Translation Services for the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Industry
Translation Service and Localization Solutions for the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry
With an intimate understanding of the unique industry challenges of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences companies, Sage Languages offers professional & reliable translation and localization solution by combining technology with human intelligence that works seamlessly with a quantifiable QA process.
Meeting your challenges
The Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry in Singapore is a high growth industry considerably backed by the Singapore government. It is part of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare cluster, with pharmaceutical leading the pack.
The process of R&D, Testing, Approval, Production and Distribution of a new drug is extremely lengthy and costly. Not only do Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences companies need to deal with challenges of rapid growth, they also have to ensure regulatory compliance in an evolving regulatory landscape.Hence, there is a pressing need for companies to address such challenges.
Regulatory requirements and Compliance issues
The Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry is one that is highly regulated. Huge amounts of documentation and product collaterals were produced each year. To ensure regulatory compliance, these collaterals have to be harmonized across the world and health authorities in more than 150 countries. This gives rise to the need for huge volumes of materials to be managed and translated from a source language into many other languages.
These materials may include regulatory compliance documentations, User Guides, Device GUIs, Marketing Communications Materials, Clinical Trial Reports, Manufacturing Description, Test Specifications, etc.
In this industry, accuracy is not an optional element. All literatures must be rendered with pinpoint accuracy, whatever the language. Consistency is also an issue many pharmaceutical companies have to deal with as majority of the documentations and marketing materials are scheduled for worldwide simultaneous launch with very little room for mistakes.
With so much invested into R&D, time-to-market is very critical. Successfully managing translation requirements and compliance issues can mean a difference between a timely/ profitable product introduction and your competitors having the first bite of the market.
Translation Services and Localization Solutions with a focus on your industry
Sage Languages is a trusted translation and localization partner of many pharmaceutical giants. Our dedicated project management team and linguistics team specialized in pharmaceutical and medical field, have been working together to fulfill the most stringent localization requirements for the likes of GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi-Synthelabo Singapore, John Hopkins-NUH Int’l Medical Centre, Janssen Cilag, NUH Cancer Therapeutic Research, Thomson Fertility Centre, Thomson Prenatal Diagnostic, Johnson & Johnson Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Boston Scientific, Roche Singapore, Gambro Group and more.
Our exclusive focus on localization and translation requirements that are unique to the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry makes us the preferred partner in localization solutions.
The following are some challenges faced by Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences companies relating to product documentation/localization:
- Management of massive amount of data created yearly due to regulatory requirements, compliance and liability issues
- Ensuring accuracy and consistency in the localization/ translation of such massive amount of data
- Management of multilingual versions
Our Solutions
Translation Asset Management (TAM)
Working seamlessly with human translation effort, our Translation Asset Management (TAM) System can handle and process huge volumes of translation work, improving efficiency and quality by leveraging previously completed and approved translations. Updates or changes in your source documents can also be tracked quickly and extracted for translation.
Our TAM system stores all previous translations of study contents, documentations, marketing communications materials, etc in our centrally managed Translation Memory Database for recycling in future. This greatly reduces the amount of time required for translation of similar materials and at the same time, enhancing accuracy and consistency.
Multilingual Glossary/Terminology Management
To raise the bar for consistency and accuracy, our in-house linguistics and project management team constantly maintain and update terminologies and glossaries to expand the coverage of terms leveraging. All these are done with the help of a Terminology Management Software that is integrated into our Translation Asset Management System to enable a consistent use of terminologies.
Internally managed Back-Translation Process
Back-Translation is a very popular process used by the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry to verify the accuracy of a translation, by comparing the source with the back-translated document.
Sage Languages can manage both forward translation and back translation internally or with a third-party appointed by our clients. Regardless of the method adopted, our back-translation process is managed with the highest level of professionalism and integrity, with the objective of ensuring maximum accuracy in the translations.
Efficiency and Effectiveness
With a dedicated team of project managers and linguists, and the effective use of translation technologies, Sage Languages strives to help you:
- Eliminate time-consuming and tedious manual searches through translation volumes
- Increase throughputs by as much as 50%
- Build on human intelligence by leveraging the “remarkable memory power” of computers
- Establish verifiable review and approval steps for localized contents
- Simplify the localization/translation process
- Reduce cost
- Enhance accuracy and consistency
- Realize faster time-to-market
Your Trusted Translation Services and Localization Solutions Provider
Your long-term global success in the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry requires a dynamic language partner; one that establishes technical, organizational and process standards with integrity and commitment.
Leverage from our wealth of experience. Let Sage Languages be your language partner.