This category includes translation management systems, localisation platforms, machine translation engines and multilingual content tools. Organisations use them to translate websites, software interfaces, contracts and documentation, to manage translation memories and glossaries, and to coordinate in-house teams and freelance linguists.
Contracts, personnel files, patient information and unpublished product plans pass through the service, and with machine translation the text may also be used to improve models unless the terms exclude it. Reference points such as Google Translate are operated from the US, so the rules on international transfers matter when documents contain personal data. Beyond confidentiality, translation memories and glossaries are a valuable asset that is easily trapped in a proprietary format.
In a European option, look for explicit terms that your content is not used for training, EU-hosted or on-premise engines, deletion of documents after processing, and role-based access for external linguists. Check that translation memories and glossaries export in standard formats such as TMX, TBX and XLIFF, and that the file formats of your CMS and software are supported, so that switching later does not mean starting from scratch.