Lionbridge News & Articles

Being able to chat in real-time across a variety of websites when you need help is a luxury afforded to us by companies like LivePerson. However, as companies expand their presence across continents and countries, real-time chat often finds itself thwarted by language barriers. Thanks to a partnership between Lionbridge and LivePerson, a powerful, integrated cloud-based multilingual chat application has been born.

IBM’s Watson impressed us on Jeopardy in February. But can Watson cut it in a global world?

Are you a translator or a translation agency? Chances are, you spend one out of every five working days looking for project opportunities. Lionbridge, provider of translation, development and testing solutions, has set out to combine forces with GeoWorkz to offer a cloud-based engagement platform for multilingual professionals.

Ektron (news, site) announced a new Enterprise Technology Partner Program at this week's Synergy Worldwide Customer Conference. The initiative aligns participating companies in their efforts to provide comprehensive products for protecting enterprise technology investments.

With most things it’s really the small things that count. With Google Docs it’s just one small thing after another. The most recent is the announcement this week that Google Docs users will be able to translate their documents into 52 other languages thanks to native integration of Google Translate into Docs.

For companies where the principal barriers to market expansion have been localization issues, Lionbridge (news, site) and IBM (news, site) have just announced a partnership that could go a long way to helping by providing instantaneous translation of content between different language areas.

Lionbridge (news, site) and Author-it (news, site) get together to reduce the costs and complexity of worldwide content translation and management. 

In a positive and delicious way, that is... In an effort to extend the reach of its regulatory compliance and document management offerings, Open Text (news, site) has partnered with Lionbridge (news, site) to provide joint customers with development services of the aforementioned solutions.

Led by Lionbridge, the alliance is specifically targeting the pharma industry, but it seems that other industries can take advantage of it as well.

With more and more organizations taking global content management and localization more seriously, the race for the best translation management solution is on.

Most recently, a new solution by Vasont and Lionbridge made it to the market. The challenge here is not only to provide an efficient solution for managing and translating content, but also to translate the importance of global content management to customers.

Vasont Systems, a provider of component content management solutions, integrated its Vasont Content Management System (CMS) with Freeway, the Web-based translation management platform from Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.

Lionbridge is known for its globalization efforts and translation, testing and development outsourcing services. This direct integration between the Vasont CMS and Freeway provides clients with a more efficient method of translating content and monitoring the status of translation projects.

Using the Vasont Translation Package with the Freeway integration, customers can initiate translation quotes or translation projects to Freeway directly from the Vasont interface.

Content and status information are automatically sent back and forth between the Vasont CMS and Freeway during the translation process. Clients can monitor the status and history of high-level projects, or of detailed subprojects for each language, using Vasont’s new translation window.

Recently we reported about how global businesses need to become, well, more global. At least in the way they create, manage and publish multilingual content. Companies need to think more strategically about global content management, if they are to be key players in the global marketplace.

In an effort to provide more context to the conversation and profile an active contributor to the translation and localization industry, we spoke with Paula Shannon, senior VP and chief sales and marketing officer of Lionbridge Technologies.

Lionbridge, has announced three additions to its “Alliance” of globalization CMS partners.

Acumium and Klish Group have both joined the program, while Lionbridge also signed up to the EMC Velocity Technology and ISV Program.

Translation specialist Lionbridge has announced the formation of the “CMS Alliance Program,” which boils down to the integration of its free, hosted translation workflow platform, Freeway, into several top-tier CMS products.

The Alliance brings together CMS developers Interwoven, Ektron, Crown Peak , Acumium and Vasont; and system integrators including Klish Group, Armedia and iSite Design to provide a Web Services solution for customers looking to globalize content.