Foundation

Arabize was founded in 1994 as an independent privately held service company located in Egypt. The company was created ever since a need arose in the market for an Arabic localization provider. As such, Arabize offers single-language localization services in the target language being Arabic. The size and development of the Arabic market is what stirred the company towards providing professional localization services that adheres to industry standards

Challenge

The challenge throughout the years was:

To continuously strive in achieving quality results and at the same time growing and maintaining the same factor of internal quality conditions.

The MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region has many variations in dialect, law, currencies, etiquette, customs and business practices etc, despite that Arabize has learned to master the quality results in the Arabic language that cover the whole region.

An interesting aspect of the Arabic language is that multiple Arabic versions of a product are not considered necessary to support the target people of the designated MENA country. Instead, a standard Arabic that is recognized by all as the proper Arabic is used while preserving the Arab culture language.

Arabize honed its skills to a top-notch today which can be easily reflected in the growth Arabize has achieved on every level as a professional localization provider.

Services

Arabize portfolio of services includes localization of User Interface (UI), User Assistance (UA) printed & on-line, documentation (user guides, manuals and tutorials), Computer Based Training (CBT's), websites, web applications and marketing material.

Another array of services includes technical writing (documentation) and desktop publishing (DTP), in addition to development of: web sites, help and documentation. Finally, there is the comprehensive testing of functionality in applications & Help systems.

Tools

Every project is different in its nature than the other, which requires the creation of a specific environment for every project. This could entail client specific tools and compatible third party tools. Along with using the most universal tools available in an ever-changing industry, Arabize benefits from translation memory tools in improving the translator's productivity and maintains the consistency of terminology and style between translations. This in turn preserves the expert quality and uniformity of the work produced by Arabize.