Today we have some exciting news. Lionbridge is partnering with IBM to accelerate the development  and commercialization of real-time multilingual communication. As translation service providers to Lionbridge, there are three main points that we believe are important for you:

• This collaboration is focused on helping organizations expand the amount of content that is translated by providing a cost effective platform for real-time, multilingual communication. As you know, organizations translate only a fraction of their enterprise content using human translation service providers. By providing a cost effective, rapidly-customizable automation solution, our customers can expand the amount of content they translate - from blogs, and IMs to eSupport and user generated content. This collaboration is not aimed at reducing costs of existing translation programs. In fact, we believe this will lead to more content being routed for professional translation or for post editing as we expand the reach of our own industry.
• IBM chose Lionbridge because of Translation Workspace, our cloud-based translation memory and our eCommerce gateway, Geoworkz.com. They recognized the opportunity to combine their real time translation technology with our cloud-based language platform.
• The combined real-time multilingual communicationapplication will be available to you through GeoWorkz.com, use in your business. We are committed to bringing more capabilities to you that improve your productivity, quality and overall success.

We believe that, by combining IBM's award-winning, real-time translation automation technology with Lionbridge's cloud-based translation memory technology, we will deliver breakthrough applications that dramatically improve the way people communicate with customers, employees and partners globally while opening new opportunities for service providers.

For more information on this new strategic partnership, please click here and you'll find the full press release, a video overview and demonstration.

We are very pleased that IBM and Lionbridge are collaborating on these exciting new initiatives. We wanted you to be among the first to know. And, please stay tuned as we will keep you informed as the commercial offerings develop and we continue to bring more value to you through GeoWorkz and Translation Workspace.
Sincerely,

Yvonne Cekel
VP, SaaS & Communities