WoodWing Assets

Avantages

It's easy to use and intuitive. Uploading, tagging and organizing multiple files has never been so easy. No more duplicates or lost files, also thanks to the handy versioning.
Setting up users, groups and all the rules behind it can be done really fast. Also, the possibility to share files by creating links remove many useless steps, improving a lot the workflow by removing time-consuming activities.

Inconvénients

The Brand Portal side could be improved with added personalization. In particular, it is missing the possibility to personalize the metadata fields in a more clear way. The ability to divide/group tags in different sets would make it more clear, by reducing clutter, and improve user experience.

Avantages

• High adoption rate
• Easy of use
• Ease of installation
• Off-the-shelf solution
• User Interface
• Feature-rich
• Customizable
• Metadata/taxonomies
• Automation ability
• Acceleration in workflow

Inconvénients

• InDesign Only integration, would like Illustrator integration
• No workflow

Alternatives envisagées 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à WoodWing Assets

Avantages

Tagging and filtering the items is a great tool.
Possibility to storage lots of materials of any kind.
Possibility to create instant shareable links.
The procedure of creatin new users is easy and simple.

Inconvénients

- The main filters selected inside the Client pro should be visibile also from the brand portal, while at the moment the filters part of the brand portal works randomly.
- Sometimes the action of selecting more items does not work all the time.
- When you tag many items, at the beginning the system seems to have included all the filters and tagging, but if you log-in the following day, you may realize that many items lost their tags.
- When you open the brand portal, people should not see the latest items uploaded, but only the main categories on the left menu.

Avantages

WoodWing Assets is the most cost effective digital asset management solution that enables work collaboratively on the same digital assets with its great Adobe InDesign integration.

Inconvénients

Direct integration with Digital Ocean is missing although there already is integration with Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

Avantages

What I like most about this software is that it is very intuitive, user-friendly and there are lots of opportunities to integrate to or from other applications.

Inconvénients

What I don't like about the software that sometimes it takes a long time to develop. For example you cannot download a png format with transparent background from a ai file. The system of having to place the request on a platform and waiting for 'votes' of other users take too much time.
What I don't like either is that when you want to replace an asset, it automatically downloads and opens up in Photoshop.

Avantages

Server-side one of the biggest advantages of using Elvis DAM is that we now had the possibility to use the API-module. This came in very handy to link our product en project images to our database which was than linked to several applications internal and external. One of these is our new website which will be released soon.

After a quick tour of the managment console I was able to setup different accounts for intern personal aswell as for freelancers. Defining groups was a nice feature to determine which groups can have access to certain folders and files.

Client-side the custom-fields came in handy to add extra information to your assets.

Inconvénients

The software sometimes feels like it is not fully finished . You might encounter some bugs depending on the setup of your server en server software version.

another disadvantage is that you cannot "upgrade" your licenses. At the launchwe bought some basic licenses and, after some testing, we concluded that these were too limited for us.

Avantages

The possibility to find each asset filtering results by keyword, type, tag, metadata, and more.

Inconvénients

Referring to my job, I think that WW Assets already has all I need.

Avantages

Easy to use and very flexible for integrations.

Inconvénients

Not available as SAAS.
No or too poor analytics capability.

Avantages

The software gathers all needed visuals. It is easy to set up a tree structure and build it as we want.

Inconvénients

We should be able to upload packages etc...

Avantages

We were pleasantly surprised by the ease of customisation (if you have a developer at hand) and the APIs are generally well done, as is the documentation.

Inconvénients

Some hiccups in the web interface, nothing major for now, usually resolved by a reload or a re-login.

Avantages

Ease of sharing assets.
User experience is fantastic.

Inconvénients

The mobile experience without the app could be better.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

The intuitive interface makes it easy for new users to adopt.
The comprehensive APIs make it easy for developers to interact with.

Inconvénients

The occasional undocumented feature that causes some heartache until you log a call with support.

Avantages

Easy loading system, metadata tagging, excellent search tools.
The system to share the material with my clients is the quality that I value most, it allows me to deliver and have a return in an easy and intuitive way.
I can create portals so that my clients have all the material produced and that they search and manage without having to intervene.

Inconvénients

I still find the administration console a bit complicated.

Avantages

We work online in many countries and with Elvis we can storage, share and get access to data for working in each country. Software is very user friendly and acces to all our digital assets its quite simple. Just shearing a link in between marketing, Graphic Design and sales its enough.

Inconvénients

I think it could be useful to have to option to choose between diferente languages. Some of our employees in other countries find difficult to understand and would prefer to change users language to Spanish.

Avantages

Functionality is excellent and consumers support is very fast. We use Elvis almost every day for internal data administration but also for clients. Workflow is great when you begin to use it daily. Uploading speed is quite fast and use is very intuitive.

Inconvénients

I didn't found big cons yet. May be graphic design could be better but this doesn't affect functionality that is excellent!

Avantages

Ease of use, layout, content management.

Inconvénients

Lack of access management, user and password with expiration