GlobalLink is the enterprise translation management system offered by Transperfect. While it is only used by enterprise customers, language service providers are often users of this system as vendors to handle complex localization projects and workflows. 

Use cases:

BeLazy supports integration with GlobalLink through a comprehensive connector that enables seamless vendor workflow management. There are two main use cases where the GlobalLink integration comes in handy:

  • You need to efficiently handle GlobalLink project approvals, task claiming, and package downloads while maintaining centralized project coordination and resource management.
  • Your customers use GlobalLink for their enterprise localization projects and assign batches to you, and you want to automatically manage these vendor assignments in your business management system,

BeLazy connects GlobalLink with any business management system or tracker, and allows:

  • Project and batch listing with all details, including quotations and workflow information,
  • Project creation in a business management system or tracker from GlobalLink batch assignments,
  • Task claiming and package downloading with automatic format prioritization (TXML → WF5 → standard packages),
  • Additional materials download including instructions, source files, and reference materials,
  • Quotation matching and pricing integration with comprehensive item support,
  • Workflow coordination with consecutive task merging and batch management.

Integration type:

The GlobalLink integration impersonates users through the internal APIs used in the Project Director interface communication. This implementation enables comprehensive access to vendor-specific functionality while respecting GlobalLink's enterprise security model. The integration supports 2-factor authentication for enhanced security.


Requirements:

Unless the customer uses a different single sign-on solution, you need the URL of the system you connect to, your username, and your password. The integration supports 2-factor authentication when required by the customer's security configuration.


Expected URL format:

The URL is usually https://gl-xxxx.translations.com/PD, where PD stands for Project Director, the project management component of the system. As GlobalLink can be installed anywhere, BeLazy identifies the system from the login page rather than the URL format. If you have difficulties logging in, contact us for assistance.


GlobalLink-specific configuration:

There are no GlobalLink-specific options to configure in BeLazy, the configuration only includes the standard elements.

Functionalities and connector-specific information:

  • Unit of acceptance: Batch (can contain multiple languages and consecutive workflow tasks, e.g. translation, review, translation implementation, but not the client review implementation, as the workflow breaks when the client is involved)
  • Multiple target languages: Supported - batches with multiple languages created as single projects
  • End client, workflow: Extracted from GlobalLink project metadata and domain information
  • Project exclusion: Not supported
  • Download files: Package download with format prioritization (TXML → WF5 → standard), reference material download
  • Upload files: Currently not supported
  • Delivery: Not yet available from BeLazy
  • Linguist assignment: Not currently supported
  • Vendor creation: Not supported
  • Project bundling: Supported only through batch management and consecutive task merging
  • 2-factor authentication: Supported
  • Pricing: Comprehensive quotation matching with fixed-price fuzzy matching model
  • Analysis creation: Integrated with GlobalLink's quotation system
  • Task claiming: Full support for claiming tasks and downloading associated materials


Current limitations:

  • User mapping: Workflow step user mapping not currently implemented
  • Delivery functionality: BeLazy delivery not yet available
  • Post-project tasks: Tasks appearing after project completion (sign-off, implementation after customer review) not currently supported
  • Vendor assignment: No vendor assignment functionality available

Connector-specific data extracted: See here.


The integration provides comprehensive vendor workflow automation for enterprise GlobalLink deployments, enabling translation service providers to efficiently manage complex localization projects with sophisticated batch handling, package management, and pricing integration while maintaining centralized business operations and resource coordination.