Bureau Works

Website: http://www.bureauworks.com

Email: [email protected]

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Founded: 2012
Updated: 16 / 08 / 2024

Main Info

Deployment model

Public Cloud

Additional functionality

Integrations

API

REST

Public Machine translation

Amazon Translate

DeepL

Google

Microsoft

Online repositories (hotfolder integrations)

Google Drive

Web & Software

Adobe Experience Manager

Contentful

Drupal

Github

Kentico

Wordpress

Marketing automation

Adobe Marketo Engage

Oracle Eloqua

Supported file formats

Adobe InDesign (.idml .indb)
Comma-Separated Values (.csv)
Excel (.xls .xlsx)
iOS apps (.strings)
Java property files (.properties)
JavaScript (.json)
Markdown file (.md)
Microsoft Office (.doc .docx .xls .xlsx .xlsm .ppt .pptx)
Microsoft Windows text file (.txt)
Multilingual website GetText Portable object (.po .pot)
Multilingual XML formats (.xml)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
XLIFF (.xlf)
YAML language (.yml .yaml)

Support Integrations

Zendesk

Other Integrations

Figma
Slack

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About

Bureau Works is a REST API-first translation management system that delivers end-to-end business management automation and state-of-the-art translation augmentation. Bureau Works automates everything in a project life cycle including:
-quoting
-workflow management
-vendor task placement
-vendor payables
-stakeholder receivables
-quality data

From a translation augmentation perspective, Bureau Works offers a range of Augmented Translation Actions that minimize edit distance and time to edit while maximizing the authorship experience.
Some of the features include:
— Context Sensitivity
— Run-time Semantic Verification
— AI driven tag fixing
— and Automatic Extraction and Alignment of Terminology in Runtime

Best For
All kinds of businesses who operate in multiple languages, translation agencies and translators.

History
The company was founded in 2004, pivoted to a tech-enabled business in 2017 and to a translation software business in 2021. Here is the company story. Current headcount is 50. The company is profitable and growing organically.

Notes
The solution also features:
— In-context Preview for Video
— KanBan terminology management
— Integrated Analytics
— Branding (Domain and Subdomain)
— SSO
— Webhooks
— Smart Dynamic Feed: LLM-driven task priorities for users

Screenshots

Pricing

Team Pricing

https://www.bureauworks.com/pricing
A 14 day free trial
There is no different enterprise pricing

Translator workbench

Editor functionality

Concordance search
Customizable interface
Multiple file chaining into a single editable job
Multiple segment filtering options
Search and replace
Supports hidden text
Supports large files (>1 gb)
Supports right-to-left languages

Translation Editor OS support

Web editor

Productivity

Adaptive machine translation integrated
Automated locking of non-translatables (tags & numbers)
Centralized & real-time translation memory
Machine translation integrated

Quality

Automated quality assurance (AutoQA)
Custom quality profiles/programs
Quality evaluation functionality (LQA)

Context

Control over the length of the target segment
Preview for Adobe InDesign
Preview for Android apps
Preview for HTML
Preview for MS Excel
Preview for MS PowerPoint
Preview for MS Word
Preview for video
Preview for XML
Segments can link to screenshots and reference materials

Terminology

Forbidden terms
Linking terms
Live suggestions from term base
Multilingual terms
QA check for consistency
Term descriptions & images
Term extraction
Term indexing and tagging

Collaboration

Built-in instant messaging chat
Comments for segments
Multi-user simultaneous work on a single job
Query management
Tracked changes

Tasks performed with AI

Automated post-editing
Automated pre-editing
Content filtering (e.g. biased or harmful content)
Creative assistance for linguists (rewriting alternative translations SEO optimization etc
Fine-tuning of GPT
LLM available as MT engine
LLM used as language resource (like TM)
LLM-based QA
LLM-based QE
LLM-driven knowledge base
Other

PM workbench

Access (PM)

Web app

Projects

Automated project creation and resource allocation
Document version history
Invoice generation
Job analysis and price calculation based on TM & MT
KPIs and budget dashboard
Overdue job notifications
Project status and issues dashboards
Purchase order generation
Task manager for an in-house team
Time tracking & speed analytics
Vendor price lists and cost analytics

Workflows

Non-linguistic tasks allowed in workflows
Workflow builder
Workflow logic editor
Workflows can launch from an API call

Vendor management

Automated vendor selection based on rules and quality scores
First come first served job allocation
Job marketplace
Payment automation
Vendor availability tracking
Vendor profiles
Vendor quality dashboard
Vendors can log in to review past & available work
Vendors can upload invoices to the tool

Customer portal

Access to terminology
Access to workflow steps
Access translation memory
Client review
Edit translation memory
Instant MT & TM a document
Instant Quotes
Order history
Payment processing
Reporting & Analytics
Whitelabelling and branding

Security

Can prevent file downloads
Placeholders for private user data
Prevent MT use
Roles and access rights editor
SOC2 type 2 compliance
Two-factor authorization
User activity logs