94 Thousand Words In 5 Days Is Not Impossible

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is a Fortune 500 company that provides information technology (IT) and professional services for commercial clients, the United States government, state governments and government agencies at the local level.

Our relationship with CSC began in 2005; it has expanded over this time to include multiple departments within the organization. One of our newer relationships is with the Global Contracts and Legal as a Shared Service (CLaaSS) team.

When Sreeni – a professional on the CLaaSS team – approached us with a large amount of documents in Danish that needed to be translated into English, we knew there were a lot of moving parts to manage!

Before starting the project, we identified a few concerns. Obviously, the first was turnaround time. The second was consistency. CSC identified the end-users for these documents as key stakeholders. The average translator can translate roughly about 2,500 words per day. We informed the client about potential issues with consistency, and they said this would be fine, as there were many different files. We are also able to leverage our translation memory (TM) that we have built with this client to help ensure consistency.

Here is a quick timeline of the events: