Order sheet
| Order sheet | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Odense , Denmark |
| Branch | Dictionaries, Information Technology, Digital Education Platforms, Digital Grammar Teaching Aids, Translation Tools, Online Dictionaries, Teaching Aids, Learning Aids, Grammar Aids |
| Website | Ordbogen.com |
Ordbogen A / S is an online education and language technology company based in Odense , Denmark . With more than 100 digital dictionaries and over 1 million words viewed per day, it is Denmark's largest company in the field of web-based dictionaries. The name Ordbogen means the dictionary in Danish.
Ordbogen comprises several products: two dictionary websites, Ordbogen.com and the future international site Lemma.com, and two e-learning portals, Grammatip.com (for grammar and spelling) and Educas.com (for all subjects in the Danish school system , 1st to 10th grade). Ordbogen.com, Grammatip.com and Educas.com are tailored to the Danish market, Lemma.com, on the other hand, caters to the international market with dictionaries in 45 languages. The company has grown to more than 100 employees (with the aim of hiring 30 more by 2017) (as of May 2016). Ordbogen is made up of employees from 15 nationalities who speak 20 different languages. The company has also received the “Børsen Gazelle Award” (2008–2013) for six consecutive years, which is given to the fastest growing companies in Denmark.
History and Development
Origins
In 2001 Michael Walther, Bjarni Norddahl, Thomas Thomsen and Jacob Hatt founded the company Cool Systems ApS. The associated website, coolsms.dk, developed into one of the largest websites in Denmark at the time, with 266,000 hits per day. The website made it possible to send text messages online at a lower cost than the usual telephone company rates. Shortly after coolsms.dk was published, Thomas Thomsen and Jacob Hatt left the company.
In 2003, the remaining founders, Michael Walther and Bjarni Norddahl, renamed Cool Systems ApS to Ordbogen ApS. The company was later converted into a public limited company, Ordbogen A / S. 2003 was also the year Ordbogen A / S published Ordbogen.com - the first subscription-based dictionary website in Denmark that provided easy access to a high quality Danish-English / English-Danish dictionary, edited by Jørgen Rohde, translator and Editor.
In 2005, the company replaced the previous dictionary with a new, improved version that was tailored for web use and which was also the first dictionary produced by the company. In the same year Ordbogen also became a strategic partner of the Center for Lexicography at Aarhus University in order to publish their dictionary Den Danske Netordbog (German: “The Danish Internet Dictionary”).
One year later, in 2006, Ordbogen A / S published the second bilingual and self-produced dictionary, Danish-German / German-Danish.
2008-2013
During this time Ordbogen received the Børsen Gazelle Prize for six consecutive years.
In 2010 Ordbogen acquired the online grammar learning portal Grammatip, and in the same year the company entered into another strategic partnership with the publishing house JP / Politikens Hus and the Danish Language Council (Dansk Sprognævn) in 2011.
In 2012 Grammatip was merged with Ordbogen A / S. In the same year the e-learning portal Educas was launched. Educas was a further development of Vikartimen, a platform with teaching materials for teachers, which Ordbogen A / S had previously bought and whose name and concept were changed and further digitized. 2012 was also the year in which Ordbogen became a strategic partner of Oxford Dictionaries and the German publishers Duden Schulbuch and Cornelsen Verlag . Work on Lemma.com began in 2013.
2013-present
Ordbogen.com has developed significantly in recent years, and the number of employees grew significantly in 2016. Ordbogen is currently in the process of expanding into international markets through the development of the Lemma.com website, the international version of Ordbogen.com.
Products
Ordbogen.com
Ordbogen's main product is Ordbogen.com, which, thanks to international cooperation, makes Ordbogen.com the largest dictionary website in Denmark. Ordbogen offers more than 100 dictionaries, including:
And other dictionaries such as:
- Synonyms
- orthography
- Foreign words
As well as dictionaries on areas and topics such as:
Ordbogen app
The “Ordbogen Online” app offers the same services as the website.
Grammatip.com
Grammatip is an e-learning portal for teaching Danish, English, German and French grammar and spelling for students in Danish primary and secondary schools as well as for adults and foreigners. It's a dynamic product as new assignments are released every week. Users have the option to suggest changes that will be incorporated into Grammatip as new categories and exercises are created. Grammatip covers several exercise categories such as:
- Danish spelling
- Spelling tests
- Dictations
- Danish reading tests
Educas.com
Educas is a web-based educational portal with thousands of tasks for all compulsory and interdisciplinary subjects for Denmark's state primary and secondary schools (the "folkeskole"). New tasks are published every day. Both Educas.com and Grammatip.com are online platforms and tasks are assigned and processed online. Educas enables teachers to use the website as a digital “blackboard”, and several times a year themed weeks are offered that combine teaching topics with current events. The tasks can be searched for in Danish “Fælles Mål” (Eng. “Common goals”), which are the official competence goals for the various school subjects in different grades of the “folkeskole”. The subjects of the “folkeskole” include:
Lemma.com
Lemma.com is the international version of Ordbogen.com and is currently under development. The website will feature dictionaries from Ordbogen.com as well as from publishers such as Oxford Duden, Duden Verlag , K Dictionaries and Cornelsen Verlag . Lemma will offer the same dictionaries as Ordbogen, but supplemented with something like:
successes
Ordbogen was recognized as a Gazelle company by the Danish business newspaper Børsen for six years in a row (2008 to 2013). The Gazelle Prize is given to the fastest growing company in Denmark. A gazelle is defined as a company that: “[…] has achieved continuous growth in sales or gross profit over the last four financial years, and which in total has doubled its income or gross profit for the period”.
In 2013 Ordbogen set a Guinness world record for the largest dictionary in the world, with a book length of 4.62 m and 89,471 pages. The book includes the 46 dictionaries that were available on www.ordbogen.com at that time.
credentials
According to Ordbogen.com's own references, many Danish companies and media have recommended the website, including Amnesty International Danmark, GlaxoSmithKline Danmark and the news division of the national broadcaster Danmarks Radio , who have been using Ordbogen.com since 2005 for translation and language issues. Other customers of Ordbogen A / S are for example Danish companies such as:
- Maersk
- Nets A / S
- Skat
- Dong E&P
- Telmore A / S
- TV 2 Danmark
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handelsvilkår. In: www.ordbogen.com. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Order form praler på livet løs. May 2, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Enhedsvisning. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Lemma.com. In: lemma.com. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Slip for fejl. In: grammatip.com. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Educas. In: educas.com. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ ordbogen.com and http://lemma.com/
- ↑ Headhunter: Voldsomt vokseværk i Ordbogen. February 3, 2016, accessed July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Skydivere og firma dog i video debut. January 29, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Snart slut med free SMS. March 19, 2002, accessed July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Rekordår for Ordbogen A / S. May 6, 2014, accessed July 22, 2016 .
- ^ Careers at Ordbogen.com. In: careers.ordbogen.com. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Evolution of Ordbogen. (PDF) Retrieved August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Den Danske Netordbog - Center for Leksikografi. In: Ordbogen.com. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Gazeller. In: borsen.dk. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
- ↑ careers.ordbogen.com (PDF)
- ↑ dsn.dk
- ↑ careers.ordbogen.com (PDF)
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- ↑ ordbogen.com
- ↑ grammatip.com
- ↑ linkedin.com
- ↑ educas.com
- ↑ lemma.com
- ↑ lemma.com
- ↑ borsen.dk
- ↑ img.borsen.dk (PDF)
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com
- ↑ tv2fyn.dk
- ↑ ordbogen.com
- ↑ ordbogen.com
- ↑ Hurtig and grandchildren adgang til Ordbogen.com
- ↑ Hurtig and grandchildren adgang til Ordbogen.com