If you’ve never wasted time looking for a logo, a photo or a video, DAM for Sitecore is not for you. Nor is it interesting, if you don’t care how sharp and uniform you corporate visual identity looks. Or if you find videos irrelevant.
For everybody else DAM for Sitecore is really good news.
Please send me the photos we used for last year’s campaign in high resolution. And I also need the video from our annual kick-off. Do you remember what we did with that really good PDF?
You’ve been there. Almost everybody who works in marketing and communication has wasted hours looking for the right photos, videos, PDFs and logos in the correct resolution and format. Not to mention the times, that a wrong photo or logo was used, because you just could not find the right one.
Stop wasting time. Stop devaluating your visual identity. A new digital marketing efficiency module for the Sitecore platform can help you and your colleagues save a lot of time by making it much easier to locate photos, videos, PDFs and documents as well as making it dead easy to pick the right resolution and format for both online and offline activities.
DAM for Sitecore is a Digital Asset Management Module offering you all the advantages of a full-blown Digital Asset Management system used directly from Sitecore.
Why not make it easier?
And what is it exactly a DAM system is capable of? By storing all images, videos and marketing materials in the same place in the highest resolution you get a single source ensuring you that the correct company images and materials are used on both the web, tablets and in printed materials. The DAM has automated workflows to create all of the right resolutions and formats you need, from the high quality material. A difficult and time-consuming task, if not strictly managed in a large and fast moving organisation.
DAM also offers a simple solution to a complex work situation. Many marketing and communication departments work with both internal and external business partners. Some require access to all levels of materials and information others are only allowed restricted access. Because of the complexity and the time consuming processes the reality quickly becomes local storages of materials and a lot of time wasted on finding, forwarding and adapting material. The timesaving solution is the single source storage through a DAM for Sitecore module as the built in media portal allows you to centrally define access rights. You’ll also be able to guard your visual identity and brand much better, as the single source storage ensures the right resolutions and formats for both online and offline activities.
Videos are the new black
Videos are the new black. The use is exploding and videos are now going mainstream on corporate websites. In fact, Gartner has recently concluded that video technology is the sixth most important technology in the world.
However, videos are more difficult to manage, store and forward than ordinary marketing materials and quickly become an annoying time-consumer. The solution is DAM for Sitecore as the single source module makes it easier to both store and use videos as well as ensuring high quality and performance. There are automated workflows to generate various qualities to be used on infoscreens, web and mobile apps. The DAM for Sitecore module also includes a video player out of the box making it surprisingly easy to showcase videos on your website. Why not dress in the new black and take your corporate website to the next level?
The best of both worlds
With DAM for Sitecore you get the best of both worlds. DigiZuite™ DAM is integrated seamlessly into Sitecore, allowing you to harvest all the benefits of a complete Digital Asset Management system. With DigiZuite™ DAM at the heart, DAM for Sitecore is a Sitecore Media Library on steroids.
Because of their demanding needs for a CMS platform or Digital Asset Management system, Sitecore and DigiZuite™ DAM is used by some of the largest organizations in the world (NATO, IMG (for The Open), US military, Play.com, The Danish Defense, The Danish Government, Danfoss and Oticon amongst many others). When DAM for Sitecore was released, for the first time, it was possible to get the best from two leading software systems and thus get the best of both worlds. Now we have made it even better with the newest version of DAM for Sitecore.
DAM for Sitecore v3
The 3rd version has just been released. It is an entirely new user interface with a Sitecore look and feel. Many features have been added to the module, and the usability improved. DigiZuite™ DAM is integrated seamlessly into Sitecore, making it completely transparent when working with the DAM or with Sitecore. The developers receive an API parallel to that delivered by Sitecore, making it a simple task to switch the code from the Sitecore Media Library to DAM for Sitecore.
Read more about DigiZuite™ DAM here.
Features in DAM for Sitecore
DAM for Sitecore consists of several components that combined creates a natural extension of Sitecore and a seamless integration of DigiZuite™ DAM into Sitecore.
- Bulk upload of assets directly from Sitecore to DigiZuite™ DAM, includes bulk setting metadata.
- Security is integrated into DigiZuite™ DAM and reflects Sitecore roles, allowing detailed user profiles, with different access rights in Sitecore CMS, as well as in DigiZuite™ DAM.
- The API for DAM for Sitecore is parallel to the API for Sitecore media library, so it's just as easy to get assets out of DAM for Sitecore, as it is from the Sitecore media library.
- There are preview features in Sitecore CMS for both images and videos.
- There are search features so you can simply find your assets among potentially millions of assets.
- You can perform "Crop and Zoom" on assets directly in Sitecore.
- DAM for Sitecore has a cache that ensures the high performance you are accustomed to with Sitecore CMS.
- DAM for Sitecore can be scaled over several front-end servers.
- Metadata for the assets in DigiZuite ™ DAM can be edited directly in Sitecore.
- Comes with an easy-to-use video player out of the box.
The combination of Sitecore and DigiZuite™ DAM gives a lot of advantages.
- Single source assets.
- High performance deliverance of ANY digital media.
- Millions of media files.
- Backend runs in a browser with no plugins needed.
- Streaming of video.
- Seamlessly integrated into Sitecore.
- Any media file in, any media file out.
- Support for Content Delivery Networks, incl. Akamai.
- Scaling of video and images to the right size and quality.
- Subscription to changes in asset metadata.