Profile of Companies Presenting at the LISA Forum USA
Hewlett-Packard
HP is a leading provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing.
Our $4 billion (U.S.) annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies, so that we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers.
IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable companies to take full advantage of the on demand era.
http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/
LISA
Since 1990, the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) has been helping companies enable global business. LISA is the premier not-for-profit organization in the world for individuals, businesses, associations, and standards organizations involved in language and language technology worldwide. LISA brings together IT manufacturers, translation and localization solutions providers, and internationalization professionals, as well as increasing numbers of vertical market corporations with an international business focus in finance, banking, manufacturing, health care, energy and communications.
Together, these entities help LISA establish best practice guidelines and language technology standards for enterprise globalization. LISA offers other services in the form of standards initiatives, Special Interest Groups, conferences and training programs which help companies implement efficient international business models to provide a return on investment for their Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and Translation (GILT) efforts.
SDL International
SDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') is a leader in the emerging market for global information management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed localization supply chain.
Global industry leaders such as Audi, Bayer, Best Western, Bosch, Canon, Deutsche Bank, Kodak, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Reuters and SAP rely on SDL to provide enterprise software or full outsourcing for their GIM processes. SDL has implemented more than 100 enterprise GIM solutions, has over 100,000 software licenses deployed across the GIM ecosystem and its global services infrastructure spans more than 50 offices in 30 countries.
Skrivanek Translation Services, Ltd.
Since its creation in 1994 Skrivanek Translation Services has delivered one of the fastest growth rates in the localization industry.
With over 300 experienced full time employees and an office network in 13 countries, including our recently opened New York branch we are well positioned to handle the most demanding multiple language projects incorporating translation, DTP and software engineering.
Our commitment to quality is demonstrated by our stringent maintenance of the ISO 9001 program which ensures our clients receive industry leading levels of performance.
The European Union and the worlds leading corporations benefit from Skrivanek solutions that provide the optimal balance between speed, quality and cost.
XML-INTL
XML-INTL provides software solutions and consultancy services to organisations wishing to lower the cost and improve the quality of authoring and translating XML based documents.
Previously known as AZ Data Products the company has been providing consultancy to leading companies in the fields of document image processing, translation, SGML and XML processing and object oriented methodologies for over 20 years.
TIBCO Software
TIBCO digitized Wall Street in the ’80s with its event-driven “Information Bus” software, which helped make real-time business a strategic differentiator in the ’90s. Today, TIBCO’s infrastructure software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business process management, and giving people the information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions, what we call The Power of Now®. TIBCO serves more than 3,000 customers around the world with offices in 25 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners.
Beijing E-C Translation Ltd.
Beijing E-C Translation Ltd., one of the largest localization and translation companies in China, focuses mainly on software and website localization; technical translations; and desktop publishing (DTP) services. Having more than 150 full-time employees located at Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenyang and Chengdu, E-T Translation Ltd. can handle English/German into and from Simplified Chinese/ Traditional Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai. E-T Translation Ltd. guarantees that clients' projects will be handled not only by native speakers, but also by technical specialists. Clients can expect and will receive high-quality services, on-time delivery and low cost.
Beyondsoft
Beyondsoft, headquartered in China, is a leading IT outsourcing company with Global Delivery Centres. Beyondsoft offers IT consulting, Application Development and Maintenance(ADM), ERP and BPO services to the clients across the globe. With its relentless focus on achieving highest quality in its deliveries, Beyondsoft has become a trusted brand amongst its clients and achieved consistent growth in its repeat business with its clients.
Headquartered in Beijing, Beyondsoft has development centres in the major cities in China, as well as operations/centres in the U.S., Japan, Singapore and India. Being a visionary, Beyondsoft was the first Chinese IT company to set up development centres in Tier-II cities in China helping it deliver high quality solutions at a much lower cost than any other IT vendor in China. Besides the centres in China, the global delivery centres enable Beyondsoft to offer high-quality and cost effective services to its clients by adopting the right mix of onsite, nearsite and multi-tier offshore delivery centres. The Global delivery centres also allow Beyondsoft to share and grow its offerings, knowledge and process maturity. Beyondsoft is an ISO27001 certified company and the security systems at Beyondsoft meet world’s most strict standard..
Beyondsoft is renowned for its experience in working with world’s best technology companies and some of the leading companies of the world in verticals like Pharma, Financial Services, Telecom and Engineering. Our commitment to Quality is reflected in the fact that 3 out of 5 world’s top Technology companies are amongst Beyondsoft’s client list for a long time. Being a leading service supplier dedicated to end-to-end ITO and BPO services, Beyondsoft has also accumulated extensive experience in the verticals like financial services, pharma, telecom, etc with clients from the leading players of those industries.
Today Beyonsoft can boast of more than 8000 manyears of working with US clients, a milestone yet to be achieved by any of the Chinese company.
E-C Translation
Beijing E-C Translation Ltd., one of the largest localization and translation companies in China, focuses mainly on software and website localization; technical translations; and desktop publishing (DTP) services. Having more than 150 full-time employees located at Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenyang and Chengdu, we can handle English/German into and from Simplified Chinese/ Traditional Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai. We guarantee that clients' projects will be handled not only by native speakers, but also by technical specialists. Clients can expect and will receive high-quality services, on-time delivery and low cost.
iLen Technology
iLen is a leading localization company dedicated to helping our clients penetrate the Asian market. With a team of experienced localization professionals with excellent technological know-how, together with our commitment to quality, customized services and competitive prices; we are capable in serving demanding clients from all over the world.
iLen’s basic corporate philosophy is honesty and reliability. It is these simple but important principles that set them apart from other competitors. Their discerning clients sharpen the edge not only with their best of class services or products, but also with our definitive localization services.
Language Technology Center
The Language Technology Center (LTC) is a pioneer in creating innovative workflow and collaboration solutions to facilitate multilingual communication. Our products increase your productivity and efficiency by optimizing your company-wide and project specific workflows while allowing you to choose and work with the right linguistic tools for each situation.
Founded in 1992 and based in London, UK and Washington DC, USA, LTC has extensive experience in evaluating, developing and implementing advanced language technology solutions. LTC has an excellent international reputation as a software house, language service provider and consultancy.
SAS Institute
Founded in 1976, SAS is the world's largest privately held software company with 10,000 employees in more than 400 offices spanning the globe.
SAS mission is to empower organizations around the world with superior software, solutions and services that give them The Power to Know(r).
Customers at more than 40,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight into vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products. SAS offers leading data integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and traditional business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform.
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision "The Network is the Computer" Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.
Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. Sun's core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.
Adobe Systems
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company’s award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information.
With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies.
Net-Translators
Net-Translators is one of the leading translation companies specializing in software localization, including GUI, Online Help, documentation and multilingual QA in over 60 languages. We supply services to large multinational software companies. Our localization, internationalization and multilingual testing services instill the confidence that the localized product is accurately and consistently localized, translated and tested. Our translators are industry specific, and have amassed a wealth of experience in their particular area of expertise. We have a proficient in-house multilingual staff of Project Managers, QA Professionals and DTP Specialists who provide world class service to our customers. Our staff remains on the cutting edge of CAT, QA and DTP technology. Net Translators is certified ISO 9001:2000.
http://www.net-translators.com
Cisco Systems
Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 63,050 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Language Excellence is a team of full-time terminologists, linguistic engineers and language quality professionals whose goal is to drive terminology consistency and language quality across Microsoft products worldwide, while contributing to efficiencies in product development and the localization life cycle.
We believe that the terminology and language style used by Microsoft should be effective for user experience in the following ways:
• Easy to understand
• Well in-synch with local standards and community usage
• Consistent among and across Microsoft products
Jonckers Translations & Engineering
Jonckers, Microsoft’s 2007 Service Vendor of the Year, is a full-service localization provider focused on delivering software, eLearning and multimedia localization services to the world’s best companies. Jonckers achieves excellence through an ERP controlled global network of wholly owned offices spanning Asia, Europe and the US allowing Jonckers to deliver low cost global resources without sacrificing quality.
Intel
Intel Corporation is one of the world's largest semiconductor company, which engages in the manufacture and sale of semiconductor chips, as well as in the development of advanced integrated digital technology platforms for the computing and communications industries worldwide. Intel was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California. Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead—in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop collectively delivering better solutions with greater benefits for everyone.
Oceansoft International
Since 1996, Oceansoft Information System (Oceansoft) has firmly cemented itself as the most reputable IT Outsourcing Service Provider in two of China’s largest cities, Suzhou and Nanjing. To produce a qualified IT resource pool, Oceansoft built the “Sodi” Institute which has served as the Chinese Government’s nationally recognized and certified dominant IT training facility. With expert leadership and an industry experienced instructor staff, the Sodi Institute consistently obtains a 98% employment rate for its graduates. Training, graduating and certifying over 2,300 Sodi students in 2008 as well as increasing its rate of annual growth by 25%, greatly enhances Oceansoft’s position as the most capable and proactive human resource IT provider in the country.
Asia Online
Asia Online is an International web portal company that leverages groundbreaking technologies to create and deliver high value content online. The company is developing and applying solutions to unite communities across language barriers for ten Asian languages and more than a dozen European languages. The company was formed in late 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand and has achieved a number of world-first technology breakthroughs since then, some of which are in the process of being patented. Asia Online offers a wide range of services that exploit the unique automated machine translation technology the company has developed.
Aaron Marcus and Associates
AM+A provides user-interface and information visualization design consulting. AM+A clients’ products and services are mission-critical, complex, information rich, and driven by usability, marketing, and engineering objectives. AM+A bring 21 years of experience in thorough analysis and innovation to provide tailored, flexible solutions.
VeriSign
VeriSign is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the digital world. Billions of times each day, companies and consumers rely on our Internet infrastructure to communicate and conduct commerce with confidence. Our global infrastructure demonstrates industry-proven scalability, and safely delivers information across myriad protocols and devices.
Lasselle-Ramsay
Lasselle-Ramsay is a leading professional services organization that works to develop and deliver critical business information and learning solutions for new products, business initiatives, and regulatory requirements. Lasselle-Ramsay integrates content, content development processes, and technology to provide solutions that are up-to-date, on-demand, and personalized to increase productivity and drive know-how.
Since 1982 Lasselle-Ramsay has provided information and learning solutions to leading companies in a variety of industries, such as Fireman's Fund, Genentech, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett-Packard. This experience has resulted in a set of methodologies and best practices that ensure predictable, high-quality results.
Exigen Services
Exigen Services provides technology-driven application outsourcing services from multiple operations and delivery centers across Central and Eastern Europe. With a base in Latvia, an EU member state, and a deep reach into the local talent pools in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Exigen Services has been serving some of the world’s leading companies for over 15 years. As one of the largest and most comprehensive software outsourcing providers in Central and Eastern Europe, we combine the highest quality talent and project management capabilities with the convenience and client service expected from an EU-based partner.
VMware
VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.33 billion, more than 100,000 customers and more than 10,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies. VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Socialtext
Socialtext Incorporated is the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Socialtext captures the best features of web-native tools called "wikis" and "weblogs" and brings them inside your enterprise to create a collaboration and knowledge tool that works the way people do.
Traditional groupware and knowledge management tools use top-down constraints: pre-defined roles, workflows, and categories. Socialtext takes a bottom-up approach to collaborating and empowers people to develop their own solutions.
With Socialtext, people form groups flexibly, and build lightweight structure on the fly, as part of getting their job done -- without needing design or coding skills.
EMC
EMC Corporation is an industry-leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to store, protect, optimize, and leverage one of their most strategic assets: information.
The Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Leeds
The Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, specialises in applied graduate training and industry-based research in translation memory, localization, machine translation and corpus linguistics.
Leeds is among the top ten universities for research in the UK and is internationally acknowledged as a centre of excellence in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines.
Leeds size and international reputation enables it to offer one of the widest ranges of academic courses in the UK. During the current academic year there are over 30,500 students attached to 700 undergraduate and 474 postgraduate degree programmes. A further 31,382 men and women are enrolled on short courses with the University.
Serena Software
Serena is the leader in Application Lifecycle Management for the Enterprise. With 29 offices in 14 countries, we are the largest independent company dedicated to helping IT capitalize on its software development initiatives. More than 15,000 organizations around the globe, including 96 of the Fortune 100 and 90 of the Global 100, rely on our industry-leading ALM solutions and expertise.
Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a global semiconductor company with facilities around the world. AMD offers microprocessor, chipset and graphics products for computers, consumer electronics and mobile devices.
Tek Translation International
Tek is a pioneering provider of globalization services to the world’s leading enterprises. Delivering services and solutions through its unique On-Demand Globalization Platform, Tek enables enterprises to drive globalization strategies, processes, and operations leveraging maximum benefit from their multilingual assets and localization technology investments.
Tek is committed to achieving value for the marketplace by the best use of innovation, process, and technology.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine - an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
SpeakLike
SpeakLike is a seasoned development group led by Sanford H. Cohen, who has developed and launched several highly successful software and software service ventures. Along with his team, Sanford integrates existing technologies in new and innovative ways that make them accessible and productive for everyone.
Sybase
For more than 20 years, Sybase has been a leader in developing and expanding innovative database technology. Since the founding in a Berkeley, California, home in 1984, Sybase have earned the trust of many of the world’s leading companies for the ability to manage information and deliver unsurpassed levels of data reliability and security. Today, Sybase is the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information. With Sybase's global solutions, enterprises can extend their information securely and make it useful for people anywhere using any device.
Interverbum Technology
Interverbum Technology, is a research and development company, develops language-related tools that help users work more effectively while reducing costs. Our present product portfolio includes the TerWeb terminology management system, web-based glossaries at Termcentral.com as well as the iSystem project management tool.
http://www.interverbumtech.com
