Ensure Terminology Consistency with KALCIUM Checkterm

Establishing a common corporate language is great, but how can you make sure everyone in your company can efficiently use it in whatever content they are producing? With KALCIUM Checkterm your company gets:

• Terminology quality assurance on a single platform: KALCIUM Checkterm allows every content creator to conduct centralized terminology checks on multiple programs and platforms.
• Advanced term detection: KALCIUM Checkterm goes beyond basic term matching, identifying variants, compound terms, grammatical or spelling variations, and term combinations for complete quality assurance.
• Improved consistency: KALCIUM Checkterm ensures consistent terminology usage across internal and external content, everywhere in the organization.
• Integration with many tools: KALCIUM Checkterm works directly within popular tools like Adobe InDesign, MS Word, Trados Studio, and more.
• API Integration: KALCIUM Checkterm offers API integration for specific enterprise applications like ERP, PLM or PIM systems.
• Fast and easy terminology validation: KALCIUM Checkterm streamlines the terminology validation process for a superior level of efficiency.
• Support for multiple file formats: KALCIUM Checkterm works with Excel, PDF, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Trados Studio, Adobe InDesign, <oXygen/>, Oxygen XML Author, XMetaL, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code.
• Hotkey functionality for any environment: KALCIUM Checkterm saves time and money with quick terminology checks by defining system-wide hotkeys for any app on your system. All it takes is selecting text and using the hotkey you have defined!

But that's not all. KALCIUM Checkterm helps strengthen your brand with consistent terminology on your marketing materials, efficient SEO keyword management, terminology adherence checks, and filtering for correction or elimination of non-compliant terms. Whether it is an email or a user manual, KALCIUM Checkterm can help you as you create your valuable content.

"Communication and marketing is the voice of a brand and constitutes a long-term investment in its success. It is the means through which a brand's identity and its positioning is made visible at all the relevant points of contact with customers and other stakeholders. This makes it possible to build a clear and preference-based brand image or reinforce an existing one." Franz-Rudolf Esch, Handbuch Markenführung [Branding Manual], 2019

Your marketing department works with Adobe InDesign and your translators with Trados Studio. Meanwhile, your developers are working with tools such as , MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Most of the time, countless other programs are being used as well. And across all of them, you want, no, you need to check the terminology to ensure consistent communication.

But unfortunately it's not enough to just avoid using forbidden terms. No, you need to check for any incorrect variants, spellings, and compositions too. After all, you've had bad experiences with run-of-the-mill tools that check purely whether a term stored in the termbase appears in the text.

Kalcium Checkterm detects "house" as well as "houses" and even identifies composites that contain the word "house". Conventional review mechanisms already fall at these kinds of hurdles.

Should all these options also be available directly in Adobe InDesign, MS Word, Trados Studio, , Oxygen XML Author, XMetaL, Visual Studio, or Visual Studio Code via a clipboard or API integrated into specific applications such as ERP systems? Then Kalcium Checkterm is just the tool for you!

Consistent communication using Checkterm: you can use your valuable termbases to automatically improve your content. We have consciously sought to eliminate the "effort" required by the user. Depending on the program being used, you simply select the text and check it by hitting a hotkey. Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint files are of course part of the repertoire - while for Microsoft Word, Trados Studio, Adobe InDesign, , Oxygen XML Author, XMetaL, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code, special plug-ins make the process even easier. A browser-based solution is also available. Not only does this give everyone in the company access to the central language "repository", but it also provides an easy way for you to check that the terminology is actually being adhered to in every text and translation. This will ensure the linguistic consistency of your content both internally and externally – much to the satisfaction of everyone from the marketing department to the legal department. Consistent advertising materials, more efficient search engine optimization, optimized communication, and an improved image are just some of the benefits, not to mention avoiding patent disputes and product liability lawsuits.

Thanks to Checkterm, you can check that your terminology is being adhered to:

• Quickly and easily
• Conveniently across all applications using a hotkey
  • In Adobe InDesign, Trados Studio, MS Word, <oXygen/>, Oxygen XML Author, XMetaL, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code even directly via plug-in
  • In a browser
• While also checking for any incorrect variants, spellings, and compositions, etc.
• "Live" as you type

You can also use Checkterm to:

• Search for suitable alternatives in the termbase
• Submit term requests