What's New?

Your go-to source for all BeLazy software release updates. Whether you’re tracking enhancements, checking compatibility, or planning your next integration.

Mar 2025

Brand new functionality: Quoting

26 Mar 2025

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One of the main system types BeLazy connects with is business management systems. BMSes like Plunet, Protemos, XTRF, and others often have a separate concept of quotes and projects (orders). Up to now, BeLazy was only able to create orders, but now it also becomes possible to create quotes in Plunet.

You can enable or disable quoting per connection. As the information content is very similar between orders and quotes in Plunet, the only configuration change is that in order to perform quoting, you have to select a quote template in the Edit automation dialog.

The actions under Approvals pending got a new icon, which allows you to accept a new opportunity and create a quote.

BeLazy-generated quotes appear under a new section called Quotes pending.

Why is quoting so important for BeLazy? Our automation scenarios come full circle:

You can create an opportunity from a standard, regular email using the Email Assistant. Files are automatically uploaded together with the metadata into BeLazy, and the email is tagged in Outlook.
You accept the opportunity and create a quote.
Using the CRM integration, the quote gets synchronized with the customer’s profile in Hubspot as a deal.

Mar 2025

Brand new functionality: Reporting

26 Mar 2025

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Through integrations and constant monitoring, BeLazy sees more than any other system. This new functionality shares with you critical information that helps you make better decisions.

In this release, we introduce the first report about market opportunities. The main question of this report is: among the tasks offered to you, which ones are you taking and which ones are you missing out on.

BeLazy’s general reporting philosophy revolves around the following concepts:

While visualization on the fly is great, we cannot prepare for every aspect you want to analyse your data from. Therefore we always allow CSV export of the full dataset that the reports are based on. This also allows you to connect the data to other data in a business intelligence tool such as Tableau or PowerBI.
A translation company often gets information that is not comparable. For example, you cannot easily put a word count to a proofreading task of half an hour, but how many words you can translate in half an hour is also different from how many words you can proofread in half an hour. BeLazy’s reporting logic automatically normalizes your data to make it easier to analyse it and visualize it: it unifies the different naming for workflows into a manageable number of categories, it converts time, lines, pages into words per workflow type, it converts prices into euro and US dollar. You can see how we normalized the data in the CSV export, as both the original and the normalized units, workflows and amounts are visible.
All reports must be actionable. Seeing what you are missing and what you are taking, and what are the characteristics of the projects you are not taking, you can refine your auto-approval rules, and get more work using the market opportunities report.

Reporting is a separate database with normalized, timestamped data, and therefore there may be a lag of up to fifteen minutes between what is happening in the live environment and what you see in the reports.

Additional reports are coming in the next releases. Please reach out to share what you would like to see.

Mar 2025

TMS and vendor portal integration improvements

26 Mar 2025

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In the last three months we have mostly worked on levelling up our source connectors, rather than adding new functionalities.

We invested the most efforts into our Across and Smartling connectors. Through optimizations of what information we download at what stage and improving the login procedure and cookie sharing, both got significantly faster – approximately 20 times. We have also improved the authentication and login procedures of Phrase TMS.

Transifex now supports manual delivery, and so does Lionbridge LCX in all cases.

The memoQ connector now knows about a project whether it was launched or not, which helps automatic approval.

We further improved the Acolad Tempo connector, improving the file download and making the task code selectable as a bundling condition.

Mar 2025

BMS integration improvements

26 Mar 2025

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Plunet: different price lines charged to the customer than invoiced from the vendors

Many companies invoice customers TEP prices, but receive vendor invoices separately for translation and review. Combined receivables are not rare in the translation industry. With the new functionality in BeLazy you can now set up price lines for the customers in the Plunet items that are different from the price lines set up as payables for jobs.

Plunet: adding target language information to the item names

Some customers requested that they would like to have the target language in the name of items. This was not possible earlier because in instruction mapping you can only add all target languages in a project. You can configure it in the profile menu, Manage my business management systems.

Plunet speedup

We have improved the speed of the integration with Plunet as BMS, and decreased the amount of authentications significantly.

Plunet: auto-start automatic jobs

This improvement is for those who use the Plunet Automation Manager module: automatic jobs can now always be auto-started, so the full automation runs through.

XTRF: auto-start the first job

We now allow the first job in the process to be automatically started, which is especially beneficial if another system is handling your vendor assignment.

XTRF API call optimization

We have decreased the number of calls needed to perform operations in XTRF to the satisfaction of the users who pay for the XTRF API usage.

Mar 2025

New use case: Importing Excel tables into BMSes

23 Mar 2025

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Some TMSes like Smartling give you a full list of projects that linguists worked on, and all you would theoretically need is to import this into your business management system. If it was that simple… BMSes like Plunet, XTRF, Protemos work with a complex mix of projects, workflows, tasks, jobs, and there was no way to import such information without a lot of manual work. They are not meant to import data from spreadsheets!

While BMSes did not change, BeLazy can do all the work for you, controlling these systems externally, creating, setting up and closing these projects. This is done through the project ingestion API. If you have this use case, get in touch!

Mar 2025

BeLazy’s first external plugin: Google Chrome

23 Mar 2025

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BeLazy is a true middleware, and we are proud to present the first external tool from BeLazy that adds convenience to how the system is used. Previously you received a link from a customer in your email for a new project, and you had to go to the BeLazy interface to find the project and accept it. This is no longer needed: directly from a Chrome extension you can synchronize the connections (which, you remember, can be automatic based on the email coming in), and once the project’s URL appears in a synchronized project, you can accept it on the spot. You can also easily navigate between the origin project – projects in Phrase, memoQ, for example – and their counterpart in XTRF, Protemos, and to an extent Plunet as well. The plugin is a significant improvement to user experience and productivity for project managers.

The plugin is still in beta, please get in touch with us to try it!