Supporting Leica Geosystems in maintaining its global success in measurement and surveying

Leica Geosystems need a highly user-friendly, informative and multilingual website to maintain its international success. With its highly specialised technology, Leica Geosystems needed a localisation partner for its international website with very skilled and trusted resources and extensive experience in highly technical topics. Based on its proven track record in niche technical translation and expertise in website localisation, the decision was finally made to entrust the project to Albion Languages.

Translating the websites of technology providers always represents a complex challenge. Leica Geosystems needed a balance to be achieved between:  

• Correct handling of technical language and use of a marketing style that appeals to potential clients 
• Optimisation of webpages for a range of search engines to ensure that the website can easily be found 
• Additional challenges included a tight timeline and rapid adoption of the client’s internal content management processes.

Customised approach and use of technology. After analysing the project scope and requirements, we established our client-specific, customised approach to the project for scheduling, communication with the client, necessary project tools, etc. The project was divided into 7 batches to facilitate a continuous flow of completed documents. A glossary of key terms was also created to achieve consistency in client- and sector-specific terminology. Use of the translation tool enabled the translators to work in parallel and the editor to be able to process the texts without delay. 

Carefully picked team and extra training We then assembled our team of expert translators, editors and a dedicated project manager. Initial training was then provided to the linguists in the cloud-based translation software used by the client.

By adopting this customised, proactive approach, we could deliver the webpage batches precisely to the tight schedule, helping Leica Geosystems to roll out its new multilingual website on time. The required top quality was achieved through a combination of tried and tested workflows and practices and optimised communication with our very supportive client.

Our work was also greatly supported by close cooperation with the internal reviser at Leica Geosystems who provided useful feedback throughout the project.

Find out more about Albion Languages’ engineering translation and real estate translation experience and how we could support you in your continued business success.