Acquia DAM
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Features
96 features across 18 categories
AI(13)
Get AI generated copy and design ideas in the comments functionality of the Workflow proofer
Ensure all images have alt text to make them accessible and search optimized
Turn existing product data into on-brand, search-optimized product descriptions
Industry-specific AI starter packs available for travel, apparel, and food
Make text of transcripts searchable to find videos faster and quickly reuse quotes in content
Core AI-powered DAM capabilities to help find, publish, and protect brand assets
Free-up time with AI assistance using auto-tagging, descriptions, transcriptions, color detection, and translations
Use AI-powered auto tagging to apply keywords that make files instantly searchable
Use your data to teach the AI tools how to recognize and apply keywords specific to your products or business
Easily review and remove duplicates to declutter search results and free up storage space
Use AI to recognize and tag people for faster management of images featuring staff, talent, and others
Generate metadata 100x faster than manual processing at 90% lower cost in 53 languages using AI
Easily integrate with your organization's LLM to use custom prompts to generate metadata
API(2)
Upload, add metadata, and other tasks are all possible through the API
Connect your asset-level data to business intelligence (BI) tools using the Insights API
Access(6)
Set default asset release and expiration dates and permission them by user role
Begin your user experience with a branded login page with logo, color scheme, and hero graphic
Target specific user groups with permissioned, customized dashboard messages to highlight key assets
Share curated sets of assets with control and flexibility in a beautiful branded webpage with no coding required
Place your users into permissioned roles based on department, job, or any other function with over 150 different roles possible
Control access to assets with release and expiration dates
Access & Distribution(1)
Share assets and guidelines with external teams quickly in a branded webpage
Analytics(6)
See asset activity and engagement filtered by various dimensions like time frame and file format
Export your filtered data to a CSV for further analysis or download a PNG image of your chart
Gain clear, actionable data to track and optimize assets
Track user-engagement metrics including login, download, and search activity with dashboards loaded with must-track metrics
Track data on searches, shares, embeds, views, downloads to see where your content really goes
Reveal when, where, how, and who is using your content with Acquia DAM Insights
Asset Transformations(4)
Determine conversion formats that display when you download or share assets, with user-role specific settings
Resize, crop, or convert images into a specific size, DPI, color space, or format
Convert files into a specific bitrate, frame rate, or pixel width and height
Embed an image using the web setting and the DAM will select the optimal format for the channel
Asset Types(7)
Manage podcasts, music, sound effects, and mnemonics
Manage messaging, visual styles, and values
Manage sell sheets, legal documents, reports, and scripts
Support for illustrations, logos, photographs, camera raw, and 360° spin photography
Manage whitepapers, slide decks, and e-books
Support for final produced pieces, short versions for social, comp reels, b-roll, and training videos
Support for InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator files
Automation(9)
Refine path notifications using asset groups, controlled vocabulary metadata fields, or categories
Enter recipient email addresses, a subject line, and email text for custom notifications
Use the structure in your file naming convention to populate metadata fields
Map metadata for batch processes such as uploading assets from a photoshoot or importing from another DAM system
Trigger a notification when assets are added to an asset group, assets are expiring, or a new product is created
Use variables to automatically pull information about the trigger event into your email
Set up rule-based notifications to alert users of events throughout the content and product lifecycle
Define default metadata for different profiles to streamline the asset upload and approval process
Upload files and folders effortlessly using drag-and-drop tool with default metadata and security options
Content Creation(2)
Create on-brand, localized materials
Templatize, create, edit, and translate videos
Core(1)
Organize, find, and use assets across your business
Distribution(8)
Embed web-optimized assets across sites and track them
Maintain one master asset and update versions everywhere online
Programmatically change the format, adjust the size, set the crop, and set the background color
Create a block of HTML text to embed in a webpage, email, or other online source
Give users up-to-date, high-speed, and low-latency access to assets securely with CDN using Amazon CloudFront
Include a link in an email or instant message to give others easy access to an asset preview with download options
Copy the URL of a search result to bookmark it or share it with another DAM user for them to re-run the search
Let the DAM dynamically optimize your files for user viewing and website performance on every channel including smart crop
E-Commerce(1)
Elevate product listings and reduce time to market
Integration(6)
Build websites and pages faster by making on-brand assets in Acquia DAM available for web teams in the CMS
Allow creatives to search for and add assets from Acquia DAM to Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, and other design files
Import, deliver, and sync data across software tools with managed integrations, prebuilt connectors, and REST API
Pull in product attributes from Entries and use them as asset metadata
Deliver high-quality product content across sales channels at scale with bi-directional asset and metadata sync
Pull final files with metadata from the project management system with the click of a button
Organization(5)
Keep content accessible at the end of its lifecycle for long-term storage
Make browsing a snap with a category menu where users can drill down to find assets
Pull together assets for your own personal project or share with a team to collaborate
Design a metadata schema that reflects your unique business processes and structure with unlimited customization options
Track file iterations and retain the related metadata values with conflict detection for duplicate filenames
Reporting(1)
Export product listings, user information, metadata, order and upload history, asset search results, and more
Search(10)
Limit your search to specific metadata fields to return precise date ranges, file formats, or other values
Filter down search results by color or search for a specific HEX value using AI analysis
Use AI to organize and find assets using tags for keywords
Turn controlled metadata values, numeric ranges, or date fields into powerful search filters
Enter terms for a search across all metadata fields and values
Find assets faster with a search that accounts for the users language and context to provide more relevant results
Use predictive search to complete the text entered in the search bar based on filenames, category names, and metadata fields
Discover assets that are similar based on metadata or product associations
Default sort option that uses an algorithm to determine relevance by matching search terms with metadata values
Quickly find images that are similar without needing words to describe it
Security(12)
Your files will be stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability
Secure your content by using asset groups to control the files each role is able to view, order, edit, or delete
Customize the EULA upon login and configure order and download settings to align with your legal requirements
Rely on the durability of SOC 2-compliant Amazon infrastructure with SSL encryption and cold storage backups
Acquia DAM meets the rigorous requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Your data is always encrypted, preventing unauthorized access
Lock down fields to ensure accurate data
Your data is redundantly stored and synchronized within multiple geographically separate data centers in two Amazon S3 Regions
Remove login obstacles and increase security by automatically authenticating users with SAML 2.0, LDAP, OpenID, and more
A third party runs continuous assessments of the DAM environment checking for vulnerabilities based on WASC and OWASP standards
Audit the details of user activity within your DAM system and asset usage through reports leveraging Amazon CloudWatch and Kinesis
Stop screen capture reuse by adding visible watermarks to previews or set hidden watermarks on downloads by user group
Workflow(2)
Streamline asset creation, approval, and release
Gain visibility and insight into your creative lifecycle as concepts evolve into distributable assets
Pricing
Workgroup
- ✓Up to 50 users of any type
- ✓1 TB of storage
- ✓REST API
- ✓Personalized Dashboards
- ✓Simple to configure metadata
- ✓Powerful search
- ✓Flexible roles and permissions
- ✓AI-powered metadata and visual search
- ✓Related assets
- ✓Unlimited standard portals
- ✓Robust analytics
- ✓Custom branding
- ✓Enterprise security
- ✓Unlimited end-user support
- ✓Unlimited bandwidth and CDN usage
- ✓Single Sign-On (SSO)
Enterprise
Popular- ✓Unlimited users of any type
- ✓10 TB of storage
- ✓Unlimited REST API
- ✓Personalized Dashboards
- ✓Simple to configure metadata
- ✓Powerful search
- ✓Flexible roles and permissions
- ✓AI-powered metadata and visual search
- ✓Related assets
- ✓Unlimited standard portals
- ✓Robust analytics
- ✓Custom branding
- ✓Enterprise security
- ✓Unlimited end-user support
- ✓Unlimited bandwidth and CDN usage
- ✓Single Sign-On (SSO)
- ✓Archiving
- ✓Product data modeling
- ✓Related assets by product
- ✓Channel distribution
Departments
- ✓Up to 50 users of any type
- ✓1 TB of storage
- ✓REST API
- ✓Personalized Dashboards
- ✓Simple to configure metadata
- ✓Powerful search
- ✓Flexible roles and permissions
- ✓AI-powered metadata and visual search
- ✓Related assets
- ✓Unlimited standard portals
- ✓Robust analytics
- ✓Custom branding
- ✓Enterprise security
- ✓Unlimited end-user support
- ✓Unlimited bandwidth and CDN usage
- ✓Single Sign-On (SSO)
DAM + PIM
- ✓Up to 50 users of any type
- ✓1 TB of storage
- ✓REST API
- ✓Product data modeling
- ✓Related assets by product
- ✓Channel distribution
- ✓Manage product data, feature lists, and other product content
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Integrations
7 known integrations