Lingotek and Jive Deepen Social Business Relationship Through Strategic Partnership

DRAPER, UT--(Marketwire - Oct 5, 2011) - Lingotek | The Translation Network and leader in collaborative translation solutions, has announced two exciting new developments in its ongoing relationship with social business leader, Jive Software. Lingotek has been selected as a Jive Strategic Technology Partner, joining an ecosystem of market-leading technology vendors that provide important enterprise solutions through the Jive platform. Lingotek will also take a prominent role at JiveWorld11, Jive's premier social business event for its customers held in Las Vegas, NV on October 4-6, 2011.

As a Strategic Technology Partner, Lingotek is recognized as a market-leading technology vendor helping Jive achieve its mission to bring social business to the enterprise. Lingotek is now engaged with Jive in three areas: as a Jive Apps Market partner, a Strategic Technology Partner, and Jive's translation services partner of record.

Through Lingotek's Collaborative Translation Platform app, Jive customers have real-time access to Lingotek's professional translators or they can also utilize crowdsourced or machine translations. Through Jive's platform, Jive users can translate and localize content quickly and accurately. Enterprises can additionally combine Lingotek's collaborative features with Jive's social offerings to build localization and translation capabilities directly into their communities.

"Lingotek's innovative capabilities and performance help Jive and our customers grow into new markets quickly and cost-effectively by offering translation through technology and community involvement," said Ari Newman, VP of Strategic Partnerships. "We used Lingotek to translate content into seven languages for our latest Jive release. As Jive continues to expand into global markets, Lingotek is a valuable partner to aid us in transforming the way we work."

"Companies today are looking for ways to engage their global communities with social business," said Rob Vandenberg, CEO of Lingotek. "By using the Lingotek Collaborative Translation Platform, Jive's enterprise business customers can rapidly expand their international presence while saving precious time and resources. They can do this by leveraging their own communities for easy, fast and high-quality translations, and they never have to leave Jive to do it."

Calvin Scharffs, Vice President of Marketing and Product Development at Lingotek, will present at JiveWorld11 to users about next-generation employee language and communication methodologies in a breakout session: "Jive Apps, the New Way to Communicate." Lingotek will also be providing product demonstrations throughout the event at Booth 12A. For logos, executive pictures, screenshots, presentations, demos, and other media, please visit Lingotek's media kit.

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ABOUT LINGOTEK
Lingotek | The Translation Network gives enterprise business customers new ways to engage their global communities by providing trusted, rapid translations to expand and grow business in a cost effective way. Its exclusive web-based Collaborative Translation Platform™ represents the next step in the evolution of translation through technology and community involvement. Today, global organizations, intelligence agencies and government entities use the platform, saving time and resources on projects ranging from a few pages to several volumes. Lingotek also offers professional translation services for companies. The company is based in Draper, Utah and is funded by Signal Peak Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Flywheel Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.lingotek.com.