Market Leaders Adopt Lionbridge GeoFluent™ Real-Time Translation Platform as Beta Customers

WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) today announced that three highly prominent and innovative technology companies have chosen to become beta customers for Lionbridge GeoFluent, an automated translation technology that instantly translates content and communications into multiple languages. A worldwide networking leader, the world leader in silicon innovation and a leader in security, storage and systems management are the first companies to join the beta program for Lionbridge's GeoFluent real time translation platform.  These organizations are participating in the program to address their growing requirements for customizable, cost-effective, instantaneous translation of enterprise content that is not currently translated, such as:

• Real-time multilingual chat to enable successful online customer care and pre-sales engagements in global markets without having to rely on costly in-country support staff
• Instantaneous translation of partner web pages to ensure technology associates can interact and engage in their local language
• On-demand translation of user-generated content in global customer support forums

"These market leading organizations recognize the need to advance and expedite customer engagements in global markets. Until the development of Lionbridge GeoFluent, enterprises have been constrained by the cost and time barrier of traditional human translation and the quality barrier of generic machine translation tools," said Rory Cowan, CEO of Lionbridge.  "As a result, most enterprise content never reaches audiences in global markets.  This beta program is proving that GeoFluent can effectively remove these barriers and unlock the knowledge of the global enterprise."

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Lionbridge GeoFluent is the industry's only cloud-based, customized translation platform.  The GeoFluent platform includes an IBM-developed machine translation engine, a proprietary Lionbridge customization solution to increase quality and usability of translation, APIs for easy integration into organization's applications, and Translation Workspace™, Lionbridge's cloud-based translation memory capability.  With this powerful combination, Lionbridge clients gain a secure, cloud-based, real-time solution that can be easily customized using each organization's existing content and configured for specific business processes to increase translation quality and availability.  This allows organizations to cost-effectively accelerate communication with customers, partners and employees and extend global reach.  

"As the beta program progresses we are seeing early indications of the value of GeoFluent for global organizations," continued Cowan.  "GeoFluent is enabling global enterprises to increase their multilingual communications to drive customer loyalty, open new revenue opportunities and reduce costs."  

For these beta program participants GeoFluent will complement their professional translation requirements.  By embracing a full spectrum of translation solutions, companies can cost-effectively broaden their multilingual communications as fully connected global organizations.

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 Lionbridge GeoFluent, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and throughout the world.  

KEYWORDS:  Lionbridge, Translation Platform, Automated Translation, GeoFluent, Translation Workspace

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