SUNNYVALE, Calif. - February 7, 2006 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced that it will host a webcast with Hilton International and Translations.com, entitled "Hilton International: Global Reach, Local Touch." The webcast is sponsored by the American Marketing Association (AMA), one of the largest professional associations for marketers. Attendees will learn how Hilton International has been able to improve customer experience worldwide through the delivery of personalized, localized content across its global Web properties, providing customers with the most relevant customer experience.
What:
The Business Challenge: Hilton International operates over 400 hotels across Europe and Asia including 260 Hilton-branded hotels as well as an additional 140 Scandic properties. In 2002, Hilton International outlined an aggressive strategy to build a series of highly-personalized and localized Web sites for its largest markets including the UK, Germany, and Japan. As part of this initiative, local language Web sites were also to be developed for the Hilton-owned Scandic brand hotels across the key Scandinavian countries and Finland. The company was faced with a number of challenges in implementing this new strategy. The project required the translation and editing of more than 4.5 million words of content and over 25,000 individual content files. Additionally, Hilton International had to ensure that a smooth and seamless process was put in place for Web content contributors from around the world to submit, edit, and maintain content. The over-arching operational objective for Hilton International was to empower local hotel properties to directly contribute to and maintain their new localized sites, while still enabling a high degree of brand consistency for the best possible customer experience across all of Hilton's sites.
The Solutions:
To address these challenges, Hilton International implemented the Interwoven Web Content Management (WCM) solution to establish a common platform for business users around the world to seamlessly contribute and maintain localized Web content; this was in combination with Translations.com's GlobalLink enterprise language solution to support the translation of content across seven different languages. Fully integrated, the Interwoven and Translations.com solutions provided Hilton International with a comprehensive global content solution they could put in place immediately to accomplish their aggressive customer experience objectives. As a result, the company has been able to successfully create and provide a personalized customer experience across eight new localized Web sites representing the company's hotel properties across three continents and seven different languages. Additionally, the combined Interwoven-Translations.com solution has played a key role in helping Hilton continue to grow its direct online business to reach more than 20 percent of reservations (vs. offline) over the next five years.
Interwoven is focused on providing targeted ECM solutions that are designed to help companies across industries solve specific business process challenges, such as improving customer experience. With Interwoven solutions, leading companies like Hilton International can deliver an enhanced customer experience through: increased brand consistency across all customer touch points; greater content personalization; improved online customer self-service; and more.
When:
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
7:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 a.m. ET / 3 p.m. GMT
Patricia Nagle, Percussion's Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Alliances, commented, "We have been working closely with Translations.com for the past two years and our joint customers are now seeing the fruits of our efforts. The GlobalLink-Rhythmyx integration supports customers like Thrifty that are focused on driving value from a robust, scalable content management solution that truly fits their needs for multilingual support. With Rhythmyx, our goal has always been to deliver the right balance between out-of-the-box functionality and easy customization, and we add significantly to that value by partnering with leading vendors such as Translations.com that offer complementary solutions."
Who:
- Ian Sloan, Director of Content Management, Hilton International
- Dan O'Sullivan, Director, Travel & Tourism, Translations.com
- Eben Miller, Director of Customer Experience Product Marketing, Interwoven
Registration:
Event attendees may register for the complementary Webcast by clicking here.
About Interwoven
Interwoven, Inc., provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions for business, enables organizations to unify people, content and processes to minimize business risk, accelerate time-to-value and sustain lower total cost of ownership. Interwoven delivers deep industry-specific solutions which reduce business process cycle time from initial collaboration through design, production, sales, marketing, legal review, IT, and service. Interwoven leads the industry with a service-oriented architecture today and easy-to-use, best-in-class components and solutions. Today, over 3,400 enterprises, law firms, and professional services organizations worldwide are Interwoven customers including BT, Ford, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, General Motors, Jones Day, Motorola and Yamaha. Interwoven is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world. For more information visit www.interwoven.com.
About Translations.com
Translations.com is known worldwide for the quality of its software and website localization, as well as its enterprise language solutions for clients in virtually every major industry. Translations.com's business services meet the strategic needs of organizations seeking to communicate and conduct business in international markets. The company has an established global presence on three continents and continues to pioneer new techniques and technologies for the rapid development of multilingual business solutions.
Translations.com is part of the TransPerfect global group of companies. For more information, please visit www.translations.com, or email the company at info@translations.com.