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Idiom and acrolinx Team up to Close the Terminology Lifecycle Management Gap

WALTHAM, Mass. and Berlin, Germany – October 16, 2007 – Idiom® Technologies, Inc. (Idiom), the leading independent supplier of SaaS and on-premise server-based globalization management systems (GMS), and acrolinx GmbH, the leading producer of quality assurance tools for technical information, today announced the signing of an OEM partnership. This collaboration unites two powerful forces in information development and localization tools, providing customers with integrated terminology lifecycle management – from authoring through localization.

Under the new agreement, Idiom will OEM acrolinx technology as part of WorldServer to give customers terminology lifecycle management in a single end-to-end solution for term validation, maintenance and usage processes. The initial Idiom WorldServer and Acrolinx acrocheck™ product integration will continue to provide accurate and consistent content reuse, reduce translation time and costs, improve quality and minimize the liabilities of poor translations.

“This partnership is the result of customer-driven requests for end-to-end terminology lifecycle management”, said Mike Iacobucci, president and CEO of Idiom Technologies. “This is just the beginning of a long-lasting relationship that brings the information and localization communities together to offer an outstanding solution to customers. Through one vendor, our mutual customers can now save time and costs by accessing clean, consistent and accurate source content, achieving the linguistic quality assurance we believe is paramount to any globalization management system.”

Andrew Bredenkamp, acrolinx CEO agrees: “We know, and our customers confirm, that managing terminology quality and consistency at the source can result in substantial improvements in translation processes, with impressive reductions in cost and time-to-market.”

About acrolinx
acrolinx is the leading producer of information quality management tools, helping their customers worldwide maintain their corporate image, address compliance issues, and control document production and localization costs. Its flagship product, acrocheck™, is used by thousands of users worldwide to ensure that their information is correct (grammar and spelling), consistent (style and terminology), concise, and translation-ready. The acrocheck Information Quality Tool Suite has been successfully deployed by leading global companies in a variety of industries including software, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, finance, and life sciences. acrolinx maintains its headquarters in Berlin, Germany and offices in North America.

About Idiom Technologies, Inc.
Idiom® Technologies is the leading independent supplier of SaaS and on-premise software solutions that enable our customers and partners to accelerate the translation and localization process so that content rapidly reaches markets worldwide. Unlike other companies serving this market, Idiom offers freedom of choice by embracing relevant industry standards, supporting popular content lifecycle solutions and partnering with the industry’s leading language service providers.

As a result, WorldServer™ GMS solutions are fast becoming an industry standard, allowing customers to expand their international market reach while reducing costs and improving quality. WorldServer is used every day by organizations possessing many of the most recognizable global brands to more efficiently create and manage multilingual websites (e.g., AOL, eBay and Continental), localize software applications (e.g., Adobe, Beckman Coulter and Motorola) and streamline translation and localization of corporate and product documentation (e.g., Autodesk, Cisco and Business Objects).

Idiom is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with offices throughout North America and in Europe. WorldServer solutions are also available through the company’s Global Partner Network™. For more information, please visit www.idiominc.com.

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