Basis Technology Wins Client Side News Excellence Award for Technical Localization Consulting Services

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 8, 2005 -- Basis Technology today announced it was chosen by the localization industry to receive the Client Side Excellence award in the category of Localization Consulting Services: Technical Consulting. These awards recognize exceptional localization professionals, service providers, technology products and other industry organizations that bring innovative solutions to Globalization, Internationalization and Localization (GILT) industry clients.

“These awards are particularly meaningful because the recipients are chosen by clients of internationalization services,” said Wendy Sheehan, Vice President of Engineering at Basis Technology. “We’re thrilled to have won this award.”

“The ClientSide Excellence Award recognizes those that shape the GILT industry, and because of Basis Technology’s commitment and dedication to providing exceptional Technical Localization Consulting services to its clients, we’re pleased and honored to present them with this award of excellence,” said Shaun Dagget of ClientSide News.

About ClientSide News and the ClientSide Excellence Awards™
CSN is a client-focused organization that leverages intelligence to drive Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation (GILT) industry solutions. As a champion for client issues, CSN creates a common forum for sharing solutions and unifying goals through our Events, Publications, Education, Reports, Mentoring, and Technology divisions. To learn more, visit www.ClientSideNews.com or phone CSN marketing at (719) 686-8759.

About Basis Technology
Basis Technology is the leading provider of products and services for software globalization and multilingual information processing. The company provides high-performance, highly reliable software components through its Rosette Linguistics Platform, a suite of interoperable products designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages. The company also provides rapid deployment engineering services covering all aspects of globalization, including source code audits, project management, software re-engineering, and global quality assurance.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and e-mail categorization. Clients include industry leaders Compuware, America Online, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Inktomi, L.L Bean, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Terra Lycos.

Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.