Elanex

Infobox_Company
company_name = Elanex, Inc.
company_type = Private company
foundation = San Francisco, California, USA (2002)
location = San Francisco, California, USA
key_people = Jonathan Kirk, CEO
industry = Localization Translation Interpreting Machine translation
homepage = http://www.elanex.com

Elanex, Inc. commonly known as Elanex, is a translation technology and services company based in San Francisco, California, USA that provides localization, translation, and interpreting services. Elanex primarily provides human translation, with only the aid of technology, but companies also request use of Elanex's machine translation technology. [ [http://www.elanex.com/EN/elanex_introduction.aspx About Elanex] ] The company, founded in 2002 by Jonathan Kirk, has operations in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California, USA; Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan [ [http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/success_stories/pdf/57_Elanex.pdf JETRO, "Success Stories: Ideas for Potential Players" Invest Japan (October 2006)] ] [ [http://www.jetro.org/content/200 JETRO, Case Studies (April 2005)] ] ; and Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. [ [http://www.elanex.com/EN/contact.aspx Elanex Locations] ]

In 2007, the company announced the creation of the Translation Search Engine (TSE), a new form of translation memory pre-populated with 30 million translated sentences. [ [http://www.elanex.com/EN/pr-translation-search-engine.aspx Translation Search Engine (TSE) Announcement] ] The TSE is the first translation memory tool that allows for free use through bartering, as noted by Jost Zetzsche in his biweekly Tool Kit and the article "Are we profitable?" [ [http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/article80.htm Zetzsche, Jost "Are We Not Profitable?" Tool Kit (November 20, 2007)] ] In 2008, Elanex paired the TSE with a managed services platform for translation crowdsourcing called ElanexCROWD. [ [http://globalwatchtower.com/2008/06/12/new-breed-translation-memory Depalma, Donald E. "Soon, More Choice in Translation Memory" Global Watchtower (June 12, 2008)] ]

A significant contribution to Elanex automation technology was made by Tom Dillon [ [http://globalwatchtower.com/?p=300 Depalma, Donald E. "Who’s Who? Recent Changes in Localization’s Yellow Pages" Global Watchtower (September 20, 2006)] ] , former COO of Netflix, who was largely responsible for Netflix's proprietary automation technologies. [ [http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,1875170,00.asp Stevens, Larry. "Netflix IT Has to Deliver High Efficiency, Support Fast Growth". CIO Insight (October 15, 2005)] ]

ee also

*Translation Search Engine

References

External links

* [http://www.elanex.com Elanex official site]
* [http://tse.elanex.com Translation Search Engine official site]