flavius presentation of softissimo wp1 project management
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FLAVIUS
Presentation of Softissimo
WP1 Project Management
FLAVIUS
Presentation of Softissimo
Reverso Intranet
Lexibase Intranet
Presentation of WP1
WP1’s tasks details
SoftissimoFLAVIUS
SOFTISSIMO designs, publishes and integrates language technologies for large corporations, institutions, education and the consumer market.
We help our customer to share information, automate translation process with a range of complementary solutions :
Reverso Intranet : an instant translation portal (text, web pages, documents)
Lexibase Intranet : electronic dictionaries
Toolbars (aka Reverso powertools) : access to the functions of translation from automation applications from MS Office type, Internet browser (IE, Firefox) etc
Web Services : integrate translation features in your favorite applications!
A unique assessment : more 200 major customers and so many projects of integration or linguistic adaptation.
Key figures: + 8 millions users, + 100 millions of translations a month, + 200 languages combinations
Softissimo FLAVIUS
Key dates :
1988 : first grammar checker for French - Hugo
1989 : first electronic dictionaries - Collins Online 1989
1995 : first « reasonable quality » translator for an affordable price
1997 : first PC translation software for non-English pair : French-German
1998 : first high quality translation software : Reverso Pro English-French
1998 : first translation solution for Intranet with large deployment : EADS, Thales
2004 : first portal combining translation and dictionary
2008 : first offer combining instant translation solution, collaborative dictionary for Intranet, translation workflow tool
SoftissimoReverso Intranet
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Reverso Intranet is an instant translation portal :
Text translation, files, emails
Navigate and Translate : browsing in other languages (source text in tooltip).
Enriched access to dictionaries
Natural pronunciation of the original’s text and its translation
User-friendliness and the speed of a local application (AJAX)
SoftissimoReverso Intranet
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Value for customers :
communicate effectively with foreign speakerscustomers, prospects, counterparts, partners, suppliersoral or written
understand the information immediately, whatever the language
translate and transmit the information in a foreign language
respect the terminology of the company for a better coherence and cohesion
Reduces the costs of translationDocuments not intended to be published
Keeps information confidential (no use of internet sites, non secured)
SoftissimoLexibase Intranet
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Lexibase Intranet : electronic dictionaries
Rich and friendly (voice, conjugor, …)
Collins,
Specialized dictionaries(business/finance, industry/technical, medical/pharmacy…)
Collaborative dictionary (web 2.0)
Glossaries and company’s lexicons with a unique interface for the consultation of all the dictionaries and the groups of dictionaries.
Natural pronunciation
Reverso.netFLAVIUS
Reverso.net is the reference site for online translation:
Texts translations : quality, easiness, speed in more than 35 language pairs
Bilingual Dictionaries ( famous Collins dictionaries publishing), specialized dictionaries (medical, business, computer, …) and monolingual dictionaries (english, french)
Conjugator (english, french, spanish, german), interactive Grammar)
Popular and user-friendly Site
Also used for research purpose
SoftissimoCustomers
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WP1 : Project Management (1)FLAVIUS
Main objectives of WP1: establish planning, coordination of partners’s work and facilitate communication between partners
WP1 is composed of 5 tasks aiming to reach this objective : Task 1.1 : project coordination Task 1.2 : quality and risk management Task 1.3 : administrative and financial management Task 1.4 : implementation and reporting Task 1.5 : project web site
A document template will be sent to partners
Establish a mailing list for project internal communication (along with project web site)
WP1 : Project Management (1)FLAVIUS
Task 1.1 : project coordination
Organisation of regular meeting with partners : use of Skype software frequency and time of call meeting duration meeting agenda writing of minutes comments on minutes
Designing of a project website (see Task 1.5)
Provide partners with an up-to-date planning when required
WP1 : Project Management (2)FLAVIUS
Task 1.2 : quality and risk management
Discuss its challenges during each call meeting
Plan a dedicated full-meeting if needed (phone call, email)
Inform partners (phone call, email) about possible risks, delay s as soon as possible
Assess FLAVIUS platform (see WP 5)
Task 1.3 : administrative and financial management
Pre-financing received
Will be sent to partners eligible to pre-financing in the following days
WP1 : Project Management (2)FLAVIUS
Task 1.4 : implementation and reporting
Produce regular reporting to European Commission
Internal report :
Work Package Leaders to report during meetings
Partner to Coordinator when risk, delay is detected (phone call, email)
Project Manager • to inform about milestone, …• to warn partners when risk, delay issue is raised by a partner
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Task 1.5 : project web site
URL : www.project-flavius.eu, hosted by Softissimo
Available by the end of June (?)
Use of Wikipedia software as CMS. Each partner will have a login/password to access the secure section of this website.
Content: Presentation of FLAVIUS project (home page) Presentation of each partner involved in FLAVIUS project. Partner login section (secure section for internal use only):
• Schedule of meeting• Name, email, Skype identifier, … of partner’s staff involved in FLAVIUS
project• Documents (technicals documents, images, …)
Partners will be responsible for writing their presentation. Partners are free to suggest/propose any relevant content And any other relevant matter