What is Globalization Pipeline?
In traditional waterfall software delivery processes, particularly for on-premise products with long delivery cycles, translation typically took place during end-game and often required development teams to 'freeze' their code to accommodate translation. It also involved a lot of manual processes -- managing files, rebuilding, re-deploying, etc. Obviously, in a DevOps, Continuous Delivery world when enhancements (including UI additions and changes) and fixes are being delivered to customers at ever increasing frequencies, this approach to translation doesn't work. It was in response to this business and technical problem that the IBM Globalization organization developed IBM Globalization Pipeline.
IBM Globalization Pipeline is an IBM Cloud service created to enable application development teams to integrate application translation into DevOps process. Although Globalization Pipeline is a cloud service, the resulting deployment of your application is not required to be cloud based.
What Globalization Pipeline offers
- DevOps tools for integrating the service into DevOps as well as integrating into running applications -- enabling you automate much of the work of managing application translation (file handling, building, deploying, etc.)
- Support for PII with various resource types including JSON, Java properties and others.
- Integrated 'instant' machine translation in a select number of languages that you can choose to deploy or reserve for test/dev purposes.
- Integrated human translation provided by Straker (the IBM translation vendor) without all the file handling -- particularly if you integrate Globalization Pipeline into DevOps! Human translation is available in all languages offered by Straker -- not just what is offered for machine translation.
For development teams that integrate with Globalization Pipeline, these capabilities will speed up the translation process, reduce manual operations, and reduce file handling costs and errors enabling teams to meet their continuous delivery targets. We encourage you to be one of the adopters!
For information about Globalization in general, see IBM Globalization Central.