Lingotek

Lingotek
Initial release 2006 (2006)
Development status Active
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Multilingual
Type Content management framework
Website www.lingotek.com

Lingotek is a cloud-based translation services provider, offering translation management software and professional linguistic services for web content, software platforms, product documentation and electronic documents.[1]

Overview

Founded in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2006, Lingotek is best known for pioneering the first cloud-based translation management system (TMS). Lingotek is a privately held, high growth company that is venture-backed by Signal Peak[2] and In-Q-Tel.[3]

Partnerships

In 2008, Lingotek released "Lingotek-Inside," a product created in partnership with content management service providers such as Drupal,[4] Oracle,[5] and SharePoint,[6] to develop machine, community and professional translation services for content inside widely used enterprise applications. “Lingotek – Inside” can be integrated to many platforms, allowing for on-demand translation of websites, software, and other media.

In January 2015, Lingotek partnered with Lingoport to offer software localization solution.[7]

Software

Lingotek’s most notable product, a cloud-based translation management system (TMS), is accessible online and gives users the ability to upload/download translatable documents and multilingual content. Once uploaded, users are able to translate and review the documents through the creation of customizable workflows. The Lingotek TMS offers full-featured project, TM and terminology management, including an online CAT tool.

Project managers can view progress, by document or project, via the TMS’s dashboard tools. Project managers can make assignments to specific translators or teams of translators for a specific document, language or project. Lingotek also offers the ability to crowdsource translations. With this option community members are able to propose translations and vote on each other’s translations to ensure all content is translated accurately for each language.[8][9]

Projects

Major translation projects include the Library of Congress’ metadata translation for the World Digital Library,[10] Project Matsu[11] (in collaboration with NASA) coordinating disaster relief efforts in post-earthquake Haiti, and the National Science Foundation’s CluE project[12] for research sponsorship.

Recognition

Lingotek was an Edison Award Finalist (2015)[13] and Edison Award Nominee (2014), a Gartner Cool Vendor of the Year (2012),[14] and received the Stevie Award for Best New Product or Service of the Year – Software as a Service (2010).[15]

References

  1. ↑ Tom Taulli, "Translating Success in Foreign Markets", Forbes, 7 Dec 2011
  2. ↑ "Signal Peak Portfolio". Signal Peak. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "In-Q-Tel Portfolio". In-Q-Tel. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Audrey Waters, "Translate Your Drupal Site into Multiple Languages with Lingotek", ReadWrite, 3 May 2011
  5. ↑ Oracle Openworld, "Oracle Announces Leading ISV Integration With Oracle Sales and Marketing Cloud Service", Oracle Press Release, 2 October 2012
  6. ↑ Stuart J. Johnston, "SharePoint Gains Translation Capabilities", SharePoint Briefing, 11 Nov 2010
  7. ↑ MarketWired "Lingotek, Lingoport Team Up to Automate Software Globalization", Yahoo! Finance, 27 January 2015
  8. ↑ Kirsten Lytsen, Kevin Hoffman, Maureen O'Gara, Kulvir Singh Bhogal, Brad Bouldin, "Best of Both Worlds: Lingotek Launches “Crowdsourcing” Translation Platform Enabling Human and Machine Translation", Utilizer, 20 October 2009
  9. ↑ David F Carr, "Lingotek Brings Translation To Social (And Vice Versa)", Information Week, 29 June 2011
  10. ↑ Tim Rush, "Lingotek Translates Library of Congress’ Metadata for World Digital Library", BusinessWire, 10 Mar 2009
  11. ↑ Project Matsu, "Working Groups", Open Cloud Consortium (OCC), retrieved Mar 2015
  12. ↑ Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) Program, "Research Projects", National Science Foundation (NSF)
  13. ↑ Finalists, "Verbal Communications", Edison Awards 2015
  14. ↑ Cool Vendors Research, "Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2012", Gartner, 2012
  15. ↑ 2010 Stevie Awards "International Business Awards", Stevie Awards
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