CSA report helps LSPs to evaluate and select a TMS

Translation Management System (TMS) facilitate the rapid development, day-to-day management, and publishing of multilingual content by organizing and coordinating work process in the complex, distributed supply chains of the US$37 billion-dollar language services industry. Selecting the right translation management technology can mean the difference between growth and stagnation for language service providers (LSPs). Choosing a TMS to manage the myriad business, process, and linguistic functions is complex, especially considering future trajectories of both the software developer and the LSP. Independent market research firm Common Sense Advisory (CSA Research) recently released "MarketFlex for Business-Oriented TMS," the latest in it’s MarketFlex™ series of research reports and the industry’s first thorough analysis of commercial "business-oriented" TMS that support the needs of LSPs. The report evaluates both the software system and the development company that supports it. Building on a decade of research and analysis of the sector, this MarketFlex report includes an analysis of market dynamics as well as individual assessments to highlight strengths and concerns with each vendor’s offering. To produce this report analysts evaluated 375 factors for each solution, organized into 20 scoring areas, weighted and balanced in a complex scoring algorithm for the following TMS:

• AIT Projetex
• Alpha CRC LTC Worx
• LSP.net OTM
• Plunet BusinessManager
• RR Donnelley MultiTrans
• Wordbee Translator
• XTRF

Data was gathered and validated in December 2015 and January 2016. The analysis represents a snapshot in time. Comments Ben Sargent, senior analyst at Common Sense Advisory and TMS expert, "MarketFlex reports give technology buyers an in-depth view of where products and vendors are positioned in the market today, and which vendors are likely to grow market share in the future. Understanding the market position and trajectory of the major solutions helps technology buyers select systems that will survive the test of time, saving money and headaches in the future." MarketFlex™ is a data visualization with written assessments and analysis of competing software solutions in a specific category of language technology. CSA Research evaluates each system and vendor along two axes, "product viability" and "company sustainability." The resulting scores provide data coordinates for plotting the solutions onto a grid, showing relative market strengths and weaknesses. 

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