Online CAT and project management tools for translators

Remy Blättler (Supertext AG)

CAT IN THE CLOUD

About me

 Remy Blaettler

 Spent the last 8 years in the US
 Now back with my own company copywriting
and translation agency Supertext
 Chief of the System

Trados....

 Not universally loved
 Not everybody got it
 Expensive
 Overhead for small projects
 Lots of room for handling errors
 Unreliable

 Powerful
 Standard

Why?

 No installation
 No maintenance
 Translator does not need to buy software
Assuming the LSP offers the tool
 Often built in project management and
workflow (even parallel)
 No filehandling
 Built in TM and Terminology (always up-to-
date)

Why not?

 Yet another tool to learn
 Slow
 No offline work
But need to do research online anyway?
 Limited in functionality compare to Trados

Missing from them all

 Online ordering system
 Billing
 Performance metrics (Revenue, etc)
 Real CRM

XTM

 Approx. CHF 60.- per user/month
But pricing is based on usage

 18 person team in England / Eastern Europe

 SAS and self-hosted

 All open standards

XTM

Plus Minus
 Freelancer, Customer and  No IE9 or Chrome
Admin Portal
 TM and Terminology  Slow?
 Parallel Workflow
 API

Online CAT and project management tools for translators

Wordbee

 CHF 30.- per user/month
 Luxembourg Company
 Fairly new and unknow

 http://wordbee.com

Wordbee

Plus Minus
 Freelancer, Customer and  ?
Admin Portal
 TM and Terminology
 Parallel Workflow
 API

Crowdin

 $59 per user/month
 Only for application strings (.Net, iPhone, etc)
 Crowdsourcing focus

 Beta?

 http://crowdin.net

GlobalSight

 Open Source and free
 $ 2000 per month as SAS (20 users)
 Very powerful, tons of features

 http://www.globalsight.com

GlobalSight

Plus Minus
 Freelancer and Admin  No customer portal
Portal  Old technology
 TM and Terminology  Antiquated look and feel
 Offline with Trados
 Functionality
 Source Code
 API

Wordfast anywhere

 For individual translators

 http://anywhere.wordfast.com/

Wordfast anywhere

Plus Minus
 Simple (kinda)  No admin or customer
 TM and Terminology portal
 Free (kinda)  No workflow
 No API

Boltran

 Open Source
Free, but couldn’t find the source code
 Based on OmegaT
 Still in beta

 Not really useful for bigger projects yet

 For individual translator

 http://www.boltran.com

Lingotek

 SAS or self-hosted
 TM, Terminology

crossweb

 Not much information available
 But looks like a normal browser based online
CAT tool

Cloud connected

Don’t run in the browser, but connected to a
server

 Trados Server
 Across Server
 Lionbridge Translation Workspace
 memoQ server

Supertext System

 Priceless
 Custom built over the last 5 years

 www.supertext.ch

Supertext System

Plus Minus
 Admin, Freelancer and  No TM or Terminology
Customer Portal  No online CAT tool
 Online ordering  Disconnect between
 Automated billing for Project Management Tool
freelancer and customer and Trados
 CRM
 Performance Metrics

Cloudwords

 Multivendor bidding marketplace
 With Translation Memory integrated
(just upload / download)
 Payment goes via Cloudwords

MyGengo

 Crowdsourced Translation
 Lots of money
 API
 Integrations with CMS and Blogs
 Low price

 Quality?
 Support?

tolingo

 Aggressive on the market
 Cheap and fast
 Apperently good quality

 Internal simple CAT tool?
 Translation memory integrated

You can download this
presentation from
blog.supertext.ch

The end.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Online CAT and project management tools for translators

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