Pics.io

Avantages

I got pleasantly surprised that it turned out to be a budget solution in comparison to the competitors. Also, the support team was quite responsive when we've had questions

Inconvénients

The UI felt a bit intimidating at first. There are so many options and configurations inside this DAM that it felt a bit paralyzing - I wasn't quite sure what goes where at first. Thankfully, as I've already mentioned, customer support is on point - they swiftly replied to my concerns so while it might take you some time to get the ropes, you're not left to fend for yourself.

Avantages

Pics.io does what you want out of a DAM while leveraging the power of google drive for storage. It is priced very competitively and has been adding new features at a rapid pace. The support team has been very responsive and actually adds features we request. How bout that!?

Inconvénients

i haven't had any complaints so far. pics.io is a newer platform compared to some other DAM systems, so it might be missing features for some people

Avantages

-Using Google Drive as the backbone let's you profit from features of both software platforms (pics and google drive).
-It writes Metadata directly into the asset files. That is a great feature
-The team continuously improves the platform, one of the latest additions is the Adobe Integrations
-For a DAM it pics offers cutting edge performance at a great price

Inconvénients

It has to function within the file restrictions of Google Drive which poses some limits when working with one file on multiple locations... For example if one assets is put into two folders it will duplicate the real asset in the background (at least to my knowledge).

Avantages

Love the ease of use and ability to locate assets through both search, folder location and visual display. It has increased my workflow and makes my job so much easier. External sharing with search features is amazing too. Slick, sexy UI is no comparison to other asset management software I've looked at. The full free trial really solidified my decision to use this software. Most of all, I love that you can download different file formats from PSDs and Illustrator files. This has made asset sharing with team members a breeze.

Inconvénients

Haven't found anything I don't like about it.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Pics.io

Avantages

The versatility of Pics.Io makes it an absolute no brainer of a platform. It has all the functionality we need to effectively organize and view our content along with a huge array of additional features such as metadata tagging, simple website deployment for client review, and multi-level/team usage that make it indispensable. This paralleled with unrivaled customer support make it one of my all time favorite pieces of software that I've had the pleasure of deploying while in business.

Inconvénients

There are a few nit-picky bugs here and there, but the customer support is always on top of user feedback, which has made these bugs/cons a non starter.

Avantages

It took me barely few hours to get a hang of the platform and test out the basic features I needed. I work with several remote freelancers and hence managing the content workflow was a challenge for me.

I really like the integrations available into Google so you have almost unlimited space at very low cost, as well as the integrations into Adobe products. I appreciate the ability to collaborate and review work products at multiple levels and the features that allow you to edit, rework and approve with appropriate security authorisations.

Although I do not use the feature much yet, I really like the auto keywords feature that generates keywords for meta management.

Inconvénients

I don't have any specific cons that I would like to highlight at this stage.

Avantages

The direct integration with Google Drive saves us lots of admin time. Pricing is much more reasonable than some of the competitors we evaluated.

Inconvénients

Auto sync could use some improvement as it doesn't always work but all i have to do is hit a button to force a sync so it is no big deal.

Avantages

Really easy to use, great organisation tools, good team collaboration tools, fantastic customer support.

Inconvénients

The advanced search tools aren't well documented, and it would also be helpful to be able to search by metadata specific to video files, such as video length - although I believe this is on their roadmap.

Avantages

Price and simplicity - works well for org size

Inconvénients

I would like a mobile app and increased mobile functionality

Avantages

The price and quality of a product like this doesn't compare. I consult and use various products with large corporations and small marketing companies, mine included, and this solves the issue of a useful tool that's within budget, and scalable depending on how large it needs to be. It has Adobe CC integration for designers, a public site to publish assets in an easily accessible area, uses your Google Drive storage, which is perfect if you'd like to also utilize the desktop folders and have the files downloaded. The interface is simple and easy to add metadata. Mobile site access is great.

Inconvénients

I'd like to see improvement with the public sites to customize specific assets or use various collections, as well as customize the layout, as well as easily sharing to other apps, social media. It's not a dealbreaker though, as it definitely keeps up with the other competition.

Avantages

We needed a better way to save stock photos and videos, so that everyone in our (marketing) department could access the pictures. So far it works good, and it didn't require a lot of effort to get started (once our IT-department had set everything up for us). We will use Pics.io externally also, but we're not ready yet. From our testing it seems promising.

Inconvénients

So far the experience has been positive. I still have lot of features to try out, and can't think of anything negative.

Avantages

Software as a service... quick ramp up. Using our own storage means we control the data.

Inconvénients

On S3 storage, vs Drive, office documents are not trackable in the system. Drive provides Google Docs to manage office document types.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Pics.io

Avantages

File sharing and collaboration between our team members. Asset management one of the unique feature at any time. Find management and file sharing at any time and anywhere most helpful.

Inconvénients

The pricing part looks Little bit complex compare to other applications, loading and accessing of large files takes bit more time which can be improved.

Avantages

Very easy to use, nice and pleasant graphical interface, reliable

Inconvénients

Nothing in particular, never had any problem with it

Avantages

User interface is quite friendly and intuitive
Set up was simple and didn't require much technical knowledge
Great customer support.

Inconvénients

While there's an ample selection of alerts, I cannot configure to receive them selectively, for example: if a comment is entered on an asset. I can select yes or no receive but I cannot receive ONLY for my assets.

Avantages

Pics.io is easy to get started with, their customer service is very friendly and does the best to help you. Never had any problems with using Pics.io. I choose Pics.io because I wanted my files on a trusted server.

Inconvénients

I can't think of anything that I dislike about Pics.io except that I think the prices could be more competitive.

Avantages

Addons for different platforms. The Blog Resources and the Training Lineup for managing the resources.

Inconvénients

The Pics.IO is a Cloud Service, an does not have Desktop Applications.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Pics.io

Avantages

Pics.io is easy to get started with any quantity of assets. I really appreciate having my assests under "my" control on the Google drive.

Inconvénients

I dislike that I cannot trust other users to properly upload and protect the assets. They also do not use the library and continue to ask others for images or rely on their own inefficient system.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Pics.io 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à Pics.io

Avantages

Pics.io gives the user the ability to add other people to the project to get help and collaboration and once they are not needed anymore the user can easily remove them. This team can contribute with their own comments and marks and the user would receive notifications of everything. Pics.io is supported on just about every platform.

Inconvénients

There are however some better software that can do a similar job and are cheaper. Other then that I believe this is a really good software.

Avantages

Supported across many platforms is a big plus. Place all my images the a collections folder. The search function is also very useful.

Inconvénients

There are better software solutions out there that do a similar job not to mention are cheaper, namely Google.