Home » Compare Comparing GeoWorkZ - Translation Workspace and Déjà Vu X3 Which software is better? Here is a rundown of features and reviews to help you make your decision. | |  |  | | Name | GeoWorkZ - Translation Workspace | Déjà Vu X3 | | Review breakdown | | | | Most helpful review | This product stinks and it's a scam This product stinks and is just Lionbridge's old "Logoport" system that they are relaunching under the name "Translation Manager" through a bogus company called "Geoworkz", which is just a front for Lionbridge. The subscription plans are ridiculous. The basic plan starts with $15.00 per month for a maximum of 5000 words. A translator can burn through that in a single day. After that it gets ridiculously expensive. They should really switch to a true-pay-as you go plan.
I rarely use it, except for Lionbridge projects, who require it. The idea that you have to pay Lionbridge to work with them is insulting to say the least. Every time I launch it, it inevitably ends up downloading a zillion updates that usually fail. They never seem to notify you of the updates, so that you can download them on your own schedule, not when you are panicking to complete a file.
Adding/creating a memory has to be done through a completely separate web interface at geoworkz.com - which only further complicates things.
The interface of the program itself is terrible. You cannot switch display formats from horizontal fields to a side-by-side format (like MemoQ). I also find the tags the three panes on the screen overly busy and very difficult to adjust (hover your mouse over an invisible frame to adjust it). Browsing to various files is also hopelessly clunky and complicated. You always seem to start browsing files from the root directory, and scrolling and scrolling down.
Speaking of browsers, it always seems to tell me that I have an invalid browser, even when I am on IE 10. I have never been able to successfully preview the translation in a web browser.
The terminology feature is equally miserable. You cannot add to termbases that are provided by the client, let alone download them. The interface is terrible since single terms with multiple translations appear individually and there is no shortcut for inserting the terms into the text.
I could go on...support is also an issue. Since it's usually in India. And with all things Lionbridge, the right foot never knows what the left foot is doing. It's as if they have buried themselves in so much technology that they never know how to get anything solved.
My two cents.47 out of 47 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | My main translation tool - everything you need in one package I have tried quite a few tools, but I invariably return back to Dejavu. It's a complete package with most everything you need to get up to speed when translating. For a serious translator the DVX3 Pro would be the recommended version.
- When you type, AutoWrite is trying to guess for the Terminology Database what you want to write, which improves speed.
- In DVX3 you can choose if you want source and target side by side (standard), or source above target. Source above target makes it much easier to see where you are in the translation.
- Spell checker on the fly. You can right click on the words that have a wiggly line below, and change the spelling then and there.
- I fin that numbered tags makes it easier to see if they are placed correctly in target, instead of named like in some other tools.
- All languages are available when you want to create a project, instead of being limited.
- It's easy to switch between project view (all documents in one view) and document view.
- Live Preview is available for major document types (Office documents).
- Formating (bold, italics etc.) is shown.
- It is easy get going with Dejavu even if you are new to it.. Also Atril has put out quite a few Youtube videos to help you if you need more instructions.
- Minor updates are free.
- And not least: If you need help, there is a discussion group where the users help each other with advice.7 out of 7 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | | Product description | Translation Workspace is the industry’s first on-demand, subscription-based, translation technology solution. Powered by Lionbridge’s proven and acclaimed technology, Translation Workspace lets you drive your business with usage-based subscription models, based on a proven, high-performance, secure, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) infrastructure | Try Déjà Vu X3’s amazing features today: fuzzy match repair, intelligent AutoWrite, XLIFF export in Professional edition, new PDF converter, new IDML filter, live preview, inline formatting and fewer embedded tags. Thanks to the new SDXLIFF, XLZ, MQXLZ filters, it’s the most compatible CAT tool out there.
The new interface has been designed carefully, following Microsoft user experience guidelines to enhance usability and ergonomics, by ensuring consistency with other well-known programs and improving the discoverability of features. Really boost your productivity with Déjà Vu.
Déjà Vu X3 brings you the full feature set for industry-leading productivity and Intelligent Quality, including the game-changing DeepMiner and AutoWrite.
Main Features
- DeepMiner (fuzzy match repair)
- Dynamic AutoWrite
- Machine translation direct integration
- Complete translation environment with automatic functions such as automatic propagation and terminology checks
- Unmatched file compatibility and interoperability
- Multi-File preview
- Inline formatting and spell-checker
- Quality Assurance module with defined and customizable rules
- Multilingual, multi-format and multi-file projects
- Multilingual projects and multilingual databases
- Guaranteed Matches
- Project Lexicon
- Intelligent Quality
- SmartView
- Powerful batch maintenance of project and database quality
- Alignment of previously translated files
- Multi-file and Multi-format alignment project
- Term extraction
- Advanced analysis for best quotation
- Advanced pre-translation function
- Translation Memory and Termbase administration
| | Price | Full-featured subscriptions start at EUR 10/USD 14 per month. | 420€/1490€ | | File formats | Architected to support XLIFF and TMX. MS Office, InDesign (idml, inx), FrameMaker (MIF), Java, HTML, XML,SGML, Idiom, SDL Trados | View all formats here | | License type | Software as a service (subscription) | Perpetual | | Operating system | Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP, Windows Vista | Windows | | System requirements | Any machine with Microsoft Windows: XP / Vista (32 and 64 bits) / Windows 7 (32 and 64 bits). Internet Explorer versions 7, 8 and 9, Firefox versions 3 and 3.5 and broadband connection. | Minimum system requirements: 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1GB RAM | | Compatibility | Supports open standard file formats XLIFF and TMX. | Supports open standard file formats XLIFF (SDLXLIFF, MQXLZ, etc.), TMX, TBX & OLIF - compatible with all CAT tools on the market. | | Support and upgrades offered/included | Basic Support is offered as part of your Translation Workspace Subscription, Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription | Free technical support via support ticket center, Free updates, but not upgrades, Free community support | | Support and tutorial links | No data | Visit our Resource Center. Learn more | | Free trial | No data | 30 days trial | | Languages supported | Translation Workspace supports hundreds of world languages and scripts. Visit: https://geoworkz.com/Products/FeaturesAndFunctionality.aspx | All the languages supported by Windows are supported by Déjà Vu X3. Read more | Looking to buy one of these tools? Save when you buy through ProZ.com Translator Group Buying Translator Group Buying → | | | | X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... | | | | | | |
