Development of information and internet technology has led to the appearance of distributed systems in different spheres of human life. Distributed systems are created to simplify and accelerate business processes, which is relevant in the translation industry. Nowadays for professional translator is not enough to have excellent knowledge of the language, he should be able to work with the translation tool: CAT, machine translation, translation memory. The paper illustrates methodology of using distributed systems in advanced-level language and shows an example of realization education programme in Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation.