Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
bulletin météo (project software)
English translation:
status barometer
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RHELLER
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French term
bulletin météo
French to English
Tech/Engineering
IT (Information Technology)
project management software
why is this in quotes? does this phrase have some meaning in addition to weather chart?
Suivi multicritères des projets, incluant des outils graphiques interactifs tels que le "bulletin meteo avec indicateur des tendances" qui permet d'identifier immédiatement les changements pour pourvoir identifier immédiatement sur les causes
thanks in advance :-)
Suivi multicritères des projets, incluant des outils graphiques interactifs tels que le "bulletin meteo avec indicateur des tendances" qui permet d'identifier immédiatement les changements pour pourvoir identifier immédiatement sur les causes
thanks in advance :-)
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Charlie Bavington
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business barometer
Along with everyone else, I take this to be a metaphorical "weather bulletin".
A fairly common English equivalent metaphor is business barometer (89,000 googles) - possibly just 'cos the alliteration makes it sound nice.
A word of caution - make sure that your translation does not say what is not there. The Fr is "bulletin" not "prevision". It may NOT be reporting trend *forecasts*, but merely reporting on what has already happened. I would modestly suggest that barometer fits this best, since it tells you the current situation at any given moment.
And I'd suggest "interactive graphic" tout court for the "outil..." - "charting tool" suggests a device to enable users to make their own charts, and this sounds to me more like a simple graphic display (probably not in the slightest interactive, unless perhaps users can set some params to alter what is displayed e.g. sales in a region versus country).
A fairly common English equivalent metaphor is business barometer (89,000 googles) - possibly just 'cos the alliteration makes it sound nice.
A word of caution - make sure that your translation does not say what is not there. The Fr is "bulletin" not "prevision". It may NOT be reporting trend *forecasts*, but merely reporting on what has already happened. I would modestly suggest that barometer fits this best, since it tells you the current situation at any given moment.
And I'd suggest "interactive graphic" tout court for the "outil..." - "charting tool" suggests a device to enable users to make their own charts, and this sounds to me more like a simple graphic display (probably not in the slightest interactive, unless perhaps users can set some params to alter what is displayed e.g. sales in a region versus country).
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Comment: "Well, I decided to use "status barometer" because I think you are right that it is not about the future at all but about the present. Thanks to everyone - I was pleasantly surprised to get 7 answers :-)"
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Patricia Lane
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Perhaps it is in quotes because it does not have anything to do with a weather report! It's actually a pretty good image to use to describe their interactive PM graphics that I suppose visually illustrate the tendencies, storms brewing on the horizon, or if all is on schedule and the "weather" fair.
Does the rest of your document supporte this suggestion?
Does the rest of your document supporte this suggestion?
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Bourth (X)
: Yep, just as a "camembert" is not a cheese and a "pie chart" is not something 24 blackbirds come out of. Maybe "weathermap" would work.
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Mark Nathan
: yes, because it's an example of an interactive graphic tool and also sounds like jargon
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Cervin
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Christopher Burin
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weather forecast
:-)
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Note added at 5 mins (2006-04-03 20:59:52 GMT)
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This is what we call the weather report on the news in the UK; it's a report on the current weather, with predictions/forecasts for weather in the upcoming days.
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The BBC Weather five day forecast for your selected town or city, showing the temperature in Celsius.
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008
The Met Office - The latest UK and international weather forecast. Global weather services for business and the public. UK weather warnings.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/
There are many hits for USA on Google too:
Yahoo weather including forecasts, resources and categories.
weather.yahoo.com/
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Note added at 5 mins (2006-04-03 20:59:52 GMT)
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This is what we call the weather report on the news in the UK; it's a report on the current weather, with predictions/forecasts for weather in the upcoming days.
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Note added at 7 mins (2006-04-03 21:01:29 GMT)
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The BBC Weather five day forecast for your selected town or city, showing the temperature in Celsius.
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008
The Met Office - The latest UK and international weather forecast. Global weather services for business and the public. UK weather warnings.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/
There are many hits for USA on Google too:
Yahoo weather including forecasts, resources and categories.
weather.yahoo.com/
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Kevin LOVELADY
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project dashboard
I think this is just a way of showing the general project report status "at-a-glance" (maybe this could be an alternative translation as well!!). "project dashboard" gets quite a few google hits
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business weather map - NFG
No room to insert this after my comment above.
a 'Business Weather Map', in which the 'latest reports on trade conditions in the important centres of the British Isles' were displayed.12 The maps, ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/ doi/abs/10.1111/1475-5661.00079
a 'Business Weather Map', in which the 'latest reports on trade conditions in the important centres of the British Isles' were displayed.12 The maps, ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/ doi/abs/10.1111/1475-5661.00079
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"weather forecast with trend indicator"
Obviously, this is just a comparison.They wish to have a follow-up of their projects, know what the trend will be, which apparently the software can do. Now, as we are talking of charts and management software, there may be a specific name in English.
Reference:
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Weather Report
This terminology is also used in British English.
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Note added at 54 mins (2006-04-03 21:48:58 GMT)
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Interactive Chart/Graphical Tool. This is one of iMedia's Strategy used when connecting the Marketing Community.
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Note added at 54 mins (2006-04-03 21:48:58 GMT)
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Interactive Chart/Graphical Tool. This is one of iMedia's Strategy used when connecting the Marketing Community.
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