Latvia

Name of organisation TILDE, SIA

Address1 Vienibas gatve 75a

Address2

Town Riga

Postcode LV 1004

Country Latvia

Phone +371 7605001

Fax +371 7605750

E-mail anitav@tilde.lv

URL www.tilde.lv

Managing Director Uldis Dzenis

Delegate 1 Andrejs Vasiljevs

Job title Director, software development

Responsibilities Administrating all software

development projects

Delegate 2 Anita Vasiljeva

Job title System development

specialist

Responsibilities System specification and managing

Company size 500+

Key activities Tilde is a software development and distribution company.

Tilde is a leader in the market of Latvian language software

products. Our products cover Latvian language support,

proofing tools, electronic dictionaries, multimedia

encyclopaedia and TV on the Web.

Tilde's Latvian language support software has become the

best selling local software in Latvia. Several thousands of

users in Latvia, including Government, state organizations,

schools and banks, have purchased Tilde's language

software. Tilde also works in the field of multimedia and

Internet technologies and is interested in collaboration in the

following areas of multimedia technologies: dealing with

multimedia content, Internet technologies, creating

multimedia applications for educational and inquest

purposes.

Our company has established good co-operation with the

Academy of Science of Latvia and the Institute of Mathematics

and Computer Science.

Tilde Localisation Group works for such companies as IBM,

Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and Canon, localising software

and documentation for Latvian. Microsoft co-operates with

Tilde to create Latvian version of Ms Office.

Tilde is a member of the Terminology Commission of

Academy of Science of Latvia and participates in IT

Terminology Subcommittee. Tilde is a member of the

Standardisation Committee on Information Technology of

Latvia.

 

Key products The History of Latvia - Digital Encyclopaedia - the first MM

CD-ROM in Latvia and in Latvian language, an electronic

encyclopaedia about the history of Latvia. This encyclopaedia

contains a wide range of information covering the history of

Latvia from ancient times till today. The way of presentation

and media variety helps in thoroughly discovering the history

EU projects

Non-EU funded projects "The History of Latvia - Digital Encyclopaedia" was

co-financed by Soros Foundation-Latvia and the MM training

was organised by OSI of Latvia. All the work was done by ourselves collecting and

processing material (texts, picture, audio, video materials

etc.), developing content and specification, designing,

programming and testing.

WebTV project (www.laiks-lnt.com). It allows you to watch the

news of Latvian TV news channel LNT through Internet.

Tilde's Advanced Latvian - English - Latvian Computer

Dictionary provides quick search and translation from English

to Latvian and vice versa. Extensive data storage and search

algorithm instantly provide complete dictionary information

about the translated word. Dictionary is now available also on

the Web: www.tilde.lv/Dictionary/English/.

Latvian spelling checking and hyphenator program Tildes

Gramatikis is the first and the only commercial Latvian

proofing tool. It is closely integrated with all MS CSAPI

compliant applications that support spelling checking. The

software is licensed by Microsoft for inclusion in Latvian

version of MS Office.

Countries of Interest

No Austria No Belgium No Czech Republic

No Denmark No Estonia No Finland

No France No Germany No Greece

No Hungary No Iceland No Italy

No Latvia No Lithuania No Luxembourg

No Netherlands No Norway No Poland

No Portugal No Republic of Ireland No Romania

No Slovakia No Slovenia No Spain

No Sweden No Switzerland No UK

Specific Sectors

Yes Authoring and Design Systems

Yes Content Management and Personalisation

Yes Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage

No Education and Training

Areas of Interest

No 3D and virtual reality

Yes Applications software

No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia

Yes Content Owner

Yes Search engines

Yes Security and payment systems

 

No Systems hardware

No Systems integration

No Transaction and e-commerce

No User interfaces

No Web design

Areas of Specialisation

No 3D and virtual reality

Yes Applications software

No Artificial intelligence

Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia

Yes Content Owner

No Search engines

No Security and payment systems

No Systems hardware

No Systems integration

Yes Transaction and e-commerce

Yes User interfaces

Yes Web design