Translation Management: Impress them with your KPIs!

  • Presentation
  • Localization
  • 20. September
  • 10:30 - 11:15 AM (CEST)
  • Titanium
  • finished
  • Ing. BA MA MSc Markus Arch

    • SKIDATA GmbH

Contents

Management is all about numbers and "you can't manage what you can't measure" is a popular mantra. In the complex field of translation management, however, it's not so easy to provide understandable numbers for upper management - or is it? Easily accessible BI tools can transform messy Excel and CSV files into crisp metrics and charts, as demonstrated with memoQ TMS and Microsoft Power BI.

Takeaways

  • Basic understanding of why Translation KPIs are important and can help you, e.g. when asking for ressources.
  • Ideas for potential translation KPIs
  • Ideas for potential BI tools (Microsoft Power BI)

 

 

Prior knowledge

Basic knowledge about translation management systems and ressources, e.g. Translation Memories

Speaker

Ing. BA MA MSc Markus Arch

  • SKIDATA GmbH
Biography

Markus Arch stumbled from journalism into technical communication about 8 years ago and has happily stayed in this field. He is a senior technical editor at Skidata GmbH, where he manages the internal functional design project as well as worldwide translation management.