Digital Asset Management Software With FocusOPEN: Take Control Of Your Media
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• Benefits
• Key Features
• Open Studio Media Suite
• Technical & Hosting
• Related Services
• Further Information
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FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager is a fully web-based Digital Asset Management software platform, built for high volumes of users to share brand and other media assets across the organisation.
The online digital media library supports all common digital media assets including: video, audio, photos and proprietary artwork or office formats such as: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PDF, Quark Xpress, Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Powerful search features combined with flexible and comprehensive digital asset workflows, make for a system which is versatile, easy-to-use and administer. FocusOPEN can be fully tailored to meet your unique business needs and has been deployed as the main digital asset management system for organisations in both the private and public sectors, across the UK, Europe and North America.
To address the needs of more specialist media management requirements, the FocusOPEN Digital Asset Management Software Platform can be extended with our Open Studio Media Suite, which provides powerful features devoted to the management of specific media types: video, print and images. So, whether your digital asset management requirements are for marketing, preservation or specialist archival, FocusOPEN provides the ideal software for all your digital media management operations.
FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager offers many business benefits.
Below, find out how FocusOPEN could enable your firm to get the most from its digital media assets.
Deliver All Common Digital Assets - Including Video & Audio
FocusOPEN supports both static media, such as images,
print or office documents, as well as time-based media such as video
or audio. Popular media asset formats supported include: Windows Media
(WMV), Flash Video (FLV), MPEG (1,2 & 4), DVD/VOB, QuickTime (MOV),
DIV/X, AVI, MP3, MXF, AAF, ASF, WAV, AAC and OGG/Vorbis.
FocusOPEN auto generates media previews for all
common assets uploaded to the system, including fast-loading, full-length
true streaming video and audio previews, enabling users to watch or listen to footage
without having to wait for the original file to download. Further,
FocusOPEN can be extended for more in-depth audiovisual media management
with the Video
Open Studio, which supports advanced, professional operations
such as, timeline
metadata, editing
and advanced
playback controls. For more information on Video Digital Asset
Management, read our report, "Online Video
Asset Catalogues: 12 Crucial Points For Marketers" or read
more about the Video
Open Studio.
Lower Marketing Production Costs
FocusOPEN helps organisations reduce their media
production expenditure in a number of ways. As FocusOPEN is
a web-based system that supports any media
type, it provides a central repository for all media assets across
an organisation, allowing departments to pool their digital media
assets and reduce expenditure overall. Intuitive
yet powerful search features enable users to quickly locate assets
fit for purpose, providing massive cost-savings via widespread reuse.
Further, flexible workflow features promote
efficiency through better team collaboration, even if teams include
external partners, such as agencies, printers or freelance creatives.
Best of all, as FocusOPEN has no per-seat/user licence fees and
is distributed on an open source basis, the system will continue to
provide significant cost-savings as your business grows, enabling
multiple departments, global subsidiaries and external partners to
share and reuse media on an ongoing basis.
Minimise Usage And Copyright Infringement
Although copyright and other usage rights are stored
as metadata alongside assets in most DAM systems, this alone does
not protect against misuse or infringement. While FocusOPEN can distribute
media without restrictions, the system can also require
usage approval by an administrator or
other rights workflow. In this way, compliance
with copyright or other usage restrictions can be verified before
a digital asset is made available to a user. Management can further
protect media by watermarking previews (video, images and PDFs) or suppressing
selected digital media assets from search results for specific users
or user groups, such as external suppliers or temporary employees.
Brand Asset Management: Leverage The Brand For Better Returns
The design and successful execution of a brand-based
communications strategy is crucial to its overall success. FocusOPEN provides features to ensure that all marketing
staff and suppliers adhere to the very latest brand guidelines and best-practices
in their everyday tasks. In addition, production aids, such as those
included in our Print
Open Studio, enable staff without technical or production skills to
amend copy, images or photos on print artwork to meet their own needs, while
key brand elements, such as logos, colours and layout cannot be modified
- both preserving brand integrity and lowering production costs simultaneously.
Improve Collaboration With External Suppliers
While workflow features
provide immediate and transparent communications between creative
team members, maximum ROI cannot be obtained without provision for
secure system access by external partners, such as marketing/PR/design agencies
or freelancers. FocusOPEN provides safe and secure
access to trusted users outside of the corporate network to browse
the online media catalogue, contribute to workflows and download digital
media assets via the web or an FTP server.
Gain Enhanced Insight Into Marketing Production Operations
To give managers a deeper understanding of how
digital media is used throughout the organisation, FocusOPEN provides
comprehensive analysis and reporting features that provide detailed
statistical data regarding which media files are used, how and by
whom, in all popular tabular and graphical formats. Used in combination
with user auditing, these features provide instant insight into the
use of digital media across the organisation.
Daydream's considerable experience
in enterprise digital asset management system development has enables
us to provide a suite of highly robust and cost efficient features
to suit many business need.
Advanced Search & Filter Features
FocusOPEN's simple and powerful search capabilities
are based on internet search engines that users already have experience
of. Users can search via keyword search, Boolean (AND, OR,
NOT) and use categories or filters, which enable them to broaden or narrow
their results. All metadata can be customised via FocusOPEN's
configurable metadata categories to reflect the unique business structure,
customers, markets or other key data that is relevant to your organisation's needs. This
ensures that staff can quickly locate the most appropriate assets.
Extensive Media Processing
As FocusOPEN delivers many
different types of media, versatile media processing features
have been provided to support the ingestion and representation of media
assets via the web-based media catalogue. FocusOPEN
will generates stills, storyboards and thumbnails of all supported
media types and will also generate high-quality, fast-loading previews
of bandwidth-intensive formats, such as print or audiovisual files.
Furthermore, users are able to convert media to alternative
formats from their originals, increasing the potential for reuse and
adding further value to the wider library.
Download, Publication & Rights Management
FocusOPEN provides an in-depth range of facilities
for efficient digital asset administration and usage workflow. To protect copyright
and reduce the risk of third-party licence breaches, rights management
features enable administrators to state usage requirements,
restrict downloads, apply watermark or suppress media previews and originals to selected
user groups for each asset they administer in the media catalogue.
Administrators can also set publication dates to synchronise new asset
releases with corporate events, or expiry and review dates to ensure media
in the catalogue remains relevant and meets current brand guidelines.
Approval & Ordering Workflows
At the centre of any corporate digital asset management platform
are workflows; the means by which teams collaborate; sharing information,
providing feedback, approving production or placing orders. FocusOPEN's
flexible workflow designer allows workflows to be created specifically
for your business requirements, whether these are approval workflows for
media or user access, or order workflows for downloading files or
requesting media from fulfilment suppliers and authorisation partners. (Further information on
workflow
and marketing
resource management (MRM) features).
Streamlined Cataloguing Features
Efficient cataloguing features ensure that asset
administrators can catalogue digital media assets quickly and easily,
yet still provide the comprehensive metadata required to return accurate,
relevant search results. Features include metadata templating, asset
cross-referencing & linking, metadata auto-generation, scheduled uploads.
Further, embedded metadata such as IPTC, XMP, ID3 or EXIF can be extracted by FocusOPEN
to further reduce the workload of those involved in media cataloguing and library management.
Statistics and reports
about media asset usage can be swiftly generated with built-in tools.
Data can be presented in all popular formats, including: Bar, Pie,
Line and Gantt charts. Further, raw data can be exported
in CSV or XML format for analysis with third party software.
Although FocusOPEN supports a wide range of media, we understand that many organisations require more advanced features to manage specific types of media. The Open Studio Media Suite offers a range of specialist features for managing video, print or image files.
Each Open Studio component seamlessly connects into FocusOPEN's flexible architecture to provide specialist tools for specialist applications. Note: Open Studio suites are FocusOPEN Digital Asset Management components and cannot be sold separately.
Video Open Studio
Provides a suite of web-based video asset management
tools, including time-code
accurate logging, timeline
cataloguing and advanced
playback controls, which, in combination with Daydream's
ultra-high volume content
delivery network, are perfect for organisations that need to deliver
high-demand video library services. More
Print Open Studio
Designed for organisations who need to distribute
press-ready
print media files that users can customise
in their web browsers, such as regional brochures, adverts or personal
stationery. The Print Open Studio is ideal for distributed marketing
operations, like partner reseller programmes or global marketing departments
and can be combined with order and purchasing workflows to provide
a complete, end-to-end print management system. More
Image Open Studio
Provides sophisticated, yet easy-to-use web-based
image management tools for image capture,
conversion,
editing
and manipulation,
suitable for organisations who use or preserve high volumes of photos
or illustrations. More
FocusOPEN is an enterprise class digital asset management platform, designed to support demanding corporate environments with a high volume of concurrent users who may be dispersed across the world in multiple regions and time-zones.
Accessed by users via a web browser, FocusOPEN is a Digital Asset
Management (DAM) system that can be rapidly deployed, whatever your IT infrastructure.
Designed to integrate with other core business systems, such as LDAP
& Active Directory servers, Intranets, SharePoint Enterprise Portals and
proprietary third-party software like: Adobe InDesign
and PhotoShop, FocusOPEN includes an XML web services API for interoperability
with many other applications and web services. FocusOPEN is distributed
with an open source licence but is based on widely used and supported
Microsoft .NET technology. A
datasheet with full technical details available on request.
Hosting FocusOPEN
Implementations of FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager
can be deployed to our servers and hosted
in one of our data centres in London, South East England and Toronto
with Tier-1 IP connectivity. Or FocusOPEN can be hosted on a server
held in your own data centre or hosting facilities, as required.
Technical Support
Every implementation of FocusOPEN is backed by
a comprehensive support package with a Service Level Agreement which
includes a 24x7 helpdesk and 100% availability
guarantee option with service credits. See our technical
support section for more details. A summary of our response times
is below:
| Priority | Recommended Response Time | Escalation | Max. Resolution Time | |||
| 5 mins | 1 hour | 2 hours | 4 hours | |||
| 1 | Yes | 1 hour | 1 hour | |||
| 2 | No | Yes | 2 hours | 2 hours | ||
| 3 | No | No | Yes | 4 hours | 6 hours | |
| 4 | No | No | No | Yes | N/A | 8 hours |
Digital asset management projects typically require
supporting services for successful implementation. These can include:
As well as technical professional services, we also provide media asset services, including: editorial & library management, controlled vocabulary & taxonomy design, digitisation, media production and bulk asset ingestion. Many organisations who have not previously implemented Digital Asset Management Software may also require help with asset discovery and auditing - identifying where digital assets may be held across the business at the present time.
- Integration with Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS)
- Single Sign On (SSO) functionality via LDAP or Active Directory servers
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- Data migration from legacy systems
As well as technical professional services, we also provide media asset services, including: editorial & library management, controlled vocabulary & taxonomy design, digitisation, media production and bulk asset ingestion. Many organisations who have not previously implemented Digital Asset Management Software may also require help with asset discovery and auditing - identifying where digital assets may be held across the business at the present time.
To arrange a demo of the FocusOPEN Digital
Asset Management system or find out more, email: info@daydream.co.uk
or telephone us on +44 (0)20 7096 1471.
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Extend our FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager into MRM and other marketing supply chain
applications with order and approval workflows.
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