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.

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Overview and workflow

SDL Trados Business Manager integration with GroupShare includes a number of features and buttons throughout the application. On this page, you will find overview of places where you can use integration.

General workflow when you use TBM in conjunction with SDL GroupShare looks as following:

Link GroupShare users

On this step you can import or link contractors with GroupShare users. When you change project phase in GroupShare and assign vendor, you select a contractor from internal TBM database. If selected contractor is not linked with GroupShare user, you will get error message.

Link GroupShare projects

You may choose how to start a project: create it initially in GroupShare or in TBM. In the first case, you can import a project into TBM - the system will create jobs, calculate their amount, create assignments, select correct vendors (provided that all GroupShare users are linked with TBM vendors), and calculate amounts for each vendor.

When you initially create a project in SDL Trados Business Manager, you can create a project in GroupShare from within SDL Trados Business Manager. The system will create a project and send selected files for translation. In a few minutes you will find created project in GroupShare along with analysis reports.

Import analysis data

Regardless how you create projects, you may import analysis data to all project job or individual project jobs. It may be done using Translation Management Center feature, project editing form or translation job editing form. After importing analysis data and calculating amount you may add additional services to your jobs (like Proofreading, Editing, Termbase creation, etc.).

Manage project in SDL Trados Business Manager

On this stage, you pick-up contractors for job tasks, create assignments, set deadlines, calculate expenses and income. When any (or all) of planned assignments is confirmed, you open Change phase screen and send a command to GroupShare to move needed files from Preparation to Translation phase, and then to other phases. The system will automatically select GroupShare users according assignments you created in TBM.

Push data into GroupShare

When situation changes (new vendor confirms availability, translator delivers files for passing them to proofreader, etc.), you may open. Change phase screen as many times as needed. The system will try to fill necessary data automatically, so you only need to select new phase, and correct contractors will be automatically applied. The task here is to finalize all files in all languages.

Track project progress

When a job is linked with GroupShare project, Progress column (may be hidden by default) will display progress value as percentage. This allows manager to prepare for the next phase. When project is finished, you may update its status from within TBM using status change feature.

Build reports

When project is finished, you may get final results from the project list (Expenses, Margin and Margin% columns), as well as use a number of built-in QuickReports to analyze performance of managers and vendors for selected projects.