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Globalize your On Demand Business

Planning your globalization effort

New topics

	Globalization Guideline H: Languages with a bidirectional script
	Globalization Guideline I: The cursive Arabic script

Overview

	The IBM Corporate Globalization Team - The Corporate Globalization Team defines and maintains globalization strategies and requirements for IBM as a global corporate citizen, and for the products it creates and markets.
	An Introduction to Globalization - Guide the design and implementation of applications to support global requirements.
	Language support for IBM products: Check here for details! - Quick and easy lookup of IBM software by language and by country.
	Just-in-Time localization - Just-in-Time localization makes application data easier to transfer, manage and manipulate, and it lets applications more accurately reflect user preferences.

	Applying Globalization Architecture Imperatives to your business - Design and implement applications that best support global requirements.
	Unicode- Why globalized applications need it and how to migrate to it.
	ICU - Introduction to the International Components for Unicode.
	Unicode- the fundamental building block for language encoding.

Guidelines to design global solutions

	Guideline A: User Interface
	Guideline B: Writing for an international audience
	Guideline C: Respect for culture & conventions
	Guideline D: Product structure in a globalized environment
	Guideline E: Input and output interfaces
	Guideline F: Coded character sets
	Guideline G: Introducing Asian ideographic scripts
	Guideline H: Languages with a bidirectional script
	Guideline I: The cursive Arabic script

Culture

Introduction to culture, diversity and multiculturalism -How does it affect your global e-business and the way your employees and managers behave daily?