Fluency Now vs SDL Trados: which wins? | Fluency Now vs SDL Trados

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Fluency Now vs SDL Trados: which wins?
Poster: gkita_fluency
Post title: Fluency Now vs SDL Trados

[quote]Alexandre Chetrite wrote:

Hi,

I have SDL Trados 2011 licence, but Fluency new CAT tool seems very promising too. ANd cheap (around 10 US dollars/month subscription instead of the hundred of dollars to acquire the latest version of Trados 2015).

And I wonder: could I use Fluency Now insteatd of Trados 2011 Freelance? Are Trados files all compatible with Fluency CAT tool?

Are there any tasks that I can accomplish with TRADOS that I can't with Fluency?

As I said I have Trados 2011 Freelance, and there has been Trados 2014 and 2015 since and many improvements, whereas Fluency seems to be much more recent.

Your opinion? [/quote]

Hi Alexandre,

Fluency Now supports a number of different SDL Trados file types, which means you can open them for translation, then save them back out in the proper format for your clients.

Fluency Now is much more compatible with Trados files than ever before, offering support for the following:

- TM import for TMX, SDLTM, TTX, TXT, MDB, ACCDB
- Terminology import for TXT, TBX, SDLTB, XML
- Translation of XLIFF, SDLXLIFF, TTX, WSXZ, SDLPPX, SDLRPX

Note: More formats are supported for each of these items. For a full list, see [url removed]

One of the more recent updates in regards to Trados compatibility in Fluency Now deals with translation packages. Fluency Now offers the ability to work with SDLPPX package files, but can now also work with and save out to SDLRPX return packages (as long as your source file is SDLPPX/RPX).

If you'd like to test Fluency Now for yourself, to see how it works for you, you can download a free two week trial here: [url removed]

If you have any additional questions, please let us know at [email removed] .

Greg Kita
Fluency Support