When a software development team is in the product design phase, it is easy for localization to be overlooked. Development teams are busy; gathering user requirements, developing components and testing usability in the source language (probably English) – until the moment when the Product Manager says: “OK, this is great! Let’s sell it in 15 countries.”

This whitepaper explains what localizability and world-readiness is, how localizability can be built into the front end of your development process, and the steps to take to improve the localization process for your software.

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