Case Studies

Background

Our client, a leading digital agency, was using Adobe Experience Manager 5.6.1 and needed to integrate a third-party translation service to support multilingual content delivery.

At that time, AEM did not provide a native translation framework, and the client also needed to exchange content in specific formats compatible with the external translation provider.

Task

The client needed a solution that allowed authors to select pages and target languages, export content for translation in the required format, submit it to a third-party service, track the translation process, and automatically create localized versions of the pages once translations were complete.

Solution

• Built a custom translation dashboard inside AEM for selecting pages and target languages
• Implemented workflows to generate XLIFF files based on component configurations
• Created configurable mappings for both out-of-the-box and custom components
• Enabled admins to manage translation component configurations through the dashboard
• Integrated with a third-party translation API for submitting translation requests
• Implemented polling mechanisms to track translation job status and partial responses
• Handled partial responses and aggregated them until full translation completion
• Automatically created localized pages under the appropriate language branches

Results

• Enabled multilingual publishing on AEM 5.6.1 before native translation support existed
• Automated translation request, tracking, and page creation workflows
• Reduced manual effort and turnaround time for localization
• Improved consistency and governance across translated content