Lokalize

What do you like best?

The price is right. Free and open source means no licensing fees, no subscription costs. Great for small companies with a limited budget.

What do you dislike?

Unless you run a Linux shop, the software is extremely difficult for a lay user of Windows to get going. Love KDE for personal use, but unless all your machines run KDE, this might not be the best option.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Unless you are prepared the contribute to the KDE project in the open source model and have the expertise to troubleshoot and provide your own support, there are plenty of commercial software options that can be production-ready in far less time. Would not recommend for critical projects. Also be aware of its extremely limited utility. According to its own wiki page: "Lokalize is also a general computer-aided translation system (CAT) with which you can translate OpenDocument files (*.odt). Translate-Toolkit is used internally to extract text for translation from .odt to .xliff files and to merge translation back into .odt file." It will not work with Microsoft Word files.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Trying to translate source documents for non-English-speaking users. Had to abandon it in the end.