News   January 18, 2004   Leading Web Design Firm and Web Globalization Provider To Offer Multilingual Web Sites San Francisco, CA - Trados, the B2B e-commerce leader for Web globalization, and OnlineFocus, a Silicon Valley-based leader in web site design and development, today announced a strategic partnership to offer global companies web design and implementation in multiple languages. The partnership brings together OnlineFocus' sophisticated design expertise with Trados's robust web globalization solution for managing web sites and e-commerce initiatives in multiple languages.   OnlineFocus and Trados have recently teamed up and completed the creation of one multilingual site, with OnlineFocus providing the design and development expertise, while relying on Trados's web-based translation technology to manage the localization process. The project, which involved a French localization of the web site, utilized the client's own translators who worked on the Trados system.   "Creating a multilingual site is significantly more complex than a single language site," said Alex Pressman, president and co-founder of Trados. "OnlineFocus brings years of experience designing complex, dynamic web sites for companies such as FedEx, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Online, Sun Microsystems, Art.com and Cooper Lighting. We are pleased to join forces with one of the web's leading Internet professional services firms."   Thirty-two percent of all companies interviewed by Forrester Research consider a multilingual strategy to be critical to their e-commerce initiatives. But web architecture is rapidly changing, with increasing emphasis on rapidly changing content that is dynamically delivered in multiple languages.   "No longer is the creation and management of dynamic multilingual sites today simply a design issue," said Tim Barry, president of OnlineFocus. "web globalization technology is required to support multiple languages and to manage the update process. Trados has defined the next generation solutions for this process."   About Trados Trados is building the web's multilingual infrastructure, by providing linguistic technologies that empower e-commerce companies to communicate across 42 different languages. More than 100 global companies have relied on Trados's technologies to globalize their web sites, e-commerce solutions, and enterprise content. Trados's broad range of sophisticated globalization solutions include: an online translation management solution, an open translation marketplace, and web globalization technologies that drive down the cost and time to market in reaching global customers. Customers include: Hewlett Packard, Lycos, Commerce One, Broadbase Software, Amway Corp, Vignette, GE Information Services, PeopleSoft, Phone.com, and Informix. For more information about Trados, call (888) 464-4186 or (408) 743-3500 or visit Trados on the web at www.Trados.           © 1996-2006 Onlinefocus, Inc. | Contact Us | A UCI Web Group Company. All rights reserved.