| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Language localization Translation Interpreting Machine translation |
| Founded | San Francisco, California, USA (2002) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Key people | Donald Plumley, CEO Jonathan Kirk, Chairman |
| Website | http://www.elanex.com |
Elanex, Inc. commonly known as Elanex, is a translation technology and services company based in San Francisco, California, USA that provides localization, translation, and interpreting services. Elanex primarily provides human translation, with only the aid of technology, but companies also request use of Elanex's machine translation technology.[1] The company, founded in 2002 by Jonathan Kirk, has operations in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California, USA; Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan;[2][3] Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Rome, Italy; and Antwerp, Belgium.[4]
In 2007, the company announced the creation of the Translation Search Engine (TSE), a new form of translation memory pre-populated with 30 million translated sentences.[5] The TSE is the first translation memory tool that allows for free use through bartering, as noted by Jost Zetzsche in his biweekly Tool Kit and the article "Are we profitable?"[6] In 2008, Elanex paired the TSE with a managed services platform for translation crowdsourcing called ElanexCROWD.[7]
A significant contribution to Elanex automation technology was made by Tom Dillon,[8] former COO of Netflix, who was largely responsible for Netflix's proprietary automation technologies.[9]