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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MediaValet

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AMediaValet’s Digital Asset Management platform makes enterprise digital libraries accessible, discoverable, and shareable to the organization's entire ecosystem – globally.N/A

    Xinet

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ANorth Plains Systems in Toronto now offers and supports Xinet, a digital asset management platform with an emphasis on collaboration and sharing. The California company Xinet, the platform's original developer, was acquired by North Plains Systems in 2012.N/A
    Pricing
    MediaValetXinet
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MediaValetXinet
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MediaValetXinet
    Considered Both Products
    MediaValet
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    MediaValetXinet
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of MediaValet and Xinet
    Feature
    MediaValet
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Xinet
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data exportability8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content analytics7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Features
    Comparison of DAM Features features of MediaValet and Xinet
    Feature
    MediaValet
    8.1
    18 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Xinet
    -
    Ratings
    Uploading assets8.517 Ratings00 Ratings
    Downloading assets8.718 Ratings00 Ratings
    Categories8.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset storage8.616 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset sharing8.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset search7.617 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tagging system7.516 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content editing7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collections8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    User access8.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Integrations7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM API7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow automations7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Related asset discovery7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    MediaValetXinet
    Small Businesses
    Adobe Bridge
    Score9 out of 10
    Adobe Bridge
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Brandfolder
    Score9 out of 10
    MediaValet
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Acquia DAM (Widen)
    Score7.2 out of 10
    MediaValet
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MediaValetXinet
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (33 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MediaValetXinet
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MediaValet
    MediaValet is an exceptional tool for our end users. We upload the images and they find them. Most often with great ease. Had we known how many images we would be adding, and our different audiences from the start, we might have set up our file structure a little differently.
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    IgniteTech
    Xinet is great for print marketing users that have a lot of copy in their artwork. Xinet is not especially useful for 3D artwork production.
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    Pros
    MediaValet
    • I love that we can add keywords. It makes finding assets very easy.
    • I love the fact we can make lightboxes. It makes sending assets to different people easy.
    • They are always adding more features to MediaValet to make it better.
    • I love that we're not limited to which types of files we can upload to MediaValet.
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    IgniteTech
    • Tracking rights-managed assets. Xinet provides advanced features such as watermarking and expiration notifications.
    • Integration with Adobe. Xinet can be configured to access assets from right within the apps.
    • Desktop integration. Xinet can be accessed by the browser but also as a mountable server volume on the desktop. Unlike Box, Dropbox, etc., the mounted volume does not require consumption of hard drive space.
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    Cons
    MediaValet
    • More flexibility/features when using Lightboxes
    • Replace an old version of an asset with a newer one without having to check-out, then check-in
    • Sharing an asset or a set of assets via a share link -- would be great to generate shorter, dynamic URLs for sharing as opposed to the longer string URLs it currently generates
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    IgniteTech
    • For my position, I didn't learn enough of Xinet to truly utilize the whole program, only one or two people in my department understood it inside and out.
    • During my time at the agency, we were unable to get the annotations to work on assets. And that would have been helpful to have to streamline our process of asset quality control.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MediaValet
    It is not only likely, but we have been doing it for more than 6 years. We have even had the service since before I joined the company. The service works well for me and I hope that this service will continue to be renewed next year, as not having it would make my job more complicated.
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    IgniteTech
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    MediaValet
    New staff is able to use our DAM with an hour of training.
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    IgniteTech
    Xinet is intuitive to use. It is perhaps the only DAM that features a traditional mounted volume, so anyone working in an environment with local servers will love it. Search is accurate and faceted searches allow users to narrow search results. Setup requires a lot of training if you want to leverage all of its complex workflow capabilities.
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    Support Rating
    MediaValet
    The team is very responsive to requests and makes a point to provide feedback or status updates before confirming solutions.
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    IgniteTech
    Support is handled by third-party server integrators. Our partner, NAPC, has always been there when we've needed them and also develops unique plugins to expand XInet's capabilities.
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    Implementation Rating
    MediaValet
    I mainly use MediValet to send special medical images to our partners. Collaboration with other companies is very simplified through MediaValet. The qualitatively uploaded images can be excactly assigned and organised through various filters. It is much clearer and easier for our partners to understand when the images have been accurately labelled and assigned beforehand.
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    IgniteTech
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    MediaValet
    Asset sharing and organization is better, more user friendly, and more appealing within MediaValet. The layout and flexibility give these portals a much more professional look and feel. Both internally and externally we have appreciated the output of these specific portals much more than what we had been attempting to share with these other programs.
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    IgniteTech
    We selected Xinet based on having a large number of potential users and wanted unlimited web seats. Paying a one time software fee versus a monthly seat payment was a big draw. Telescope was four to five times more expensive and was not feasible at the time. We liked Basecamp but we needed a local solution for storage, not hosted.

    Xinet is a great platform to build off of. We use it in combination with Enfocus Switch which has greatly improved the automation capabilities and we use Xinet as the portal for external users. Our internal users very rarely interact with the Xinet GUI.
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    Return on Investment
    MediaValet
    • While we have had MediaValet only for a short period, we are already seeing improvements in how quickly certain projects can be completed.
    • I recently created an Annual Report which had a lot of big image files and data tables and using a Lightbox with our design agency to share these files saved us a huge amount of time.
    • As we roll out MediaValet to the teams, staff are becoming more aware of the quality, amount, and value of our best assets.
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    IgniteTech
    • Increased employee efficiency.
    • Assets are found more quickly.
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    ScreenShots

    MediaValet Screenshots

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