Phrase Localization Platform

We use Phrase Localization Platform as our translation tool. In the past we used GroupShare and have a lot of experience with a variety of systems. Phrase Localization Platform has some good features. The ease of use is complicated by poor service. It an acceptable solution but the price is not reflected in the product or service quality.

• It has increased our systems costs considerably
• It has generally slowed down the process of launching projects
• The settings are quite difficult to get right and we have wasted a lot of capacity messing with the settings

Trados Team, Trados Studio and Smartling

XTRF, Smartling, Trados Studio

I am currently building up a career as an independent translator, and have used many CAT tools in the past. In the past year, I've used Memsource almost every day, and I can say it helped me hit the ground running and start actively contributing to many projects. Memsource tackles many project management issues inherent to working in the industry, such as budgeting, task distribution, and, of course, translation and proofreading of several texts. The features offered by the product continuously aid teams in assuring the quality of the work provided.

• Project Management templates.
• Resource Management.
• Acessibility

• Good impact in vendor management.
• Good impact in time optimization.

memoQ

Smartcat, MateCat, memoQ

I am a lecturer at Universidad del Rosario's diploma in Specialized translation. Memsource is part of the CAT tools module. My students love the program. They find it very useful and user-friendly. We translate general texts at the beginning of the module and technical text in the second half. The Academic Edition gives us all the features of the program, plus the option of assigning the PM role to some students. Therefore they can use it to prepare to be translators and project managers.

• Project manager role
• MT
• Splitting text
• Analysis

• When used with students, they know the license is not as expensive as in other products
• When used in a company, savings for repetitions and 101-100% matches and the time saved from splitting a text and working with more translators

Wordfast, Sonix, Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader

I have been using Memsource for over seven years and across multiple companies, both as a translator and as an editor/proofreader. From the very beginning, I've found the interface to be very intuitive and user-friendly and the entire user experience to be very smooth, with very robust translation memory and term base tools. The ability to transition seamlessly between web-based and desktop editors while collaborating with other translators/proofreaders/project managers is brilliant and a huge time-saver, especially compared to other (much more resource-intensive) solutions in the market. I honestly prefer working on Memsource's lean interface to, say, SDL Trados Studio's very bloated one.

• Flexibility
• Speed
• Leanness

SDL Trados Studio

SDL Trados Studio, Microsoft 365

I use Memsource on a daily basis to translate and review translations from my colleagues (around 7k words per month). I am a freelancer, so I don't have experience in the project design part, but from my experience as a linguist, Memsource is very user-friendly, and the interface is very intuitive and easy to use.

• Notifications are sent to team members when a new project is assigned or a project is declined (in a timely manner, to save time).

• For me as a freelancer, it's great to be granted the license by the company as therefore not have to spend money on a license while enjoying the CAT tool.
• I believe Memsource has speeded up the translation workflow since there is less need to share files, reference material, and invitations all by different means. Memsource encompasses everything.