SDL, the leading provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions, has announced growing momentum behind the SDL Language Service Provider (LSP) Partner Program, with new partners joining at each level. As corporate clients confirm their interest in cooperation between their GIM technology and language service providers, LSPs are responding to the opportunity to enhance their value to clients with growing interest in partnerships worldwide.

Innovation Delivered.

In parallel with this month’s kickoff of partner joint marketing initiatives, SDL and partners are already finding opportunities to combine complementary capacities to better serve the needs of corporate buyers. This maximizes the value delivered to the client, and helps win incremental business for LSP partners.

"We're very happy to be an LSP Partner with SDL,” said Steve Desmeules, CEO of ACCU Translations, an SDL Advantage Plus Partner. “Partnering with the global leader in GIM technology helps us differentiate ourselves from our direct competitors by having access to the newest technology first, continually having a trained workforce guaranteeing the consistency of the use of the technology. Another advantage is the ability to plug in seamlessly and easily accept projects from over 500 enterprise clients that are using GIM technology, an additional source of revenue for us."

“For us, the LSP partner program is the systematic development of our long-standing partnership with SDL Trados,” added Dipl. Ing. Andreas Siegmund, Managing Director, Document Service Center GmbH, another Advantage Plus Partner. “Just by deploying SDL Trados Server technologies, we have been able to raise our services to a whole new level. With the LSP partner program and the extensive technological cooperation that comes with it, we now see additional opportunities for expanding our areas of competence, thus further optimizing our range of services. Moreover, we expect the LSP partner program to intensify the existing personal contacts between the employees of our companies.”

"Having defined technological innovation as one of our business’ four core values, Precision Translators is pleased for the opportunity to become an SDL Associate Partner,” said W. Andrew Martin, CEO of Precision Translators Ltda. “We feel that partnering with the world's leading GIM technology solutions provider is a logical step in our company’s evolution, and we have high expectations for what lies ahead. The additional comfort of being able to choose from over 170,000 industry professionals also using SDL Trados software is immense – it reduces project delivery times by cutting out layers of the translator qualification process.”

“The main reason we use SDL Trados is that it has become the standard in translation memory software,” said Birger Knudskov of Copenhagen-based Fokus Translations. “It’s the best and most efficient way we know to ensure terminology consistency in the services we provide to our clients. We’re excited about the partner program’s potential to help us promote our technology expertise.”

“With our enterprise solutions running at over 500 corporations, and our language technology powering over 80% of the translation supply chain, SDL is in a unique position to help LSPs develop their expertise in Global Information Management technology,” said Keith Laska, Vice President, SDL TRADOS Technologies. “By working with partners to promote best practice technology usage, the program helps LSPs maximize their value to clients, and helps corporations receive the highest possible levels of service quality and efficiency.”

Since SDL launched the LSP Partner Program in July 2008, membership worldwide and corporate interest has grown rapidly. To find out more about how the LSP Partner Program can add value to you or to register your interest, please visit www.lspzone.com/partners.