Definitions:

The product names have changed over the last year or so.  If we rename these wikis users who saved the current links may find they don't work.  So for the purpose of clarity anywhere you still read "Studio Live", "Trados Live", "Language Cloud" you should map this to two products:

• Trados Enterprise
• Trados Team

Introduction

Trados Business Manager provides extensive integration with Trados Enterprise/Team, 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 Trados Enterprise/Team are intersecting, the main focus of these two systems is different.

For now, Trados Enterprise/Team 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 Trados Enterprise/Team (which, however, could be implemented in future in Trados Enterprise/Team):

• 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
• 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 Trados Enterprise/Team and Trados Business Manager.