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Key TMS features
Every TMS should have certain features you should look for to meet your business needs.
Quality management
There are still discussions on what should be considered a high-quality translation. Is it an error-free document in the target language or the smooth process where every step complies with the established procedure?
Quality Assurance
Automatic QA tools to check translations have become the standard in the translation industry. Many of them are built-in with the various CAT tools, but some are also available separately.

Key TMS features
Every TMS should have certain features you should look for to meet your business needs.
- Project management
  Even though the primary goal of a TMS is to automate a lot of tasks in the translation process, it still requires people to manage it.
- Finance management
  The main reason for investing in a TMS is to reduce costs that your organization spends on translation in general. See how can this tool help you achieve it.
- Content management
  A TMS maintains all the translation-related content centrally to be accessed in real time.
- Translation editor (Workbench)
  Currently, hardly anyone translates in an original document, be it Word, HTML file or InDesign. Most translators and reviewers work in special text editors that are core CAT tool components.
- Quality management
  There are still discussions on what should be considered a high-quality translation. Is it an error-free document in the target language or the smooth process where every step complies with the established procedure?
  - Quality Assurance
    Automatic QA tools to check translations have become the standard in the translation industry. Many of them are built-in with the various CAT tools, but some are also available separately.
  - Linguistic Quality Assurance
    Linguistic Quality Assurance (LQA) is a comprehensive, multi-level process that includes a large number of factors that all aim to measure, control and increase the linguistic quality of any text.
- Machine translation
  Machine translation engines are third-party systems for automatic translation that are not standard components of a TMS.
- Connectors
  Learn how to gain more control over your content by integrating content management systems and translation management systems via a connector.
- Security
  Nowadays, data security is on top of mind of all businesses, with the translation industry being no exception.
- Documentation
  When you start working with a new tool, it is extremely useful to have relevant documentation at hand to refer to it when you need it.
- Support
  High-quality documentation is useful, but in some cases it may not be enough. As with every IT tool, with TMSs you can also experience technical problems.
- Product development
  You have bought a TMS and what comes next? Since every IT tool is upgraded from time to time and you get the new version instantly if you use the cloud-based software, you need to be ready for constant changes.

Quality Assurance

Automatic QA tools to check translations have become the standard in the translation industry. Many of them are built-in with the various CAT tools, but some are also available separately.

The aim is to help linguists and Project Managers spot as many errors in the translated documents as possible quickly and effectively.

After translation and proofreading Project Managers usually perform an automatic Quality Assurance check e.g. for:

formatting
punctuation
grammar
spelling
inline tags
forbidden or rejected terms used

In XTM, the scope of QA checks depends on the connected spell checker and its availability for the particular language. You run it directly in Workbench, using either a built-in solution or the connect to MS Word. It is also possible to perform QA using Xbench – a third-party translation QA and terminology management tool.

As a result, when a QA error is detected, it is highlighted and you will see warnings displayed with segment number, category and description. You can also filter our segments with QA warnings to focus only on them.

QA feature in XTM — Figure 1. QA feature in XTM

XTM enables you also to use regular expressions to perform an in-depth quality assurance check. You can choose between a series of predefined regular expressions in the QA profile.