TOP 10 REASONS TO CHOOSE SDL TRADOS STUDIO

The SDL community offers users the ability to connect with the largest growing translation supply chain of over 200,000 SDL Trados users worldwide, ensuring you have the maximum client compatibility.

SDL’s decades of investment into filter development provides you with the widest choice of file compatibility.  With over 70 different file types supported, and more being added to the OpenExchange frequently, you will never have to turn down a translation project due to file incompatibility ever again.

SDL's sophisticated solutions have taken the concept of translation memory beyond its original limits. New features allow you not only to make the most of conventional translation memory technology but add numerous features which can accelerate translation and simplify many tasks.

SDL Language Cloud Machine Translation is a great new way for organizations and individuals to instantly leverage secure, high-quality, tailored machine translation (MT) without the need to train dedicated engines.  Our MT can even be personalized to output your brands special terms and phrases!

4. An unparalleled review experience

SDL Trados Studio not only improves the translation and project management area but transforms the entire review process. Within the software, sophisticated track changes technology allows you to immediately see amendments made to the documents, edit them and accept or reject them. However SDL Trados Studio also allows non-users to review documents in a familiar environment like Microsoft Word. SDL bilingual files can be exported, reviewed by subject-matter experts without any dedicated tool, and returned ready to be imported in to Studio where any further edit is visible and can be finalized. This all contributes to make review as easy and comprehensive as possible.

 It is important that you can rely on your supplier to be able to support you in the years to come. SDL is a publicly traded company with over $300 million turnover and 2,700 employees located in more than 70 offices across 38 countries. A solid financial track record allows us to continuously invest in our products to provide our customers with innovative and robust translation software solutions.

If you are not sure whether your company is maximizing the benefit from translation technology, then you can rely on SDL to show you how to increase the value of your investment. We have been developing market-leading and innovative software for the translation industry for over 30 years and can bring an additional level of expertise to your organization.

Developing the best solution requires investment: SDL has invested $100m in software development to bring the most sophisticated and powerful translation software tool to the industry.

Everybody is different and prefers to work in different ways, so we've made our desktop products completely customizable in terms of layout and keyboard shortcuts. We also provide different editing environments if you prefer to work with some of our older products. The industry's first app store, SDL OpenExchange, delivers additional ways to customize and add to the capabilities of our software.

Terms are often a key component of today’s translation projects and can seriously impact quality and lead-time. Terminology is proactively used in translation to bring additional consistency, quality and speed to the process. SDL MultiTerm, included in SDL Trados Studio, is well known by the industry as the most powerful and robust terminology solution.

SDL technology covers many scenarios and grows as you grow. From desktop products used by over 80% of the world’s professional translators to robust server solutions used by corporate language departments and LSPs, through to workflow-oriented enterprise solutions, you know you are secure now, and in the future.

If you want to increase your knowledge of the functionality within our software and demonstrate your competence, then SDL Certification is just for you! SDL Certification is the industry’s largest technology-based education program that brings a formal training structure on how to use and make the most of your SDL software.

SDL is endorsed by over 200 of the world’s leading Universities, and incorporated within the curriculum of their translation courses.  This provides a continuous stream of new talented professional translators, who are already competent in using the industry standard software tool.