Lionbridge and TAUS Data Association (TDA) Collaborate to Bring Real-Time, Live Language Assets to the Cloud

WALTHAM, Mass. and DE RIJP, Netherlands, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Lionbridge (Nasdaq: LIOX) a leading provider of translation, development and testing solutions and the TAUS Data Association (TDA), an industry-wide initiative to share translation memories, today announced a joint initiative to integrate Lionbridge's Translation Workspace™ with the TDA language data exchange portal.  With this joint innovation, Lionbridge will provide an industry-scale, real time live asset management system for automated, on-demand reuse of previously translated material contained within TDA's repository of industry-shared language data.  As a result, TDA members can, for the first time, seamlessly maximize the value of pooled language assets and make them operationally accessible as part of their translation process.

Translation Workspace is the industry's most widely-used SaaS-based live asset management system and a core component of Lionbridge's fully integrated, cloud-based translation platform.  TDA is a member-driven organization whose mission is to provide a globally accessible, standards-based language asset repository based on user-contributed pooled data.  With this partnership, TDA members will be able to upload, download and search on demand, live language assets in the TDA repository directly via Translation Workspace.  This provides real-time access to TDA pooled data, translation memories, glossaries and review functionality from one cloud-based, secure private workspace.  

“Our collaboration with TDA demonstrates our common commitment to open, extensible platforms that move language out of static silos and into the real-time cloud,” said Rory Cowan, CEO of Lionbridge. “The integrated solution connects TDA members to our 2,000 Translation Workspace subscribers who have produced over three billion words in our cloud platform.  And, it accelerates further integration with machine translation engines and other applications.”

As a founding TDA member and Board member, Lionbridge sees this initiative as a significant step toward facilitating data aggregation and data sharing in a high-performance production environment.

"We believe that the combination of effective data and advanced cloud-based technology will have a tremendous impact on the translation industry," said Jaap van der Meer, Director of TDA.  "The seamless connection with Lionbridge's Translation Workspace helps to accelerate the innovation agenda enabling organizations around the world to benefit from open translation platforms, and better translation automation."

About TDA

TDA is a non-profit organization providing a neutral and secure platform for sharing language data. Share your translation memories and in return get access to the data of all other members. TDA is a super cloud for the global translation industry, helping to improve translation quality, automation and fuel business innovation. For more information, please visit http://www.tausdata.org.

About Translation Workspace

Translation Workspace is the first, market-proven, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based translation productivity platform.  Through a simple, low-cost subscription, users can access Translation Workspace to translate, manage and sequence language assets in real-time, collaborate instantly with other translators, monitor project productivity, automate quality assurance and engage qualified resources on demand -- all within their own secure, private work environment.  Through its unique Live Assets™ feature, Translation Workspace allows users to quickly and economically manage, distribute and sequence translation memories and instantly engage a qualified pool of translators.  They also gain on-demand visibility into the progress of every project and the delivery of every translation.  

Translation Workspace is based on Logoport, Lionbridge's advanced real-time translation memory technology, which has managed more than 10 billion words since its initial deployment in early 2005, making it the single largest repository of commercial translation memory content in the world.   

Translation Workspace is available through GeoWorkz.com, Lionbridge's portal for real-time translation applications.  

About Lionbridge

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) is a provider of translation, development and testing solutions. 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 translation, testing and maintenance. Global organizations 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.

Lionbridge and Translation Workspace, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. in the US and throughout the world.  

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