mrc Press Release

m-Power Translate tears down the language barrier

July 2011 Lombard, IL - Today, software developer michaels, ross & cole, ltd. (mrc) announces m-Power Translate, an m-Power plug-in that brings language translation to transactional web apps. m-Power is a development platform that rapidly creates web applications such as report-writing, Business Intelligence, executive dashboards, e-commerce, customer portals, and wireless applications to name a few.

This new plugin fixes the translation problem currently facing international companies or companies wanting to do business internationally. These companies must hire translators to create and maintain separate applications for each language they wish to reach, which is time consuming and expensive.

m-Power Translate gives these companies a fast and easy way to generate multi-lingual web apps. Rather than create a different web app for each language, m-Power Translate creates one web app with a different presentation layer for each language. Users simply select which languages they need, and m-Power automatically generates those language-specific presentation layers every time it builds a web app. The image below illustrates the concept of one web application with multiple presentation layers:



Besides the obvious time savings of this method, here are a few benefits of m-Power Translate:

• Simple maintenance: Any changes made to the one underlying application reflects across all presentation layers. This drastically simplifies maintenance, as users can maintain every language layer with one process.
• Customized translation: Ordinary language translation is never 100% accurate, especially when it comes to translating product names and company terminology. m-Power Translate lets users create a language dictionary with custom translations to ensure that all of their apps are translated perfectly.
• Intelligent applications: The applications include logic that detects the user's browser language preference and displays the appropriate language layer. In addition, each application provides users with the option to manually switch to a different language.
• Customizable applications: While each presentation layer shares the same underlying application, users can customize each presentation layer however they wish. For example, a company might want to customize the contact information on each language layer, so prospects will contact the branch local to that area.

"Up until now, creating web applications in multiple languages was expensive and time consuming," says Brian Crowley, mrc's Director of Development. "With the new m-Power Translate plugin, companies can instantly create web apps in any language they desire!"

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For additional information, contact mrc via phone at 630.916.0662; via fax at 630.916.0663; via e-mail at mrc@mrc-productivity.com

About mrc

mrc's development platform, m-Power, is used to create business applications and can run on any platform that supports Java (e.g. OS/400, Linux, Unix, and Windows). Applications access DB2/400, Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL, or any combination thereof. Using the m-Power development platform, users create an endless variety of Java-based business applications from simple queries to reports, to complex custom enterprise systems and dashboards.

mrc was a recipient of the Apex Award for application development, is a long-time IBM Business Partner, and has been producing award-winning development software since 1981.

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