Berns Language Consulting Becomes TAUS Representative

Kerstin Berns (berns language consulting) joins the group of TAUS representatives. The representatives are consultants, independent from TAUS, helping companies to implement and work with TAUS resources, metrics and tools such as the TAUS Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF), TAUS Data and the TAUS Translation API

“We are very pleased to welcome Kerstin Berns and her team of consultants to join the TAUS representatives,” says Jaap van der Meer, director of TAUS. “In the past couple of months we have seen an increasing interest in the TAUS Dynamic Quality Framework, also from companies in Germany. The DQF shared metrics and tools for the evaluation of translation quality meet the needs of a changing business environment in which buyers and providers of translation look for effective ways to automate and rationalize processes.”

Kerstin Berns joins a group of TAUS representatives in North America and Europe who are very familiar with all TAUS resources and are in the best position to provide the consultancy and implementation services that TAUS member and non-member organizations need. The TAUS internal team is focused on the core tasks of developing best practices, shared knowledge and industry-standard tools and resources to support the innovating global translation industry.

"I am very pleased to join the group of TAUS representatives,” says Kerstin Berns. “We at berns language consulting see the TAUS translation quality approach as an important part of any ideal multilingual information management process. As TAUS representatives we help customers introduce the DQF effectively into their process chain.”

ABOUT TAUS

TAUS is a resource center for the global language and translation industries. Our mission is to increase the size and significance of the translation industry to help the world communicate better.

We envision translation as a standard feature, a utility, similar to the internet, electricity and water. Translation available in all languages to all people in the world will push the evolution of human civilization to a much higher level of understanding, education and discovery.

We support buyers and providers of language services and technologies with a comprehensive suite of online services, software and knowledge that help them to grow and innovate their business. We extend the reach and growth of the translation industry through our vision of the Human Language Project and our execution with sharing translation memory data and quality evaluation metrics.

About berns language consulting

In 2005 Kerstin Berns founded berns language consulting as an independent consultancy aiming at state-of-the-art quality and efficiency for the multilingual information process chain. Before, Kerstin worked as a translation system specialist for DaimlerChrysler in Stuttgart, introducing machine translation to the DaimlerChrysler intranet in 1999 and as a team leader for the BMW Aftersales translation team. The berns language consulting team caters to the needs of medium to large international companies with big data and a strong interest in lean management and quality control. berns language consulting has no ties to any translation or software vendors whatsoever and offers consulting services as well as trainings and support. ​