Glossary

Translation platform / portal

A translation platform or portal is a secure, cloud-based environment that centralizes the process of creating, managing and delivering multilingual content. It connects teams, tools and workflows, enabling faster, more consistent translation and localization across global markets.

Description

A translation platform gives organizations a single, unified space to handle translation requests, monitor progress and collaborate with linguistic teams. It helps streamline complex localization workflows by bringing together key technologies such as translation memory (TM), terminology databases and machine translation (MT) – all designed to improve efficiency and maintain linguistic consistency.

By simplifying how content moves from request to delivery, translation platforms make it easier to manage high volumes of multilingual material, shorten turnaround times and ensure that quality standards are met. They’re now a core part of enterprise content ecosystems, supporting marketing, legal, product and technical documentation at scale. At RWS, our Translation platform/portal represents the evolution of translation management – combining human linguistic expertise with intelligent automation.