TMSreq
Translation-Memory-System auswählen: How to succeed
TMSreq is designed for companies that want to acquire a translation memory system or replace their existing one. This tool helps you speed up your search for the best possible translation memory system and compare your current system with those available on the market.
Find the right translation memory system more quickly
Gemino knows what’s important when choosing a TMS. And we share this knowledge with you. We have used our expertise in translation management systems to develop a web application. With it, you can compile the TMS requirements relevant to your company in a catalog. Our goal is to make it easier for you to evaluate the translation memory systems on the market and save you significant time. Creating a TMS requirements profile is an extremely time-consuming process, even if you have the expertise to draft corresponding specifications yourself.
TMSreq provides valuable information for decision-making quickly and reliably. The questions you answer in the tool allow us to derive a profile of the translation memory system best suited to your needs. This profile then serves as the basis for an internal assessment by your team or as a specification for a request for proposal with various TMS providers. TMSreq offers you this knowledge.
1Decide objectively…
With TMSreq, you define the relevant decision criteria for selecting a suitable TMS and then prepare your request for proposal.
The challenge
Choosing a translation memory system is a decision of strategic business importance. This is because it is not just about selecting software that meets certain current requirements. There is often a lack of staff, detailed specialist knowledge, or time to make an informed decision. That’s where TMSreq comes in.
Impact
A TMS also has a major influence on aspects that go beyond the translation process: Processes within your company that are closely linked to the actual translation are also affected. The ability to flexibly adapt future technological developments must be accounted for. It should also be a practical and easy-to-integrate addition to your supply chain of language service providers and linguists.
Decision-making tool
We have compiled all relevant factors known to us for choosing a TMS into a catalog of over 200 requirements, organized thematically, and made available to you in a web application. Based on your answers, we create a customized TMS profile for your company. You receive our practical expertise for optimal assessment and evaluation of potential TMS products as an Excel file.
2So your TMS meets your requirements…
TMSreq enables you to evaluate detailed individual requirements. This allows you to establish a clear path for final decision-making when selecting a translation management system.
All stakeholders are considered
The web application guides you through a checklist of detailed individual requirements that are relevant to you and your role in the company when choosing a TMS. No matter how many people you wish to involve in the decision-making process: Each participant can evaluate the relevant requirements for their area.
Your individual TMS profile
Once all participants have clicked through our questions, a concrete requirements profile for your future TMS is created:
You will receive the requirements profile in the form of an Excel file including the weighting of the selected requirements.
Knowledge in black and white
The evaluation result is an Excel document with hard facts: all relevant requirements, weighted and with ready-to-use wording for tenders. Based on this, you can create an initial shortlist of suitable TMS solutions. You can then evaluate various systems in detail based on the requirements catalog or carry out a tender.
3Market-neutral valuation…
We have deliberately decided not to list, evaluate, or recommend any specific TMS or vendors. TMSreq supports a well-founded evaluation and selection process by helping you create an individual requirements catalog.
4Take advantage of our expertise…
Once you have gone through the web application’s questions, you can assess and evaluate which features and options offered by a TMS are relevant to you. TMSreq represents a pure knowledge transfer:
Experience
Gemino understands what is important when selecting a TMS. In over 30 years as a language service provider, we have closely followed the development of innovative technologies in the field of translation processes. Gemino is and has always had its finger on the pulse of advances in translation and has developed its own tools to optimize processes.
Consulting expertise
We have become familiar with our clients’ diverse requirements for TM systems and have helped to design and optimize the appropriate processes. And we advised – in the definition of (core) requirements as well as in the selection process for translation memory systems.
Practical knowledge
Gemino knows the criteria our customers use to evaluate the translation memory systems currently available on the market. We understand the importance of the right mix of requirements for a TMS to deliver value to a company. And we can assess its pros and contras in everyday life. We share this knowledge with you through TMSreq.
Would you like to learn more about the basic approach to selecting a TMS? Here is our expert article
And this is how TMSreq works
- Create a requirements catalog with TMSreq
- Select TMS providers for a shortlist
- Evaluate systems and select the optimal system
After the initial registration, you will receive access to our tool, which can be used by one or more participants in your team. This allows you to involve all stakeholders (people or roles) in your company who should take part in the decision-making process.
The participants are guided through a dynamic, web-based questionnaire that offers the appropriate tool requirements from our complete catalog for selection – adapted to the role and detailed knowledge of the respective user. All individual requirements are provided with explanations to help you select/rate the requirements.
After all participants have selected and rated the desired requirements, the system creates a customized catalog of requirements for you. This also contains the appropriate pre-formulated questions for all requirements for an external tender in the language of the TMS manufacturer.
TMS or TMS?
Clarification of terms.
The acronym TMS refers to two different software concepts. On the one hand, for translation memory systems, i.e. systems that provide a translation environment using translation memories (translation databases). On the other hand, for translation management systems. These are systems that provide an environment for the management of translation processes.
Some systems currently available focus on one of the two functional areas, while others cover both areas to varying extents.
TMSreq supports companies in selecting the most suitable translation database system for their individual requirements and uses the acronym in the sense of a translation memory system. To a limited extent, requirements from the field of translation process management are also taken into account.
Would you like to get to know us?
We are pleased to hear that. Do you have questions that our FAQ did not answer? Then things get interesting…
Christian Schwendy
Founder & Managing Director
Sascha Clucas
Head of Technology