stable release sdl trados studio 2015 service release 2 march 2016 operating system windows type computer assisted translation license commercial website www.sdltrados.com sdl trados is a computer assisted translation software suite 1 originally developed by the german company trados gmbh and currently available from sdl plc a provider of customer experience cloud solutions . it is considered the market leader 2 in providing translation software solutions across the entire translation supply chain including freelance translators language service providers corporate language departments and academic institutions . alongside sdl trados sdl also develops productivity tools sdl multiterm sdl passolo and sdl language cloud . contents 1 history 2 configuration 3 supported source document formats 4 handling of translation memories and glossaries 5 integration of machine translation and post editing 6 sdl openexchange 7 market share 8 documentation and help 9 criticism 10 see also 11 references 12 external links history edit trados gmbh was founded as a language service provider lsp in 1984 by jochen hummel and iko knyphausen in stuttgart germany . 3 the company began developing translation software in the late 1980s and released the first windows versions of two of the suite s major components in the early 1990s multiterm in 1992 and translator s workbench in 1994 . in 1997 the company received a major boost when microsoft decided to use trados for its internal localization needs . 3 by the end of the 1990s it had become the clear market leader in desktop translation memory software . citation needed trados was acquired by sdl in 2005 . 4 configuration edit sdl trados studio is delivered with several tools and applications . these are sdl trados studio the main application providing a complete environment to edit or review translations manage translation projects organize terminology and connect to machine translation . sdl multiterm a terminology management tool that is integrated with sdl trados studio for adding editing and managing terms . sdl language cloud secure access to machine translation engines that can be accessed directly from within sdl trados studio . sdl openexchange sdl trados studio includes several applications for the sdl openexchange an online marketplace which offers apps to help with a range of translation processes for example further file format support and task automation . supported source document formats edit sdl trados studio 2015 supports over 70 different file types 5 including various markup and tagged formats such as sgml xml html xliff sdlxliff studio s native format for translation opendocument files ; straight text files ; source code files such as java and microsoft . net ; microsoft word excel bilingual excel and powerpoint ; and some adobe file formats such as pdf scanned pdf ocr is included framemaker indesign and incopy . handling of translation memories and glossaries edit the translation memory tm format of trados is sdltm which consists in a particular sqlite database . 6 when creating a new file based translation memory sdl trados studio creates a database file in which all translation units are stored . the translation memory also stores structural and context information to link all the different segments and their position in a document . this allows the tool to select the most relevant translation memory segment . main translation memory database file . sdltm in previous version of trados a neural network of files that enable fuzzy search capability was also created . a new translation memory consists of five new files main translation memory database file . tmw neural network files . mdf . mtf . mwf . iix when copying a translation memory you must copy all five translation memory files . otherwise translator s workbench displays an error message when opening the copied translation memory . trados can also work with server based translation memories . glossaries are handled by the multiterm application . glossaries can be bilingual or multi lingual . integration of machine translation and post editing edit sdl trados studio 2015 has integrated machine translation and postediting into its translation workflow . if the appropriate parameter setting is made sdl trados studio will insert a machine translation of a translation unit tu if no match is found in the translation memory . the translator can then post edit the machine translation for added clarity . sdl trados currently supports the following mt systems language weaver sdl beglobal sdl languagecloud and google translate . sdl trados studio also supports the integration of microsoft translator and other mt system through its open api and plugin architecture on the sdl openexchange . sdl openexchange edit in december 2010 sdl launched the sdl openexchange a web portal allowing independent developers to leverage the software s open architecture to create applications and plug ins for sdl trados studio . 7 apps can be downloaded to add functionality missing from the base product such as legacy file support and new machine translation plugins . 8 as of 15 december 2011 over 25 000 apps have been downloaded . 9 market share edit according to a 2004 survey by the world bank trados held an estimated 75 % global market share with sdl holding an additional 10 % . 1 according to the icu translation memory survey from 2006 sdl trados is used by a total of 75 % of surveyed users 51 % used trados with a further 24 % sdl trados see table 21 . 10 documentation and help edit sdl trados manuals can be downloaded online from the company s website . basic training is available in the form of webinars delivered free of charge on a monthly basis while there is also onsite training at sdl and partner authorized training center locations . a calendar can be found on www.translationzone.com in the event section . educational videos can be found on www.youtube.com sdltrados . criticism edit sdl trados has been criticized for various issues such as lack of backward compatibility . 11 a number of solutions have been created for handling the different versions of trados file formats 12 but the process is not failproof . sdl did apparently respond to user complaints of licensing complexity and problems by simplifying the licensing scheme used in the sdl trados studio 2011 freelance release . 13 further criticism has been directed at the company s aggressive marketing strategy and expensive charges for training . citation needed see also edit sdl plc sdl multiterm sdl passolo references edit a b world bank translation business practices report pdf . gentil traduceri . august 2004 . archived from the original pdf on 2016 02 10 . retrieved 10 february 2016 . kockaert hendrik ; steurs frieda 2015 . handbook of terminology . 1 . amsterdam john benjamins publishing company . p. 225 . access date requires url help a b garcia ignacio . long term memories trados and tm turn 20 . the journal of specialized translation . retrieved 19 january 2009 . depalma donald a. july 2005 . sdl trados language service provider reaction to sdl s purchase of trados pdf . globalization & localization association . retrieved 19 january 2009 . sdl trados studio 2015 languages and filters . retrieved 2012 07 09 . sdl sdk api help files sdl plc. third party applications arrive on sdl openexchange . retrieved 2012 08 07 . sdl trados . introducing the sdl openexchange . retrieved 2012 08 07 . sdl plc. successful first year for sdl openexchange recruiting 300 developers and surpassing 25 000 downloads . retrieved 2012 08 07 . imperial college london translation memories survey pdf . retrieved 2009 02 02 . how to run sdl trados 2006 on windows vista and windows 7 . trados how to . 2008 01 30 . retrieved 2009 06 14 . using & installing multiple versions of trados on the same computer . trados how to . 2008 01 30 . retrieved 2009 06 11 . sdl trados studio 2011 freelance what s new . bottom of page . retrieved 2012 05 25 . faster installation and simpler licensing designed to get you up and running quicker plus you can now activate either online or offline . external links edit official sdl trados website sdl openexchange website sdl trados history retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sdl trados & oldid 712173405 categories translation softwarehidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urlall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2012articles with unsourced statements from september 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikibooks languages catal deutscheestiespa olfran aisitalianolatvie ulietuvi polskiportugu s sloven inasvenska edit links this page was last modified on 27 march 2016 at 12 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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