IFL
works with two primary client types – direct clients
and Multilingual vendors.
Direct clients
are quite simply companies with a need
to deliver products and/or services in multiple language
versions. In many cases they have internal organizations
to manage this process, which often involves finding
local or regional language service suppliers for long
term partnerships. IFL's strong project
management, coupled with large scale and flexibility,
offers dependable quality and reduces the need for management
and post-processing overheads to bring true cost efficiency
for this client segment. IFL’s
emergence as the first independent language services
provider in South America with a true enterprise style
solution is giving direct clients the
confidence needed to consider a more cost effective
alternative to multilingual vendors. Our
clients are realizing the benefits of IFL handling service
needs for both of the key Latin American languages,
with the majority using IFL as a primary supplier for
both Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This provides
ample validation for the development strategy which
saw us open our Brazilian language center in Porto Alegre
in December 2006 to complement our main production office
in Buenos Aires. This client segment also tends
to require strong technical service solutions, such
as DTP and localization engineering/testing, and thus
value the complete range of services provided by IFL.
IFL offers multilingual
vendors a specialized solution for Spanish and/or Brazilian
Portuguese with reliability in turnaround
times and a strong quality focus. Rather than
try to obtain the lowest unit rates by having a limited
infrastructure or taking processing shortcuts, our aim
is to optimize overall cost efficiency by reducing overheads
for management and administration, as well as any need
for pre- and post processing. We want to make
the project goals of our multilingual vendor partners
achievable and predictable by working with a supplier
that understands and shares them.
IFL’s complete range of services means that we
can enable clients streamline processing and improved
efficiency for multi-faceted assignments, for example
when incorporating desktop publishing or other technical
components. Also, our scale and flexibility typically
removes the need to work with multiple suppliers, which
results in higher quality and greater efficiency. |