SDL to add PASSOLO visual software localization solution to its suite of GIM products to enable companies to streamline global product lifecycle management

Maidenhead, UK – 19th June, 2007

SDL, the leading provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions, today announced the acquisition of PASS Engineering, the developers of the highly acclaimed visual software localization tool PASSOLO.

Introducing products to global markets is one of the key challenges being faced by organizations. This acquisition further enables global businesses to reduce the time, effort and cost of creating multilingual content for the global markets.

The SDL acquisition of PASSOLO will further strengthen the company's leadership position in Global Information Management by adding a world class visual localization tool to the existing SDL solutions portfolio. By leveraging existing Translation Memories and corporate Terminology, SDL PASSOLO will drive significant improvements in efficiencies and consistency into software, online help and user documentation localization processes. PASSOLO is the industry leader in support for localization of Microsoft.NET applications, which is increasingly becoming the worldwide de-facto web software development platform, used by many companies to deliver customer facing web-based applications.

"Localization of software has its own unique challenges," says Keith Mills, President of SDL Technology. "By integrating PASSOLO into the SDL TMS and the SDL Trados desktop solutions, our customers will improve their localization efficiency by leveraging translation memory, terminology management and software and documentation visual editing. ?/font>Many of our customers have had difficulty with software localization in the past and have had to buy different tools and run a dual stream documentation and software localization process. Corporations will now have one system which shares and leverages software and documentation content. Additionally, Language Service Providers (LSPs) will now benefit from being able to accept virtually any client project, ensuring high-quality and consistency of deliverables."

"We are delighted with today's announcement," says Florian Sachse, founder and co-Managing Director of PASS Engineering. "The combination of PASSOLO visual software localization and SDL technology will offer companies a unique capability that enables greater efficiencies in software and documentation localization, and allow customers to drive terminology consistency across the translation supply chain. We can now add the software component to the recently-launched SDL translation package system, which exchanges content throughout the translation supply chain; software localization is the final piece in this jigsaw."

About SDL
SDL (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') is the leader in Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed localization supply chain.

Global industry leaders rely on SDL to provide enterprise software or hosted services for their GIM processes, including Audi, Bayer, Best Western, Bosch, Canon, Deutsche Bank, Kodak, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Reuters and SAP. SDL has implemented more than 400 enterprise GIM solutions, has deployed over 150,000 software licenses across the GIM ecosystem and provides access to on-demand translation portals for 10 million customers per month. Over 1,000 service professionals deliver consulting, implementation and language services through its global infrastructure of more than 50 offices in 30 countries. For more information, visit www.sdl.com.

About PASS Engineering
The company with headquarters in Bonn, Germany, was founded in 1990 by Achim Herrmann and Florian Sachse. Initially PASS Engineering developed software solutions for medical systems; since the customers in this sector operate on a global scale, procedures were developed to enable professional software localization: PASSOLO was born. The newest version, PASSOLO 6.0, was released in May 2006 and was voted the most popular software localization tool in an international online survey.

PASSOLO can process a wide range of software file formats, including executable program files as well as resource files and XML. And since PASSOLO does not impact the program source code, localization can begin during the programming process. Thanks to the integrated translation memory technology, PASSOLO can make use of previous translations even if they were created using other software products. PASSOLO is compatible with all available Microsoft .NET development frameworks and is multi-user capable.

For further information please visit www.passolo.com.


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