FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager: Enhance the ROI from your digital assets
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Organisations are constantly searching for new ways to improve efficiency and lower costs. Digital Asset Management and Brand Asset Management provide businesses the ability to do that by allowing them to make the most of one of their most important assets: their digital media and marketing collateral.
Designed as a robust, enterprise class solutions for thousands of users to share large volumes of digital media, FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager is a browser-based Digital Asset Management system used by major corporations worldwide to optimise and streamline their marcomms operations. Supporting all common media including: photos, video, audio, print artwork and office files, FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager can be tailored to meet the exact requirements of your business, providing a complete software solution, whatever your operational needs.
Engineered for corporate use, versatile search combined with flexible and adaptable workflow, offer an easy-to-use solution to the problem of large-scale digital asset management. FocusOPEN can be rapidly extended for specialist use with our Open Studio Suite, a range of customisable studios for print media, video, images, merchandise and email marketing.
FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager provides a stable and proven platform for efficient and cost-effective marketing or digital asset operations in organisations across many sectors.
FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager offers numerous benefits. Below, find out how FocusOPEN could assist your business to get the most from its stock of digital media assets.
Manage All Types of Digital Brand Assets
FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager supports static media, such as images, print or office documents as well as time-based media such as video and audio.
Our Digital Asset Manager solution automatically generates media previews or proxy files for all common assets uploaded to the system, including thumbnails for images and documents as well as fast-loading, full-length true streaming video (in FLV or H.264 format) plus audio previews in MP3 format. This allows users to watch footage or listen to recordings without having to wait for the original file to download. Furthermore, FocusOPEN can be extended for more in-depth video asset management needs with the Video Open Studio, which supports professional studio operations such as, timeline metadata, editing and advanced playback controls.
Reduce Production Expenditure
The FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager helps companies substantially lower media production costs. It offer a centralised facility for all digital brand assets, allowing departments to consolidate their media. Sophisticated asset search facilities allow users to quickly locate brand assets that are suitable for their requirements, providing both cost-savings and easier reuse. Flexible workflows and collaboration enhancements encourage efficiency and flexibility with partners such as agencies.
FocusOPEN has no per-seat/user licence charges so will continue to provide cost-savings, enabling multiple business units, global subsidiaries and external partners to use media without complex software licence decisions. FocusOPEN is distributed as enterprise open source digital asset management software.
Eliminate Copyright Infringement
Even though copyright metadata may be stored alongside assets or embedded within them, this does not fully protect against infringements. FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager can prevent download and issue requests to download an asset to administrative or legal staff. This permits compliance with usage restrictions and copyright to be verified before assets are made available to a user. Further protection of media is possible by watermarking them or suppressing certain digital media assets from search results for specific groups of users such as external suppliers or temporary workers.
Brand Asset Management
The design and successful execution of a brand communications strategies is crucial to the ensuring the integrity of an enterprise’s brand. FocusOPEN is a powerful tool to help your business manage its brands more effectively. It provides features to ensure that all marketing staff and suppliers adhere to the very latest brand guidelines and best-practices in their everyday tasks. Production aids, such as our Print Open Studio, enable staff who lack production or asset origination skills to amend text, 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 protecting brand integrity and lowering production expenditure.
Increase Collaboration With External Suppliers
While digital asset workflow features provide rapid, flexible and transparent communications between marketing team members, ROI cannot be maximised without provision for secure access for external partners, such as marketing/PR/design agencies, printers or freelancers. FocusOPEN provides secure and safe access to trusted users outside of the corporate network to browse the online media catalogue, contribute to workflows and download digital assets via the web or an FTP server.
Visualise Your Marketing Operations
FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager includes auditing, analysis and reporting capabilities that provide in-depth statistical information about all aspects of media usage across the business. Reports are provided as summary charts, dashboards, tables and audit logs that can be accessed at any time by those with the requisite permissions. These facilities give managers deep insight into the use of digital assets across the enterprise and beyond.
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, Category And Filter Features
The FocusOPEN Digital Asset Management system uses a combination of search strategies that allows the user to seamlessly switch between different techniques to help them quickly and easily locate the assets they require. At the core is a fast text search which supports free text keywords and operates in the same way as internet search engines this also provides AND, OR, NOT (or 'Boolean') combinations as well as wildcards and partial matching. Simply put, if you can use Google or Bing, you can use FocusOPEN's search facility. In addition, the free text search is augmented with a structured category/folder system that allows users to browse without searching or search within a given category. Finally, to allow the DAM System to reflect the needs of your specific industry or sector, a filters feature allows searches to be refined according to concepts or tags that are unique to the culture of your organisation. Read Digital Asset Catalogues That Reflect The Needs Of Your Business to find out why this is essential to a successful Digital Asset Management System. All metadata can be customised to suit the unique needs of your organisation.
Advanced Media Processing
The FocusOPEN Digital Asset Management solution delivers many
different types of digital assets. To support this activity, versatile media processing features
have been developed to successfully enable the ingestion and representation of media
assets via the web-based media catalogue. FocusOPEN
will generate stills, storyboards and thumbnails of all supported
media types. FocusOPEN is capable of generating fast-loading proxy files for bandwidth-heavy media files such as High Definition (HD) video, print media and very high resolution images. The built-in transcoding and conversion tools allow surrogate assets to be generated without the need of third party applications, enabling your users to do more in the DAM system and reducing the costs and complication of deploying more desktop applications across the business. Industry standard formats such as H.264 or FLV for Video as well as JPEG and PDF for image & print media and MP3 for audio ensure that users will always be able to preview assets before downloading them.
Download, Publication & Rights Management
FocusOPEN includes an array of features for efficient digital asset administration and usage workflow. To protect copyright
and reduce the risk of third-party licence breaches, flexible, built-in rights management
metadata enables administrators to clearly specify usage requirements,
protect against unauthorised downloads, apply watermark or suppress media previews and originals to selected
user groups for each digital 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. FocusOPEN includes all the necessary protections to ensure effective corporate governance for large organisations and reduce the risk of litigation as a result of staff accidentally infringing copyright.
Approval and Ordering Workflows
At the heart of any corporate DAM platform
are workflows; the process by which teams collaborate; sharing information,
providing feedback, approving production or placing orders. FocusOPEN's
versatile 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).
Efficient Standards Compliant Digital Asset Cataloguing
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.
Reports and statistics
about media asset usage can be rapidly produced 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.
To bring the benefits of a tried and tested platform to clients with more specific and demanding media management needs, we have developed a suite of extensions that will transform FocusOPEN into a specialist DAM application for video, print and even email.
Print Open Studio
Distribute press-ready print artwork that users can customise and order, including personal stationery or regional brochures and flyers. Ideal for distributed marketing operations like global marketing departments or partner reseller programmes. Combine with order workflows to provide teams with complete end-to-end print management. More
Email Open Studio
Enable users to customise and deliver email campaigns from within FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager. Provide HTML and plain text emails that administrators can edit, personalise, dispatch and monitor with real-time campaign statistics including hard and soft bounces, click-throughs,opens and unsubscribes. The built-in content management system enables users to modify selected HTML templates with custom text and images as well as personalise individual messages for each recipient. The list management features include automated de-duping, unsubscription and list cleaning features to remove invalid recipients. Broadcasts can be scheduled for a given time and are tightly integrated into the same solid workflow management architecture that underpins the rest of the FocusOPEN Digital Asset Management Solution.
Video Open Studio
Our video management tools for video pros, The Video Open Studio includes: time-code accurate logging, advanced playback and timeline metadata. Combined with our ultra-high volume content delivery network the Video Open Studio is ideal for organisation that needs to deliver high-demand video services. More
Image Open Studio
Easy-to-use, yet sophisticated image management tools for image capture, conversion, editing and manipulation in the web browser. Perfect for organisations who use or preserve high volumes of photos or graphics.
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Merchandise Open Studio
Allow users to order marketing merchandise such as keyrings, t-shirts and mugs from within FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager. Seamlessly integrate with third-party supplier purchasing and ERP systems for a complete end-to-end purchasing system. The Merchandise Studio offers one of the only commercially available systems to integrate Physical marcomms assets such as mercahndise within a DAM solution. Users can place orders and subject to approval by local managers, delivery and fulfilment feedback will be provided alongside orders for digital assets in the same consistent user interface.
FocusOPEN is an Open Source Digital Asset Management system, 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.
Browser based, FocusOPEN is a true Enterprise DAM system that can be rapidly deployed to a typical corporate IT infrastructure.
Designed to integrate with other core business systems, such as LDAP
& Active Directory servers, Intranets and SharePoint Enterprise Portals, FocusOPEN includes an XML based REST web services API for interoperability
with many other web services. FocusOPEN is provided
with an open source licence but is based on widely used and supported
Microsoft .NET technology. A
datasheet with complete technical details available on request.
Hosting FocusOPEN
We offer total flexibility in terms of hosting FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager. The application can be deployed to your own data centre or deployed to our own Digital Asset Management Hosting facility in one of our data centres in the UK or North America.
Technical Support
Every implementation of FocusOPEN is backed by
an enterprise class support package with a Service Level Agreement that includes 100% availability
guarantee and a 24x7 helpdesk. Our Digital Asset Management solutions are designed and built for highly intensive use in mission-critical environments where the system must remain operational. See our technical
support section for more details.
Digital Asset Management projects typically require
supporting digital asset services for successful implementation. These can include:
In addition to technically oriented services, we alsoe offer media asset services, including: controlled vocabulary & taxonomy design, editorial services, digitisation, media production and large scale asset ingestion. Many organisations who have not previously implemented DAM Software may also require help with asset auditing and discovery (identifying and locating where digital assets may be held across the business and within partners and subsidiaries).
- Microsoft SharePoint Integration
- LDAP or Active Directory (AD) integration and Single Sign On
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- Data migration from legacy/heritage systems
In addition to technically oriented services, we alsoe offer media asset services, including: controlled vocabulary & taxonomy design, editorial services, digitisation, media production and large scale asset ingestion. Many organisations who have not previously implemented DAM Software may also require help with asset auditing and discovery (identifying and locating where digital assets may be held across the business and within partners and subsidiaries).
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.
Metadata Management Strategies for Marketing Based Digital Asset Management
Strategies for optimising metadata with marketing based DAM systems.
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Strategies for optimising metadata with marketing based DAM systems.
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Corporate Media Libraries For Marketing Managers
This paper gives marketing managers clear guidance about what to look for in an enterprise Brand Asset Management or Digital Asset Management system. Straightforward, non-technical advice with do's and dont's is provided to help explain the key decisions that need to be made.
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This paper gives marketing managers clear guidance about what to look for in an enterprise Brand Asset Management or Digital Asset Management system. Straightforward, non-technical advice with do's and dont's is provided to help explain the key decisions that need to be made.
Read more about Corporate Media Libraries
Enterprise Digital Asset Management: A Guide For IT Professionals
Practical advice for IT professionals tasked with advising colleagues about DAM systems. Covers issues from systems integration to infrastucture requirements for Digital Asset Management. This report is more suitable for those with IT management and technical expertise.
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Practical advice for IT professionals tasked with advising colleagues about DAM systems. Covers issues from systems integration to infrastucture requirements for Digital Asset Management. This report is more suitable for those with IT management and technical expertise.
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Video Digital Asset Management: 12 Crucial Points
Managers are invited to consider 12 crucial points that will determine the success or failure of a web video archive. If your digital library includes video, this report should offer some useful pointers.
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Managers are invited to consider 12 crucial points that will determine the success or failure of a web video archive. If your digital library includes video, this report should offer some useful pointers.
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DAM Glossary Of Terms
An in-depth glossary covering common terminology used in the field of Digital Asset Management.
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An in-depth glossary covering common terminology used in the field of Digital Asset Management.
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Transform FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager into a full Marketing Resource Management (MRM) solution with marketing operations managmement capabilities.
Marketing Resource Management (MRM) and Brand Asset Management Workflow.
Optimise your marketing digital supply chain and get a clearer view of your marketing operations. Read more about MRM
Optimise your marketing digital supply chain and get a clearer view of your marketing operations. Read more about MRM
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