The Future of Trados With Mark Lawyer
                     THE FUTURE OF 
TRADOS WITH MARK 
LAWYER
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THE FUTURE OF TRADOS 
WITH MARK LAWYER
In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Mark Lawyer, General Manager of 
Trados, the key technology product line of UK-based Super Agency RWS.
Trados is a translation technology adopted by hundreds of thousands of 
freelance translators, LSPs, and enterprise customers — the three main 
market segments of the localization supply chain.
Mark begins with his journey to joining the localization industry straight out 
of university, with roles spanning business development, solution 
architecture, and global customer experience management. He shares 
some of Trados’ milestones starting with its creation in 1984.
Mark talks about the flexibility of the Trados 3pla2tfo,rm2 a4nd% why they offer 
cloud capabilities with the desktop app to provide a hybrid working 
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where there are multiple configurations availsaebdl en tcoid usne urs. based on their 
role. For example, a post-editor will have the Track Changes feature and 
fuzzy-match repair available to them. With more than 270,000 linguists 
using the platform, Mark shares how they strike the right balance between 
functionality and features without overwhelming those users.
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Mark shares his views on Google’s Translation Hub and how it can bring 
awareness to the industry, which he sees as still being very fragmented. The 
pod rounds off with Trados’ roadmap for 2023, plans to invest money in 
security, AI-driven features, the modern user experience, continuous 
localization, and building out that ecosystem.