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Profile of Companies Presenting at the LISA Forum Asia
Hewlett-Packard
HP is a leading provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing.
Our $4 billion (U.S.) annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies, so that we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers.
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/
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.
XML-INTL
XML-INTL provides software solutions and consultancy services to organisations wishing to lower the cost and improve the quality of authoring and translating XML based documents.
Previously known as AZ Data Products the company has been providing consultancy to leading companies in the fields of document image processing, translation, SGML and XML processing and object oriented methodologies for over 20 years.
TIBCO Software
TIBCO digitized Wall Street in the ’80s with its event-driven “Information Bus” software, which helped make real-time business a strategic differentiator in the ’90s. Today, TIBCO’s infrastructure software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business process management, and giving people the information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions, what we call The Power of Now®. TIBCO serves more than 3,000 customers around the world with offices in 25 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners.
Beyondsoft
Beyondsoft, headquartered in China, is a leading IT outsourcing company with Global Delivery Centres. Beyondsoft offers IT consulting, Application Development and Maintenance(ADM), ERP and BPO services to the clients across the globe. With its relentless focus on achieving highest quality in its deliveries, Beyondsoft has become a trusted brand amongst its clients and achieved consistent growth in its repeat business with its clients.
Headquartered in Beijing, Beyondsoft has development centres in the major cities in China, as well as operations/centres in the U.S., Japan, Singapore and India. Being a visionary, Beyondsoft was the first Chinese IT company to set up development centres in Tier-II cities in China helping it deliver high quality solutions at a much lower cost than any other IT vendor in China. Besides the centres in China, the global delivery centres enable Beyondsoft to offer high-quality and cost effective services to its clients by adopting the right mix of onsite, nearsite and multi-tier offshore delivery centres. The Global delivery centres also allow Beyondsoft to share and grow its offerings, knowledge and process maturity. Beyondsoft is an ISO27001 certified company and the security systems at Beyondsoft meet world’s most strict standard..
Beyondsoft is renowned for its experience in working with world’s best technology companies and some of the leading companies of the world in verticals like Pharma, Financial Services, Telecom and Engineering. Our commitment to Quality is reflected in the fact that 3 out of 5 world’s top Technology companies are amongst Beyondsoft’s client list for a long time. Being a leading service supplier dedicated to end-to-end ITO and BPO services, Beyondsoft has also accumulated extensive experience in the verticals like financial services, pharma, telecom, etc with clients from the leading players of those industries.
Today Beyonsoft can boast of more than 8000 manyears of working with US clients, a milestone yet to be achieved by any of the Chinese company.
hiSoft Services (Beijing)
With over 2,000 IT resources, a comprehensive solutions platform, and mature delivery model, hiSoft has established itself as one of China's largest and leading IT service providers. Dedicated to innovation, superior quality and customer satisfaction, we continue to lead the way and deliver unparalleled services to our clients worldwide.
As one of the pioneers to have a large, scalable team of IT professionals in China with front-end local experts in both the Japan and US markets, hiSoft is positioned to be the largest global IT services company based in China.
China Translation & Publishing Corp.
China Translation & Publishing Corporation (CTPC) is a state-level translation and publication institution established with the approval of the State Council. In the past, it was affiliated with the State Publication Bureau and the General Administration of Press and Publication. At present, it is affiliated with China Publishing Group Corporation.
CTPC was established in 1973. After 35 years of effort, CTPC has established two brands: “CTPC translation” and “CTPC publishing”. CTPC translation services have reached every corner of the globe. For a long time, CTPC has been providing multilingual translation services for a variety of clients from UN headquarters and related organizations to Chinese government departments and businesses. It works on certificates and letters as a service provider approved by consulates, notary offices, courts and police bureaus, and for key projects ranging from politics, economy, culture, education, international exchange and cooperation, to technology introduction and promotion. CTPC also provides document translation, interpretation off-site translation and localisation services for government and corporate clients both at home and abroad. CTPC has made outstanding achievements in publishing reference books, translation works, social science and art books, bilingual books, foreign language textbooks, materials for learners, etc.
Satellite Station
Satellite Station is a Asian multilingual service provider based in New York and in Tokyo. The company is strong in Software Localization, System Development, Testing, and Offshore BPO for global companies.
Due to the presence in Tokyo, the company has strong clientele in Japanese with over 23 years of experience.
Net-Translators
Net-Translators specializes in software localization and translations into more than 60 languages. Our localization, internationalization and multilingual testing services instill the confidence that the localized product is accurately and consistently, localized, translated and tested. Our translators are industry specific, and have amassed a wealth of experience in their particular area of expertise. Our staff remains on the cutting edge of CAT, QA and DTP technology. Net-Translators is certified ISO 9001:2000 and is headquartered in Israel and maintains a branch office in the UK.
http://www.net-translators.com
Infoterm
Infoterm, the International Information Centre for Terminology, was founded in 1971 by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, with the objective to support and co-ordinate international co-operation in the field of terminology. Members are national, international and regional terminology institutions, organizations and networks, as well as specialized public or semi-public or other kind of non-profit institutions engaged in terminological activities.
Tedopres Asia
Tedopres, with offices in Asia, Europe and the United States, has been offering professional technical documentation services since 1974. We have an outstanding reputation of providing our customers with cost-effective, high-quality service that meets industry-specific standards.
Tedopres has extensive experience in implementing Simplified Technical English (also known as Controlled English), helping our customers to ensure compliance while saving cost at the same time. The implementation comprises dictionary building, training and the use of our checker tool HyperSTE.
Tedopres also specialize in technical translation in over 40 languages, technical illustration and animation as well as software development to support the creation and management of technical documentation.
Because Tedopres focuses on maintaining the quality and accuracy of documentation, industry leaders including Boeing, Embraer, Rolls-Royce, Philips and Black & Decker trust us to handle their most complex documentation projects. More than 500 other multinational corporations have done the same.
I.T. UNITED
I.T. UNITED (Information Technology United Corporation) is a trusted brand name and major China-based provider of software development and outsourcing services. Established in 1998 with global headquarters in Beijing, I.T. UNITED has an international management team and is firmly committed to the highest quality standards (CMMI). The company serves as a technology supplier to global and regional IT companies, and as a solutions provider to corporate and government clients. Key services include: application development and maintenance, business process support services, systems infrastructure, and interactive marketing. I.T. UNITED consistently delivers high-performance results at the most competitive rates, globally. The company employs local talent in its development centers (Shanghai, Xi’an and Beijing), and operates a growing network of offices in North America, Japan and Europe. I.T. UNITED is an internationally recognized Top 100 offshore player and a “Class A” IT company in China.
Cisco Systems (China) R&D Co.
Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's devices and networking solutions connect people, computing devices and computer networks, allowing people to transfer information without regard to differences in time, place or type of computer system. Cisco provides end-to-end networking solutions that customers use to build a unified information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else's network.
Cisco is one of America's greatest corporate success stories. It was created by a married couple from Stanford University. Since shipping its first router in 1986, the company has grown into a global market leader in virtually every market segment in which it participates. Since becoming a public company in 1990, Cisco's annual revenues have increased from $69 million in that year to $24.8 billion in fiscal 2005.
ChangFeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance
ChangFeng Open Standard and Platform Alliance (ChangFeng) is one of the largest industry consortiums in China. ChangFeng member companies account for over 10% of the China total software revenue, and for over 30% in eGovernment related software revenue. ChangFeng alliance now leads the country in the area of SOA and SaaS. ChangFeng member companies have established several technical task forces to address the technology standards facing the implementation of SOA in some industry verticals. Changfeng has been promoting and supporting open standard and open source. With the support from government， ChangFeng led a number of open standard projects such as XML in eGovernment, and open source projects such as the adoption of Linux in eGovernemnt.
T-Systems / Deutsche Telekom AG
T-Systems is the business customer unit of Deutsche Telekom. As a service provider, it offers the entire range of information and communication technology from a single source in a way that distinguishes it from the other businesses in its sector. T-Systems uses its extensive knowledge of both of these worlds to develop integrated solutions combining information and communication technology (ICT), making it one of the driving forces behind innovation in the industry. In 2006, the company posted turnover of 12.6 billion euros, employing about 56,000 people in over 20 countries.
T-Systems supports 160,000 business customers throughout the world. These include multinational groups such as DaimlerChrysler and EADS, public institutions such as the autonomous government of Catalonia, Generalitat de Catalunya, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. T-Systems develops and operates infrastructure and industry specific solutions for large customers, also offering international outsourcing and business process outsourcing, for example for payroll accounting. Services available to medium-size businesses range from cost-effective standard products, through high-performance IP (Internet Protocol) networks, to the development of complete ICT solutions.
Language Weaver
Language Weaver’s statistical automated translation software is designed for companies interested in leveraging existing translation resources to increase translation efficiency and productivity. Language Weaver has proven success delivering productivity improvements and time savings to large corporations, LSPs and translation solution providers by quickly creating customized translation systems using each company’s existing translated data. These systems produce high quality translations of domain specific data.
Language Weaver software can be easily integrated into customer support tools, knowledge bases, and translation workflow applications for added efficiency.
Jonckers Translations & Engineering
Jonckers, Microsoft’s 2007 Service Vendor of the Year, is a full-service localization provider focused on delivering software, eLearning and multimedia localization services to the world’s best companies. Jonckers achieves excellence through an ERP controlled global network of wholly owned offices spanning Asia, Europe and the US allowing Jonckers to deliver low cost global resources without sacrificing quality.
Intel
Intel Corporation is one of the world's largest semiconductor company, which engages in the manufacture and sale of semiconductor chips, as well as in the development of advanced integrated digital technology platforms for the computing and communications industries worldwide. Intel was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California. Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead—in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop collectively delivering better solutions with greater benefits for everyone.
China National Institute of Standardization
China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS) is a non-profit national research body engaging in standardization research. It is affiliated to the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ). The main responsibilities of CNIS are to conduct all-round, strategic, and comprehensive research of standardization during the development process of economy and society, to research and develop comprehensive fundamental standards, as well as to provide authoritative standards information services. CNIS is poised to provide all-round support in standardization for China's economic development and social progress, to support technical progress, industrial upgrading, and product's quality improvement, and to provide scientific evidence for government policy-making on standardization.
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.
Braahmam Net Solutions
Braahmam Net Solutions Pvt. Ltd is a company driven by excellence in the areas of Indian Language Localization and Multimedia Engineering. Four enterprising professionals formed the company, in June 2000. Since its inception, Braahmam is catering different segments of the market with its e-Learning, Multimedia, and Localization services.
In this short period, Braahmam has served customers in Europe, US, and Far East Asia providing services ranging from document translations to complete application and e-learning localization. Braahmam is one of the leading Indian Language Service Provider for Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, and Tamil. Braahmam also has a distinction to provide several rare languages, such as Sindhi, Pushto, Nepali and Sinhala.
Braahmam is the only company in India to train more than 35 freelance translators on CAT tools for making these resources available to the industry. Several resources have also been trained for Unicode competence in the Indian Languages.
Braahmam specializes in translation and localization in IT, Mobile Phone, Automobile, Education and Publishing domains.
Located in the National Capital Region of Delhi, Braahmam proudly provides the best services at a fraction of the cost. Our innovative work and adherence to quality has been recognizes by our customers all across.
Conversis Global
Founded in 2003 and based in the United Kingdom, Conversis is now one of the world’s fastest growing and most innovative providers of Globalisation, Internationalisation, Localisation and Translation (GILT) services. Conversis is dedicated to advancing the understanding and use of GILT as a strategic business tool. It sponsors and collaborates with Boeing Institute of International Business in a wide range of research activities designed to improve knowledge of GILT practices and preferences inside and outside of the industry.
It offers a business consultancy service and by understanding the wider business issues and taking the time to really understand the client’s industries and objectives, it is able to design and implement tailored localisation strategies and projects that maximise success for clients in international markets.
http://www.conversisglobal.com/
VanceInfo Technologies
An industry pioneer since 1995, VanceInfo, in addition to servicing multinationals in China, is the leading China-based provider of IT outsourcing services to Asia Pacific, North American and European clients.
VanceInfo offers expertise across a wide range of fields in High Tech, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution and Telecommunications.
To meet clients' increasing demands for seamless global delivery and support, VanceInfo, headquartered in Beijing, has built offices and branches in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Dalian, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. With a wealth of experience and expertise, VanceInfo provides one-stop and real-time services to fulfill our customers' needs.
CSOFT
CSOFT is the world's leader in providing quality multilingual localization solutions to Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises of all sizes. Top Fortune 100 companies trust CSOFT's professional localization service to help deploy their products in the global market faster and more competitively. With over 1,200 localization professionals in worldwide locations, we provide in-country language translation and technology solutions into over 70 languages. CSOFT has the experience, methodologies, and technical infrastructure to provide end-to-end project execution for all project types and sizes. Our goal is to deliver complete client satisfaction in terms of quality and price.
Beijing Yuanpei Century Translation Co., Ltd.
Beijing Yuanpei Century Translation Co., Ltd. is a professional translation company, providing high-quality, worldwide services of translation and interpretation among a variety of languages. Yuanpei – the name itself coming from one of the greatest presidents, Cai Yuanpei, in the history of Peking University – originates from the former Yuanpei Education Development Co., Ltd. of Peking University. Apart from being supported by a big group of language experts from Peking University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and those from other countries, Yuanpei has drawn on more than 1000 senior translators and interpreters. Thanks to its some-30-year experience in the language service, Yuanpei has accomplished remarkable achievement, with a vast source of clients all over the world, and also serves as the “Translation and Interpretation Service Supplier of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games”.
