Lionbridge Introduces GeoFluent for Enterprise Service Management

SOURCE: Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.

WALTHAM, Mass., June 26, 2017 — Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., today announced the availability of GeoFluent for Enterprise Service Management, an omni-channel translation and interpretation solution that enables organizations to provide multilingual helpdesk and service support without hiring or maintaining bilingual staff. By eliminating language barriers across communications channels, from chat and ticketing to voice and knowledge base, GeoFluent for Enterprise Service Management improves productivity and efficiency, while increasing speed of response and resolution.

“Service desk agents have historically had limited options to deliver multilingual support. Customized real-time translation technology is an increasingly important piece of IT service management solutions, providing a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to hiring bilingual staff. Additionally, real-time translation technology allows IT service desk functions to scale to the needs of an increasingly mobile and global workforce.”

-Robert Young, Research Director, IT Service Management and Client Virtualization Software
IDC

As part of today’s announcement, Lionbridge also introduced GeoFluent for ServiceNow®, a certified integration between its customizable real-time translation solution and ServiceNow Connect and Incident Management. Available in the ServiceNow Store, the pre-built connection enables service management staff to chat and support tickets across more than 100 languages using their existing ServiceNow platform.

The GeoFluent platform includes three modules that serve each area of service desks’ multilingual service desk and service management needs:

– GeoFluent Virtual Translator™ adds support for over 100 languages to customers’ existing self-service and agent-assisted digital communications platforms, including chat, email and ticketing. GeoFluent Virtual Translator includes an AI-based core that is customized and trained specifically for each client, and ensures multilingual consistency and accuracy across languages, channels and use cases, while understanding the context and unique brand, channel, use case acronyms and terminology.

– GeoFluent Interpreter™ provides over-the-phone (OPI) interpretation support for more than 350 languages, available 24x7x365. Given the prevalence of voice communications in enterprise service desks, Lionbridge is changing the traditional OPI experience to make voice interactions faster, more efficient, use less client staff time, all while reducing effort.

– GeoFluent Translate™ provides clients a self-service and secure way to quickly translate virtually any file or document type.

GeoFluent for Enterprise Service Management is the newest solution in the GeoFluent platform. In 2016, Lionbridge introduced GeoFluent for Contact Centers solution, a suite of applications and services tailored to meet the real-time, multilingual communications needs of customer care organizations. With today’s announcement, Lionbridge is bringing the GeoFluent platform to enterprise service management, helping enterprise helpdesks and service desks solve their unique real-time multilingual communications challenges.

“Between mergers and acquisitions and expansion into global markets, businesses and institutions are finding more and more need of multilingual services. Bringing service and support to customers in their own language is a large leap in creating a better customer experience, whether the customers are internal (employees) or external. There has never been a time when getting resolutions to customers quickly was more important, and providing fast, accurate translation into the customer’s language is a great step in the right direction. This is an outstanding use of AI to bring better experiences to customers.”

-Roy Atkinson, Senior Writer/Analyst
HDI

HDI and Lionbridge conducted a comprehensive study of how service desks support languages. They recently shared the findings and best practices recommendations in a webinar that can be viewed here.

“It’s a significant challenge for service desks to communicate effectively across languages, channels, geographies and time zones. GeoFluent for Enterprise Service Management eliminates that complexity by leveraging unified interpretation and custom-trained AI-based translation to existing communications platforms and channels. This platform and channel-agnostic approach allows service desks to cost-effectively eliminate language barriers, wherever they exist.”

-Tom Tseki, Vice President & General Management, Customer Care Solutions
Lionbridge

About GeoFluent

GeoFluent is an omni-channel multilingual platform that helps contact centers, service desks, and enterprises eliminate language barriers with their customers, prospects, partners, distributors, and employees. Across channels and languages, GeoFluent enables more effective communications and increases CX without having to hire or maintain bilingual staff or use multiple language services providers. Visit www.geofluent.com for more information.

About Lionbridge

Lionbridge enables more than 800 world-leading brands to increase international market share, speed adoption of products and effectively engage their customers in local markets worldwide. Using our innovative cloud technology platforms and our global crowd of more than 100,000 professional cloud workers, we provide detail-critical business processes, including translation, online marketing, global content management and application testing solutions that ensure global brand consistency, local relevancy and technical usability across all touch points of the customer lifecycle. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 27 countries. To learn more, visit www.lionbridge.com.