Cloud workflow
Starting with Trados Studio 2021 you can upload your projects, translation memories and termbases into your own secure cloud space and use them in Trados Studio, along with neural machine translation. You can also upgrade your local projects and project packages to cloud in Trados Studio by Saving them to cloud. With cloud projects, you enjoy the security of knowing that your work is synced to the cloud all the time and your projects can be shared easily and are backed up in a secure environment.
Cloud accounts and cloud subscriptions
- Trados Team
- Trados Accelerate
- Trados Enterprise
- Trados Terminology
- The cloud capabilities included with your Trados Studio license
With a Trados Team and Trados Enterprise subscription, you can also share your cloud projects and translation resources with other team members to optimize teamwork.
Starting with Trados Studio2024, Trados Team, Trados Accelerate, andTrados Enterprise subscribers are able to leverage their cloud-based resources when performing Batch tasks on both local and cloud projects.
Benefits of cloud projects
- Work anywhere, anytime. Create and get projects moving even when you are on the go. Cloud projects are available online, so you can access them wherever you work from.
- Work from any device. You can create and access cloud projects from a PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or from a MAC through a browser. For example, you may prepare a project on your phone, review translations from your tablet, and plug in Trados Studio to do the heavy work on your desktop.
- Access to the Online Editor. Trados Online Editor is a powerful online editing environment with enhanced commenting, tracked changes and online translation and review capabilities. Use it as a companion to Trados Studio for translating and reviewing cloud project files from a browser.
- Access to the Trados app. Start projects, view statistics, accept new tasks and keep up to date with project progress wherever you are - directly from your mobile phone.
- Blend online and offline working. Any offline changes made to cloud files in Trados Studio are synced to the cloud as soon as you get back online.
- Collaborate on projects with shared resources. Sharing in the cloud is available with a Trados Team or Trados Enterprise subscription.
- Easy overview of projects. The Dashboard in your cloud account enables you to monitor and analyze all your cloud projects.
- Better backup. RWS's secure cloud storage system is the safest place to store translation projects and resources. You will no longer have to back up your projects on USB sticks or third-party data storage systems.
- Better performance. The processing of cloud project files is handled in the cloud. This means that Trados Studio can keep all its available resources for your local projects.
Cloud resources
- The Online Editor. This is the online version of the Editor view that you can open in a browser to translate or review cloud files on any device.
- Cloud translation engines. These include: online translation memories, online termbases and Neural machine translation engines. Having all these linguistic resources grouped into one translation engine makes it easier easier to work with these resources as well as create cloud projects.
Cloud users, groups and permissions
Administrators of cloud accounts and Lead project managers can add account users to groups to grant them different permissions when working on cloud projects. Role-based permissions increase security and control over your cloud projects and translation resources.
| ACTION | Available for user role | Available with cloud offering | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrator | Lead Project Manager | Project Manager | Linguists (Translators and Reviewers) | ||
| Create new cloud project |
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| Create new customer | |||||
| Create new file type configuration | |||||
| Create new translation engine | |||||
| Create new pricing model | Trados Enterprise | ||||
Customers and locations
Customers define the structure or your cloud account. Cloud projects are always mapped to a customer in your account. For each customer that you add to your account, a dedicated customer location folder is automatically created. This enables you to organize the workspace of your cloud account based on your customer folders.
Vendors and pricing models
Vendors are language service providers (LSPs) that you might subcontract for translation services.
Pricing models help you determine price estimates per project. Pricing models are part of project templates and you can associate them with customers or vendors. Vendors and pricing models are only available with one of the subscription plans available for Trados Enterprise and Trados Accelerate.
Cloud workflows and tasks
The work required for creating and working on a cloud project is controlled by workflows and divided into tasks. Workflows control which cloud project tasks are executed in which order, and specify the users, groups or vendors assigned for each task. The manual tasks are the tasks users will work on to ensure the successful completion of a translation project. The automated tasks are performed automatically in the cloud and do not require any human intervention.
Cloud users with Administrators, Project Manager or Lead Project Manager role set up workflows and assign tasks to other users, groups, or vendors included in the cloud account. The assigned users, usually Linguists or Engineers, can accept tasks either from Trados Studio or from the browser, and can work on the tasks in both the Online Editor and in Trados Studio's Editor view.
For more information on these workflows and the tasks they contain, see the "Workflows" topic in Trados documentation.