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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Studio Live integration

Trados Business Manager provides extensive integration with Studio Live, relatively new cloud-based translation management platform, which allows to manage translation work on a new level. Although some of functionalities of Business Manager and Studio Live are intersecting, main focus of these two systems is different.

For now, Studio Live focuses on a translation process, and in general the process looks like this:

  • Uploading files
  • Processing files and converting them inti translatable format
  • Preparing an analysis report
  • Generating quote per pricing models, with following approval process by a client
  • Planning project phases (i.e., translation, proofreading, DTP)
  • Actual translation (using MT, Online editor and other capabilities)
  • Generation of target files

The whole process is controlled using smart UI based on tasks which allows users to focus on ongoing tasks.

Functionalities offered by Business Manager, which are currently (at time of writing - 19 Feb 2021) missing in Studio Live (which, however, could be implemented in future in Studio Live):

  • Invoices and payments, including invoice forms customization, batch invoicing, invoicing thresholds, multicurrency and partial payments. Includes invoices to clients and invoices from vendors.
  • Quote templates customization
  • Vendor and customer profiles (with full description of default taxes, invoicing rules, supported languages and domains, days of unavailability, etc.)
  • Vendor selection mechanism (based on previous ratings, vendor groups, machine learning, live filtering, price comparison and other means which help to choose candidates)
  • Fully customizable productivity and finance reporting
  • Security system to control access at entity- and field levels
  • Possibility to register and account jobs which cannot be registered within Language Cloud (for example, interpreting)
  • Electronic invoices (which are now in test mode)
  • Customization of list views and data entry forms on a user/role level
  • Invoicing for vendors through vendor portal
  • Possibility to separate project word counts from actual project cost, which could be calculated based on different units
  • Possibility to calculate payments to vendors based on work time and as percentage from amount of a source job

In other words, Business Manager focuses on actual control of the translation process and its financial parts.

In nested articles of this section you will find detailed information about existing integration possibilities between Studio Live and Business Manager.