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Abstract

Beyond the Chrome: Designing Multi-cultural Business Processes

Addison Phillips - webMethods, Inc.

Intended Audience: Managers, Software Engineers
Session Level: Intermediate, Advanced

This presentation will examine the issues involved in designing data structures and business logic in a distributed multi-lingual environment. It is intended for developers who are familiar with basic internationalization concepts who wish to explore more complex multilingual server problems, especially in the design of Web services.

Modern enterprise software environments promise the ability to model business processes, deploy these processes as Web applications or Web services, and then manage/analyze the resulting business activity in real time. Providing these capabilities in a multi-lingual or multi-culturally capable way requires approaches and designs that move beyond mere surface localization. This represents a challenge for developers because it requires a very different level of internationalization sophistication than many have previously encountered.

In this presentation we will look at some guidelines for designing global data structures and processes. We'll identify how language, cultural preferences, and "locales" can (and can't) be harnessed to make a "global-ready" business process.

Attendees are expected to know about internationalization practices in general and at least be familiar with the concepts of distributed computing.

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