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Ektron Recognized With 2006 ClientSide Excellence Award for Its Multilingual Web Content Management Capabilities; Ektron Customer Printronix Also Honored With Two Localization Professional Awards.


AMHERST, N.H. -- Ektron, Inc., a technology and market leader in web content management software, today announced it won the 2006 ClientSide Excellence Award for Content Management Tools from ClientSide News, a 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
, 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
, 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.  and translation (GILT gilt

A bond issued through the United Kingdom Treasury and guaranteed by the British government. The market for gilt-edged securities is similar to the market for U.S. Treasury securities, with a high degree of safety, liquidity, and maturity selection.
) industry publication, at its annual CSN CSN Crosby, Stills, and Nash (band)
CSN Centrala studiestödsnämnden (Swedish: state education grant and loan program)
CSN Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (French) 
 Expo.

The ClientSide Excellence Awards acknowledge exceptional localization professionals, service providers, technology products and other industry organizations that bring innovative solutions to GILT industry clients. Ektron CMS (1) See content management system and color management system.

(2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system.
400.NET, an all-in-one platform for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites, offers support for organizations' globalization strategies by enabling them to manage all aspects of their multilingual sites, including content creation, translation and publishing, site presentation, search functionality and navigation elements, unique to each language presented on a site.

"Given the reach and accessibility provided by the Web, many companies are finding some of their greatest business opportunities are in going global," said Bill Rogers, founder and chief executive officer, Ektron. "Ektron's CMS400.NET provides a complete platform for managing multilingual web content and sites, including native support for the XLIFF XLIFF XML Localization Interchange File Format  file format - an increasingly important localization standard - and integration with popular software tools, to make life easier for end clients and their GILT service providers. By delivering content in site visitors' preferred languages, companies can expand their potential market."

Ektron customer Printronix, the leading manufacturer of integrated enterprise printing solutions for the supply chain, also received two localization professional awards for work on its website (http://www.printronix.com). Karen Jensen, director of eBusiness for Printronix, was honored with the Localization Professional of the Year and Department Manager awards for her work in developing and managing the company's multilingual websites. Printronix uses Ektron's web content management system for its public site, which is available in eight different languages.

"With websites open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to anyone with a connection, the Web provides the perfect platform for organizations to expand their businesses and develop stronger, more interactive relationships with customers and partners around the world," said Shaun Daggett, publisher, ClientSide News. "Ektron does a great job providing the multilingual web content management capabilities to make it all happen, and Karen Jensen's work with Printronix.com is a terrific example of how effective a multilingual approach can be."

About ClientSide News

ClientSide News is a client-focused organization that leverages intelligence to drive globalization, internationalization and localization "Internationalization" redirects here. This term may also refer to the establishment of an independent free city.

In computing, Internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures.
 industry solutions. As a champion for client issues, ClientSide News creates a common forum for sharing solutions and unifying goals through its events, publications, education, reports, mentoring and technology divisions. For more information, visit http://www.clientsidenews.com.

About Ektron

Ektron's web content management and authoring solutions are affordable for any organization and simple enough for anyone to use, yet offer webmasters, designers and developers all the tools they need to create, deploy and manage interactive web, intranet and extranet sites in one platform. With Ektron CMS400.NET, companies can do what they want on the Web, including developing rich sites for personal, two-way communication Two-way communication is a form of transmission in which both parties involved transmit information. Common forms of two-way communication are:
  • In-person communication
  • Telephone conversations
  • Amateur, CB or FRS radio contacts
  • Computer networks . See back-channel.
 with visitors, building community through memberships, blogs and forums, and attracting more repeat visits using RSS feeds Summaries of Web site content that are published in the RSS format for download. See RSS.  and web alerts to increase business opportunities. An open API Open API (often referred to as OpenAPI) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other by using SOAP, Javascript any other web technology.  allows for easy customization and extension. Ektron is headquartered in Amherst, N.H., and has more than 15,000 customer implementations worldwide, including Unilever, Intel and Pfizer. For more information, visit http://www.ektron.com.

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