STAR AG

STAR AG (stylised as STAR) is a Swiss corporate group headquartered in Ramsen in the canton of Schaffhausen. It specialises in technical documentation, language technology and software development for multilingual information management. The company was founded in 1984 in Stein am Rhein as a provider of editorial and translation services. Its name is derived from the initial letters of Software, Translation, Artwork and Recording. STAR has remained privately owned since its foundation and does not publish revenue figures. According to a 2007 report in the Tages-Anzeiger, unofficial sources put its revenue at around 105 million euros, which at the time ranked STAR among the world's 14 largest translation agencies. The group operates through 50 branches in 30 countries and employs roughly 1,000 people, of whom about 80 work at the Swiss headquarters in Ramsen. STAR offers solutions covering the entire information process: from content creation and management, through translation, to publication in numerous languages and media. Its product portfolio includes the corporate process management system STAR CPM, the customer service portal iValac, the corporate language management platform STAR CLM, the translation memory system Transit, the terminology management tool TermStar, the web-based terminology tool WebTerm, the web-based translation and review tool CLM WebEdit, and the machine translation offerings STAR MT and STAR Translate. Alongside software, STAR provides language services such as translation, machine translation, in-country reviewing, terminology management, interpreting and software and multimedia localisation. It also offers content delivery services including publishing design, desktop publishing and automated multi-channel production, as well as IT services and training for its software products. With over 600 permanently employed language experts, STAR maintains a worldwide network of qualified specialist translators who cover 70% of total production in-house. The company positions itself as a single-source partner for products and services across the multilingual information lifecycle, serving customers who need to create, translate, manage and publish technical documentation and marketing content in many languages.

STAR AG was founded in 1984 in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, as a provider of editorial and translation services. The company name is an acronym formed from the initial letters of Software, Translation, Artwork and Recording. With the arrival of the first personal computers in the mid-1980s and through extensive translation and software localisation projects, the company recognised the need for computer support for these services. A program was developed that was primarily intended to filter texts and translate identical sentences. This led to the creation of the translation memory system Transit, which became the foundation for the company's products in multilingual information management. Over the following decades STAR expanded its portfolio from pure language services into a combination of software products and services covering the entire information process: from information creation and management, through translation, to publication in numerous languages and media. The company also began offering IT services and training for its own software products. Its product range grew to include STAR CLM for corporate language management, TermStar for terminology management, WebTerm for web-based terminology, CLM WebEdit for web-based translation and review, STAR MT and STAR Translate for machine translation, STAR CPM for corporate process management, and iValac as a customer service portal. STAR has remained privately owned since its foundation and does not publish revenue figures. According to a 2007 report in the Tages-Anzeiger, unofficial sources indicated revenue of around 105 million euros, which at the time placed STAR among the world's 14 largest translation agencies. The group has grown to operate 50 branches in 30 countries and employs roughly 1,000 people, of whom about 80 work at the Swiss headquarters in Ramsen in the canton of Schaffhausen. With over 600 permanently employed language experts, STAR covers 70% of its total production in-house, supported by carefully selected freelancers depending on language combination and area of specialism.

• 2007

  Tages-Anzeiger report cites unofficial revenue of around 105 million euros, ranking STAR among the world's 14 largest translation agencies.

• 1984

  STAR AG founded in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, as a provider of editorial and translation services.

• Development of the Transit translation memory system, based on early PC-based text filtering and sentence matching.

Single-source partner for products and services across the multilingual information lifecycle, combining language technology software with translation and content delivery services.

• Transit

  Translation memory system forming the basis of STAR's multilingual information management products.

• TermStar

  Terminology management software.

• WebTerm

  Web-based terminology management tool.

• STAR CLM

  Corporate language management platform.

• CLM WebEdit

  Web-based translation and review tool.

• STAR MT

  Machine translation offering.

• STAR Translate

  Machine translation offering.

• STAR CPM

  Corporate process management system.

• iValac

  Customer service portal.

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5. 5Star AG – Wikidatawikidata.org
6. 6Star AG – Wikipedia (German)de.wikipedia.org