new services. But are these the things that customers really need? Panelists: Katrin Drescher (Symantec), Marc Jonckers (Jonckers), Derek McCann (Microsoft), Anton Voronov (ABBYY)

1. Disintermediation in
Translation Industry
Anton Voronov
a.voronov@abbyy-ls.com

2. Customer
• More transparency in translation
• Find and manage translation team of their own
• Access to translation technologies

3. LSP
• Scalability constrained
• Limited resources and lack of uniformity
• Headache with the transaction management

4. Prerequisites
• Technology
Online multi-user workflow, OCR, file formats
support, machine translation, translation memory,
terminology, online progress and analytics, quality
control, API, accessible
• Resources
• Communication

5. Disintermediation in
Translation
• Unified approach based on a single platform
• Direct freelancers search & hiring
• Massive collaboration in translation projects
• Greater transparency, more control
• Faster, cheaper, better and more enjoyable!
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