- 10/17/2007: CrossGap to unveil new FastBiz business optimization tool at Tekom 2007
- 10/06/2007: LCJ wins 2007 Microsoft Vendor Program Excellence Award for Service
- 01/15/2007: A record year of success for CrossGap
- 11/30/2006: LCJ completes Localization of 2007 Microsoft Office into French, German and Italian
- 11/30/2006: LCJ essential player in Microsoft Windows Vista Localization
- 07/03/2006: CrossGap Signs Master Agreement with SAP
- 07/03/2006: LCJ renews contract as Premier Localization Vendor for Microsoft
- 02/02/2006: All-new, multi-lingual web site reflects ongoing success at CrossGap
- 09/10/2005: CrossGap moves to larger HQ to facilitate strategic growth
- 07/25/2005: Locatech, CrossGap, Jonckers EEIG #12 in ranking list of all LSPs
- 06/01/2005: CrossGap hires new International Sales Manager
CrossGap to unveil new FastBiz business optimization tool at Tekom 2007
Tekom 2007 visitors seeking the most innovative solutions in the
area of technical documentation management and localization will find
that the CrossGap stand holds additional interest this year as the
company is using the opportunity to unveil FastBiz, its new business
optimization tool.
Michaela Schmelzer, CEO at CrossGap, says,
“Capitalizing on our success in the localization market, we have
combined our technical expertise and business experience gained working
with global customers to create FastBiz. It complements the
localisation process to deliver ongoing productivity gains by unlocking
the value of the myriad business data you accrue daily, distilling it
and providing real-time access to the essential management information
it holds.
“FastBiz is an exciting addition to our portfolio and
reinforces our reputation as a leading provider of localization
solutions for the international enterprise.”
As visitors to Hall
10 Booth 133 will see, FastBiz combines CrossGap’s acknowledged process
expertise, technical finesse and eye for excellence. By providing
real-time control of costs and operating margins it increases
productivity and operational efficiency, improves product quality and
reduces time to market.
Tekom 2007 is taking place from November 7th to 9th in the Rhein-Main Hallen in Wiesbaden, Germany.
CrossGap will be pleased to meet you at Booth 133 in Hall 10.
LCJ wins 2007 Microsoft Vendor Program Excellence Award for Service
LCJ’s ongoing reputation as a localization partner of excellence
received further affirmation recently when, with its partners CrossGap
s.r.l., Locatech GmbH, Jonckers Translation and
Engineering sa (Belgium), and Logoscript S.L., won the prestigious 2007
Microsoft Vendor Program Excellence award for Service. CrossGap is a
founding member of LCJ, a European Economic Interest Group formed in
1999 to provide worldwide localization services to global businesses.
Despite
fierce competition from 15,000 vendors, a panel of Microsoft executives
selected LCJ and its partners for providing outstanding services and
results, following nomination by Microsoft employees using criteria
such as value, quality, flexibility, innovation, security and privacy.
Acknowledged contributor to Microsoft’s success
Acknowledging the importance of the contribution made by the winners
to Microsoft’s global success, Tim McBride, general manager and chief
procurement officer at Microsoft said, “The exceptional service they
deliver is invaluable to our company and our customers.”
Of
course, this comes as no surprise to existing international customers
of LCJ and CrossGap, who are already benefiting from the companies’
determination to deliver the very best globalization solutions.
Proven commitment to effort, quality and customer satisfaction
Highlighting
the commitment of her staff to meeting their customers’ needs, Michaela
Schmelzer, CEO of CrossGap, Bologna, Italy, is particularly proud of
the efforts they made to deliver the localized language versions of the
2007 Microsoft Office system and the Windows Vista® operating system
within the LCJ set up.
Reflecting Microsoft’s own comments, she
says, “Despite an unplanned increase in scope that drove our
translation capacity requirements to a peak, we delivered content on
time and met Microsoft’s high quality standards. Flexible scheduling
and resource management were critical to our success, along with our
longstanding commitment to customer satisfaction.”
A record year of success for CrossGap
Global projects increase CrossGap’s annual turnover to nearly 6m USD
Bologna, Italy – 15.01.2007 – CrossGap, a provider of multilingual translation and localization turnkey solutions for local and global projects, today announced record successes in all its target market sectors during 2006. This achievement emphasizes CrossGap’s position as the foremost localization provider in Italy and as a leading player in the international market.
John Siepers, International Sales Manager at CrossGap, stated, "Achieving a number of key milestones has significantly increased our turnover in 2006. These included the localization of Microsoft Office 2007 for the Italian market, involving 80 staff for a year and six million words for software and documentation as well as the localization of Microsoft Vista into 11 languages, involving 54 staff over ten months, together with several global localization projects covering software, documentation and e-Learning materials for market leading CRM, ERP and BI clients."
"This record year reflects the outstanding expertise of our established, loyal staff, our investment in world-class technical resources, including our proprietary workflow tools and in general our efforts to strive for consistent excellence" said Michaela Schmelzer, Managing Director at CrossGap. "It is also a result of the trust our customers have in our ability, proven over nearly 15 years, to help them achieve global recognition for their products by adopting their business objectives as our own and striving to attain them through open partnership."
About CrossGap
CrossGap provides essential support to
companies attempting to establish worldwide markets by adapting their
products for different cultures and domestic markets. Serving the ICT,
marcom, automation, publishing and non-profit sectors, CrossGap’s
impressive client list includes Microsoft, Oracle, including their
PeopleSoft and JDEdwards product lines, SAP, 3Com, Business Objects,
Citigate Gunpowder, McCann Ericsson and Mondadori Informatica.
LCJ completes Localization of 2007 Microsoft Office into French, German and Italian
High volumes and tight deadlines mastered easily by LCJ’s proven methodologies and processes
Dortmund, Germany – 11/30/2006 –LCJ EEIG, one of only four Microsoft Premier Vendors performing product localization for Microsoft Corporation, today announced that it has completed the localization into French, German and Italian of the 2007 Microsoft Office system in readiness for its global release in early 2007. This achievement demonstrates LCJ’s success in conducting high-profile, large-scale international localization projects.
Matthias Caesar, Managing Director at LCJ, said, "We are delighted to have had this prestigious opportunity. The 2007 Microsoft Office system, the latest release of the well known desktop productivity software, and its localization is one of the most visible projects of its kind."
LCJ’s commitment to the project included 23 full time internal resources for 13 months, 10 additional internal resources available as required over the same period and up to 161 translators and subcontractors at any one time.
"The key challenge was completing the high volume of work within the required timeline," said Igor Kupecek, Global Office Project Manager at LCJ. "This demanded meticulous planning that choreographed targeted recruitment and training, to guarantee the availability of appropriately skilled staff, with effective project management, to ensure successful execution."
Kupecek summarized, "We succeeded because of the following factors: our early collaboration with Microsoft to prepare the project, the experience and expertise of our internal teams, and the seamless support of our flexible methodologies and processes that are specifically designed for large projects. All human and system resources worked together to deliver an efficient, streamlined project."
About LCJ
LCJ Group, Europe’s largest independent
localization solution provider, is a partnership between leading
vendors Locatech GmbH (Germany), CrossGap srl (Italy), Jonckers
Translation and Engineering sa (Belgium), and Logoscript S.L. (Spain).
Founded in 1999, LCJ employs more than 200 employees. Their combined
linguistic, project management and technical expertise has positioned
the company as one of the foremost localization service providers in
the world, capable of delivering turnkey localization solutions for
software products, websites, and e-commerce applications, whatever the
language, technical complexity and size of the project.
LCJ essential player in Microsoft Windows Vista Localization
LCJ delivers 650.000 words per month and language to realize early Vista release date
Dortmund, Germany – 07/03/2006 – LCJ, a provider of multilingual translation and turnkey localization solutions for local and global projects, today announced that it has played a significant role in preparing Microsoft Windows Vista for its worldwide release on January 30 2007. This achievement highlights LCJ’s leadership in international localization.
Marc Jonckers, Strategic Officer at LCJ, said, "LCJ EEIG was founded in 1999 and, in 2002, became one of only four Microsoft Premier Vendors worldwide performing product localization for the Microsoft Corporation. In this capacity, LCJ has made a considerable contribution to Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, by localizing it into 11 languages."
Matthias Caesar, General Manager at LCJ, stated, "In order to deliver the localization of Vista to Microsoft, we deployed a full-time team that included 27 project managers, project engineers and language specialists. This pool managed the work of 212 translators and subcontractors, who accessed product betas via LCJ’s secure extranet."
"A key challenge was meeting Microsoft’s ambitious schedules," said Caesar. "Using our proprietary workflow automation tools to manage processes and communications, including thousands of linguistic and technical queries, we delivered an output of 100,000 software words per language every eight working days for six months, rising to one million words per month during the summer period."
About LCJ
LCJ Group, Europe’s largest independent
localization solution provider, is a partnership between leading
vendors Locatech GmbH (Germany), CrossGap srl (Italy), Jonckers
Translation and Engineering sa (Belgium), and Logoscript S.L. (Spain).
Founded in 1999, LCJ employs more than 200 employees. Their combined
linguistic, project management and technical expertise has positioned
the company as one of the foremost localization service providers in
the world, capable of delivering turnkey localization solutions for
software products, websites, and e-commerce applications, whatever the
language, technical complexity and size of the project.
CrossGap Signs Master Agreement with SAP
CrossGap delivers embedded localization to establish long term partnership.
Bologna, Italy – July, 3, 2006 – CrossGap, a provider of multilingual translation and localization turnkey solutions for local and global projects, has signed a master agreement with SAP AG to supply Italian localization services. This comprehensive contract with SAP, a world leading independent provider in enterprise applications and business solutions, emphasizes CrossGap’s position as Italy’s foremost localization provider and as a leading player in the international localization market.
"The mutual objective of this agreement with SAP is to establish a long term business relationship with increasing volumes of collaboration," said Michaela Schmelzer, Managing Director at CrossGap. "For the time being the scope of our work includes the localization of software, online help and documentation, and we are looking forward to extending it to SAP marketing materials, business collateral and e-learning solutions in the future."
"SAP approached us in its search for an Italian localization service provider because of our reputation for professional service and our experience of multilingual CRM and ERP localization projects," confirmed Filippo Tasselli, Operations Manager at CrossGap.
CrossGap’s initial effort has been the localization of a SAP flagship ERP application suite. “To meet SAP’s requirement for a stable supply chain, our staff was integrated directly into the SAP production process," explained Tasselli, "Our key goal is to contribute proactively to SAP’s efforts to maximize localization efficiency, throughput and output, by researching innovative solutions together with the Customer in an open partnership."
The early establishment of mutual trust, combined with the benefits of CrossGap’s proven project management, linguistic and technical expertise, has ensured strong foundations for the long term development of this strategic agreement.
About CrossGap
CrossGap provides essential support to
companies attempting to establish worldwide markets by adapting their
products for different cultures and domestic markets. Serving the ICT,
marcom, automation, publishing and non-profit sectors, CrossGap’s
impressive client list includes Microsoft, Oracle (including Peoplesoft
and JD Edwards suites), SAP, 3Com, Business Objects, Citigate
Gunpowder, McCann Ericsson and Mondadori Informatica.
LCJ renews contract as Premier Localization Vendor for Microsoft
With new global offices in Asia, LCJ is in a stronger position to localize key Microsoft products.
Dortmund, Germany, July 3, 2006 – LCJ EEIG, Europe’s leading localization vendor, has signed an Amendment to its Microsoft Premier Localization Vendor contract. This demonstration of continued confidence from Microsoft follows LCJ’s successful performance on numerous large-scale localization projects and recent expansion in Asia. Microsoft’s Vendor Program seeks to maximize localization efficiency by working with select high-performance vendors who deliver dependable, localization excellence using innovative, technological solutions scaled to their clients’ needs.
LCJ services all Microsoft’s core business divisions, localizing products in every product family including Windows, Office, Servers, Developer Tools, Business Solutions and Xbox.
"We are proud of our continuing relationship with Microsoft as a Premier Vendor," said Matthias Caesar, Managing Director of LCJ, "and we welcome this opportunity to expand our very good and long-established relationship. We will continue to provide Microsoft with the outstanding professional services that underpin the success of the work we do for all our customers."
"This contract represents an important milestone in the strategic development of LCJ EEIG," said Marc Jonckers, Strategic Development Officer for LCJ. "LCJ embodies a unique approach to localization, in which outstanding, costumer-focused performance is the key element. Microsoft clearly values LCJ’s ability to deliver consistently excellent performance, despite the economic challenges of uncertain markets."
About LCJ
LCJ Group, Europe’s largest independent
localization solution provider, is a partnership between leading
vendors Locatech GmbH (Germany), CrossGap srl (Italy), Jonckers
Translation and Engineering sa (Belgium), and Logoscript S.L. (Spain).
Founded in 1999, LCJ employs more than 200 employees. Their combined
linguistic, project management and technical expertise has positioned
the company as one of the foremost localization service providers in
the world, capable of delivering turnkey localization solutions for
software products, websites, and e-commerce applications, whatever the
language, technical complexity and size of the project.
All-new, multi-lingual web site reflects ongoing success at CrossGap
Customers considering CrossGap for their localization needs have every reason to feel confident. In 2005, the company successfully pursued a number of initiatives to enhance the customer focus of its services:
- Expanded sales team with a strengthened global perspective to respond more quickly to customers' needs
- Increased expertise through targeted technical recruitment to provide more innovative solutions to customers' requirements
- New premises to accommodate continuously growing staff and maximize operational efficiency accelerating delivery of customers' solution
CrossGap's ongoing professional evolution emphasizes the company's customer focus and its determination to provide the very best global solutions to an international audience.
All-new web site goes live
To reflect this success and increase the company's visibility even more, CrossGap has completely redeveloped its web site. The new www.crossgap.com offers:
- Revised content - clarity, depth and accuracy of information to help prospects and customers appraise the company's service offering at one glance and identify CrossGap as their ideal provider
- Redesigned ergonomics - straightforward, direct and clean graphical design, without intrusive embellishment, to facilitate easy use and rapid fulfilment
- Geographic versioning - additional language options, emphasizing CrossGap's capabilities as a multi-lingual localization provider, to optimize the company's offering and meet the needs of international visitors in their local language
Partnership excellence
As 2006 gets underway, CrossGap is strengthening its reputation as a localization partner of excellence contributing to the international success of its customers. They, in turn, continue to be reassured by the company's longevity, ongoing profitability, continuing organic growth, and long-term loyalty of its customers and staff.
CrossGap moves to larger HQ to facilitate strategic growth
At CrossGap, business growth is taking on a physical dimension. As a result of the company's ongoing expansion, which has seen significant strategic acquisition of internal expertise, CrossGap has outgrown its current offices and has begun plans to move to new premises.
The new facilities, which more than double the existing space, will ensure CrossGap has sufficient accommodation to maintain its commitment to recruiting and retaining the best staff in the industry. The move will further consolidate CrossGap's place as the foremost localization provider in Italy 's regional market and a leading player, ranked 12 as part of the LCJ group, in the international market.
Michaela Schmelzer, CEO at CrossGap, says, "Although I will miss the traditional elegance of the old location, our new modern offices will allow us to continue to expand the business by acquiring new staff and world class expertise. It will provide an environment that inspires us to meet our customers' evolving needs into the future."
CrossGap looks forward to welcoming customers to its new facilities, which will open in March 2006.
Locatech, CrossGap, Jonckers EEIG #12 in ranking list of all LSPs
Common Sense Advisory (CSA), an independent business globalization,
internationalization, localization and translation research and
consulting firm based in Boston, MA released its list of the top 20
language service providers (LSPs). The resulting guide is called the
Human-Delivered Services Company (HSDC) Index.
LCJ EEIG of which CrossGap is a founding member was ranked #12 in
this list.
To read all the details, please contact CSA at www.commonsenseadvisory.com
John Siepers joins CrossGap as International Sales Manager
Since its entry into the localization industry in early 1990s, CrossGap has maintained impressive organic growth driven by skills acquisition, specialization and customer dedication. The company recently underlined its continuing commitment to growth with the appointment of John Siepers as CrossGap International Sales Manager.
Siepers, a localization veteran of 15 years, is clear in his strategy to build on the company's current success, "Given the experience within the existing team, my intention is to build an industry leading sales capability that delivers proactive, real-time response to customers' needs by providing expert professional guidance."
Although CrossGap already has an impressive portfolio of blue chip, global corporate customers, Siepers is clear in his purpose to extend the company's share at this end of the market.
"I look forward to advocating CrossGap's industry leading capabilities," Siepers declares. "Our vast experience and expertise in localization and the technical issues of translation, coupled with our extensive linguistic and cultural knowledge of virtually all languages, make CrossGap the ideal partner for any organization ambitious to introduce its products to new global markets."
