It was exciting for us when we made the announcement this week about Icovia being available in multiple languages: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=226351
It's something that our customers and prospects have been requesting for years and over the next couple of months we will be releasing Icovia first in French for a major Canadian Retailer. We are also in the process of translating our content into Spanish. What's already been completed is the technical module that allows users to switch their interface to multiple different languages. This will work in a similar fashion to how you can switch the unit of measure to metrics and back. An example can be seen here: http://roomplanner.icovia.com/thebrick/
For now we're focused on the 'Romance' languages which are primarily French, Italian, German and Spanish but we will work with any customer wanting Icovia in a non-Asian character language. That's because we've decided to see how Icovia is received in the easier languages to deal with before we move on to the more difficult ones.
It's also worth noting that we will not be translating our website or offering sales or support in multi-languages, so for now we'll work with any company but we require they have an English speaking representative on their side. If everything is received as well as we hope it is we will be looking to expand our sales and customer support teams into different countries and languages. Whether we do this directly or through partners still remains to be seen.
So that's all for now, I hope you like these updates and I promise to make these a more regular part of our routine. Thanks and happy planning!
Steve
