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| Globalization: the process of making applications work seamlessly utilizing the user's preferred language; and culture: is critical to the creation of a successful On Demand business. But you can only extend a Web-based business model to a global market if you understand the technologies and products involved and develop an effective globalization strategy. At first glance, Globalization may appear to be a truly formidable task. It involves not just programming and deployment skills, but also cultural, translation and language expertise as well.
These topics are designed to help you understand the basics of globalization, from the planning through the deployment process, leveraging IBM solutions. |
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Above is a graphical depiction of the globalization process in which you are able to click on each of the phases to navigate to that page and also mouseover them to read a brief description. In each of these categories, you will find topics that will assist you in the process of globalizing your applications. Below is also a brief description of each phase, there may be some overlap.
- Planning: Before you even start modeling and developing your application, get familiar with the basic concepts of globalization.
- Designing: As you are designing your business application, make sure it will be well internationalized, support the locales, cultural preferences and business conventions of the users you are trying to reach.
- Developing: It is time to code your global business application, using the best globalization coding guidelines and practices.
- Translating: Are you ready to translate your business application? Translation is a critical component of the overall globalization process. Make sure the right processes and tools are in place.
- IBM solutions @ work: Deploying and using business applications leveraging IBM products and solutions in a global environment.
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