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Before the rise of Translation Management Systems (TMS), there were CAT tools. A CAT (Computer-Assisted or Computer-Aided Translation) tool is software that allows a user to work with bilingual text – the source and the target (translation). Its core components include:
- a translation memory (TM),
- a termbase (TB),
- machine translation options (though not necessarily),
- a built-in quality assurance (QA).
Over time, to get the translation job done faster and making it more scalable, those components were no longer enough. That’s how a variety of business management features appeared in a CAT environment, resulting in the birth of TMS. For easier and quicker performance, many CAT tools emerged in the cloud too. They are the essence of a TMS.
The Nimdzi Language Technology Atlas 2023 features over 140 of TMS solutions.
Let’s have a look at the history of this technology and the oldest tools' background, from the 80s to 2010. Click on the image below to see an enlarged version you can zoom further.
