Localize vs. Trados Studio

Localized fits perfectly for clients who would love to have their website localized. It offers great plugins and integrations with popular content management systems and serves as a translation management system for your website. Setup is rather easy, however, more complex setups would require a more technical approach which is not always possible.

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SDL Trados Studio is extremely well suited for expert CAT tool users. More novice users will have trouble getting up to speed. I have an office full of employees that constantly ask questions on how to do specific tasks, mainly because the task sequence is not obvious and is only uncovered by rote repetition of the same things. If you learn and apply the same techniques repeatedly, it becomes easier, but it seems the software was designed by software people, sometimes with little thought to the end users who have to figure it out. I don't know that professional training should be so necessary.

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• Super easy integration - it takes one minute to add and configure the Localize WordPress plugin.
• Convenient Admin - it is straight forward to add a project, get the API key and start adding translations.
• Front End display - the switch between language is intuitive and efficient. It loads all languages super fast.

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• Xbench plugin works great. You can run Xbench on the whole project with one click.
• TM and TB management
• It is one of the most common CAT tool thus it is easy for translator assignments.

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• Providing other features, beyond language. Such as replacing images or other content to allow a fully tailored website for each country.

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• Preview feature
• Accessing server-based TM often takes time.
• When connecting to server-based TM, I need to enter credentials twice every time. The first attempt always fails.

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Very simple to use website.

Again, the list of functions is impressive but the way it is organized (not process-driven) and the fact that complex tasks should be close to basic tasks make the product suitable to hardcore users that have a lot of time to research the manuals and blogs. By the way, Nora Diaz is one of the most respectable users of this product. Her videos help a lot!

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Great support documentation is available on their platform and can solve 95% of your queries. Other queries are often resolved in a timely fashion and with attention to detail.

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We rarely had any issues with SDL safe for a few bugs that we fixed promptly in the upcoming service packs and updates.

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Frankly, we don't know what other translation management systems are out there, so we can't comment on how they compare to Localize.

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memoQ is better quality and cheaper. Previously, Trados had a monopoly on the market but fortunately there are other adequate options available now at a lower cost.

• Localize was setup and running on 4 websites in under 8 weeks.
• Project was delivered well under budget with minimal problems.

• Trados is used by many clients, so it helps me to get more jobs.
• Having one of the latest versions helps me a lot. I can, for example, import editable pdf documents and work on them within the Trados environment.
• It also helps me with files which need to be returned in bilingual format in Word.

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