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Adobe Systems
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company’s award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information.
With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies.
Asia Online
Asia Online is an International web portal company that leverages groundbreaking technologies to create and deliver high value content online. The company is developing and applying solutions to unite communities across language barriers for ten Asian languages and more than a dozen European languages. The company was formed in late 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand and has achieved a number of world-first technology breakthroughs since then, some of which are in the process of being patented. Asia Online offers a wide range of services that exploit the unique automated machine translation technology the company has developed.
Dublin City University
Dublin City University (DCU) is one of Ireland's foremost universities. It's a leading centre for teaching, learning and research. DCU is only 25 years old, but has distinguished itself in that time for its innovative and applied approach to all disciplines. The School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies is housed in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in translation and intercultural studies. The Centre for Translation and Textual Studies is a Research Centre within the faculty which is the leading centre for translation research in Ireland. Areas of research undertaken by the CTTS include computer assisted translation, corpus-based translation studies, community interpreting, conference interpreting, screen translation, translation pedagogy and translation history.
EQHO
Since 1996, EQHO has successfully delivered complex localization projects in key vertical markets to MLV's and corporate clients located in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Although EQHO specializes in Asian languages, we also create multilingual multimedia localization, Flash, and voice-overs in all major Asian and European languages.
EQHO combines an international European / Asian account and project management team with in-house linguistic experts and highly skilled engineering resources all under one roof.
European Commission Directorate - General for Translation (DGT)
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation is the largest translation service in the world. Located in Brussels and Luxembourg, it has a permanent staff of some 1 750 linguists and 600 support staff, and also uses freelance translators all over the world to cover its output of about 1.5 million pages per year.
Known as the DGT after its English initials, the service translates written text into and out of all the EU's official languages, exclusively for the European Commission, and provides linguistic advice for the European Commission's written communication.
In doing so, DGT supports multilingualism in the European Union, thereby bringing the Union’s policies closer to its citizens and promoting its legitimacy, transparency and efficiency.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/translation/index_en.htm
Online directory Facebook began by connecting students through social networks at schools, but has since opened its service to the general public. The site was launched in 2004 by undergraduates at Harvard, led by Mark Zuckerberg, as an online version of the Harvard Facebook. Microsoft has a deal to be the exclusive provider of advertising to Facebook. Investors include Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel and Accel Partners.
IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable companies to take full advantage of the on demand era.
http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization
Institute for Information Industry (III)
The Institute for Information Industry (III) was established in 1979 as a non-governmental organization, jointly sponsored by the Taiwan government and prominent private enterprises, for the purpose of strengthening the developments of information industry in Taiwan.
Along with the technology advancement, III’s mission has evolved from the developments of information technology (IT) to Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with coverage over the entire society.
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
The Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB) opened in 1999. ITB offers a wide range of full-time and part-time courses in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Studies, Languages, Information Technology, Social Care and Horticulture to. At present there are 1,500 students in ITB. The main goals of the institute are to meet the needs of North County Dublin and its immediate environs through increasing participation in third-level education, allowing easier access to courses by both school-leavers and mature students and to ensure that mature students and other non-standard applicants constitute a significant percentage of the student population. ITB operates a number of partnership arrangements with other third-level institutions and locally-based enterprises. ITB has a growing body of researchers in different areas such as graphics and gaming, technology for language learning, engineering and e-learning.
iSoftStone
iSoftStone has uniquely integrated consulting services, technology services, and business process outsourcing capabilities for true end-to-end solutions. Its model provides clients with skilled local management and development resources that manage solutions onsite combined with scalable, talented developer and engineering resources in various locations throughout China. This combination allows iSostStone to deliver the right resources at the right time to speed up development cycles and create real return on investment.
iSoftStone’s global delivery model, including its execution framework, maps a repeatable process to guide the company through every client engagement for mutual understanding, scalable resources, and success. iSoftStone has been on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 China list since 2006 and has received the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Award in 2005, 2006, and 2007. It was recently named the 19th largest software developer in the Pacific Northwest by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
LISA
Since 1990, the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) has been helping companies enable global business. LISA is the premier not-for-profit organization in the world for individuals, businesses, associations, and standards organizations involved in language and language technology worldwide. LISA brings together IT manufacturers, translation and localization solutions providers, and internationalization professionals, as well as increasing numbers of vertical market corporations with an international business focus in finance, banking, manufacturing, health care, energy and communications.
Together, these entities help LISA establish best practice guidelines and language technology standards for enterprise globalization. LISA offers other services in the form of standards initiatives, Special Interest Groups, conferences and training programs which help companies implement efficient international business models to provide a return on investment for their Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and Translation (GILT) efforts.
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Language Excellence is a team of full-time terminologists, linguistic engineers and language quality professionals whose goal is to drive terminology consistency and language quality across Microsoft products worldwide, while contributing to efficiencies in product development and the localization life cycle.
We believe that the terminology and language style used by Microsoft should be effective for user experience in the following ways:
• Easy to understand
• Well in-synch with local standards and community usage
• Consistent among and across Microsoft products
Oceansoft International
Since 1996, Oceansoft Information System (Oceansoft) has firmly cemented itself as the most reputable IT Outsourcing Service Provider in two of China’s largest cities, Suzhou and Nanjing. To produce a qualified IT resource pool, Oceansoft built the “Sodi” Institute which has served as the Chinese Government’s nationally recognized and certified dominant IT training facility. With expert leadership and an industry experienced instructor staff, the Sodi Institute consistently obtains a 98% employment rate for its graduates. Training, graduating and certifying over 2,300 Sodi students in 2008 as well as increasing its rate of annual growth by 25%, greatly enhances Oceansoft’s position as the most capable and proactive human resource IT provider in the country.
Oracle Corp.
Oracle has been a leader in the software industry for more than 30 years and has developed many firsts. In areas ranging from the relational database, to Linux and grid
computing technology in the enterprise, to service-oriented architecture, Web services, XML, and irtualization through Oracle VM, Oracle continues its technology leadership. Today, Oracle is the largest business software company in the world, with more than 320,000 customers—including 98 of the Fortune 100—and supports these customer in more than 145 countries.
OSCAR, LISA
OSCAR (Open Standards for Container/content Allowing Reuse) is LISA’s open standards body for the translation and localization industry.
Since 1990, the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) has been helping companies enable global business. LISA is the premier not-for-profit organization in the world for individuals, businesses, associations, and standards organizations involved in language and language technology worldwide. LISA brings together IT manufacturers, translation and localization solutions providers, and internationalization professionals, as well as increasing numbers of vertical market corporations with an international business focus in finance, banking, manufacturing, health care, energy and communications.
http://www.lisa.org/Standards.79.0.html
PTSGI
PTSGI, for the past 40 years, has not only become the largest, most professional, and most comprehensive translation service company in Taiwan, but has also risen to become one of the largest world-class translation companies in Asia. Currently, we have over 300 fulltime employees, 70 in-house translators, 470 exclusively contracted translators and over 5000 freelance translators all over the world.
Our key to success is meeting the objectives of our client demands coupled with competitive pricing, fast delivery, and reliable quality. We are not only committed to exploring cutting edge know-how and technology, we also possess abundant and competitive resources to get the job done.
Saltlux
Saltlux established in 1979 and today we have grown as a systematic and automatic asset management services company based on the professional solutions with localization service and technical communications corporation. We provide comprehensive total services such as translation of various technical documents and product manuals into multilingual, software localization and globalization of web content, planning & writing of technical manuals, electronic editing, development of electronic manuals (live manual) and solutions consulting.
SDL International
SDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') is a leader in the emerging market for global information management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed localization supply chain.
Global industry leaders such as Audi, Bayer, Best Western, Bosch, Canon, Deutsche Bank, Kodak, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Reuters and SAP rely on SDL to provide enterprise software or full outsourcing for their GIM processes. SDL has implemented more than 100 enterprise GIM solutions, has over 100,000 software licenses deployed across the GIM ecosystem and its global services infrastructure spans more than 50 offices in 30 countries.
Shufra
Shufra is a company based in Singapore, founded by Ms. Shumin Chen and Dr. Frans Wijma. The company specialises in technical documentation in all languages, including writing, editing, translation, training and consultancy. Shufra works according to international standards, while having the flexibility to deal with custom requirements. It takes these requirements and expectations seriously and builds on clients' feedback and trust. In this way, Shufra strives to establish long-term partnerships with its customers to mutual benefit.
STAR
The STAR Group is one of the world’s leading providers of multilingual, technical communication. It supports and optimizes the information process with professional software development teams and appropriate software products developed in-house. It has a global network of 45 offices with over 930 permanently employed specialists, supported by many long-standing partners and suppliers.
STAR has its headquarters in Switzerland and is the largest language services provider that is still privately owned.
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision "The Network is the Computer" Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.
Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. Sun's core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.
Symbio Investment Holdings Company
Symbio empowers global innovators with advanced outsourcing solutions. From product development, to application outsourcing, through globalization and cutting-edge business process solutions, it enable clients to decrease costs, improve operations, and dominate their global markets. Symbio clients utilize Symbio's advanced multi-site, globally-integrated delivery centers in China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States to scale their global workforce and produce innovative technologies. They apply Symbio's world-class processes and best practices for uncompromised quality and efficiency. They leverage Symbio's vast network of relationships to propel their business operations globally and accelerate innovation.
Founded by a group of IBM R&D scientists in 1994, Symbio has since grown to over a thousand professionals spread across 13 offices and development centers worldwide. Our clients are the world's innovators and range from the largest multinationals to emerging start-ups. Companies like BMC, CA, EA, IBM, Microsoft, AOL, Symantec and Symbian are just some of the leaders who work with us to produce cutting edge products that dominate their markets.
Taiwan Design Center (TDC)
The Taiwan Design Center (TDC) leads Taiwan’s design industry in creating a unique Taiwanese style and promoting it on the international stage. The TDC has roots in the Design Promotion Center (DPC), established under the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA). In the 1970s, DPC/TAITRA assisted export-oriented enterprises in working on product design, innovation, and research and development in order to raise Taiwan’s competitiveness in the global market.
In 2004, the Taiwan Design Center was founded with the full support of the government. It is now an independent national design center that provides complete design services. TDC encourages innovation and design in Taiwan, thus supplying the creativity and talents needed for the growth of Taiwan’s industry. Through innovation, design, and branding, TDC raises the value of Taiwanese industry and establishes a Taiwan-based network that delivers global value.
