Use this innovative visual PM tool to control your projects at a single glance, immediately identify tasks and issues and make your workflow easier, safer and more successful.

Further benefits:
• quickly allocate translators by job criteria and performance
• instantly create quotes and orders
• save time by sending multiple auto-generated job offers in one go
• control your budget, pinpoint cost leaks and increase your profit
• easily collaborate with your colleagues — in-house or worldwide

Promax is an integrated solution that combines all the tools you need to run your translation business successfully.

It is scalable to up to 500 users. Licenses can be life-time or subscription based from only $25 per month.

Find more information at www.promax-vpm.com.

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Plunet BusinessManager provides a high degree of automation and flexibility for professional language service providers and translation departments. Using a web-based platform, Plunet integrates translation software, financial accounting and quality management systems.

Within a configurable system, various functions and extensions of Plunet BusinessManager can be adapted to individual needs.

Basic functions include quote, order and invoice management, comprehensive financial reports, flexible job and workflow management as well as deadline, document and customer relationship management. You can see a detailed list of the extensive capabilities on Plunet’s website.

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Project Open is a project management tool that offers a module translation project management. It is integrated with trados and uses word count information to calculate the workload of the individual translators.

1. Presales, price negotiations and reception of files
2. Project Setup and PM assignment
3. Anlysis of the project files using Trados
4. Project staffing and freelance invitation
5. The freelancers confirm their availability
6. The resource manager selects freelancers
7. Translation Workflow: Translators and editors download their files and upload results.
8. Project discussions, "queries" and incident resolution
9. The customer downloads the result files
10. Invoice generation and payment tracking

All-in-all a very comprehensive project management package. Check it out!

An essential software package for translators and translation managers - providing a wide range of features and functionality needed for document analysis. FineCount can quickly provide detailed statistics for documents in many different formats (Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, and many others) FineCount can also be used to prepare cost estimates and invoices for translation work. Moreover, FineCount allows the users to create their own report templates that can be reused with different documents. Here are some screenshots showing FineCount.

The LTC Organiser is a unique and innovative business process management and workflow control software system, which supports and facilitates multilingual projects. It was developed according to the requirements of The Language Technology Centre's comprehensive multilingual activities, and reflects years of experience in managing interpreting, language training, large scale multilingual translation and software localisation projects. This software is therefore of considerable use to Language Industry worldwide. It ensures transparency in organisations of any size and reduces management time and costs by up to 50%