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Are you finding it difficult to locate concrete data to support your business plan to add more languages, increase your budget, or centralize your translation/localization function? Are you under pressure to deliver a translation metrics dashboard in 2012?

If so, come join Rebecca Ray, Enterprise Globalization Strategist at Common Sense Advisory when she shares data on what companies like yours spend by revenue range, volume, content type, project size, number of languages, number of projects, turnaround times, scope of responsibility, job title, and team size. She will highlight findings from 226 respondents at buyer organizations who manage language-related services, based on one of CSA’s most recent reports, "Translation Performance Metrics.”

Rebecca Ray is a Senior Analyst with Common Sense Advisory. A former Rotarian Scholar and Silicon Valley veteran, Rebecca has also co-authored a book for global high-tech companies on doing business in the United States. She was most recently managing editor for the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA). Based in Turkey, she has lived and worked in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America for many years. Rebecca has a B.A. from Hanover College and a M.A. from Indiana University in the U.S.

Rebecca Ray has focused on designing, testing, adapting, and marketing software outside of the U.S. since 1980. She has managed worldwide product design, localization, and marketing for successful products sold internationally by IBM, Netscape Communications, Remedy Systems, Symantec Corporation, and Sun Microsystems. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish, and proficient in Portuguese and Turkish.

In her work at Common Sense Advisory, Rebecca’s primary focus is enterprise globalization, social media, multilingual SEO, and global product development. Her other coverage areas include outsourcing, testing, multimedia localization, and internationalization.

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