myGengo Wins Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award


Posted on January 24th, by thinkstrategies in Uncategorized. Comments Off on myGengo Wins Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award

THINKstrategies  announced today that myGengo has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program of THINKstrategies’ new Cloud Computing Showplace which recognizes SaaS companies that are producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.
 
myGengo offers web-powered human translation services which permit web app and software product localization to expand market opportunities for web based services providers,  media companies, and eCommerce sites seeking to serve broader customer bases in different languages.

Pureprofile is an online marketing services company which has seen an increase in monthly registrations from 8,000 to over 50,000, with 90% of these registrations coming from non-English speaking countries since launch the myGengo service in July, 2010. The myGengo translation service helped Pureprofile translate the text on its site and achieve the international penetration of its online marketing service. In the six months since launching its new site using myGengo in July 2010, Pureprofile has generated over 300,000 new registrations worldwide. Pureprofile’s new multi-lingual capabilities has also enabled the company to compete for international projects ten times the size that it previously pursued.
 

It is for these reasons that myGengo has been named a Best of SaaS Showplace Award winner. A summary of the company’s winning BoSS Award submission can be found at http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardSummary.php?key=1855.  

“We are very pleased to receive this industry recognition from THINKstrategies’ SaaS Showplace which is shared by so many other great companies,” said Ray Solnik, U.S. General Manager of myGengo. “myGengo is leading the way for the future of the language services industry.  The company makes human translation services available through a web standards application programming interface (API) and makes translation available ondemand at a very affordable cost due to the company’s crowdsourcing business model and technology platform.”

Globalization has made it imperative for companies to localize their solutions to satisfy the multinational needs of their target customers,” stated Jeffrey M. Kaplan, the founder of the SaaS Showplace which now a part of the new Cloud Computing Showplace and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the strategic consulting firm which conceived and administers the Showplace. “myGengo’s SaaS-based human translation services is cost-effectively addressing this escalating requirement.”

For more information about the rules for applying for a BoSS Award or to find a list of previous winners of the BoSS Awards, go to http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/boss.html.

Based on the success of the BoSS Awards program which focuses on SaaS solutions, THINKstrategies has launched the Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program to recognize companies which are delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions producing measurable business benefits for their customers. For more information regarding the CCBV Awards, see http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/ccbv.php .







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