Extensis Digital Asset Management Learning Center

Digital Asset Management Best Practices Webcast »Learn digital asset management (DAM) best practices gathered from those who successfully implemented their own DAM solution. Watch Video »
Portfolio Server™ 10: What’s New »See Portfolio Server's new features including See Portfolio Server’s new features including audio video support, advanced media processing, and LDAP integration. Watch Video »
See How Nickelodeon® Animation Studio Maximizes Series Assets with DAM » Learn how Eric Swanborg, Manager of Digital Production at Nickelodeon, helped his department transform from a 'paper-and-pencil' team to a digitally- driven studio by using DAM. Watch Video »
World Book Case Study: Using DAM to Efficiently Create and Deliver Stunning Visual Content » John Matney, Infrastructure Senior Manager for industry leader World Book, shares print and digital workflow successes achieved with DAM. Watch Video »
Managing Student Works Through Digital Archives » Find out how leading arts college, Columbia College Chicago, dynamically manages students’ creative works including photography, video, audio, print & multimedia. Watch Video »
Portfolio NetMediaMAX » Learn about NetMediaMAX, a powerful media-process engine for your digital files. NetMediaMAX automates repetitive tasks, standardizes processes eliminating errors, creates consistent hi-quality output across your team's creative and image workflows. Watch Video »
Maximizing the Value of Rich Media Assets in a Down Economy »Learn how Methodologie utilizes digital asset management (DAM) to save time and money for clients like The Coca-Cola Company, Boeing, Potlatch, Microsoft Xbox and Seattle Children's Hospital Watch Video »
Using DAM to Manage and Distribute Large Image Collections »See how the National Wildlife Federation manages internal requests for the thousands of assets, uses a central repository of raw materials, and how they created a simple self-service portal to identify a physical location of where non-digital audio and video clips are stored. Watch Video »
Yale University Shares Digital Asset Management Success Story »Find out how Yale uses Portfolio to create catalogs using images, PDFs, audio and video files for student review and course work, Enhance teaching with digital resources , Improve visual literacy amongst students and implement digital asset management best practices. Watch Video »
Heritage & Culture: The National Gallery of London »Find out how The National Gallery of London manages image and document libraries, Implemented DAM best practices, and achieved ROI and plans for the future.
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Printing and Publishing: The World Bank »See how The World Bank manages 70,000+ publishing assets, evaluated and selected their DAM solution, and implements best practics for publishing departments.
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- 5 Tips for Setting Up An Organized Folder Structure Useful insights for creating more effective folder structures.
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- Presenting a Convincing Case for DAM 8 compelling reasons for Digital Asset Management
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- The Digital Asset Management Market The DAM market can be divided into several categories: Enterprise DAM solutions, Mid-Sized DAM solutions, and Hosted DAM systems. Learn what each category is all about and other players in this market.
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- What is Digital Asset Management? Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a buzzword that simply means this: a centralized repository for all your digital content. With a DAM system you can organize, archive, access and distribute all your digital content such as images, documents, creative files, audio and video clips.
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- Things to Consider When Creating a Master Keyword List One of the key strategies to a successful implementation of a digital asset management workflow is to create a master keyword list.
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- How to Create a Logical and Manageable Folder Structure Where to begin when organizing your digital assets
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- Do I Need a Digital Asset Management System? Review the simple checklist below to determine if your organization needs digital asset management system for the hundreds, even thousands of images, documents, audio and video files it owns
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- Digital Asset Management–Glossary of Terms We've created this list of some commonly used digital asset management terms to help keep things straight.
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- Tips for Advanced Metadata Management Shellie Hall solves some of the mysteries of Metadata Management
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- Creative Media Development Integrated marketing communications agency, CMD, has an easy way of tracking the payoff from implementing Portfolio Server and Suitcase Server to manage their digital assets and fonts. It's called more billable hours.
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- Christian Aid Christian Aid is a respected, worldwide charitable agency. But it can't afford to be charitable when it comes to spending staff time and resources managing its 80,000+ image library. For that, the agency depends on powerful Portfolio SQL Connect and Portfolio NetPublish. Customer Story >>
- University of Lausanne Using Portfolio Server in combination with Portfolio SQL-Connect, the University of Lausanne's School of Criminal Justice was able to create an efficient system to organize and manage its entire library of digital photographs and tie it in seamlessly with its existing e-learning system. Customer Story >>
- Oregon Health & Science University With a library of thousands of on- and off-line slides growing by 1,200 new images monthly, chaos was spreading like a disease in The Pathology Department at Oregon Health & Science University. Until they found the perfect solution to help them organize, track and access their image library — Portfolio Server. Customer Story >>
- The National Gallery of London The Photography Department at The National Gallery of London wanted to give other Gallery departments better visibility into its archived library of images and reduce the administrative workload for its photographers. Read how Portfolio Server and Portfolio SQL-Connect painted the perfect solution to this challenge. Customer Story >>
- BB Printing BB Printing is a UK-based commercial printer, owned by Palmer and Harvey McLane Ltd. Traditionally BBP stored their client's files on CD's, however when the number of CD's increased to thousands, searching for files became a long and tedious process for designers. Customer Story >>
- Direct Wines Ltd. In 2006, Direct Wines Ltd identified a need for a solution that would manage the thousands of wine related images they had collected. The main use of the images, which range from images of wineries and wine makers to those of grapes, is inclusion in the company's direct mail campaigns and on the Direct Wines website. Customer Story >>
- EDEKA Both EDEKA Verlags GmbH and EDEKA corporate communications wanted to merge the two department's assets and create one single image library, which could be accessed by both departments. Customer Story >>

PORTFOLIO SERVER SOLUTION OVERVIEW
See how Portfolio Server allows you to centralize your rich media files and from a single location allows your team to search, access, share, archive and collaborate on the files they use every day.
(4 minutes)

WHAT'S NEW WEBCAST
Watch this recorded webcast which highlights the new features of the Portfolio Server, Web Client and Desktop Client.
(60 minutes)

SERVER & USER ADMINISTRATION
For catalog administrators — learn how to remotely administer the Portfolio server, create catalogs, add/delete users and manage catalog access levels.
(5 minutes and 30 seconds)

WEB CLIENT
Designed for end users — learn how to add, edit, download and automate media processing tasks through the flexibility of a web browser.
(6 minutes 20 seconds)

DESKTOP CLIENT
For end users — learn how to work with your assets and catalogs, and how to set up advanced management options including working with Portfolio Express Palette.
(6 minutes and 55 seconds)

NETPUBLISH
For users who would like to learn how to create professional-looking branded Web portals to distribute digital assets to others.
(6 minute and 30 seconds)

NetMediaMAX: Expanded Output
Watch how users utilizing Portfolio Web Client can batch convert digital assets into popular file types such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PDF and more.
(2 minutes and 12 seconds)

NetMediaMAX: ImagePro NetPublish Template
Watch how to publish web portals that allow users to download digital assets in a variety of file types.
(1 minutes 2 seconds)

NetMediaMAX: Customization and Scripting
See how to utilize MediaScript to automate and customize NetMediaMAX for many different workflow needs.
(2 minutes and 5 seconds)

PORTFOLIO SERVER SOLUTION OVERVIEW

(4 minutes)

WHAT'S NEW WEBCAST

(60 minutes)

SERVER & USER ADMINISTRATION

(5 minutes and 30 seconds)

WEB CLIENT

(6 minutes 20 seconds)

DESKTOP CLIENT

(6 minutes and 55 seconds)

NETPUBLISH

(6 minute and 30 seconds)

NetMediaMAX: Expanded Output

(2 minutes and 12 seconds)

NetMediaMAX: ImagePro NetPublish Template

(1 minutes 2 seconds)

NetMediaMAX: Customization and Scripting

(2 minutes and 5 seconds)