Trados Business Manager – End of Life Announcement

Trados Business Manager (TBM) has reached end of life. Following the discontinuation of TBM sales on 31 October 2023, all maintenance and support services will conclude on 31 October 2024.
What Does This Mean for TBM Users?

  • End of Services: RWS will no longer provide any services related to the installation or updating of TBM.
  • Existing Installations: TBM will remain functional where already installed, but the RWS support team will not offer assistance in troubleshooting issues, addressing reported problems, or providing further development for TBM.
  • Documentation: The TBM documentation has been removed from docs.rws.com.
  • Community Support: The community forum for TBM will remain accessible in a read-only format for users to reference if needed.

Sales person and Responsible person

Why does TBM get the Sales person and Responsible person from the Vendor list and not from the user base? I can't quite grasp why it was built this way ?
If, for example, you want to assign a Sales person (who already has an account in the system) to a given Quote then you still have to create a Vendor, which is lost and confusing in my opinion, as a rule a Vendor is more like an Interpreter. Can I ask you to elaborate on your doubts ? perhaps I misunderstand these fields ?

Regards,
Patryk

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