Memsource

What do you like best?

In Memsource, you can specify unique workflows per each content type and/or product line. Because memsource is heavily invested in endpoint APIs, you can define any type of workflow based on your criteria and requirements.

- For legal, we have full workflow Translation, editing, review, and review #2

- for Support, we have a partial workflow in translation and editing

- for production UI, we have a different workflow depends on the language. Some languages go through T, E, and R while others go to T and E, or T and R.

also, we are focusing on vendor-agnostic model and Memsource can support this type as well. Each vendor is assigned per job, and a job equals to a language. That means 10 jobs, 2 jobs can assign to vendor A and 8 jobs can assign to vendor B.

Lastly, Memsource support varieties of Machine Translation + built-in as well so you can use some of the top MT engines

What do you dislike?

Termbase is still lacking the industry standard and the permission level needs to improve.

They just recently deployed a Google Chrome plug-in for termbase import/export and it's a one step further to automatically push any new terms for translations and sync back to the glossary. I think more improvement is definitely needed such as a rejection/approval, dashboard...etc

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

Customization and flexibility on how a translation project can be handled by vendors. As we are approaching vendor-agnostic models, using Memsource is helping us to stay in a single tech platform, but working with multiple vendors at once.