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2013 TekTonic Awards Liksa Jindrich accepts the Overall TekTonic award for iCIMS's Social Distribution product. Below, Anne Osty accepts the award for vendor management solutions for StaffTrack from Staff Management | SMX. version to the next sacrifices the key messaging and complicates course maintenance resulting in significant added cost. So, the challenge becomes finding an approach that delivers the benefits of localization without making it cost prohibitive. Catapult's Standardized Variation™ approach introduces language variants of a course to deliver the perfect balance between localization and cost. Catapult™ eliminates the need to have multiple courses for multiple language versions. Instead, one master course contains all the elements common across languages, such as key messaging and content sequencing. Then within that course master, a language variant can be created for a page to accommodate the localization of specific graphics and animations, and the language translation. As part of the course master, any changes to the master course will automatically update the language variants and trigger workflow to retranslate any page of the course affected by the update. In this way, course maintenance for multilingual courses is significantly reduced. Standardized Variation™ enables content development teams to reduce multilingual development and deployment costs by more 30 percent. The learners benefit too. Because Catapult's Standardized Variation™ approach keeps both the English master course and all its language versions together in the same course, Catapult™ is the only platform in the industry to produce a truly SCORM conformant multilingual course for the learner. While in the web-based training course, the learner can choose their desired language from a popdown list and see the entire course immediately displayed in that language. [28] HRO TODAY MAGAZINE | MAY 2013