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Hi, I've been using Trados since 2003 and I beleive I am qualified enough to say that SDL Studio 2017, which we installed in late December 2017 when SDL was "proudly" encouraging everyone to migrate to the new" enhanced" version, is the worst thing that has happened to me in my professional life in terms of technologies. It is an extremely raw and underdeveloped product on all counts.
1. Very slow performance. and I mean it. Very-very slow. SDL development team has confirmed to us that Studio 2017 is much slower than Studio 2015. And "they will be looking into it". When, how fast and to which outcome this "looking into" will lead, no one knows.
2. No target search in concordance. Search by target has always been critical to the quality of our translations. it worked perfectly well in Studio 2015. Well, now it does not. The development team has confirmed, again like they did for the slow performance issue, that this is a bug and "they will be looking into it". Again, nothing is promised.
3. Very poor, very weird and very slow concordance search. More often than not, the concordance window would not give any matches when the cursor is on the new segment. However, the matches are there if you search for them manually. Again, this issue has been raised with SDL but no adequate response has been provided.
With the above three greatest flaws of the Studio I feel as if I am wandering in a dark room with no light and no trace of the matches accumulated in my TMs earlier. This product is destructive to the performance of my entire department. It is a real shame!
If anyone is thinking about using SDL Studio 2017, my advice is think twice not to regret it later.
