Welcome to SDL Trados Business Manager - a fully fledged application for corporate users, small and large teams, as well as freelance translators. ItThis application helps you maintain your client and vendor records, manage ongoing projects and assignments, handle quoting process with clients, quickly estimate quotes and projects, pickup vendors, manage files, communicate with colleagues, clients and vendors, track current state of your company, issue invoices, and many more. On top of it, you can easily get an overview of your translation business on the informative dashboard. And, in addition, every part of the system is fully customizable!

This software (formerly named BaccS) was initially created by a single person who happened to love both translating and programming. Along with translation, in 2009 he started development process resulting in this application. First version was pretty simple and intended for translators. However, with time, while being used on daily basis, it was offered to other freelance translators, who provided great input and helped to grow this software. New reporting tools, customization capabilities, time tracker features, individual time planner, CV generator and many many other features made TBM more extensive, forwarding it into adding features for teams.

In June 2017 version 2 was released, which was linked with cooperation with ProZ.com. With the new version, users got possibility to use different ProZ.com service right from within SDL Trados Business Manager. Among them are WIWO service, Blue Board access to view and leave feedback about clients, and Availability service, which allows translators to set their availability via handy calendar.

In October 2017 a huge milestone has been reached - just after few months since version 2 a new release was presented to public - version 3. It brought absolutely new platform, which provides unseen level of customization, performance and security features. The latter means that the program became intended not only for individual translators, but also for teams of translators, who needs centralized solution to manage their work.

In the beginning of 2019 BaccS became SDL Trados Business Manager (TBM), which inaugurated a new era in a product life. During first two years in SDL family, TBM evolved by adding new functionality for translation companies. By the middle of 2020 it became clear that our clients need more than application allows, especially in terms of performance, real-time communication, mobile friendliness, and some other factors. In the result, a decision was made to develop next version (version 6), which is based on a absolutely new platform, which will offer our users well-known flexibility and customization capabilities mixed with an absolutely level of performance, presentation and usability.

Welcome to TBM 6, a translation management platform which can adapt to your needs, grows fast and will become reliable partner in a complex management process. We wish you happy reading!