#1 most frequent
United States of America
77.2%78 installations of 101
What is Acquia DAM (Widen)?
Acquia DAM (Widen) helps brands manage and distribute assets across teams, tools, and channels. A configurable metadata schema provides business-specific search and workflow capabilities. Plus, AI-powered auto tagging makes assets instantly findable. Content can be synced across systems using the API or pre-built integrations with over 50 tools, from creative suites to project management. Product-based companies can use Acquia DAM to build a unique 360º view of their product content. It displays product associations and cascades parent level values to variants. Quick start implementation gets users up and running in two weeks. Acquia DAM is available standalone or as part of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP).
Categories & Use Cases
Media
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Screenshot of Dashboard can be customized to provide users with a springboard to popular assets, collections, and portals.
Top Performing Features
Asset storage
Centralized storage capacity and accessibility for centralized storage of marketing and brand assets. These can be anything from documents, audio files, videos, images, creative files (Adobe, etc.), etc. Outdated assets can be archived.
Category average: 8.6
Asset sharing
The ability to share and distribute assets with internal or external partners using sharing links attached to emails and messages, as well as portals. Data and assets can also be syndicated to third parties. Some DAMs enable asset publishing directly to end-user sites for more efficient distribution.
Category average: 8.5
Data exportability
Data can be exported via a CSV or Excel file for further reporting and analysis outside of the tool.
Category average: 8.1
Areas for Improvement
Related asset discovery
Automated ranking capabilities driven by metadata enable the quick discovery of assets related to those being visualized by users. The different assets that users have assigned to a particular product may also be displayed, facilitating connections between assets and products.
Category average: 6
Standard reports
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
Category average: 5.5
Content editing
Templates and text editors facilitate the creation and publication of branded copy as well as asset cropping and modification. Version tracking should also be available for assets with duplicate names, along with their usage history. Some DAMs offer integration with editing tools so that high-fidelity edits can be made outside the DAM and automatically synced back as a new or updated version.
Category average: 4.9
Who Buys & Uses Acquia DAM (Widen)
#2 most frequent
India
4.0%4 installations of 101
#3 most frequent
France
3.0%3 installations of 101
Single Source of Truth
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Acquia DAM (Widen) is our source of truth for all assets including images, videos, and documents. By having this system, we are able to update information in one spot and transfer it to other systems for use across the company.
Pros
- Asset Management
- API Access
- Search
Cons
- Filtering
- Push updates via api
Return on Investment
- Faster product launches
- Streamlined asset process
Other Software Used
Salsify, Shopify, Oracle Agile PLM
A good product for any company
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
create a single source of truth for the company's digital assets
Pros
- Portals
- All users in included
Cons
- Roles for uers
- Permissions
Return on Investment
- Fast implementation
- Easy to use
Alternatives Considered
Canto
Other Software Used
OutSystems, Wrike
Acquia DAM (Widen) Offers A One-Stop-Shop for All Digital Assets
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Acquia DAM (Widen) to host all of our global digital content and syndicate to all of our websites through our PIM system. This platform allows easy access to our product content across multiple brands, categories and formats and through the use of portals helps us streamline priority content for new product launches and campaigns.
Pros
- Host significant quantities of digital content
- Customizes file formats based on application
- Filters assets to make searching for file easier
Cons
- Editing tools are on the roadmap and would be a huge help for our customers and designers to customize content.
- Due to file sizes it often takes a while to process the files for download. Not sure anything can be done about that.
- We have built some custom APIs to connect to our PIM and CMS but building more connectors would be helpful.
Return on Investment
- Faster product launches
- Consistent product and brand content
- Maximize resources by limiting the fulfillment through the design team
Other Software Used
inriver PIM, Bazaarvoice, PriceSpider, Progress Sitefinity, Pardot, Sprout Social, Google Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, Datorama
Widen. Our trusted DAM for over a decade
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As a global company, we use Widen as its intended use as a true DAM. Any finalized corporate images, literature, videos, etc are housed here to be shared with other employees or customers as needed.
We segment the DAM by region (North America, Europe, Australia) and control permissions accordingly so users see relevant assets. We then tag the assets heavily with metadata to provide the best search and filter results as we can.
We segment the DAM by region (North America, Europe, Australia) and control permissions accordingly so users see relevant assets. We then tag the assets heavily with metadata to provide the best search and filter results as we can.
Pros
- Asset Share Options via Links
- Asset Versioning
- Customer Support/Communication
- Uptime
- Metadata Options
Cons
- Better Portal Management: Customization options, layers of portals
- Analytics (especially for Portals)
- Better sharing of collections
Most Important Features
- Share Links
- Versions
- Portals
Return on Investment
- Streamlined Product Launch Assets with Portals (saved time for all parties: us, customer, sales managers)
- Simplified Management of Images, Videos, and Literatures for Websites . Widen feeds our CMS via our PIM. (saves time and less file management for 20 global sites)
- Versioning simplified rolling changes for us (had lots of them this year!) We just update the asset with the new version and it syncs everywhere.
Other Software Used
Showpad eOS®, inriver PIM, Progress Sitefinity
Acquia DAM Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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Pros
- Store content
- Create content libraries
- Share content via URls
Cons
- Searching
- Analytics
- Self reporting
Return on Investment
- Store all designs for the organization
- Showcase usage of designs
Other Software Used
Adobe Workfront
