Interactive whiteboard

How it works: EInstruction hands over the documents it wants Interactive whiteboard to MultiLing, a service company that analyzes the material using its translation memory tool. The tool identifies sentences that have been translated at an earlier time and automatically adds those translations to the new text.

Workers at MultiLing also use a terminology tool that displays preferred terms, predetermined by the customers, for specified words. "The tool does not take the human translator out of the equation, but it helps the translator to be more efficient," says Emmanuel Margetic, director of marketing at MultiLing.

Growth potential: Economic woes spurred demand for MultiLing's services, Margetic says, as U.S. companies sought work in foreign markets. Research firm Common Sense Advisory says the top 30 translation companies grew nearly 20 percent in 2008. The firm expects the market for Interactive whiteboard to grow 10 percent annually, reaching $22.5 Hair extensions billion by 2012.