We've now added Turkish to the language line- up of Kallidus 8, which confirms it as Europe’s most commonly ‘localised’ commercial learning and performance management system. We're delighted that it's now in use in 26 different countries throughout the region in a wide range of languages.

Our presence in Europe has become even more important recently after being encouraged by several relatively favourable economic reports on the Central European region from organisations such as Deloitte.  We've made a conscious effort to make sure Kallidus 8 is translated as widely as possible, both for Europe and across the rest of the world. Our research tells us that, although some VLE’s offer more basic translations, no other comparable corporate learning and performance system has as many options as Kallidus 8. 

The importance of publishing software in local languages in central European was recently confirmed by Deloitte with  its Central Europe top 500 companies list and analysis. The region, bounded on the west by Poland and Hungary, has 182 million inhabitants and enjoys 20% of the EU15 GDP.  As such it is becoming increasingly important economically – Poland was the only European state which did not experience a recession and showed year-on-year GDP growth for the first and second quarters of 2009. Many of the organisations in the top 500 are multi-national names.

Our experience with multi-national customers such as Nissan Europe, O2, TeleAtlas, Brammer, Chubb Insurance and dunnhumby has taught us the importance of translations for both users and system administrators.  For users it facilitates access and encourages adoption meanwhile for administrators it means they can deliver training to individual markets or countries without falling into the trap of creating data silos in separate systems.  It's vital reporting and tracking of training can be done centrally, otherwise activity becomes difficult to manage and more work is often created for both technology and training staff. 

The way Kallidus is set up means that learning can be deployed and managed across multiple locations and languages either locally or from one central point depending on the nature of the organisation’s set-up.  Reporting can similarly be carried out for individual locations or countries, or for the organisation as a whole according to requirements.   

So whilst it's important to think global as the world becomes an increasing small place in which to do business, it's still crucial to consider local implications and adapting to suit your different audiences.