READ if you are a new translator or consider using Across Thread poster: IrimiConsulting
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IrimiConsulting 
Sweden
Local time: 18:05
Member (2010)
English to Swedish
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Please just stay away from this tool at all costs. You will regret it. You have been warned.
My background: I have worked in Across for ten years and translated hundreds of thousands of words, if not millions. I've been a translator for over 20 years and regularly work in half a dozen different tools. I know what I'm talking about.
I've seen Across going from a not-worse-than-other-online-tools to absolute and utter manure, while its competitors have actually evo... See more Please just stay away from this tool at all costs. You will regret it. You have been warned.
My background: I have worked in Across for ten years and translated hundreds of thousands of words, if not millions. I've been a translator for over 20 years and regularly work in half a dozen different tools. I know what I'm talking about.
I've seen Across going from a not-worse-than-other-online-tools to absolute and utter manure, while its competitors have actually evolved into being mostly useful. Across has almost all the functions other tools have, but implemented in its own way, i.e. with the intent to hurt translation efficiency (at which it is oddly successful).
- Sluggish performance while translating? Check.
- Sluggish performance when QA checking? Oh yeah.
- Snailpaced and feature reduced "No software installation needed" alternative available? Abso-f- rigging-lutely (looking at you crossWeb).
- Database corruptions at about every second update, requiring reinstalls and reboots? You got it.
- No built-in update function? Hooray.
- Huge installation and maintenance costs for servers and server licenses? Yeah baby.
- TM version incompatible with anything but itself, with no export features for the translator? Naturally.
- Nonexistent exporting and importing? Correct.
- Translators must adapt to whimsical tool limitations, being denied efficient work? Yes to that one.
- Nonstandard methods for selecting full words and sentences, adding to the number of clicks needed? Definitely.
- Forgets window placement every.single.time the tool is opened? You betcha.
- The game "guess where I'm gonna place this tag" is being played every time? Yup.
- A 32-bit translator application in a mostly 64-bit environment? DING DING DING you won a prize!
- ... that you must pay a yearly fee for if you want to work for more than one client at a time? LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GIVE A HAND TO THE GRAND ALL TIME WINNER!
Across is a tool that nobody actually wants. They just don't know it yet, and consider this rant your enlightenment in the matter. I'm posting this because I care about you my fellow translators and translation managers.
The most important reasons it hasn't gone out the client's windows yet are mostly if not all political. It's being purchased by higher management looking at just the purchase costs and naively listening to salespersons. The whole mess is thrown in the face of poor translation managers and translators who have to suffer the consequences for years and years to come. Unfortunately it's not (yet) classified as a crime against humanity but I'm still hoping.
MANAGERS AND STAKEHOLDERS: Please, please, PLEASE do not believe the Across salespersons. You will regret it. The tool has gone from bad to worse and is still gaining speed. There is NOTHING to excuse choosing this tool over other CAT tools on the market. No-THING. Zip. Zero. Nada. Rien. And in every other language you can possibly think of. ▲ Collapse
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Czech Republic
Local time: 18:05
English to Czech
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| The only remarkable thing about Across... | Apr 24, 2022 |
The only remarkable thing about Across... is their salesforce! My due respect! Having been able to sell this software to so many enterprises is something I can only watch with envy I want their salesforce on my side!
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Jan Kapoun wrote: The only remarkable thing about Across... is their salesforce! My due respect! Having been able to sell this software to so many enterprises is something I can only watch with envy I want their salesforce on my side!
You're doing a good job in marketing your own app, Jan. I wish you all the luck of the world with it.
| | | | Jan Kapoun
Czech Republic
Local time: 18:05
English to Czech
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| Thank you Hans | Apr 24, 2022 |
Hans Lenting wrote: You're doing a good job in marketing your own app, Jan. I wish you all the luck of the world with it.
Thank you Hans!
I think it's a very useful app to all translators. Too bad they don't let me advertise it here on Proz .... even when I wanted to buy the advertising space here on Proz, they just completely ignored me or even banned me from forums. I have absolutely no idea why.
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| You're doing a good job in marketing your own app, Jan. | Apr 24, 2022 |
Hans Lenting wrote: Jan Kapoun wrote: The only remarkable thing about Across... is their salesforce! My due respect! Having been able to sell this software to so many enterprises is something I can only watch with envy I want their salesforce on my side! You're doing a good job in marketing your own app, Jan. I wish you all the luck of the world with it.
I must have missed something here. What's the app Jan has developed and you're talking about?
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Famous Czech scholar and app.
| | | | Jan Kapoun
Czech Republic
Local time: 18:05
English to Czech
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| It's an app for translators... I developed myself to make my translator's life easier | Apr 25, 2022 |
Wolfgang wrote:
I must have missed something here. What's the app Jan has developed and you're talking about?
Hi Wolfgang,
It's an app for translators I have been developing since 2016 to make my translator's life easier. It combines machine translation, voice dictation and various productivity-enhancing features (this Across thing being one of them) for translators to help them translate faster and more effectively... and to bypass limitations of various CAT tools.
https://bohemicus-software.cz ... hopefully Proz won't kick me out for sharing this link.
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Jan Kapoun wrote: Wolfgang wrote:
I must have missed something here. What's the app Jan has developed and you're talking about? Hi Wolfgang, It's an app for translators I have been developing since 2016 to make my translator's life easier. It combines machine translation, voice dictation and various productivity-enhancing features (this Across thing being one of them) for translators to help them translate faster and more effectively... and to bypass limitations of various CAT tools. https://bohemicus-software.cz ... hopefully Proz won't kick me out for sharing this link.
Hi Jan, thanks for sharing the link.
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