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Software Arabization Services

International analysis group IDC estimates that Middle East and North Africa (MENA) IT market is set to grow from $6.9 bln in 2003 to around $16.4 bln by 2009. The MENA region is currently the third fastest growing IT area in the world after India and China. Accordingly, IT companies of all sizes are setting the focus to develop their business in Arab countries.

Yet, most organizations in the Middle East, as clients, stress on the fact that incoming new IT products and related software should be supporting the local language of the region. Thus, Arabic language localization has become a sine-qua-non condition to penetrate the Arabic IT Market.
 

As experts in Arabic Technologies since 2005, Wagner Consulting-MENA office has a rich offering in Arabization services. Wagner Consulting portfolio of products, solutions and services related to Arabic language intends to meet companies’ needs with the optimum quality, timeline and cost in the following areas:  

 

 I - Desktop & Server Applications Arabizations
We have a strong experience in adding Arabic support to software running on classical platforms such as server or desktop computers.

Data Applications Arabic Development
  • Arabization of intranets or applications based on databases (Lotus Notes, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, ...)
  • Localization of web applications (HTML, XML, ASP, web services, J2EE, ...)
  • Batch processing on Arabic legacy data
  • Cross-encodings conversion and mapping (unicode, ms-1256, iso-8859-6, ibm-864, ...)
  • Arabic data synchronisation between PCs (Windows or Macintosh) and PDAs (PocketPC or PalmOS)
  • Enabling Arabic support on telecoms systems (SMS-C, PAM, ...)
Native Applications Arabic Development
  • Localizing the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Windows native applications
  • Arabizing MacOS native applications GUI
Fonts Arabic Localization
  • Designing Arabic fonts
  • Converting Arabic fonts between font formats (TrueType (TTY), TrueType Open (TTO), OpenType (OTF), ...)
  • Porting Arabic fonts between platforms (Mac to PC, and PC to Mac)
  • Fonts binary files format analysis and identification
  • Legacy fonts format Analysis, identification and conversion
Desktop and Server Tools and Technologies

We have worked with the following tools and technologies:
  • Visual Studio, Visual C++ (VC), Visual Basic (VB), Visual Studio .NET (VSNET)
  • Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Macintosh
  • Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Windows
  • Fontographer
  • FontLab
  • TrueEdit
  • IBM Websphere MQ
  • LogicaCMG SMS-C
 		    II - Complex Documents Arabization
Besides localization, we provide also translation services for special needs or for complex documents.

Text and Prompts Adapted Translation
  • Arabic translation with focus in telecoms, medicine, and IT domains
  • Prompts translation (PC applications menus, phones screen prompts, digital cameras screen prompts, TVs menus, DVD/VCD players menus, …)
Complex Design & Layout Preservation
  • Reproducing identically documents layout and design from Latin source into Arabic destination
  • Converting and reproducing layout & design from DTP application to DTP application (ex: from Latin FrameMaker to Arabic Indesign)

Multi-Platform Work

We work on Mac and/or PC.

Complex Documents Tools and Technologies
We have worked with the major Desktop publishing (DTP) tools:

  • PageMaker
  • Acrobat
  • FrameMaker
  • Indesign
  • QuarkXpress
  • Illustrator