Add Marketing Resource Management (MRM) features by providing workflow for your Digital Asset Management system.

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Marketing Resource Management Workflow

Workflows extend FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager by providing an order and/or approvals workflow framework for campaign management, artwork tracking, budgeting, forecasting, logistics and many other marketing resource management activities.

Workflows improve communications in the marketing supply chain, providing a clearer picture of its dynamics, and enabling managers to troubleshoot bottlenecks with greater speed. More control ensures that brands are better protected, whilst marketing collateral and other campaign assets are released faster. Read our case studies, "Marketing Collateral Management For A Multinational Shipping Company" and "Major UK Trade Union Uses Form & Document Management Workflow Solution" for information on the benefits workflows have bought other businesses.




Workflow makes it easy to establish and maintain clear processes for managing the marketing activities of everyone in your marketing team - including external suppliers such as design agencies or printers.

See The Marketing Supply Chain More Clearly

Workflow enables managers to gain an end-to-end picture of precisely what is taking place in the marketing supply chain, from origination through to fulfilment. In this way, bottlenecks can be quickly and efficiently identified and removed.

Prevent Damage To Your Brand

Workflow allows artwork approvals to be managed using a structured but flexible system. This ensures that marketing and brand managers both see and approve new marketing collateral before it can go to print or is released via online channels. Referal, escalation and delegation features allow workflows to be rerouted as each individual project requires.

Prevent Loss of Artwork Files

As assets can be organised by campaign, project, job number or any other reference and are stored in a permanent web-based archive, they can be quickly found by staff organisation-wide for revision or reuse, long after a marketing campaign has ended.

Sign-off Marketing Collateral Faster

Flexible workflows combined with secure access for users even across time-zones and continents, makes it far eaiser for staff and suppliers from one or many regions collaborating in a campaign or project, to share information and sign-off artwork faster.

Improve Marketing Team Communications

Workflow has numerous options to notify managers as key events occur, such as the approval of artwork, or delivery of collateral to channel partners.

Continuously Refine Marketing Operations

Workflow enables continuous optimisation of marketing operations by giving managers the tools to analyse, revise and benchmark improvements to the marketing supply chain in hours - not weeks, months or years.



Workflow is seamlessly integrated with FocusOPEN, our digital asset management system to provide sophisticated, yet easy to use features for enhancing your marketing supply chain.

View Marketing Dashboards

Workflow can provide an ‘at a glance’ overview of the progress of your marketing projects and campaigns so you can quickly get up to speed with what is running to schedule, where delays are occurring and if projects are running to budget.

Manage & Approve Your Campaign Assets

Marketing campaigns for large or medium size firms often require the approval of many different managers, executives and stakeholders. Workflow allows marketing teams to set up a flexible sign-off process to ensure artwork or other collateral is checked before release. Rules can be set strict or with override options to expedite collateral if necessary.

Send E-mail & SMS Alerts

Workflow allows marketing managers to set up notifications when certain key events occur (e.g. artwork is signed off or for later completion of a task). The notifications can be on the system, via e-mail or SMS text message alerts.

Track Budgets In Real-Time

Workflow enables costs and budget codes to be attached to campaign tasks or assets from FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager. This allows real-time budget tracking so marketing managers can identify immediately if a campaign is getting close to going over budget.

Generate Charts & Reports

Gantt charts showing the status with campaigns or projects can be automatically generated as well as statistics, charts and graphs for other Key Performance Indicators. Reporting templates allow marketing managers to quickly produce status reports.

Business Systems Integration

Workflow has an API (Application Programming Interface) that allows the data generated during campaigns to be published to your corporate intranet, portal or other systems to provide true Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

Integrate With Logistics Providers

Workflow can also send and receive data via the API from third party logistics providers or printers. Marketing managers can be informed immediately when collateral is printed, ready to be shipped and finally when POD (proof of delivery) is received. This offers a true end-to-end marketing supply chain management solution. Read our case study about how a multinational logistics company used workflow to realise this objective.


Technical & Hosting

As a system enhancement for our FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager system, workflows are hosted and supported with each implementation.


Our systems are all web-enabled, require no custom browser plug-ins and are available with 24/7 telephone and email support. Click for further information on our technical support and hosting packages for FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager or to request a system demonstration. Datasheets with full technical characteristics of all our solutions are available on request.



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To arrange a demonstration or find out more, email: info@daydream.co.uk or telephone us on +44 (0)20 7096 1471.


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