Rubric and LingoPort Partner; Offer Best-of-breed Globalization Solutions

Partnership creates flexible globalization process enabling customers to reduce global software development risks, costs and time-to-market

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Rubric, a leading localization and translation services company, and LingoPort, a premier provider of internationalization solutions, have announced their partnership to offer integrated, best-of-breed globalization services and solutions to firms seeking to expand globally.

Rubric and LingoPort cooperate on various levels. By focusing on areas of expertise and integrating their internationalization and localization processes, they are able to offer a variety of customized solutions based on each customer's individual needs. These solutions include localization-readiness assessment, training, consulting, tools implementation, architectural planning, internationalization, internationalization testing, localization, localization QA and functional testing. The companies have collaborated in the successful globalization of various enterprise and eBusiness applications, such as in the supply chain management and Internet communications markets. Rubric and LingoPort also cooperate by advising each other's clients in internationalization and localization planning and strategy.

Rubric's preventative approach to localization reduces global software development risks while saving customers time and money. Rubric's Streamliner™ methodology and its StreamNET™ extranet & knowledge portal offer a seamless and efficient workflow resulting in reduced time-to-market and increased localization ROI for the customer. By integrating up-front tests as well as QA checks at every step of the localization process, customers' international marketing plans are supported through increased reliability, thus maximizing market opportunities.

LingoPort's internationalization experts and methodology enable companies to create software and web applications that quickly adapt to the needs of worldwide users. Services include internationalization assessment, architectural development, implementation and testing. LingoPort's software, Global Investigator, provides batch and collaborative environments for searching source code for internationalization errors including embedded strings, image references, locale-limiting programming methods/functions, and customizable programming patterns. Users gain "just in time" knowledge through detailed Global Investigator reports and linked remedy instructions.

About LingoPort, Inc.
LingoPort's internationalization engineering services and software products help globally focused businesses adapt their software technologies to dynamically support multiple languages, currencies and cultural formats. LingoPort clients gain speed to market, scalability, regionalized flexibility, and cost savings. Internationalization expertise includes a wide variety of programming languages, platforms and application domains. Using Global Investigator software, clients can build and maintain world-ready source code throughout their development organization. LingoPort can be reached at http://www.lingoport.com, info@lingoport.com or Tel. (+1) 303 444 8020.

About Rubric
Rubric assures a better localization experience. Specializing in globalization services for the high technology industry, Rubric brings flexibility, on-demand scalability, and integrity to guarantee localization success. Rubric's refined processes adapt to the high tech sector's need for proactive localization planning, anticipation of dynamically changing requirements, and agile response capabilities. For more information, visit www.rubric.com.