LSPs Embrace GlobalSight With Over 500 Downloads

Open Source Initiative Gains Momentum

Frederick, Maryland, USA – November 23, 2009 – With the number of software downloads from globalsight.com by Language Service Providers (LSPs) now above the 500 mark, the GlobalSight Steering Committee has added two new members from the LSP community: Sultan Ghaznawi, YYZ Translations, and Phil Ritchie, VistaTEC. The Steering Committee has made this move based on their belief that the best technology solutions for the industry as a whole will result from closer collaboration between LSPs and client organizations on a shared and open translation management platform.

Sultan states, “GlobalSight has brought in a lot of potential to our company, we have already seen results and our efforts have been paid off in less than a year of deployment. With no cost to purchase, minimum effort to start and operate, and excellent support from Welocalize – this is the ideal TMS package for any LSP and localization unit of any company. The industry has long suffered from proprietary stranglehold and GlobalSight is a revolutionary and long overdue change. We are also thrilled about unique features of this tool such as decoupling of TMS and the client, crowdsourcing, web based workbench, web services APIs and machine translation integration. This tool truly invites innovation in this space and it is a great platform for creating revenue generating supporting applications. We are proud to be associated with the GlobalSight community and are excited about what the future holds for this great solution.”

Phil Ritchie, the CTO of VistaTec goes on to say, “VistaTEC has always asserted its position of being agile, smart and independent in relation to the technologies it employs. Well-directed open source initiatives such as International Components for Unicode (ICU), the Okapi framework and MOSES have had high adoption within, and provided real value to the LSP community. I can foresee that with the combined strategic experience of the Steering Committee and the ingenuity of its growing development community that the GlobalSight platform will be just as successful.”

The longer term vision for the collaboration effort includes a more robust and scalable platform for the industry as a whole.  The vision is called GlobalSight Editions where an instance of GlobalSight on the client side will be linked to an instance at the multi-language vendor (MLV) and then linked to an instance at the single language vendor (SLV). By unifying the entire supply chain on the same open platform, scalability, administration, speed, efficiency and reporting all become much stronger and easier.

About YYZ Translations

YYZ Translations is a full service localization firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada and with regional offices in France, Russia and India. With a client base of over 500 large enterprises, governments and LSPs, YYZ Translations prides itself on delivering high quality and on time translation and localization services for all industries across the globe.

About VistaTEC

VistaTEC is a leader in localization and process management. Its name has become synonymous with quality deliverables, technical expertise, outstanding language services and the very best in project management. Extraordinary client retention has enabled us to form true partnerships, which over time have yielded remarkable results in terms of production efficiencies through automation and process adaptation. VistaTEC collaborates closely with technology companies world-wide that provide complementary services and commercial tools. These alliances have unified the best offerings of service and technology available and make VistaTEC a leading player in the globalisation services sector. VistaTEC is owned and managed by industry veterans - offices in the U.S. and Europe and partner affiliates around the globe.

About GlobalSight

GlobalSight is a collaborative, open source initiative to develop a flexible and sustainable Translation Management System (TMS) that leverages the best ideas and addresses the true needs of the industry. In this non-captive community, participants are free to discuss, discover and build upon a translation process automation tool that provides choice and flexibility—and can be shared by all.

The direction and development of the GlobalSight Open Source Initiative is dictated by community members. For more information and to join the community, please visit www.globalsight.com.

About Welocalize

Welocalize offers integrated globalization services for the fluid and rapid deployment of enterprise content and applications to international markets. In response to unique customer needs, we provide globalization consulting, translation, localization and testing solutions that manage risk, improve repeatability and ensure transfer of knowledge from project to project.

Our clients include Autodesk, Inc.; Canon; Cisco Systems; Computer Associates; IBM; Microsoft; Sun; Symantec and Xerox. With over 400 employees worldwide, Welocalize maintains 9 offices in the United States, Germany, Ireland, Japan and China . Please visit www.welocalize.com for more information.