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.

Integration with SDL Trados Studio and GroupShare

While creating a quote, you can leverage Business Manager’s capabilities of integration with other SDL Products.

To quickly create analysis in Trados Studio, click RWS > Trados Studio > Create a project and (or) analysis, and follow procedure described in the Creating a project in Trados Studio from Trados Business Manager article.

In the result, you will quickly get wordcounts and estimation additional services (like proofreading) in a quote, just in few clicks.

The same process is supported for GroupShare, but it has more workflow variants:

  1. If a project already exist in GroupShare, do the following:
    1. Click RWS  > GroupShare > Link with existing project;
    2. Select a project and click OK.
    3. Click RWS > GroupShare > Import analysis from GroupShare.
  2. If a project does not exist in GroupShare, do the following:
    1. Click RWS > GroupShare > Create a new project;
    2. Follow Creating a project in Trados Studio from Trados Business Manager article;
    3. Click RWS > GroupShare > Import analysis from GroupShare.
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