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WoodWing Assets

Score9 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is WoodWing Assets?

Elvis DAM is a scalable digital asset management (DAM) solution, offering Filtered Search, Collaboration features, Image Editing, Metadata management, Approval Process control, Version control and Asset Sharing.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

WoodWing Assets (previously called Elvis DAM)
Easy file rendition
Automatic file versioning
Folder and collections file organization
High resolution zoom
Sharelinks and brand portal
Sharelinks and brand portal

1 / 7

A DAM good choice

Pros

  • Searching for files is incredible powerful and quick
  • Sharing files both internally and externally is easy
  • Automatic version control on digital files is great
  • Indexing of text on all digital files is incredible
  • Metadata fields in excess of 550 standard (out the box) with unlimited custom fields

Cons

  • More granular workflow (status changes are good, but could be better)
  • Detailed analytics on actual asset usage, is good, but could be better
  • A dashboard for reporting and analytics would be a huge bonus

Return on Investment

  • Cut down time searching for the right version of the right file (Cut down more than 4 hours per week, per employee)
  • No more using 3rd part file sharing sites, as well as benefit of managing the actual share links.
  • Reduced multiple emails back and forth requesting approvals on digital assets for marketing and other departments

Usability

Works Great but can be improved!

Pros

  • Faster Load Times
  • Improves your SEO efforts by decreasing browser load times
  • Saves your server resources by caching assets

Cons

  • Can be a bit expensive when compared to other CDN alternatives such as AWS or Cloudinary
  • Learning curve involved for the user interface/dashboards
  • Lacks more advanced manipulation of assets that can be served dynamically

Return on Investment

  • Easy to implement and execute
  • Reduced our bandwidth and overall web operating costs
  • Improved customer satisfaction with faster speed load times

Alternatives Considered

Rackspace CDN, Cloudinary and Amazon Web Services

Other Software Used

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Rackspace