What do you call a non-web content management system that does workflow and translation memory?
Nope they are not right, what you are looking for is GQMS (Global Content Management Systems) or TMS (Translation Management System). SDL now control most of the technology market, having bought two major systems manufacturers – Idiom who produce the WorldServer tool and TRADOS, who have/had a similar TM sharing tool. A good place to start to get a handle on this is the Common Sense Advisory and the Global Watchtower blog. The landscape for choice is pretty bare now – as I mentioned SDL have been buying up any competition, there is attempts at an “open source” TMS, with Clay Tablet being involved in this, but it remains a difficult task since it will require industry cooperation. Other companies working on such tools are Across. Drop me a PM if you need more information, I am the Tech manager at a Localization Company (but in a specific industry so
