Company history
2017 | beo is changing: post-bureaucratic working Expansion of beoSphere: vendor management Introduction of a portal solution for application management |
2016 | beo Academy: roll-out of the Project Management module for all locations |
2015 | Establishment of beo doc UK Ltd. in Sheffield – our first subsidiary outside of Germany Berlin subsidiary closes |
2014 | Establishment of the beo Academy: Training at beo becomes professional (concept in collaboration with Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University – DHBW) Research partnership as part of the Elotis project at DHBW |
2013 | Machine translation: beo’s ‚engine‘ is produced in cooperation with other partners and goes live |
2012 | Portal solution goes online: beoSphere Software Development team becomes its own department |
2011 | Automated quality assurance as part of standard operations (beo SNC) Involvement in national and international standards |
2010 | Cooperation with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and partners in Berlin and Munich to develop tools in AI (taraXÜ project) Start of dual study programme with the Computer Science department at DHBW in Horb |
2009 | Establishment of the Bonn subsidiary Shareholding in Osborne Translation Services Ltd. in Sheffield to train English-language translators TM2 becomes openTM2, beo is a member of the steering committee |
2008 | Vendor evaluation introduced as QA tool |
2007 | Online QA checks in accordance with J2450 with report output Term extraction becomes standard across beo Trainee programme starts for translators (Spanish, French, Italian, English) Start of dual study programme with the Service Management department at DHBW in Stuttgart |
2006 | beo is co-founder of the OpenTMS open-source initiative Client portal – module for approving texts and terminology |
2005 | Introduction of the beo vendor portal Establishment of subsidiaries in Hamburg and Munich Fifth prize in the StartUp competition organised by the Sparkassen Baden-Württemberg banks Introduction of knowledge management, knowledge survey, etc. |
2004 | Introduction of the first version of our fully automated job system beoDATA beo becomes ISO 9001 certified Start of training for the first office communications assistants |
2003 | Where it all began – a total of nine founding members made a brave new start in the hot summer |