Alis Technologies and its Partners Team Up to Showcase Global Communication Solutions.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 1999-- Spring Internet World '99, Booth No. 1232 - Alis Technologies, a world leader in language technologies and services, together with leading-edge solutions providers, are offering globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation solutions to help corporations meet the growing challenges of today's multilingual business world. Alis Technologies and its partners will showcase their solutions in a comprehensive language and technology pavilion at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. from April 14 until April 16. The partners will demonstrate various localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation and translation technologies for e-commerce, intranet and web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. , document management, e-mail communications, knowledge management and Notes/Domino applications. Exhibitors in the Alis Language Pavilion include: Alis Technologies, Lotus, Global Sight, Sharing Technologies, Transaction Information Systems, Transparent Language, Sobrio and Zeynia. "This is truly a unique gathering Alis has put together. No organization today can operate in isolation from the effects of our global economy and together we can help any organization meet their new global challenges." said Pierre Rinfret, Alis Technologies' Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Services. "With our partners, we bring a wealth of expertise that ranges from globalization of multimedia applications to the mastering of multilingual collaborative work in corporate environments." Expert speakers will enrich the activities at the Alis Language Pavilion. Richard Ishida, the renowned globalization expert from Xerox, will make a series of presentations on the linguistic and cultural issues involved in designing international applications. Experts from Alis Technologies will discuss internationalization and the deployment of multilingual content using automated comprehension tools. About Alis Technologies Inc. Incorporated in 1981, Alis Technologies enables effective global communication through language technologies and services, including automated translation. Alis' solutions, focused on intranet, Internet and corporate environments, are built upon Alis' advanced technology base and incorporate product offerings from multiple partners. Alis Technologies has a unique co-marketing agreement with Lotus Development Corp. (a subsidiary of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp.) to offer Lotus Domino users instant access to translation capabilities within their applications. Alis Technologies plays a leading role on international committees such as W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). , the Internet Society (Internet Society, Reston, VA, www.isoc.org) An international membership organization dedicated to extending and enhancing the Internet, founded in 1992. It supports Internet bodies such as the IETF and works with governments, organizations and the general public to promote Internet and the Unicode Consortium, which steer the development of Internet and language standards. Alis Technologies' head office is located at 100 Alexis Nihon Blvd., Suite 600, Montreal, Quebec, H4M 2P2; phone: (514) 747-2547; fax (514) 747-2561; Web site at http://www.alis.com; e-mail to klevesque@alis.com. |
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