Oct. 15, 2009 (PR Newswire) --

WALTHAM, Mass. and Auckland, New Zealand, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) and Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) today announced a strategic alliance to create a unified global content lifecycle solution. With the agreement, the two companies will integrate the Author-it enterprise authoring platform with Lionbridge's market-leading language technology platform. This integrated solution will allow organizations to create, structure, reuse, localize and publish content into multiple languages and multiple formats from virtually any enterprise source within a single application.

Author-it Software Corporation is a world leader in enterprise authoring, component content management and multi-channel publishing software with over 3,500 clients in 50 countries. Lionbridge, as the market leader in translation, offers a comprehensive language productivity platform including Logoport(TM), the industry's only Web-architected translation memory technology and Freeway(TM), an advanced translation portal. This advanced, live-asset language platform streamlines and automates tasks within the translation process by enabling the simultaneous use of multiple translation memories on a single project and facilitating real-time collaboration among all project participants.

By integrating the Author-it environment with Lionbridge's language platform, organizations can reduce costs, eliminate unnecessary file transactions and maximize reuse across the entire content creation ecosystem.

"This partnership brings together the most advanced technology from enterprise authoring, component content management, multi-channel publishing, and translation software to provide a single, end-to-end global authoring solution," said Paul Trotter, CEO of Author-it Software Corporation. "Our clients are looking for a single global content solution that enables them to develop and leverage source language content in a cost effective manner. By integrating Lionbridge's live-asset language solutions into our application, the translation processes can be directly linked with content creation to form a seamless workflow. This powerful combination drastically extends reuse and consistency throughout the entire global content lifecycle."

"Author-it is a leader in the rapidly-growing, competitive enterprise content management market and is breaking new ground in the integration of authoring, management and publishing," added Rory Cowan, CEO of Lionbridge.