Predictions for 2009: Globalization Technology, Services, and Business Models - 1 views
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LSPs and software vendors will support more video- and telephone-based “remote language mediation” via human and machine interpretation.
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companies will struggle with LSP and internal staff labor costs, flat or declining budgets, and increased demand for more content in more languages for both developed and emerging markets
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MT software vendors will work hard to break out of the dominant bring-me-more-eyeballs revenue model with applications focused on real business needs such as intranet information feeds, employee communication, and business intelligence.
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Some language entrepreneurs will take the company up on its offer of machine translation, translation management, collaborative editing, and creative mash-ups to build a Google-based translation service business without spending a dime on commercial software.