SDL Launches Solution to Enable Real-time Chat Translation for LivePerson
New integration brings trusted automated translation to live chat to support global customer interactions throughout the sales cycle
Maidenhead - U.K.
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United Kingdom
22 February 2012
SDL (LSE: SDL), the leading provider of Global Information Management solutions, is pleased to announce the availability of SDL GlobalConnect™ for LivePerson Chat. This new integration brings together SDL BeGlobal™, the industry’s first cloud platform for real-time translation, and LivePerson’s LP Chat™, an industry leading enterprise chat product. SDL GlobalConnect for LivePerson Chat integrates powerful, trusted automated translation in a live chat environment to enable businesses to have meaningful, real-time connections with users in their native language to enrich the customer experience.
Chat is a fast-growing support channel and proactive engagement solution, being used by customers globally. Today,
LivePerson’s LP Chat solution enables over 8500 businesses around the world to have real-time chats with prospects and customers
SDL GlobalConnect for LivePerson Chat takes this capability further by empowering enterprise teams to respond to customers and prospects within the LP Chat interface across 35 languages. Agents that speak only one language can leverage this combined solution to actively support customers that speak other languages and use existing staff more effectively to unlock significant global business opportunities. “It is increasingly important for businesses of all kinds to be able to effectively and efficiently support their customers globally, across multiple languages and communication channels,” explained Ido Hacohen, head of partner ecosystem at LivePerson. “Communicating with a customer in real-time in their native language creates a more personal and meaningful brand experience. With the new integration of LP Chat and SDL automatic-translation, businesses can more efficiently engage their customers in multiple regions worldwide.” “SDL is committed to bringing solutions to market that allow customers to consume information in the language, the media and at the moment they choose it,” said Swamy Viswanathan, senior vice president of products and marketing for the SDL Language Technologies division. “Through our partnership with LivePerson, not only are we bringing innovative translation options to a new communication channel, but we are improving the global customer experience for consumers worldwide.” To learn more, visit: http://www.sdl.com/technology/liveperson-chat
For more information on LivePerson solutions, visit http://www.liveperson.com
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About SDL
SDL enables global businesses to engage with their customers in the language, the media and at the moment they choose. We help businesses manage their brands, drive global revenues, accelerate speed to market and enrich their customers’ experience. SDL’s enterprise-ready innovative technology and service solutions span the entire customer journey and include social listening and marketing analytics, campaign management, language management and services, video and written content creation, web content management, dynamic technical documentation publication and eCommerce. SDL solutions drive global reach across multiple languages, cultures, channels and media. SDL has over 1,500 enterprise customers, 400 partners and a global infrastructure of 70 offices in 38 countries. For more information, visit
www.sdl.com.
About LivePerson
LivePerson, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPSN) offers a platform that enables businesses to proactively connect in real-time with their customers via chat, voice, and content delivery at the right time, through the right channel, including websites, social media, and mobile devices. This "intelligent engagement" is driven by real-time behavioral analytics, producing connections based on a true understanding of business objectives and customer needs.
More than 8,500 companies rely on LivePerson's platform to increase conversions and improve customer experience, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Verizon, Sky, Walt Disney, PNC, QVC and Orbitz.
LivePerson received the CODiE award for Best Ecommerce Solution in 2011, and has been named one of America's 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies by Forbes in 2011, and a Company of the Year by Frost and Sullivan in 2011. LivePerson is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Atlanta, London and Melbourne, Australia.