WHO WE ARE

Interlecta is a software development company based in Bulgaria's Veliko Tarnovo, working in the sphere of machine translation and messaging services with a heavy emphasis on mobile communications. Established in 2007, the company employs a team of seasoned developers with an average of 7-10 years of programming experience in the realm of mobile technologies and scripting languages for mobile platforms. Both the expert coders and the quality assurance and marketing specialists are staff and/or graduates from one of Bulgaria leading universities, the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo.

OUR SERVICES

The services and applications Interlecta offers comprise real-time multilingual machine translation (MT) solutions for mobile and desktop environments, for business and social networking, all dedicated to helping overcome language barriers and creating a truly Globalized society. Understanding the importance of mobility and independence of communication, Interlecta works towards the globalization of successful business models by incorporating easily integrated automatic translation solutions for text, email, SMS, and instant messaging, complemented by state-of-the-art innovations such as image translation and speech synthesis.

The automated translation services developed by Interlecta are capable of identifying industry specific language, context and terminology, e.g. commerce, law, medicine etc. and thus produce a superior quality of translation. All of our applications feature a fully scalable set of over 30 languages (or more than 400 language pairs) and topic dictionaries, implemented in an intuitive user interface.

In addition to its core Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Interlecta provides a range of MT development, integration and consulting solutions for enterprise mobile and desktop applications. Modular plug-ins are available for web, office and messaging application, among others.

OUR TECHNOLOGY

In order to ensure industry-leading quality of services and application functionality, Interlecta relies on proprietary technology, protected by EU Intellectual Property legislation, that is nevertheless optimized for smooth integration into nearly any type of operating system or mobile and internet-based communication environment. The products offered are mainly targeted at corporate entities, including international businesses and organizations and mobile operators but are also immediately available to the end user, both from specialized online marketplaces such as Handango and Handmark, and from specialized application shops such as BlackBerry's App World and Nokia's Ovi.

ACHIEVEMENTS

In 2008, Interlecta was a Top 10 finalist in the GSMA Mobile Innovation Contest in Barcelona and recipient of the 1st Runner Up Award in the recent Nokia “Mobile Rules” Enterprise Application Contest. In 2009, Interlecta continues to expand its suite of mobile translation solutions and partner networks.

About the Market OPPORTUNITY

Interlecta’s markets include travel, hospitality, trade, customer service, virtual team management and social networking worldwide. Key facts:

• The overall market is very large. The Internet has 1.3 billion users, while mobile communications devices are used by 2.5 billion users.
• The top 10 non-English speaking emerging markets represent 1.1B mobile subscribers. (NMS Communications, Aug. 2007).
• The Online Social Networking Sector is experiencing explosive growth with the Top 10 sites experiencing over 164 M unique visits in Oct. 2007(Nielsen/Net Ratings).
• The market is highly fragmented in the distribution of languages. Asians, Europeans and Latin Americans are going online, via fixed and mobile internet access, at the rate of 170 million people per year, five times the rate of native English-speakers.

Facebook, an Interlecta client, has 70M+ users and is adding 200k per week.  550 carriers have developed specialized billing systems for subscriptions to address the demand for data services and premium email/SMS services. 500 million mobile customers are downloading multiple subscriptions, or one-time fee-based services for Java, BREW, Microsoft Mobile 5.0, i-Mode, PalmSource and other applications.
  
For the mobile or online vendor, mobile network operator, social networking site or global corporation seeking communication efficiencies internally and externally this equates to a simple and attractive value proposition: enhanced productivity, more activity, more traffic and more productive users/subscribers.