Acquia DAM
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Features
95 features across 17 categories
AI(11)
Get AI generated copy and design ideas in the comments functionality of the Workflow proofer
Automatically 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
Generate metadata 100x faster than manual processing at 90% lower cost in 53 languages using computer vision and large language models
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
Quickly find images that are similar without needing words to describe it
Access Control(8)
Secure your content by using assets groups to control the files each role is able to view, order, edit, or delete
Set default asset release and expiration dates and permission them by user role
Begin user experience with a branded login page including logo, color scheme, and hero graphic
Target specific user groups with permissioned, customized dashboard messages to highlight key assets and brand guidelines
Lock down fields to ensure accurate data integrity
Place your users into permissioned roles based on department, job, or any other function with support for over 150 roles per site
Remove login obstacles and increase security by automatically authenticating users with SAML 2.0, LDAP, OpenID support
Control access to assets with release and expiration dates
Analytics(5)
See asset activity and engagement with filtering by time frame, file format, and other ways to combine data meaningfully
Connect your asset-level data to business intelligence (BI) tools using the Insights API
Export your filtered data to a CSV or download a PNG image of your chart for presentations
Track user-engagement metrics including login, download, and search activity with dashboards on asset engagement
Get data on searches, shares, embeds, views, downloads, and more to see where your content really goes
Asset Management(8)
Organize, find, and use assets across your business with support for multiple file types
Manage podcasts, music, sound effects, and mnemonics
Store and manage messaging, visual styles, and values
Manage sell sheets, legal documents, reports, and scripts
Store illustrations, logos, photographs, camera raw files, and 360° spin photography
Manage whitepapers, slide decks, and e-books
Store final produced pieces, short versions for social, comp reels, b-roll, and training
Manage InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator files
Asset Transformation(4)
Determine conversion formats that display when you download or share assets with user-role specific options
Resize, crop, or convert images into a specific size, DPI, color space, or format dynamically
Convert files into a specific bitrate, frame rate, or pixel width and height dynamically
Choose to embed an image using the web setting and the DAM will select the optimal format for the channel and asset characteristics
Compliance(2)
Customize the EULA upon login and configure order and download settings to align with legal requirements
Audit the details of user activity within your DAM system and asset usage through reports leveraging Amazon CloudWatch and Kinesis
Content Creation(2)
Create web and print collateral on demand using centralized digital assets with on-brand, localized materials
Templatize, create, edit, and translate videos on demand
Content Management(1)
Optimize Acquia DAM to manage all product content and simplify distribution
Distribution(10)
Share assets and guidelines with external teams quickly in a beautiful branded webpage with no coding required
Distribute product content to multiple sales and marketing channels
Maintain one master asset and update versions everywhere online
Programmatically change the format, adjust size, set the crop, and set background color for assets
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 via Amazon CloudFront
Include this link in an email or instant message to give others easy access to an asset preview with format options
Copy the URL of a search result to bookmark it or share it with another DAM user for re-running searches
Let the DAM dynamically optimize files for user viewing and website performance on every channel, including smart crop to subject
Distribute and manage product content across multiple channels
Integration(7)
Upload, add metadata, and other tasks are all possible through the REST API
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
Easily integrate with your organization's LLM to use custom prompts to generate 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
Open API for custom integrations with over 80 pre-built integrations and 200+ marketplace connectors
Organization(6)
Keep content accessible at the end of its lifecycle for long-term storage
Make browsing a snap with a category menu for users to drill down and discover assets
Pull together assets for personal projects or share with a team to collaborate on campaigns
Design a metadata schema that reflects unique business processes and structure with unlimited options
Automatically discover and link related assets based on product associations
Track file iterations and retain related metadata values with duplicate filename conflict resolution
Product Management(2)
Elevate product listings and reduce time to market
Model and manage product data structures for e-commerce and sales channels
Reporting(1)
Export product listings, user information, metadata, order and upload history, asset search results, and more
Search(9)
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 with algorithm analyzing color composition
Organize and find assets using AI-generated tags for keywords with collaborative classification
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 user language and context to provide more relevant results with less metadata required
Use predictive search to complete 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
Algorithm determines relevance by matching user search terms with metadata values of assets
Security(7)
Files are stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with 99.999999999% durability
Data is transferred over SSL, encrypted at rest, and backed up in cold storage
Your data is redundantly stored and synchronized within multiple geographically separate data centers in two Amazon S3 Regions
Acquia DAM meets the rigorous requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act with Business Associate Agreements
Enterprise security relying on the durability of SOC 2-compliant Amazon infrastructure
A third party runs continuous assessments checking for all known vulnerabilities based on WASC and OWASP Top 10 standards
Stop screen capture reuse by adding visible or hidden watermarks to previews and downloads by user group
Upload(5)
Use the structure in file naming conventions to populate metadata fields automatically
Map metadata for batch processes such as uploading assets from a photoshoot or importing from another DAM system
Pull in product attributes from Entries and use them as asset metadata
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 assignment
Workflow(7)
Enter recipient email addresses, subject line, and email text for custom notifications
Trigger a path when assets are added to an asset group, going to expire, or when a new product is created
Use variables to automatically pull information about trigger events into notification emails
Refine path notifications using asset groups, controlled vocabulary metadata fields, or categories
Set up rule-based notifications to alert users of events throughout the content and product lifecycle without coding
Streamline asset creation, approval, and release with collaborative workflows and online proofing
Gain visibility and insight into creative lifecycle as concepts evolve into distributable assets
Pricing
Workgroup
- ✓Up to 50 users
- ✓1 TB storage
- ✓REST API
- ✓Personalized Dashboards
- ✓Simple metadata configuration
- ✓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
Enterprise
Popular- ✓Unlimited users
- ✓10 TB storage
- ✓Unlimited REST API
- ✓Personalized Dashboards
- ✓Simple metadata configuration
- ✓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
DAM + PIM (Departments)
- ✓Up to 50 users
- ✓1 TB storage
- ✓REST API
- ✓Product data modeling
- ✓Manage product data, feature lists, and other product content
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Integrations
12 known integrations