Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: End client Looking for feedback and information on investing in a CAT
Poster: DZiW
Post title: Who (properly) dares wins
Welcome. Stacie.
I'm not sure whether Translations Manager really should be engaged in marketing or why your company rejects free tools, doesn’t consider a server-based license, or why CATs at all. Anyway, it’s a smart step to do one’s home task before leaping forward and out.
1) In fact, I don’t feel like installing some apps, let alone unfriendly, glitchy, sluggish, non-intuitive, oversized, and so on. Having worked with several CATs I still prefer so-called “native environment” (VBA add-ons to MS Office suit) and I’m reluctant to use (even free*) “cloud-based” CATs (not only NDA, but they often may go offline or be unreachable);
NEITHER positive, nor negative.
2) It depends on your clientele and their preferences. I often can do without a CAT, however, I would care about the CAT’s efficiency and efficacy the most.
3) Unfortunately, a modern tech-support is often but a cash-cow, overbloated to infamous “too late!”; perhaps, a new tool with a few clients would support promptly, on the other hand–less issues, less solutions, tinier knowledge-base, worse support–for awhile.
4) Here we go:
- there’re already plenty of CATs (also free or biz-oriented ones) –vs- investing time and money to a unique one (for what it’s worth);
- shared rights/terms –vs- it's all yours;
- a CAT has its users/follower, who may be eager to get involved –vs- starting from point zero;
- it doesn’t take your company long to implement –vs- takes a while or longer;
- it doesn’t require SOME translators to relearn –vs- it makes ALL relearn;
- it already has got (at least a kind of) Support –vs- it has some redirecting hotline;
- it supports many modern formats –vs- gradually implementing required formats;
And so on.
Shortly, if you have resources (people+money+time), then although for a decent programmer that magic “fuzzy matching” (similarity) feature is quite simple to develop and alpha-test, the venture does take and require much more than that.
Cheers
[Edited at 2016-10-19 13:08 GMT]
Topic: End client Looking for feedback and information on investing in a CAT
Poster: DZiW
Post title: Who (properly) dares wins
Welcome. Stacie.
I'm not sure whether Translations Manager really should be engaged in marketing or why your company rejects free tools, doesn’t consider a server-based license, or why CATs at all. Anyway, it’s a smart step to do one’s home task before leaping forward and out.
1) In fact, I don’t feel like installing some apps, let alone unfriendly, glitchy, sluggish, non-intuitive, oversized, and so on. Having worked with several CATs I still prefer so-called “native environment” (VBA add-ons to MS Office suit) and I’m reluctant to use (even free*) “cloud-based” CATs (not only NDA, but they often may go offline or be unreachable);
NEITHER positive, nor negative.
2) It depends on your clientele and their preferences. I often can do without a CAT, however, I would care about the CAT’s efficiency and efficacy the most.
3) Unfortunately, a modern tech-support is often but a cash-cow, overbloated to infamous “too late!”; perhaps, a new tool with a few clients would support promptly, on the other hand–less issues, less solutions, tinier knowledge-base, worse support–for awhile.
4) Here we go:
- there’re already plenty of CATs (also free or biz-oriented ones) –vs- investing time and money to a unique one (for what it’s worth);
- shared rights/terms –vs- it's all yours;
- a CAT has its users/follower, who may be eager to get involved –vs- starting from point zero;
- it doesn’t take your company long to implement –vs- takes a while or longer;
- it doesn’t require SOME translators to relearn –vs- it makes ALL relearn;
- it already has got (at least a kind of) Support –vs- it has some redirecting hotline;
- it supports many modern formats –vs- gradually implementing required formats;
And so on.
Shortly, if you have resources (people+money+time), then although for a decent programmer that magic “fuzzy matching” (similarity) feature is quite simple to develop and alpha-test, the venture does take and require much more than that.
Cheers
[Edited at 2016-10-19 13:08 GMT]