10 Secrets to Unlock the Power of the LanguageCloud Platform

Technology has become an important investment for businesses in the information age. Having the right tools at your disposal can make business expansion easier, creating opportunities to explore new avenues without overwhelming your workforce. Straker’s LanguageCloud is one such tool.

This cloud-based translation platform can help your localization team get more done and reach new markets faster. Here are the ten pillars of LanguageCloud and how to use them to their full potential.

1. Integration

What’s the point of implementing a new system if it undermines your existing setup? The best way to use LanguageCloud is to integrate it with your CMS to continue working the way you always have. Language Cloud’s API connectors offer more integration with your existing software subscriptions so that you can localize content with minimal additional steps.

You can connect your LanguageCloud account to WordPress, AEM, Oracle, Drupal, Marketo, Magento, Salesforce, Contentful, Zendesk, and other platforms. Don’t see your system on the list? We can build custom APIs for our Enterprise clients.

2. Collaboration - Slack & Teams

Slack and Microsoft Teams reported massive growth in 2020 at the start of the work-from-home revolution. This way of working continues to dominate, so making translation part of these workplace communication channels seemed like the best step forward. Now you can access LanguageCloud inside your Slack or Teams workspace with Straker’s workplace apps.

Anyone in your team can upload files for translation, request quotes, start a project, and track job statuses simply by starting a Slack or Teams chat. Plus, you can get AI-powered job completion status predictions for your translated content. These apps give you more visibility over your ongoing translation projects and help you manage translations on the go.

3. Memory Management

Data is power, and LanguageCloud helps you use it to its fullest potential. Unlock faster, more accurate translations and complete more jobs on time with Translation Memory. This feature collects, stores, and utilizes previously-translated words and phrases for faster deployment in future projects. Plus, you can build a personalized glossary inside LanguageCloud.

LanguageCloud AI and Workbench AI offer even more intelligence by combining translation memory with artificial intelligence. These paraphrasing tools smooth out translation errors instantly and offer alternative translation suggestions to help editors and translators work smarter, not harder.

4. Customization and Adaptability

LanguageCloud is not a one-size-fits-all platform. You can use it to build custom workflows for your translation or localization team to find a flow that suits your business. If you prefer a hands-on approach, you can personally find and manage your vendors, review translations, and sign off on final drafts before publishing.

For more automation, you have access to AI-powered translations, billing, and project management, plus setting up automatic publishing in LanguageCloud.

5. Security Features

Keeping your translation data secure is our priority. LanguageCloud is ISO-27001 certified to give you peace of mind that we protect your privacy and that your sensitive information is safe. We have a comprehensive privacy policy and use industry-standard internet firewalls to prevent security breaches.

You can also set user permissions within LanguageCloud to improve your internal data security. Admins can control the features each team member can access from your LanguageCloud dashboard, for example, accepting quotes over a specific value or publishing translated content.

6. Validation Dashboard

Validation is an essential step in the translation process that ensures accuracy and helps you build trust with your clients. You can unlock even more quality with LanguageCloud’s validation dashboard. Here you can find validators, request spot checks for translations, manage your files, and keep track of validation projects.

The validation dashboard gives you key insights into how much time your team spends on authentication and how many changes were made to determine which languages need additional quality control.

7. Track ongoing projects

Many customers express concern about managing multiple translation projects with numerous languages and vendors. That’s why we built automated translation project management into LanguageCloud. Our platform leverages AI to accurately predict job completion statuses based on your previous projects.

It’s a simple traffic light system that helps you mitigate delays and instantly see whether your content is in translation, editing, or validation. You can monitor your ongoing translation jobs from your LanguageCloud dashboard, MS Teams, or Slack.

8. Analytics

You can’t improve what you don’t measure. LanguageCloud offers built-in translation analytics that gives you actionable insight into your translation process. Understanding where you can improve can help you deliver more timely jobs, increase accuracy, and develop more efficient workflows. With LanguageCloud, you can track how much money you spend on translation and how much time goes into translation versus editing versus validation.

You can also evaluate the quality of your translated content and its performance as part of your greater localization strategy.

9. SSO integration with Google & Microsoft

Like many leading software platforms, Straker LanguageCloud makes life easier with single sign-on (SSO) capabilities. Now you can sign into your LanguageCloud account with your Google or Microsoft credentials, saving you time and allowing your team to work from anywhere, on any device.

SSO provides more integration with your existing systems, facilitates faster workflows, and improves your team’s daily working experience. Contrary to popular belief, SSO integration can also reduce security risks due to password-related issues.

10. Pricing plans

Finally, choosing the right pricing plan can help you get the best version of LanguageCloud for your business. Depending on your translation needs, you can choose from our Free, Essentials, Growth, or Enterprise plans.

Our Free plan gives you a taste of what LanguageCloud provides. You can request translation quotes, view ongoing jobs from the platform, and manage a small internal localization team. For more automation, opt for LanguageCloud Essentials. This plan gives you access to translation memory, machine translation, job status tracking, reporting, and analytics.

LanguageCloud Growth is aimed at growing localization teams with an increased workload. This plan unlocks your validation dashboard, workplace apps for Slack and Teams, and API integrations for other business software.

Lastly, consider LanguageCloud Enterprise if you need a customized solution tailored to your business. Enterprise clients enjoy personalized API integrations, dedicated account management, and multi-vendor support.

Try LanguageCloud Today

Straker LanguageCloud is about more than translation or translation management. It’s about building smarter workflows and scalable systems and helping your team get more done. Try LanguageCloud today to access automation, AI, and world-class professional linguists in a simple, centralized platform.