Lionbridge Wins International Stevie® Award for Best New Product or Service
Lionbridge’s Advanced, Web-Architected Linguistic Technology Accelerates Time-to-Market and Improves Quality of Global Content
WALTHAM, Mass. – September 9, 2008 – Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) announced today that its market-leading language technology platform has been selected as the winner of the International Stevie Award for “Best New Product or Service – Services” in The 2008 International Business Awards. Winners were selected from more than 1,700 entries received from organizations and individuals representing over 30 countries worldwide. As the world’s largest language services provider, Lionbridge was recognized in this category for its innovative “Linguistic Toolbox,” a component of its Web-hosted Freeway SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. This advanced language technology speeds the process of translation and improves the quality of multilingual content.
“We are honored to receive the Stevie Award in this year’s International Business Awards,” said Eric Blassin, vice president of language technology, Lionbridge. “As organizations expand into an increasing number of languages and international markets, the challenge of ensuring consistent, high-quality translation also increases. We designed the Linguistic Toolbox to be the most comprehensive Computer-Aided Revision tool on the market. As a result, customers worldwide are embracing this easy-to-use, flexible language technology to ensure consistency and integrity of their global content.”
Lionbridge’s Linguistic Toolbox provides language professionals with powerful technology to automate numerous quality checks in one step, including the validation of correct usage and consistency of company-specific terminology and style within and across documents. The technology is highly customizable, addressing specific customer requirements and preferences including style, grammar, terminology, spelling and punctuation. Linguistic Toolbox also minimizes the risk of errors and identifies missing content during the translation process, which accelerates time-to-market and ensures the quality of the final publication material.
Since its launch last year, Linguistic Toolbox has received wide market acceptance and is currently deployed with more than 140 customers. It is used to run quality checks across more than 40 languages, including low-density languages such as Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Tamazight and Tagalog.
Lionbridge received the award this week at the 5th annual International Business Awards event in Dublin Ireland.
The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business. Nicknamed the Stevie® for the Greek word “crowned,” the awards were presented to winners at a gala dinner in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Primary sponsors for the event were Dow Jones and IDA Ireland.
Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs selected International Stevie winners from among the Finalists, which were determined by volunteer judges around the world during two months of preliminary judging.
Complete lists of honorees and other details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.
About Lionbridge
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIOX) is a leading provider of globalization, development and testing services. Lionbridge combines global 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 solution centers in 26 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge® and VeriTest® brands. To learn more, visit http://www.lionbridge.com.
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.
Global Sponsor of the 2008 International Business Awards is Dow Jones. Premier sponsor of the September 8 awards gala is IDA Ireland. Supporting Sponsors include BT Conferencing and Weber Shandwick UK. National Sponsors include the Korean Business Communicators Association and the Public Relations Society of India. Media Sponsors include CorpComms magazine and Berlin’s JazzRadio 101.9. Localization Partner for the 2008 IBAs is Lionbridge.
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