Software Arabization Services

Software Services

Software Arabization Services

International analysis group IDC estimates that Middle East and North Africa (MENA) IT market is set to grow from $6.9 bln in 2003 to around $13.4 bln by 2008. The MENA region is currently the third fastest growing IT area in the world after India and China. Accordingly, IT companies of all sizes are setting the focus to develop their business in Arab countries.

Yet, most organizations in the Middle East, as clients, stress on the fact that incoming new IT products and related software should be supporting the local language of the region. Thus, Arabic language localization has become a sine-qua-non condition to penetrate the Arabic IT Market.

As experts in Arabic Technologies since 1998, Mughamrat has a rich offering in Arabization services.

Mughamrat portfolio of products, solutions and services related to Arabic language intends to meet companies needs with the optimum quality, timeline and cost in the following areas:

I - Mobile Applications Arabization
With our actual technology and experience, we are able to arabize virtually any computing or electronic devices that presents a user interface.

PDAs, Handhelds and Smartphones

Windows CE Devices (Casio, Intermec 600 & 700 Series, Symbol PPT, Symbol PDT, DAP Microflex, HP iPaq, HP Jornada, PsionTeklogix, HHP Dolphin, Lancruiser, Radix, ...)
PalmOS Devices (Handspring Treo, Palm devices, Sony Clié, Symbol SPT, …)
Devices based on Symbian, on Linux, on DOS, or on Terminal Emulation.

Proprietary Systems

Mobile Phones (Beaucom, Tresor, Philips, ...)
Digital Cameras, Set-Top-Box, Digital Satellite Receivers, ...

Peripherals and Electronics Appliances

Printers (Intermec Norand 6820, Extech, Motionworks, HP Mobile Deskjet 450, HP LaserJet, Oneil 8i, O'neil MF4T, Oneil RP1000, Radix FWP30, ...)

Mobile Tools and Technologies
We have worked with the following tools and technologies:

Embedded Visual C++ (EVC)
Embedded Visual Basic (EVB)
Visual Studio .NET (Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET and ASP .NET)
Windows CE Platform Builder
SQL CE
CodeWarrior for PalmOS
Satellite Forms
Infineon E-Globe
DWD P2OO2
Comneon Apoxi
Tasking Development tools for Infineon STMicroelectronics C166 /ST10
ATI Nucleus RTOS
HP PCL (Printer Command Language)
ESC/P (Epson Standard Code for Printer)

II - Desktop & Server Applications Arabizations
We have also a strong experience in adding Arabic support to software running on classical platforms such as server or desktop computers.

Data Applications Arabic Development

Arabization of intranets or applications based on databases (Lotus Notes, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, ...)
Localization of web applications (HTML, XML, ASP, web services, J2EE, ...)
Batch processing on Arabic legacy data
Cross-encodings conversion and mapping (unicode, ms-1256, iso-8859-6, ibm-864, ...)
Arabic data synchronisation between PCs (Windows or Macintosh) and PDAs (PocketPC or PalmOS)
Enabling Arabic support on telecoms systems (SMS-C, PAM, ...)

Native Applications Arabic Development

Localizing the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Windows native applications
Arabizing MacOS native applications GUI

Fonts Arabic Localization

Designing Arabic fonts
Converting Arabic fonts between font formats (TrueType (TTY), TrueType Open (TTO), OpenType (OTF), ...)
Porting Arabic fonts between platforms (Mac to PC, and PC to Mac)
Fonts binary files format analysis and identification
Legacy fonts format Analysis, identification and conversion

Desktop and Server Tools and Technologies
We have worked with the following tools and technologies:

Visual Studio, Visual C++ (VC), Visual Basic (VB), Visual Studio .NET (VSNET)
Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Macintosh
Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Windows
Fontographer
FontLab
TrueEdit
IBM Websphere MQ
LogicaCMG SMS-C

III - Complex Documents Arabization
Besides localization, we provide also translation services for special needs or for complex documents.

Text and Prompts Adapted Translation

Arabic translation with focus in telecoms and IT domains
Prompts translation (PC applications menus, phones screen prompts, digital cameras screen prompts, TVs menus, DVD/VCD players menus, …)

Complex Design & Layout Preservation

Reproducing identically documents layout and design from Latin source into Arabic destination
Converting and reproducing layout & design from DTP application to DTP application (ex: from Latin FrameMaker to Arabic Indesign)

Multi-Platform Work
We work on Mac and/or PC.

Complex Documents Tools and Technologies
We have worked with the major Desktop publishing (DTP) tools:

PageMaker
Acrobat
FrameMaker
Indesign
QuarkXpress
Illustrator