I spent a lot of time working with Media & Entertainment customers and they are always asking about Digital Asset Management - which is possible with MOSS 2007 but you always find yourself in the build vs buy conversation when talking about high end functionality.
Mark Harrison just posted a link to Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint 2007.
Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint 2007 is now available and brings a robust, low cost Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to Microsoft Office Systems. Companies are able to leverage their investment in the Microsoft platform without having to move to another, more costly system, thereby reducing IT management costs, training and productivity costs, and extending their return on investment.
The top 10 reasons for deploying MediaRich for SharePoint are:
1. Control digital media assets corporate wide within the SharePoint environment.MediaRich extends SharePoint's document collaboration capabilities to create a powerful, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution. Remove the added cost of training, maintenance and support of a third party system for media asset management. 2. Reduce high cost image production and media storage.MediaRich for SharePoint reduces the time and cost of locating, modifying, managing, and deploying media assets, in a secure self-service portal. Transform your images using corporate guidelines or provide the flexibility to allow information workers to select the file format, size, and resolution before downloading the required image. 3. Enforce brand consistency and maintain greater control over multi-channel marketing materials. Enable "self-service" creation of graphics for use in product images, marketing collateral, and presentations for Web, print, and multimedia. This ensures that the same corporate-approved original image is being used by everyone in your organization – eliminating the dilution of your brands assets. 4. Use Microsoft Office as a powerful set of collaboration tools.Thanks to the Web services provided by Windows SharePoint Services, search and access corporate approved images directly from a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint or Excel) or within SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services sites. 5. Accelerate time-to-market for critical product launches and marketing campaigns .Establish approval workflows to streamline production and reduce costs. Quickly and easily locate media assets by browsing thumbnail previews and accelerate the approval process with threaded discussions, alerts, check-in/check-out functionality and version history. 6. Manage a global brand from within a single IT platform. MediaRich extends SharePoint Portal Server so that organizations, from small work groups to large enterprises, can manage all corporate brand assets in a secure environment and leverages Microsoft Windows Active Directory for security, user roles, and account management. 7. Increase productivity with powerful search tools including image-specific metadata.Use metadata specific to images for more accurate search results. Extend powerful SharePoint search capabilities with MediaRich metadata support to both read and write industry standard image metadata and to provide thumbnail previews in your search results of the most popular file formats. 8. Provide partners and remote sales team access to brand assets through a corporate portal.Collaborate on assets with customers and partners to strengthen business relations. Businesses can protect brand asset integrity while providing a Web-based environment for both partners and remote sales force to access and use brand assets within corporate defined guidelines. 9. Deliver a robust, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution on the Microsoft Windows platform.Whether your company is using Windows SharePoint Services for workgroup productivity or SharePoint Portal Server for an entire enterprise, MediaRich for SharePoint provides all the functionality you need, without the high price you may expect. 10. Reuse rather than recreate brand assets eliminating errors and duplicated work.Protect the commercial value of media and reinforce consistent branding with MediaRich by displaying media previews of all popular image file formats. Enables non-technical information workers to update and manage visual content without burdening the art department.
1. Control digital media assets corporate wide within the SharePoint environment.MediaRich extends SharePoint's document collaboration capabilities to create a powerful, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution. Remove the added cost of training, maintenance and support of a third party system for media asset management.
2. Reduce high cost image production and media storage.MediaRich for SharePoint reduces the time and cost of locating, modifying, managing, and deploying media assets, in a secure self-service portal. Transform your images using corporate guidelines or provide the flexibility to allow information workers to select the file format, size, and resolution before downloading the required image.
3. Enforce brand consistency and maintain greater control over multi-channel marketing materials. Enable "self-service" creation of graphics for use in product images, marketing collateral, and presentations for Web, print, and multimedia. This ensures that the same corporate-approved original image is being used by everyone in your organization – eliminating the dilution of your brands assets.
4. Use Microsoft Office as a powerful set of collaboration tools.Thanks to the Web services provided by Windows SharePoint Services, search and access corporate approved images directly from a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint or Excel) or within SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services sites.
5. Accelerate time-to-market for critical product launches and marketing campaigns .Establish approval workflows to streamline production and reduce costs. Quickly and easily locate media assets by browsing thumbnail previews and accelerate the approval process with threaded discussions, alerts, check-in/check-out functionality and version history.
6. Manage a global brand from within a single IT platform. MediaRich extends SharePoint Portal Server so that organizations, from small work groups to large enterprises, can manage all corporate brand assets in a secure environment and leverages Microsoft Windows Active Directory for security, user roles, and account management.
7. Increase productivity with powerful search tools including image-specific metadata.Use metadata specific to images for more accurate search results. Extend powerful SharePoint search capabilities with MediaRich metadata support to both read and write industry standard image metadata and to provide thumbnail previews in your search results of the most popular file formats.
8. Provide partners and remote sales team access to brand assets through a corporate portal.Collaborate on assets with customers and partners to strengthen business relations. Businesses can protect brand asset integrity while providing a Web-based environment for both partners and remote sales force to access and use brand assets within corporate defined guidelines.
9. Deliver a robust, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution on the Microsoft Windows platform.Whether your company is using Windows SharePoint Services for workgroup productivity or SharePoint Portal Server for an entire enterprise, MediaRich for SharePoint provides all the functionality you need, without the high price you may expect.
10. Reuse rather than recreate brand assets eliminating errors and duplicated work.Protect the commercial value of media and reinforce consistent branding with MediaRich by displaying media previews of all popular image file formats. Enables non-technical information workers to update and manage visual content without burdening the art department.