Acquia DAM (Widen)

Avantages

Il fournit non seulement une gestion des actifs numériques de classe mondiale et primée, mais il prend également en charge votre mise en œuvre avec un service primé.

Inconvénients

Honnêtement, il serrait difficile de trouve des limite a ce logiciel car son potentiel est énorme. Toutefois le logiciel semble lent et prend du retard lorsque vous voulez qu'il aille vite. Le traitement des fichiers et le défilement des ressources sont les domaines où j'ai le plus remarqué cela.

Avantages

The perfect solution to manage all the assets of your business

Inconvénients

Resetting password sometime could be complicate

Avantages

The searchable option and the ability to organize all of our thousands of assets. As well as the ability to download these assets in different file formats.

Inconvénients

If spelling isn’t accurate in the metadata or search bar, it will not be able to find what you are looking for.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Acquia DAM (Widen)

Avantages

Widen is a great receptical to all of our imagery for our products. Downloading images from the portal is easy as well

Inconvénients

Finding documentation seems to be difficult. Not sure if it the actual software or if it is the manner is which our company set it up.

Avantages

Its searchable content. As long as metadata is used, searching for assets is relatively easy.

Inconvénients

Upload process. The Drag/Drop feature was nice! Now I'm forced to go through a wizard. Too time consuming for my liking.

Avantages

I love that I can easily store all of my content in the system, then make a website like portal to share and organize my content in a neat way.

Inconvénients

I wish there was a way to add hyperlinks to Asset Collections so that I can link out to other internal websites within my company or to an eCourse within Workday.

Avantages

Easy to use. Secure. Excellent support and development teams. Flexibility of features

Inconvénients

I could really use the ability to link raw assets with compound documents. This is currently a manual process and time consuming.

Avantages

Ease of use, ease of empowerment for the user. I LOVE being able to share collections with clients.
And I LOVE when someone asks for an asset, I just add them as a user on Widen, and tell them to find it themselves!

Inconvénients

I'm still waiting for drag and drop functionality with Indesign. A small workflow addition that would make things easier!

Avantages

The ability to organize and share digital assets from all across our global company into one central location has been incredible. It empowers our employees to quickly find the approved assets that they need.

Inconvénients

Honestly, it's hard to come up with something. Everything about Widen from the software to the people is fantastic. If I were to pick something...it might be that there are so many options for customization, that I wish I had 2 days to just sit and go through each one. Unfortunately, I'm too busy to do this, so I just ask my CXM how to do something and he quickly responds to an email, same day.

Avantages

It is very easy for me to onboard people, I don't really have to do much training since the program is so intuitive. I am able to permission out who sees what. Widen's customer service is also second to none with any software company I've ever worked with.

Inconvénients

There are a few minor things, but nothing major that would make me start looking into other solutions. One example being that I wish we could organize global collections better

Avantages

It's the one place for all content to live and get shared out across multiple platforms. Support for project management (through Workflow) and creative implementation (through Adobe CC Connector) enhances our productivity and helps us get our jobs done faster.

Inconvénients

The software seems sluggish and lags when you want it to go fast. File processing and scrolling through assets is where I've noticed this the most. The uploading process also needs to be cleaned up and more inviting to users.

Avantages

The marketing team loves the portals, collections, and asset version control.

Inconvénients

The search/filter functionality and the lack of styling on the standard portals.

Avantages

It is a great tool for finding all of our products in one place, easily!

Inconvénients

honestly, cannot say yet and I have been using it for almost 2years

Avantages

The DAM interface is quick and easy to use, the reporting capabilities are robust, and the security allows a lot of flexibility. In addition - we love the Portals - which allows us to provide assets to our non users.

Inconvénients

Knowing that a DAM is customized to your company’s needs, I'm not going to lie – implementing a DAM system can be grueling and a lot of work. But that’s the beauty of a DAM – as your company grows, your DAM can also grow and be customized to reflect changes and future needs.

Avantages

I love that it is cloud-based and you can access it from any computer, phone or tablet. It's super easy to create collections and share media with internal and external clients.

Inconvénients

Some of the features need updating in my opinion. I have asked several times for certain changes that I'm sure I'm not the only one to encounter.

Avantages

Digital assets are organized very intuitively and can be accessed/downloaded with great ease.

Inconvénients

Searching for specific assets would be made easier if end-users could include additional criteria to narrow down their search (i.e. duration of video assets, file format)

Avantages

I like the ability and flexibility Widen offers to integrate the digital media content with our applications and websites. It also offers nice tools and functionality to add, maintain, organize, and secure content.

Avantages

The biggest business problem that it has solved for my company is it allows multiple people to do what once was a one person task. It saves time when being able to have multiple people have access to the same files and being able to send, upload and manage it all. Being able to easily send outside organizations images and documents has saved us so much time and has left very little room for error when sending. With Widen's recent website advancement's, it's given me an opportunity to create a creative brief for projects I'm working on. All within 1 website. It's great.

Inconvénients

This doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes I will be uploading files and Widen will time out or freeze during my upload and I'll have to start the process all over. This could be a problem with my internet connection as well.

Avantages

The Media Collective software is easy to use and is easy to configure. If you need some help there is an extensive online help library full of things which can help you, but if you need to talk to someone directly you can web chat, email or call. The help associates are always very friendly and will work with you to understand and fix the issues that you're having.

Inconvénients

I guess I don't like the fact that it's not free? I had to put something in this space. If it was free it would definitely be better however that's probably not a sustainable scenario for Widen.

Avantages

I like that Widen is an easy way to find assets. It is helpful for a large company--because everyone knows where to find the assets that they need. It is easy for all employees to get to--IT does not have to come and install it--it is just an internet login.

Inconvénients

I do not like how sometimes it is hard to find things with searches. I know that this has to do with the upload metadata and probably is related to user error. Perhaps if there was a more automated way to add search criteria when uploading, this wouldn't be an issue.

Avantages

Using Widen software has allowed our creative teams to manage content more effectively. With it, we are able to track asset revisions and popularity. This has made it easier for us to be more strategic in the creation and placement of our content.

Additionally, with the Workflow management tool, digital proofing interface and Digital Asset Management library, our users only have to visit one site to enter jobs, proof and collaborate on new content, and access current assets and media.

Inconvénients

Sometimes we experience "glitches" or "bugs" within the software after a major update is rolled out, but that's to be expected and they are always quick to respond when this happens.

Avantages

The convenience and logical layout of the site as a whole. Our sales reps, the Woolrich team, and our buyers all are able to use the site without any hiccups. I really like that I am able to control who can see and download what. Because of Widen I don't have to download every asset and take up space on my computer, I can send links to anyone and everyone that needs them, but also it makes it so our reps can take care of their accounts directly and aren't coming to me for everything. It reallly makes my job so much easier!

Inconvénients

I don't really have any complaints except I wish I didn't have to change my password so much. I'm running out of ideas! :)

Avantages

Sending and finding images has never been easier. Customer service is amazing and helped me tremendously when setting up my companies DAM.

Inconvénients

We have a different use case than most because most of the time we are sending media outside of our organization. Widen collects emails when items are downloaded, but we are not able to get the data. I know they are working on this and we look forward to this update.

Avantages

The function of drag assets from server and link create automatically is very good option we don't need to download the assets

Inconvénients

Some time it takes too much time when drag the images

Avantages

The Admin GUI is an intuitive mix of front-end and back-end Admin Tools, with STRONG client support accessible via Chat, email, demos and structured training sessions.

Inconvénients

Lack of an XML generator (so, no ability to create an MRSS feed for distro to 'New Media' platforms such as STB's and smartphones), and lack of a .csv ingest manager for direct 'Custom Metadata Import.'