Architecture & domains

How Transparent fits together as a platform: domains, cross-cutting systems, and illustrative flows. Pair this with module pages and deep dives for feature-level detail.

What Transparent is

An end-to-end language-service-provider (LSP) operations platform: sales and CRM, project/job/task delivery, vendor and resource management, finance (client and vendor), quality, master data, security, integrations (SAP, TMS/Memsource, FreshSales, partner feeds, cloud files, mobile APIs), and heavy automation via crons and queues.

Core domains (how parts work together)

  1. CRM & commercial — Leads, accounts, contacts, opportunities, campaigns, forecasts feed projects and jobs and set billing behaviour (price books, PO culture, account teams).
  2. Delivery — Projects contain jobs; jobs break into tasks; tasks link to TMS/files, evaluations, and eventually vendor invoices. Auto-planning and resource strategies assign talent from calendars and RFR.
  3. Talent — Resource profiles, availability, evaluations, and account teams constrain who can be assigned and how they are paid.
  4. Finance — POs and jobs roll into client invoices; tasks roll into vendor invoices; payments and SAP sync reconcile externally.
  5. Platform — Row-level security, configurable grids/lists, audit logs, messaging on records, dynamic reports, multi-company identities per login.

Cross-cutting capabilities

  • Security engine — Status/event/role-driven access; privileges rebuilt by background jobs.
  • Configurable UI — List templates, view templates, Gridmap, exports, scheduled reports.
  • Integrations — SAP, Memsource, Welocalize/Junction/Moravia, FreshSales, Cognito, Moodle, Google Drive/ownCloud, email command parser, AWS SQS.
  • Channels — Web UI, mobile APIs, webhooks, scheduled crons.

High-level flow (diagram)

Illustrative overview — revise the diagram when the architecture narrative changes.

flowchart LR
  CRM[CRM / commercial] --> Projects
  Projects --> Jobs
  Jobs --> Tasks
  Tasks --> TMS[TMS / files]
  Tasks --> Talent[Talent / RFR]
  Tasks --> VInv[Vendor invoices]
  Jobs --> CInv[Client invoices]
  Jobs --> PO[PO management]

Risk themes (for revamp planning)

  • Large monolithic controllers and raw SQL in places — regression and security review cost.
  • Background jobs critical to security and finance — need observability and runbooks.
  • Secrets and token handling in legacy integrations — rotate and externalise during modernisation.

For drill-down on specific areas, use the deep dives linked from module cards and the catalogue.