Cloud Computing in GILT Ecosystems and Evolution

With the ever growing volumes of dynamic content enterprises are faced with serious difficulties to handle, manage and analyze information in many languages and across different cultural boundaries. Therefore, there is a need to employ more open and collaborative approaches based on recent Web technologies and the concepts of utility computing to allow the existing language ecosystems to successfully evolve to the next generation of technology offerings. One recent innovation driver in this scenario is cloud computing. Cloud computing is the continuous development of a variety of technologies that can alter an enterprise's approach to build, maintain and leverage an IT infrastructure, for the language industry and the GILT service communities in particular, however, it serves as a next generation globalization enabler. It offers new ways of building, offering and delivering translingual services that will further transmute into transcultural services. This presentation will discuss the various emerging language ecosystems with new collaborative approaches and business models based on cloud computing technology platforms.