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Switching vendors is never a small decision. There’s always a business case to build, stakeholders to persuade, and a transition period to manage while a new provider gets up to speed. Most procurement professionals have been through it enough times to know a poor choice can cost more than staying put. Still, the ideal solution […]

A common frustration is surfacing among localization teams: many feel their Translation Management Systems are over-promising and under-delivering. The complaint is fairly consistent, and it is not tied to any one vendor. Expectations often get set during the sales process, and then reality arrives with product gaps, friction, and capabilities that did not fully materialize. […]

Why “continuous” finally means something in 2026 For most of the last decade, “continuous localization” was a phrase that lived in vendor decks. It described an ambition more than a working model: pull strings from a repo, translate them quickly, push them back, repeat. Enterprise SaaS teams tried to make it real, and many succeeded […]

Mid-sized software teams sit in an awkward spot when it comes to going global. You’re past the stage where one developer can paste strings into a spreadsheet and call it a day, but you don’t yet have the in-house localization department, dedicated tooling budget, or specialist headcount of an enterprise. Meanwhile, your product is shipping […]

Across organizations of all sizes, teams outside of localization departments are building their own translation solutions — a phenomenon known as “shadow localization.” Marketing teams need rapid content turnaround. Product teams are embedding chatbots with translation functions. Support teams are auto-translating knowledge bases and customer conversations. And with the rise of AI-powered automation and no-code […]

UPDATE: 20 May 2026 / originally published Oct 24 2024 Translation and localization sit in a blind spot for many procurement teams. Because these services are often treated as a commodity—measured solely by cost-per-word—the real value of a language program is easily missed. In an AI-driven market, that metric no longer tells the full story. […]

Shadow Localization: When Teams Translate Without You — And What to Do About It “Shadow localization” occurs when teams within an organization begin handling their own translation and localization work outside the established localization function. This phenomenon predates AI — siloed teams have long operated independently, sometimes unaware that a centralized localization team exists — […]