CrownPeak and Lionbridge Form Strategic Alliance
Provides Multilingual Content Management Solution for Trek Bicycle Unit
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. and WALTHAM, Mass. -- March 03, 2004 – CrownPeak Technology, the leader in hosted content management systems, and Lionbridge (Nasdaq: LIOX), have entered into an alliance to deliver a comprehensive multilingual content management solution for joint customers such as Klein Bicycle, a unit of Trek Bicycle Corp.
With the alliance, CrownPeak and Lionbridge clients will be able to outsource the full cycle of multilingual content management and publishing. An open system, CrownPeak's Advantage CMS™ will connect to LionStream, the Lionbridge technology platform. Lionbridge will integrate its technology and services to provide a comprehensive solution for creating, editing, localizing, and publishing disparate content throughout a global enterprise, in multiple languages.
In the first implementation under the alliance, CrownPeak has provided a content management system for the Klein Bikes unit of Trek Bicycle Corp. Klein is an innovator in bicycle frame technology and producer of the top performance bikes in the world. Klein Bikes deployed Advantage CMS to consolidate its web site management process and implement a multilingual workflow system. Lionbridge will connect its technology and services with the Advantage CMS, enabling the Klein Bikes site to be developed, managed and maintained in six languages -- English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
"For effective content globalization, customers need to integrate content translation with other enterprise language management functions," said Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak Technology. "By combining the Lionbridge technologies and services with CrownPeak's Advantage CMS™, we can now provide our customers with a comprehensive solution for their multilingual content requirements."
“This alliance is another example of the value our technology and services deliver for organizations like Trek that are committed to effectively and efficiently increasing the satisfaction of their global customers,” said Rory Cowan, CEO, Lionbridge. “With our integrated globalization solutions, coupled with the technology and implementation experience of our partners, we can drive tangible results for global customers. Through our partnership with CrownPeak and other leaders in the content management space, Lionbridge offers organizations in a variety of industries a means for increasing productivity, improving business processes and enhancing customer value worldwide.”
CrownPeak’s Advantage CMS™ offers fully customizable workflow for translation processes, a complete notification system, and a team-based task management system for use with mixed internal and external teams. New features include advanced translation workflow options and improved translation process reporting. Advantage CMS™ also features a Model function, which enables site administrators to add new language "layers" to a site, and create structure and linking automatically. CrownPeak’s fully Unicode-compatible system also sets a timeline to manage actions, issuing notifications when actions do, or do not, occur. The system sets automatic notifications for the translators on changes to any content element.
About Lionbridge
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIOX) is a 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 20 solution centers in 10 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge and VeriTest brands. To learn more, visit http://www.lionbridge.com.
About CrownPeak Technology
Based in Los Angeles, CrownPeak Technology is the first company to provide world-class Web content management software as a service. The company’s Advantage CMS™ platform is the only solution that combines enterprise-level power and flexibility with the cost and speed-of-implementation of a hosted software application. Advantage CMS features the easiest-to-use interface of any CMS, and is the only hosted CMS to offer a full API and developer environment. Serving such clients as Crain Communications, Honeywell, The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the University of Southern California, and the State of Virginia, Advantage CMS manages and publishes hundreds of thousands of Web pages. CrownPeak has been named to eContent’s 100 most influential companies list, has won eWeek’s prestigious Analysts Choice Award and is a 2003 and 2004 SIIA Codie Award finalist as Best Content Management System.