The company helps large brands build a consistent product database that can be used to feed information into each channel.

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It was well liked by its customers, who needed software and training to help them run IBM's DB2 database system, but it could not seem to turn a consistent profit.

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So, Autodesk opted for a customised Systran system which translates search results into French, Spanish, German or Italian. (Support for Japanese is in the works.) By analysing the documents in Autodesk's database, and exploiting the fact that they are written in a consistent style, it was possible to tune the translation system to produce far more accurate results.

ECONOMIST: Machine translation