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CAT tools and cloud computing

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Topics: Software, tools & computing
Professional skills

Course summary
Availability:This training is available on-demand

Duration: 70 minutes

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Language:English
Summary:This video will provide an overview of the new crop of CAT tools which are implementing the Software-as-a-service license model and offer web-based TM sharing. The general features of these new tools, the opportunities they offer to team of freelancers and small agencies who can now set up a translation team in a very short time and in a scalable way to fit their changing needs and without the need to buy an expensive TM server license will be outlined. Using these tools agencies can reduce TM management and project costs and offer scalable capacity, freelancers can group together and compete for larger clients.

Description
This video will provide an overview of the new crop of CAT tools which are implementing the Software-as-a-service license model and offer web-based TM sharing. The general features of these new tools, the opportunities they offer to team of freelancers and small agencies who can now set up a translation team in a very short time and in a scalable way to fit their changing needs and without the need to buy an expensive TM server license will be outlined. Using these tools agencies can reduce TM management and project costs and offer scalable capacity, freelancers can group together and compete for larger clients.

In detail we will look at:

Description of the SAS model
Advantages of real-time TM sharing
Tools feature comparison
Pricing model comparison
Privacy policy overview
Tips and best practices on how manage and setup a virtual team sharing a TM

Target audience
• Translators and small agencies who are familiar with CAT Tools.
• CAT tool users who want to gain an insight on the benefits of working in a team with a shared memory.


Prerequisites
None - you don't need to have any particular sofwtare installed in your machine to participate in this session.

Program
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• The SAS model will be described
• Advantages of real-time TM sharing will be suggested
• Tools feature will be compared
• Pricing model will be compared
• Privacy policy will be outlined
• Tips and best practices on how manage and setup a virtual team sharing a TM will be offered

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Price: 15.00 USD
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Trainers
Fabio Salsi
Bio: Traductor independiente graduado de la Escuela Superior de Intérpretes y Traductores de la Universidad de Bolonia (Italia). Trabajó en los últimos diez años como Language Lead para Lionbridge en Sophia-Antipolis (Francia), como localizador para Alpha LTD en Cambridge (Inglaterra), y fue socio de Albatros Soluzioni Linguistiche s.r.l, una empresa de traducción en Bolonia (Italia). Fue contratado en el marco de proyectos de localización y de pruebas de software en Francia, Alemania y EE.UU. Es un utilizador experimentado tanto de Trados, que utiliza desde 1996, como de otros CAT tools (Translation Workspace, WordFast, Google Translator Toolkit, RC WinTrans, Deja Vu, Tag Editor) y editores HTML (FrontPage, UltraEdit).

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"The trainer gave a good overview of CAT tools in the "cloud" and their fees/non-fees."

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