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OTM – Features

Language Service Providers administer their language projects with OTM.

The software contains integrated modules for quality assurance, online communication and administration of all processes. OTM is user-friendly and is provided as Software as a Service (SaaS), meaning that it is available 24/7 from any internet browser.

General features

  • No software installation required; 24/7 availability anywhere, using browser-based access
  • Intuitive, process-oriented navigation
  • Online help / Online user manual / How-to videos for easy learning
  • Multi-lingual – all languages are possible for the user interface and project-related texts (UTF8 coded)
  • Built-in e-mail client for communication with customers and resources
  • Integrated quality assurance modules
  • Can be individualized (quotes, invoices, forms, standard text blocks)
  • NEW Integration with SDL Trados® Studio
  • Multiple-site support (managing several locations jointly or separately)
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Process control and workflow management

  • Automated project-related documentation of all processes
  • Personalized task board
  • Cost estimations, quotation generation
  • Price templates – customers / projects
  • Wizard for freelancer job postings
  • Pre-selection of translators based on availability, language pair, fields of expertise, quality requirements, ranking/job history, …
  • Project-related email communications, including documentation (customers, translators, project managers, administrators, accountants, …)
  • Email templates, with automatic messaging where required (job offers, deadline reminders, payment advices, etc.)
  • Incoming emails containing a project number will be sorted automatically to the relevant project.
  • Projects can be delegated to another project manager (in case of absence due to vacation, sickness, termination of employment, etc.)
  • Automatic generation of quotes and invoices (including partial invoices) for customers, and of credit notes for freelancers; PDF format – ready to print, send, download
  • Process-oriented document control (including archiving)
  • Automatic document version control
  • Clickable telephone numbers ("callto:" links for VoIP clients)
  • Convenient search functions (projects, customers, translators – multiple criteria)
  • Customized bookmarks
  • Newsflash tool for distribution of internal news within the agency front end
  • Comprehensive statistics (revenues, costs, quality control, charts, …)

Online interfaces

Front ends (TLS-connection)

  • Online customer request form Sample
  • Web-based front ends for project managers, administrators, accounting, management reporting
  • Vendor portal – Web-based freelancer front end: Job documentation, document upload/download, email client, credit notes, W9 forms, archiving...
  • Client portal – Web-based customer front end: Project tracking and documentation, file upload/download, email client, quotes, invoices, archiving...
  • Online freelancer application form Sample
Online Browser Security

Quality assurance modules

  • Formal quality assessment
  • Linguistic quality assessment
  • Recording and evaluation of quality indicators
  • Automatic evaluation of performance indicators and characteristics for ranking freelancers when selecting resources for a job (differentiated by field of expertise and language pair)
  • Complaints management and documentation
Quality Assurance

Business administration, bookkeeping,
risk management and controlling

  • Customer and resources management
  • Rights-based routing of tickets for administrative tasks
  • Automatic sequential numbering of projects, invoices, and credit notes (customizable)
  • Accounting functions including payments, monitoring, reminders (dunning) and management reporting
  • Invoicing of customers and freelancers in all currencies, with currency calculations based on the current exchange rates of the European Central Bank (incl. transaction log)
  • Automatic blocking of new quotes for customers with overdue payments (customizable)
  • Credit limits for customers (customizable by country, registered office and company name)
  • Blacklist function (for customers and freelancers)
  • Comprehensive statistics (revenues, costs, cash flow, quality control, charts, …)
  • Cash flow diagram to visualize average payment performance
Customer administration - Translator administration

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

  • Administration of customer feedback
  • Online customer satisfaction scale and testimonials
  • Multi-stage follow-up module
  • Generation and management of discount codes
customer barometer

Administration

Online Back end (TLS-connection)

  • Setup Wizard
  • Differentiated authorization management for various tasks/roles (users/admins)
  • Administration of company and contact data
  • Administration of underlying business data (VAT, cost estimation assumptions, etc.)
  • Administration of internal employees and agency resources (freelancers)
  • Editors for text blocks, general terms and conditions, etc. - all languages are possible
secure TLS connections

Upcoming modules and features

  • Push notifications to the OTM task board
  • Integration with MemSource

 

OTM is mature, tried-and-true software for the language services industry – an expert system that is nevertheless easy to use, with all of the features that language service providers and end customers prefer.

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Detailed explanations on the various topics are
     available here.

More information about OTM:
     Overview | Interfaces | Smartphone PM
     Quality Management | Data Security

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