Veeva Vault PromoMats vs. Xinet

As a leading platform for the Pharma space, Veeva Vault is a fantastic option if clients/your company is maintaining a focus on continuous improvement as the tool is updated and enhancements are released. As with all things tech, if the instance you have is dated or uses older capabilities, it is a challenge to maintain competitive speed to market. “More, Faster, Cheaper” is dependent on your tech stack and your willingness to accept the challenges and pain of releasing new functionality. Veeva can offer these capabilities but executing on rolling more contemporary solutions is the keystone issue whether Veeva will be a tool or a risk to your team.

As a legacy DAM system, Xinet is great. But historically they have been slow to develop new features and they have allowed their competitors to take the lead with more modern features like video and digital/social support and more intuitive interfaces. It seems that most DAM companies have a cloud-first view on their storage, while Xinet, which emerged from on-premises servers, has only recently begun to move into that space. That said, Xinet is a niche product perfect for anyone needing to manage large, still photoshoots and rights-managed assets, and then share them with large teams since it is not based on a per-user pricing structure.

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• Annotation of reviewer comments
• Reminders to review team

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• Organize assets by metadata.
• Grouping assets in a smart manner.
• Search capability.

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• I'm not crazy about how quickly I get timed out

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• Automated triggers and actions could be a little more intelligent and could use a better interface (visual) for setting them up.
• Drag and drop file movements in the web portal would be a tremendous improvement.
• 3D file previewing for max and maya files would make the software invaluable to our teams.

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In my opinion, the interface is poor and in the last 4 years never improved

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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 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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Monday is a great organizational tool but we use Veeva for FDA products. The two products are used in entirely different ways

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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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• Allowed us to free up administrative staff needs
• Allowed remote approvals
• Organized system to get through audits

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• Increased employee efficiency
• Proper usage of assets
• Client management and control

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