Lionbridge Translation Management Platform is the Fastest Growing Language Technology Solution in 2006
More Than 150 Clients Race Onto Freeway while Logoport User Community Doubles to 10,000 Registered Participants in 2006
WALTHAM, Mass. – February 13, 2007- Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) today announced that the adoption of Freeway™, its free, web-based translation management system has surpassed 2006 performance targets. In the eight months since the platform’s launch, more than 150 Lionbridge clients have adopted Freeway as their preferred management platform. Logoport, the linguistic engine behind Freeway, now supports more than 10,000 users worldwide just one year after its public release. Contributors in the Logoport™ community include client teams, project managers, translators, and engineers via secure web connections.
“The client response to Freeway has been nothing short of stunning,” said Dmitry Grenader, Director of Technical Solutions for Lionbridge. “The combination of management tools, and the ability to deploy and scale immediately, in an easy to use package, is very compelling to our diverse, multinational clients for whom global access and collaboration are a way of life. The fact that it is completely free because of its unique web architecture eliminates any remaining barriers for these clients. With no capital expense or maintenance fees, the only question we hear is ‘when can I get started?’”
Client usage of Freeway has doubled every month since August, and nearly 100% of those who try the platform have adopted it as the primary means of engaging with their Lionbridge team. Logoport has also seen dramatic adoption curves with average monthly production volumes increasing fourfold from 9 million words in January 2006 to 36 million in January 2007. Logoport now hosts more than two and a half billion words within thousands of individual secure client translation memories, making it the single largest repository of commercial translation memory content in the world. All of this is contained in one instance of code accessible anywhere in the world via the web through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, enabling thousands of translators to work within Logoport simultaneously.
“We built Freeway and Logoport so that the platform would scale quickly, and to match the other enterprise-class systems our clients use daily,” commented Dave Flanagan, Chief Information Officer of Lionbridge. “This year we moved to a 64-bit architecture to further improve system response times and accommodate the exponential growth of users and stored data. For 2007 we will be moving from a traditional server model to a grid-based computing architecture similar to that employed by Google and other leading high-traffic sites. This will take advantage of the unlimited scale potential inherent in a dynamically managed online environment.”
Both Freeway and Logoport are offered for free to Lionbridge clients and translation partners as the foundation of a disciplined, managed service approach to translation management. By seamlessly connecting clients, translators, Lionbridge project managers in-country, and engineers operating offshore, Freeway is helping customers reduce turnaround times, lower the total cost of production, and reach new markets, without investing in additional staff or old-fashioned software licenses.
About Lionbridge
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIOX) is a leading provider of globalization and testing services. Lionbridge combines global onshore, near shore and offshore resources with proven program management methodologies to serve as an outsource partner throughout a client’s product and content lifecycle - from development to globalization, testing and maintenance. Global organizations in all industries rely on Lionbridge services to increase international market share, speed adoption of global products and content, and enhance their return on enterprise applications and IT system investments. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains 50 solution centers in 25 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge® and VeriTest® brands. To learn more, visit http://www.lionbridge.com.
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