GlobalSight Timeline

  • 1997
  • GlobalSight launches Ambassador Suite
  • 1999
  • GlobalSight releases Ambassador 1.7
  • 2000
  • GlobalSight unveils System3 - with Content Exchange Engine and Content Adaptation Platform
  • 2001
  • GlobalSight launches System4 - industry's first Content Adapter Library
  • 2002
  • GlobalSight adds Real-Time Project Management capability to System4
  • 2003
  • GlobalSight releases Ambassador 5 with improved Content Exchange Engine
  • 2004
  • GlobalSight releases Ambassador 6 and incorporates ContentManager module
  • 2005
  • Transware acquires GlobalSight
    • 2006
    • Transware launches Ambassador 6.8 with advanced customizable workflow engine
    • 2008
    • Welocalize acquires Transware and the GlobalSight Ambassador product

What is GlobalSight?

In 1997 GlobalSight, a Seattle-based international web development company, introduced a new software tool called Ambassador Suite. This suite allowed webmasters to generate multilingual sites while managing in only one language. For the next several years, Ambassador grew from a platform to develop and maintain multilingual websites, to a complete Translation Management System (TMS) that automated the localization process, leveraged previously translated material and managed the translation process in a collaborative environment. GlobalSight continued to invest in the technology to increase operational efficiency, improve Translation Memory (TM) capabilities and streamline multilingual content management.

In 2005, Transware acquired the GlobalSight Ambassador product and subsequently developed it into a scalable internet-based (ASP) product. In the latest release, Ambassador 6.8 improved upon earlier editions by offering customers an advanced customizable workflow engine that can connect to internal content or document management system software, customizable word count analysis, side-by-side review functionality at file and segment level with full comment threading and management, and a new reporting engine for flexible reporting on volume, costing and efficiency.

Over $50 million dollars has been invested in the GlobalSight product since its start as the first translation management system in 1997.  In May 2008 Welocalize inherited this robust technology with the acquisition of Transware. Welocalize is committed to investing in GlobalSight in the most efficient, innovative, and open manner. This site is dedicated to understanding the needs of customers, LSPs and technology providers alike to develop and improve upon a Translation Management System that can be shared by all.