SDL and Idiom? No worries for Clay Tablet clients

Today’s news about SDL acquiring Idiom could be good news for customers of both firms. But its also caused a flood of fear, uncertainly and doubt amongst many members of the translation industry, inlcuding LSP’s, clients and technology vendors.

However, this news poses no challenge for those using Clay Tablet as their connectivity solution - since this is exactly the kind of scenario Clay Tablet is built for. In fact - today’s the kind of day where Clay Tablet clients simply sigh with relief knowing they made a great decision to use Clay Tablet.

Since we connect to the TMS’s of both vendors, as well as all the other leading TMS solutions, our clients will be seamlessly supported through any changes, migrations or product mergers that might occur. And, as those changes happen, only the “TMS-side” connection will be affected - saving countless hours of integration revisions on the “CMS-side”. Better yet - as Technology partners with SDL - we’ll have “day zero” support for any new or revised products, ensuring that clients can simply update thier Clay Tablet software to ensure ALL their connections continue to work. Of course, our SaaS clients won’t even notice - updates will happen automatically.

While we’ve always been quite excited about how dramatically we lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing the amount of connection revisions that are required to keep content flowing as systems change, I never really thought of Clay Tablet at “insurance”, until today!

It’s a probably a good day for SDL and Idiom. It’s certainly a great day to be a Clay Tablet client.

RK