Fixing i18n bugs is expensive. Exponentially so, the longer one waits to fix them.  The industry talks about costs associated with this process conceptually, but without concrete figures supported with historical data to show true losses, no one really quite believed the cost figures that were being estimated.

For example: Would you believe that a small product of 100,000 lines of code on Java could introduce approx. 2,000 embedded strings and 1,719 methods/classes and functions i18n bugs, and take about 2,400 hours to refactor?

Would you equally believe that the process could be reduced to about 675 total hours?

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To our knowledge, no study conducted to date includes historical data of internationalization issues found across programming languages. Nor has a body established a framework to understand cost parameters involved in a i18n project and the cost of when a i18n bug has been found and refactored. Lingoport is in a unique position to present data and its framework from experiences with its internationalization software (Globalyzer) and services that each company can use to better understand the cost and room for improvement in their internationalization processes.

In this webinar, we will provide the numbers and supporting data to learn:

• Frequency of types i18n issues in code
• The financial effect of timing for fixing issues
• Why testing isn’t enough
• The financial benefits of finding and fixing i18n issues at the source
• How using Globalyzer creates savings in time and money
• What’s still involved with maintaining code that’s already internationalized

Webinar Details:

• When: June 5th, 2013 11:15AM MDT (10:15 Pacific, 1:15 Eastern)
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Cost: Only your time
• Register below

Presenters: Adam Asnes, Lingoport CEO & Olivier Libouban, Globalization Architect

Lingoport customers are increasingly focusing resources on mobile applications of their software for worldwide customers. “Clients are supporting multiple user interfaces for browsers, traditional desktops and mobile platforms, and are struggling with internationalization issues for each U/I.” explained Lingoport CEO, Adam Asnes. “In addition to adding ease-of-use features for enterprise development, we needed more specific attention to applications that run natively on mobile devices.”

To learn more about the new Globalyzer release and how Globalyzer helps companies adapt and build software so that it can quickly and easily support worldwide languages and cultural formats, please visit http://lingoport.com/globalyzer.

About Lingoport

Lingoport is a trusted resource to the world’s leading companies in modifying software and web applications to perform gracefully in any language or locale. Lingoport’s product suite helps companies in developing software for the world by checking, measuring and fixing source code for internationalization (i18n) defects, then automating the flow of localization to keep up with ongoing development. Our extensive outsourced internationalization service offerings help companies meet challenging global release deadlines while augmenting development teams. For more information, please visit http://lingoport.com or contact Lingoport at sales@lingoport.com.

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Partner and corporate portals continue to increase in importance as enterprises look to communicate and assist its partners and resellers more successfully with product training, sales and marketing resources and incentives. With partners around the world, providing content in their native language becomes critical for deeper acceptance and membership growth.

In this webinar case study, Lingoport and VMware will review the business case to globalize VMware’s Partner Central portal to its constituents around the world. Join us as we detail the challenges faced in gaining executive support to technical implementation of the internationalization, localization and QA aspects of the project. VMware will also detail solutions developed and lessons learned, valuable to any company approaching an internationalization and localization project.

When: This webinar was recorded on Wednesday, February 20th at 11am MT (GMT-7)
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Duration: one hour

Speakers:
VMware:

• Naeem Randhawa, Senior Manager
• David Wylie, Partner Portal Manager
• Jeff Chang, Director Corporate Globalization.

Lingoport:

• Adam Blau, VP Sales
• Milen Epik, Globalization Program Manager

Webinar attendees will learn:

• Building business and executive support as well as measuring impact of globalization on goals.
• Challenges and specific solutions to internationalization challenges of a web-based portal.
• Solutions to remedy technical dependencies with Salesforce.com, content management systems and translation management systems.
• Program Management support and practices for successful delivery across cross-functional teams.

In our next webinar, we will discuss how to build repeatable success with internationalization initiatives, including:

• Building your case for funding
• Assessing the technical challenges
• Creating a plan
• Optimizing for concurrent development
• Taking advantage of systems for success and ongoing i18n support
• Ongoing localization updates

Lingoport, though known for it’s Globalyzer and Resource Manager products, has been performing extensive internationalization services over a wide variety of software applications and programming technologies. Over the years we’ve developed highly reliable methods for scoping and performing i18n work. We’ll share what we’ve learned about successful initiatives.

When: This webinar was originally held onThursday, February 7th
Watch: Below
Duration: 35 minutes

Who should watch:

• Software Development Managers
• Localization Managers
• Product Managers
• Program Managers
• Localization and Development Engineers interested in refining globalization practices

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Many have made the conclusion that Agile development and localization cannot coexist in a mutually reinforcing way. With its inherent nature for disruptions and change, globalization teams know the distress it imposes on downstream localization activities.

Agile development however is here to stay. While there are important friction points between the two methodologies – they can be bridged with smart technology and a state of Agile localization can be achieved.

In this webinar, we will discuss the causes for friction and how automation via Lingoport’s Resource Manager can be used to allow localization to become an Agile process, embracing change instead of resisting it. The webinar will cover real world examples along with a detailed demonstration of how this process works to make localization and development updates visible and smoothly enabled across your organization.

When: This webinar was originally held on December 19th
Duration: 45 minutes
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Who Should Attend:

• Localization Management
• Localization Engineers
• Development Management
• Program Managers
• Product Managers

About the Presenters: 
Adam Asnes founded Lingoport in 2001 after seeing firsthand that the niche for software globalization engineering products and services was underserved in the localization industry. As Lingoport’s President and CEO, he focuses on sales and marketing alliances while maintaining oversight of the company’s internationalization services engineering and Globalyzer product development. Adam is a frequent speaker and columnist on globalization technology as it affects businesses expanding their worldwide reach. For creative inspiration and fun, Adam enjoys cycling and Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Richard Sikes has been immersed in technical translation and localization for over 25 years. He has managed localization teams at several industry-leading software companies, and he contributes frequently to MultiLingual magazine. As a freelance localization technology expert and writer, he focuses on translation technologies, industry best practices and project management solutions. Richard holds a BA in fine arts from the University of California, Diplom Betriebswirt (FH) from the Volkshochschule Heidelberg, and an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Olivier Libouban, a native of France, has been working for 25 years in the software industry, for large corporations and start ups, as a software engineer and as a project manager. Olivier has a wide ranging experience in the US, France, Switzerland, and Norway, in R&D departments as well as for client projects of all sizes with complex software environments. Olivier has a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in France and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

December 6, 2012 — Boulder, CO — Lingoport (www.lingoport.com), the leading resource for creating world-ready software and applications, announced today that it has released Globalyzer 4.1.1. The release builds upon an existing framework for streamlining internationalization scanning and filtering processes and includes a full .NET internationalization tutorial for basic web applications.

“We believe Globalyzer’s new .NET tutorials will greatly complement its existing .NET i18n support, and allow our customers to more effectively internationalize their applications,” says Lingoport CEO Adam Asnes. He continues, “we have already received tremendous feedback from our .NET i18n training modules, and are thrilled to be able to extend that expertise to our current and prospective Globalyzer customers.”

Additional features of the Globalyzer 4.1.1 release include additional options for pseudo-localization of all base resource files and features to more quickly identify layout issues where full translated strings would not fit. For a full synopsis of features and bug fixing, visit http://www.lingoport.com/software-internationalization-products/globalyzer-4/release-notes/

A free trial of Globalyzer 4.1.1 as well as access to the .NET internationalization tutorials may be requested at http://www.lingoport.com/globalyzer-trial. A full six-hour .NET training module is available and may be requested by contacting ablau(at)lingoport.com.

About Lingoport

Lingoport is a trusted resource to the world’s leading companies in modifying software and web applications to perform gracefully in any language or locale. Lingoport’s product suite helps companies in developing software for the world by checking, measuring and fixing source code for internationalization (i18n) defects, then automating the flow of localization to keep up with ongoing development. Our extensive outsourced internationalization service offerings help companies meet challenging global release deadlines while augmenting development teams. For more information, please visit http://www.lingoport.com or contact Lingoport at sales@lingoport.com.

Contact: Spencer Thomas   email: SThomas(at)lingoport.com
Lingoport, Inc. phone: +1 303 444 8020
3985 Wonderland Hill Ave.
Boulder, CO 80304 USA

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December 6, 2012 –Boulder, CO– Lingoport (www.lingoport.com), the leading resource for creating world-ready software and applications, announced today that it is holding a webinar, Path to Agile Localization, on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 to cover how current Agile and localization methodologies may be better coordinated.

Industry experts have pointed to inherent distress Agile development places on localization activities.

“Agile development practices are designed in such a way that disruptions and change are constant; historically, localization changes don’t fit within three-week sprints,” says Lingoport CEO Adam Asnes. He continues, “after many conversations with our clients and friends who can’t actively provide the same updates to global customers, we have found that embracing change and applying technology is the best course for localization teams to synergize with Agile.”

To share how localization can be more visible and effective within Agile, Lingoport will hold an hour-long webinar, Path to Agile Localization. Presenters include Richard Sikes, noted localization technology expert, Adam Asnes, Lingoport’s CEO and Olivier Libouban, Globalization Architect and Product Manager at Lingoport. Attendees are encouraged to submit their experiences in advance of the webinar. Registration is available at: http://www2.lingoport.com/l/13612/2012-12-06/4l472

About Lingoport

Lingoport is a trusted resource to the world’s leading companies in modifying software and web applications to perform gracefully in any language or locale. Lingoport’s product suite helps companies in developing software for the world by checking, measuring and fixing source code for internationalization (i18n) defects, then automating the flow of localization to keep up with ongoing development. Our extensive outsourced internationalization service offerings help companies meet challenging global release deadlines while augmenting development teams. For more information, please visit http://www.lingoport.com or contact Lingoport at sales@lingoport.com.

Contact: Spencer Thomas
email: SThomas(at)lingoport.com
Lingoport, Inc. +1 303 444 8020
3985 Wonderland Hill Ave.
Boulder, CO 80304 USA

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Thank you for your interest in presenting in the 2013 Internationalization and Localization Conference on March 14th. This year’s conference theme is bridging the gap between software development and localization. We are accepting submissions for presentations that meet this theme. Ideas may include practices, processes and technology that help development and localization see eye-to-eye when creating software for the world.

2013 Recorded sessions are available for view here.

Bridging the Gap Between Software Development and Localization March 13 and 14, 2013. Save the dates! Lingoport is pleased to announce the return of our i18n and L10n conference, which was a greater success than we ever anticipated in its first run. For the next conference, we’re going to focus on practices, processes and technology that helps development and localization become more in tune with requirements and successful practices of releasing software that works gracefully for users worldwide. Agenda: Conference presentations are posted (see agenda below). Presentations will be in line with the theme of the conference, Bridging the Gap between Software Development and Localization. See below for detailed descriptions of each session. Conference schedule: Day 1, March 13: Technical internationalization training (View Curriculum Below) Day 1 evening, March 13: Open reception Day 2, March 14: Conference sessions attendees may elect to attend the training, conference day, or both. For more information, please email events(at)lingoport.com. *Presentations will be recorded and made available to all conference attendees free of charge.	Slideshow from 2012 Conference 425258_10150668620173116_783428115_9188424_1207837817_n 600_101882242 PIC_0005 600_101882272 PIC_0016 PIC_0012 600_101882452 600_101882402 DSC00031 600_101882432 PIC_0006 600_101882402 PIC_0006 600_101640142 600_101882482 PIC_0008 PIC_0020 PIC_0018 DSC00012 DSC00013 DSC00015 DSC00016 DSC00017 DSC00023 DSC00027 600_101882332 600_101882392 600_101639982 Location: Techmart Meeting Center 5201 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, California 95054-1122 United States Registration & Pricing: Internationalization Training, March 13: $750 US Conference Day, March 14: $199 Both: $800 (Register for Training and select “I’ll also attend the main conference”) 2013 Conference Recordings Available Here
i18n Training Agenda Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 8:00–9:00 Registration and Breakfast 9:00-9:30 Session 1: Introduction 9:30-11:30 Session 2: Major Concept – exercises 1, 2. Locale, Bundles, Date/Time formats, Calendars, Message Formats, Time Zone, Currencies, Locale Strategies. 11:30-12:30 Session 3: Writing systems, Unicode – exercise 3. Writing systems, Encoding, Unicode, glyphs, String handling, Collation, BreakIterator, boundaries. 12:30–1:30 Lunch and Networking 1:30-2:30 Session 4 (continued): Writing systems, Unicode – exercise 4. Writing systems, Encoding, Unicode, glyphs, String handling, Collation, BreakIterator, boundaries. 2:30-3:30 Session 5: User Interface Issues - exercise 5. LtR, RtL, Mirroring, Text sizes, Pseudo-Localization 3:30-4:00 Session 6: Input methods - setup LtR, RtL, Mirroring, Text sizes, Pseudo-Localization 4:00-5:00 Session 7: i18n issue detection and resolution in code 5:30 We round out the day with networking, dinner, and drinks. Sponsors Platinum - Gold - Bronze - Media Sponsor - Sparkle Sponsor -	Opening Reception Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 5:30-8:30pm: Opening Reception: Drinks, Food and Networking Conference Agenda: March 14, 2013 View our video library from the 2012 Conference. 8:00-8:45 Registration and Breakfast 8:45-8:55 Opening Talk 9:00-9:45 A1: Squashing the Top-10 Most Common World-Readiness Bugs Presenter: Michael Kuperstein of Intel Moderator: Adam Asnes of Lingoport B1: How Central Visibility of Translation Metrics and Process Changes an Organization Presenter: Michael Meinhardt of Cloudwords Moderator: Amanda Mork of Cloudwords 9:45-10:15 Break 10:15-11:00 A2: Case Studies: L10n at Marin Software & Adobe Presenters: Knut Grossman of Marin Software Manish Kanwal of Adobe Lily Wen of Adobe Moderator: Olivier Libouban of Lingoport B2: Volunteer Localization at Wikimedia Foundation Presenter: Siebrand Mazeland of Wikimedia Foundation Moderator: Adam Blau of Lingoport 11:00-11:15 Break 11:15-12:15 A/B3: Demo Derby Moderator: Adam Asnes of Lingoport 12:15-1:45 Lunch Break – Lobby 1:45-2:30 A4: i18n Customer Case Study: An Adventure in Internationalization Presenter: Becca Gronau of Elsevier Moderator: Adam Blau of Lingoport B4: Sprinting to the Finish: 7 Tips for Successful Localization with Agile Development Presenter: Emma Young of Acclaro Lydia Clarke of Acclaro 2:30-3:00 Break 3:00-3:45 A5: How to Drive Efficient Customized Localization with Agility and Intelligence Presenter: Michael McKenna of Zynga Moderator: Tex Texin B5: Going Global in the Age of Agile Technology: Smartling Accelerates HotelTonight Expansion   Presenters: Andrey Akselrod of Smartling Russ Taga of HotelTonight 3:45-4:00 Break 4:00-4:45 A6: i18n QA Expert Panel Presenters: Tex Texin Kent Grave Paul-Henri Arnaud Moderator: Adam Asnes of Lingoport B6:Seven Tips to Maximize the Value of your Translation Memory Assets through a Transition Presenter: Adam Jones of SimulTrans 4:45-5:00 Break 5:00-5:45 A/B7: Bridging the Gap Between Software Development & Localization Panel Presenters: Michael Kuperstein of Intel, Michael McKenna of Zynga, Nelson Ng of Paypal and Becca Gronau of Elsevier Moderator: Renato Beninato of Moravia 5:45-5:55 2012 Internationalization and Localization Conference Closing 5:55-7:00 Food, Drinks, and Networking 7:00-8:00 Monthly IMUG Meeting: Technology for Bridging Development and Localization Learn more at http://events.imug.org/events/95268882 8:00-9:00 More Networking and Open Bar

Session Descriptions

A1: Squashing the Top-10 Most Common World-Readiness Bugs

What’s the quickest way to squash bugs? Definitely not a flyswatter, right? Using manual testing to create a world-ready product would be like using a flyswatter. To battle the bugs, let’s bring on the bug zappers and whole-house bug bombs! Relying on manual testing alone is far too uneconomical and risky for modern product development. Several modern methods have been developed for efficient software internationalization. This presentation will explore how and why internationalization methods can be used to squash the top-10 most common world-readiness failures so that publishing your software to the world can be an exciting, satisfying, and profitable experience.

B1: How Central Visibility of Translation Metrics and Process Changes an Organization

Cloudwords CEO, Michael Meinhardt will introduce the latest in multilingual content technology and Ei-Mang Wu, Sr. Global Product Manager at Marketo, will discuss how cloud technology is changing the way Marketo works across translation, marketing and product teams. Marketo trusts Cloudwords to optimize their global translation process, so Marketo can focus on building the world’s leading marketing software.  Leading companies fundamentally understand that they need to reach new global revenue opportunities quickly, and the only way to scale their process is to use innovative technology.

A2: Case Studies: L10n/i18n at Marin Software & Adobe

Marin: Business software, especially in the constantly changing environment of online marketing, requires a tighter than ever collaboration between L10n and i18n, between project management and engineering. This session will discuss how Marin follows the principle of “any user must be able to login and work in any country from any platform in any language and process data created in any locale setting”.

Adobe: Product Development Teams are increasingly becoming sensitive to the needs of internationalizing the products upfront. However legacy products who are years old, find it difficult to make code changes at a later stage. This presentation takes an example of some the market leading products that Adobe offers, explains the problems and how they are tackled.

B2: Volunteer Localization at Wikimedia Foundation

Today,  there are Wikipedias in 280 languages, and Wikimedia Incubator contains projects in over 100 more languages. Internationalization was always largely supported by volunteer developers, simply because the Wikimedia Foundation had always had a very small budget, and there were always higher priorities to deal with. In August 2011 the Wikimedia Foundation created the Language Engineering team, hired out of the volunteer community. This presentation will go in depth on how Wikimedia Foundation crowd sources as much as possible in the i18n and L10n areas, while keeping a relatively small team of people in house that ensures that the frameworks to allow distribution are created and maintained.

A/B3: Demo Derby

Fast and furious, demo derby participants will be limited to 10 minutes to demonstrate their technologies. We’ve chosen several software applications that provide productivity to bridging the gap between software development and localization. Expect quick action and not much PowerPoint. Q&A time is allotted for each presenter.

A4: i18n Case Study: An Adventure in Internationalization

One team’s experience internationalizing an industry leading, high volume, web application with a decade’s worth of code enhancements.  Explore start to finish what steps were taken and lessons learned.  Come hear from a developer’s perspective what it really took to internationalize an app.  It’s not as scary as you may think.

B4: Sprinting to the Finish: 7 Tips for Successful Localization with Agile Development

In agile development, everyone works together in a very fluid way, sprinting to the finish by tackling continual releases and every-changing assignments. But what happens when your software or web app needs to move into new language markets? How do you successfully integrate localization into an already fast-moving process? We’ll review 7 practical tips to help you fold in localization into an Agile development environment, ensuring that your new language markets don’t get lost in the race to the finish line.

A5: How to Drive Efficient Customized Localization with Agility and Intelligence

Ford recently introduced the concept of a Flexible Assembly System to allow efficient production of customized hybrid vehicles with a combination of body styles on one assembly line.  In the same way, localization of software can be run efficiently by utilizing common platforms, common processes, flexible technology, and finely tuned resource management.  This session will look deeper into each of these aspects and shed light on how Zynga is able to support a constant flow of new global games while supporting a strong mix of multilingual production games with daily releases of thousands of words.

B5: Going Global in the Age of Agile Translation: Smartling Accelerates HotelTonight

Smartling has built an agile translation management platform that guides customers through these steps to accelerate their global expansion efforts. Hear firsthand from HotelTonight a marketplace for last-minute hotel rooms, how they rolled localized versions of their app in French, German and Spanish – and how their engineering is integrating translation into their development process.

A6: i18n QA Expert Panel

Tex Texin, Kent Grave and Paul-Henri Arnaud will offer state of the art tips and lead an interactive discussion on best practices for internationalization QA. They will offer key insights into pseudo-translation, English as just another language, and testing of time zones. Join us and challenge the panel and colleagues with the your most difficult and intriguing problems. Learn how these experts and others in the industry are tackling the same issues you face.

B6: Seven Tips to Maximize the Value of your Translation Memory Assets through a Transition

Many companies lose significant savings in translation memory leveraging after making a change in development environment, release strategy, or authoring tools.  As companies move to Agile development, XML-based documentation, and globalization management systems, they often neglect the impact on the usefulness of their legacy translation memories.

During this session, we will give seven tips to maximize the value of your translation memory assets through a transition.  By employing these suggestions as your organization evolves, you will benefit from increased memory leveraging, leading to cost savings, faster localization time, and greater consistency. We will provide examples using a variety of translation memory tools, none sold, endorsed, or manufactured by SimulTrans.

A/B7: Bridging the Gap Between Software Development & Localization Panel

We wrap up the day with an expert panel to share their recommendation for how change, better support, or create your global development structure to achieve global readiness. The panel will discuss how to get started, how to improve, how to measure, what results will be expected, and what changes are necessary in an organization.

Presenters

Paul-Henri Arnaud Globalization Process Analyst at Autodesk Paul-Henri Arnaud (Autodesk, Inc.) is a senior process analyst on the localization services engineering team at Autodesk Development Sàrl in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. With over ten years’ experience at Autodesk and 17 years in the industry, he is a specialist in aiding development teams design, implement and test globalized applications that are used by millions of design professionals worldwide. Previously, at ViewStar Corporation, he was a key contributor to the creation and enabling of the first German, French and Japanese versions of business process and document management software. Paul-Henri holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and computer science from U-C Berkeley. Andrey Akselrod CTO, Smartling, Inc. Andrey comes to Smartling from his role as VP, Technology at SpaFinder, where he developed and maintained the site and eCommerce platform in 6 languages. Previously, he held executive positions at RunTime Technologies and consulted for JP Morgan Chase, where he was responsible for eCommerce, digital asset management, data warehousing and other large-scale projects. He’s a native Russian speaker. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Brooklyn College and lives in New Jersey with his wife and children. He’s passionate about all things technology, and a good cup of coffee. Adam Asnes President & CEO at Lingoport Adam Asnes founded Lingoport in 2001 after seeing firsthand that the niche for software globalization engineering products and services was underserved in the localization industry. Lingoport helps globally focused technology companies adapt their software for worldwide markets with expert internationalization and localization consulting and Globalyzer software. Globalyzer, a market leading software internationalization tool, helps entire enterprises and development teams to effectively internationalize existing and newly developed source code and to prepare their applications for localization. Renato Beninato Chief Marketing Officer at Moravia Renato is an international business analyst and strategist. He has served on the executive teams for some of the industry’s most prominent companies, and co-founded the first market research company focusing on the language services space (Common Sense Advisory). He was the President and is currently an Advisor to ELIA (European Language Industry Association) and also a Board Member of Translators without Borders, a non-profit organization that provides translations for NGOs. Adam Blau VP of Sales at Lingoport Adam Blau is an experienced globalization executive and overseer of Lingoport’s growing account base and global outreach strategy. Adam, having lived in Germany for over nine years, is a fluent German speaker with a knack for travel. Previously, Adam worked at Milengo, where he oversaw their worldwide sales team residing in North and South America as well as Europe. Adam received his degree in economics and German from Bates College in Maine and holds a Strategic Sales Management certificate from the University of Chicago. A connoisseur of culture, Adam loves to travel (logging over 100,000 miles in 2011) and cook. Lydia Clarke Program Manager, Acclaro As a Program Manager in Acclaro’s San Francisco office, Lydia helps clients develop and execute successful globalization strategies. Lydia has held project management, technical lead, and senior engineering positions with Acclaro and other localization firms. With ten years of experience in the industry, Lydia has successfully localized a wide variety of software, web, multimedia, documentation, and search projects. Lydia holds a BA from Cornell University with additional concentrations in Latin American studies and international relations. Kent Grave Program Specialist i18n and L10n Kent Grave is an internationalization and localization management consultant and has worked with global software for over 20 years managing large-scale projects in Europe, Asia and the United States for IBM, Siebel Systems, Microsoft and Cisco. Kent has been involved in all aspects of providing global software over the years and areas of primary interest are efficient and consistent internationalization strategy and best practices as the backbone of timely and high-quality localization. Kent grew up in Denmark and moved to California in 1990. He has an MBA in international technology management and a master’s in marketing to complement a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Becca Gronau Application Architect, Elsevier Becca Gronau is an application architect working for Elsevier, Inc. with 15 years development experience.  A graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Becca started her career with Electronic Data Systems (since acquired by Hewlett Packard) as a software engineer.  While at EDS, Becca worked with various technologies from mainframe, to desktop, to web applications.  After transitioning to Elsevier in 2003, Becca honed a specialty in a multi-tier web development.  Becca has recent experience as the lead architect responsible for internationalizing a large, industry leading, web application. Knut Grossman Localization & Globalization Expert at Marin Software For the last 22 years, Knut Grossmann was involved in practically every aspect of localization: audio, video, documentation, animation, art, web content, and software. He started off as a freelance translator, continued to work as a project manager, and then as localization manager for companies like Consilium, NeXT Computer, and Maxis. When Maxis was bought by Electronic Arts, he continued as the Localization Director, working on such world renowned titles like Sim City and The Sims. Recently, he worked at Sony Online Entertainment as Executive Director of the International Group, and later as the principal consultant of his own firm, Games Without Borders. He now manages all localization and internationalization efforts for Marin Software, a company that provides software solutions worldwide for marketers and agencies in the online advertising business. Adam Jones Chief Operating Officer at SimulTrans Adam oversees SimulTrans’ worldwide operations, including project management, translation, engineering, testing, multilingual publishing, account management, and marketing.  Adam has spent over 19 years directing the company’s customer outreach efforts, internal production groups, and other operations.  Relevant to this topic, Adam’s first role at SimulTrans involved analyzing projects and optimizing translation memory leveraging; he led the company’s implementation of various translation tools, including WorldServer.  Adam regularly gives training presentations at conferences of the Society for Technical Communications, the American Translators Association, the Software & Information Industry Association, and other groups.  Adam previously worked in Strategic Accounts at Oracle Corporation and as a high school English teacher.  He holds BA and MA degrees from Stanford University, in Public Policy and Education. Michael Kuperstein Localization Engineer, Global Language Solutions, Intel Corporation Michael Kuperstein has been working deep in the trenches of many localization projects, produced in partnership between Intel’s in-house localization group and Intel business units. Michael was hired by Intel in 1996 as a software engineer, later transferring to Intel’s localization team in 2001 as the dotcom bubble burst. He wears many hats as a localization engineer, software architect, application developer, tool wrangler, speaker, group historian, and all around go-to / fix-it guy for software internationalization. Armed with a vast array of creative concepts, software tools, internal social networking sites, defect reports and screenshots, financial data, and presentations, Michael is on a mission to evangelize proper internationalization and localization at Intel. Olivier Libouban Globalization Lead at Lingoport Olivier Libouban has worked in the software industry for nearly three decades as a software engineer and project manager for start-ups as well as large corporations. A native of France, Olivier has wide ranging experience in the United States, France, Switzerland and Norway with work in research and development departments as well as client projects of all sizes and complexity. Olivier has a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in France and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Olivier is a sought after internationalization presenter and teacher… and also has a great sense of humor! Mike McKenna Senior International Engineering Manager at Zynga Michael is a specialist in globalization of applications and distributed systems with over two decades of internationalization experience. He is a licensed professional engineer with extensive experience consulting or leading globalization projects for a number Fortune 500 companies and has a background in global e-commerce, application design, database internals, distributed bibliographic systems, test engineering, global product management, and ethnographic research. He is currently in an engineering leadership position with the International Production team at Zynga Inc. Michael Meinhardt President & CEO, Cloudwords With more than twelve years experience in the translation and localization industry, Michael Meinhardt, CEO and Co-founder of Cloudwords, helps companies go global by streamlining their translation strategy. Prior to Cloudwords, Meinhardt worked with organizations across various industries to localize their product, marketing, and training materials for the first time. He has also advised enterprise customers regarding their global translation strategy, including Cisco Systems, Hitachi Data Systems, Apple and Symantec. Nelson NG Director of Globalization Technology at PayPal With 29 years of experience in developing globalized systems, including building the first internationalized versions of Solaris & Hotmail and migrating eBay Marketplace to UTF-8 Nelson Ng has helped a number of companies define and execute strategies for global expansion. Russ Taga VP of Engineering at HotelTonight Russell Taga is VP Engineering at HotelTonight, a travel start-up up with a mobile-only focus that helps people to find last minute hotel rooms they’ll love at a great price. Russ has worked for a mix of start-ups and big companies over the past 14 years including Spartan Software, Howcast Media, Adobe, Cisco, Idiom, and Accenture. 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Lingoport (http://www.lingoport.com), the leader in software internationalization (i18n) consulting services, announced today a new service granting i18n reporting, scoping, verification and precise detection functionality for extensive programming languages and various code-base sizes.

Global Investigator uses Lingoport’s Globalyzer software to provide transparent full-scale internationalization reporting, breaking down elements into itemized lists for companies seeking to ensure their software is primed before localization.

“With Global Investigator, organizations are able to clarify internationalization issues before they embark on a project, more effectively scale projects and save on unnecessary testing iterations,” says Lingoport CEO Adam Asnes. He continues, “So often our customers have asked how they can utilize Globalyzer’s reporting capability before they open up their development team to new software, and now they have that capability.”

Scaled to fit any project size, Global Investigator includes scans for a wide variety of programming languages and database scripts. Summary and detailed reporting is viewable in a central dashboard and itemized reports. Consultations are also available and include static scan refinement, architectural discussions and implementation support. More information is available here.

About Lingoport 
Lingoport is a trusted resource to the world’s leading companies in modifying software and web applications to perform gracefully in any language or locale. Lingoport’s product suite helps companies in developing software for the world by checking, measuring and fixing source code for internationalization (i18n) defects, then automating the flow of localization to keep up with ongoing development. Our extensive outsourced internationalization service offerings help companies meet challenging global release deadlines while augmenting development teams. For more information, please visit http://www.lingoport.com or contact Lingoport at sales@lingoport.com.