Rapid changes in the global marketplace have given rise to new demands and have provided new opportunities for the translation industry. The need for multilinguality in the presentation and business logic layers of most modern systems, applications and services is a great challenge that the translation industry now faces. But even after many years of intense research and many commercial attempts of related products, translation systems of today still fail to completely meet the above needs. Within this framework, an architecture of a modern automatic translation system exploiting current infrastructure and covering today and future needs is proposed in this paper.