Moscow – August 6, 2012 – BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN), a global leader in social business solutions, today announced the availability of the Clearvale™ enterprise social networking solution in the Russian language. BroadVision collaborated closely with ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, to localize Clearvale for the Russian market.
Using social tools and techniques, Clearvale helps businesses around the globe effectively transform the way they work by providing the capabilities to create a series of social business networks where employees, customers, and partners can communicate and collaborate to do their everyday work. As organizations seek to integrate their internal and external-facing social initiatives, only Clearvale enables businesses to establish separate networks for both internal and external entities and manage them together as a whole, creating a social enterprise ecosystem.
By integrating social networking into existing business processes and workflows, social networks in the enterprise can provide a platform for improving the way work gets done. Leveraging the latest in enterprise 2.0 technology, Clearvale addresses the critical needs and complexities of real business collaboration by enabling users to meet, build relationships, share ideas, create content, and learn from one another for improved business agility and productivity.
Clearvale is cloud-based and designed to help organizations:
- Exchange knowledge with its customers, partners, and suppliers, making it easier and quicker for sales teams to collaborate or find information to shorten sales cycles
- Work socially and more effectively on everyday business processes, often reducing the endless meetings, long email threads and conference calls typically needed to get work done
- Keep mobile users connected by enabling work to be done anywhere, anytime, and from any device across geographic regions and time zones for improved responsiveness so business decisions can be made faster
“With more than 20 years of experience, ABBYY understands that localization is one of the keys for success in adapting a solution to meet the needs of a specific market,” said Ivan Smolnikov, CEO of ABBYY Language Services. “We are pleased to contribute to BroadVision’s strategy of expanding support for Clearvale into the Russian language.”
The release of Clearvale for the Russian market underlines BroadVision’s continued expansion strategy of providing a social business networking solution to a growing base of customers and partners in local languages.
“BroadVision is placing a strong emphasis in the Russian market as we recognize its rapid economic growth. Our commitment to supporting and helping Russian businesses engage with employees, customers, and partners is an increasingly important part of Clearvale’s globalization strategy,” said Ian Heggs, EMEA Director Business Operations at BroadVision. “By working with ABBYY, we were able to leverage their expertise in localization to deliver a fully-featured enterprise social networking suite to transform the way Russian businesses do work.”
Clearvale consists of Clearvale Enterprise, a full featured enterprise network suite that enables businesses to create a social enterprise ecosystem, and Clearvale Express, a free enterprise social networking and team collaboration software tool for a single network. To learn more about Clearvale, please visit www.clearvale.com.
About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive language support to corporate customers worldwide and develops innovative language services and technologies to successfully address the most complex translation projects. The company provides services to more than two thousand customers worldwide, including 20% of the Top 100 Global Brands.
Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. The key products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools, supporting a variety of platforms and computing environments.
ABBYY has 14 offices across the globe, including Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. More than 30 million people in over 150 countries use ABBYY products.
ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, Montgomery County Government of the USA, and Government of Canada. For more information, visit www.abbyy.com and www.abbyy-ls.com.
About BroadVision
Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision (NASDAQ: BVSN) is an innovative provider of e-business and social networking solutions for organizations seeking to grow profitably by improving online business processes through invited participation and social interaction. Our solutions — including Clearvale, the world’s first network of networks for the socially driven enterprise — enable mission-critical e-business for next-generation organizations around the globe. The customers benefiting from BroadVision® solutions include Aeroxchange Ltd., Centre for Railway Information Systems, Controller General of Defence Accounts, Fiat S.p.A., Front Burner Restaurants, Hilti AG, Iberia, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Company, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd., Promart Retail India Pvt. Ltd., SINA, SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp., Thomas Cook India Ltd., Vodafone, and more. Visit www.BroadVision.com for more details.
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