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BASIS TECHNOLOGY TAKES INTRANETS.COM TO JAPAN
— First Free Intranet Solution Localized for World’s Second Largest Market —
Cambridge, MA, March 27, 2000—Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the premier provider of internationalization services and technology, announced today that it delivered the software internationalization and localization expertise for Intranets.com to launch in Japan.
Intranets.com delivers the world’s first free intranet portals for small- and medium-sized businesses and organizations. Its services include free hosting, custom URLs, document sharing, calendar scheduling, vendor services, and more. Intranets.co.jp offers collaboration and communication tools similar to those in the US version, but with localized Japanese content, support, and services.
Basis Technology’s cultural and linguistic proficiencies were integral in translating and re-engineering Intranets.com’s site for the Japanese market. Basis Technology also provided the engineering expertise that enables the large database-backed portal to input, display, and process multi-byte Japanese text.
“Intranets.com has broken new ground in the US with its free intranet portal,” said Steve Cohen, Executive Vice President of Basis Technology. “We are pleased to play a leading role in taking these services to businesses in Japan, the world’s second largest market. We welcome Intranets.com to a growing list of e-commerce leaders who have chosen to go global with Basis Technology.”
“The launch of Intranets.com in Japan is a significant step forward in our global expansion,” said Tim Peacock, Vice President of Engineering at Intranets.com. “Basis Technology provided the crucial cultural and technical expertise that enabled us to enter this foreign market quickly and confidently.”
Intranets.co.jp is already used by more than 6,000 small businesses in Japan, and features merchants providing exclusive vending services, including ZDNet.co.jp, Dell Computer Corp., Hitachi, and Epson.
About Intranets.com
Intranets.com, an idealab! Venture, delivers the world’s first free intranet portals for small- and medium-sized businesses and organizations. With free hosting and custom URLs for all organizations, Intranets.com provides users with everything they need at their fingertips—from must-have collaboration applications to industry news, to vendor services. Intranets.com helps thousands of organizations worldwide improve collaboration and increase efficiencies. Privately-held Intranets.com is one of the most recent businesses to spawn from idealab!, the nation’s leading Internet incubator. Intranets.com is based in Woburn, Massachusetts with European headquarters in the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.intranets.com, e-mail webmaster@intranets.com, or call 888-932-2600 or 781-932-0960.
About Basis Technology
Basis Technology is the leading provider of internationalization technology and services to Internet companies and global enterprises. The company specializes in software re-engineering services for Unicode compliance, and offers a wide range of cross-platform software components that deliver off-the-shelf solutions to problems commonly encountered in internationalization projects.
The company’s flagship product, Rosette, is the leading cross-platform library for Unicode, the rapidly emerging international standard for software that handles multiple languages. More than twenty top-tier Web software publishers, search engines, and portals have adopted Rosette as the core of their globalization strategy. Basis Technology is the only Web internationalization company that is also a full member of the Unicode Consortium.
Basis Technology’s staff of multilingual project managers, software engineers, testers, and translators are veterans of more than one hundred software and Web internationalization projects. The company works closely with its customers to maximize the opportunities offered by rapidly expanding global markets.
Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a branch office in Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 617-252-5636.