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What is Aprimo?

Aprimo is a provider of digital asset management and work management solutions. Its content operations platform provides organizations with a single source of truth to optimize the way they plan, develop, organize, govern, and deliver exceptional brand experiences at scale.…

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9 out of 10
June 07, 2023
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We currently use the Aprimo DAM and Productivity. We have been using the DAM for about two years to store and manage our content as well …
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Aprimo DAMN good!

10 out of 10
March 06, 2023
Incentivized
I use Aprimo DAM as Digital Asset Librarian with a Librarian account. My main duty is to review the materials that contributors add to the …
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Impressed with Aprimo

9 out of 10
May 15, 2022
We use Aprimo to submit work through the Marketing & Communications Services Dept (my dept). This work gets assigned to our …
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DAM

10 out of 10
May 15, 2022
We need to concentrate all Digital Assets all together in a unique place (SAAS). We need to find and organize easily all assets. AI is …
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Aprimo, journey well done so far

10 out of 10
February 24, 2022
We use Aprimo's Plan & Spend Marketing Operations and Digital Asset Management modules on its SaaS offering. It provides a single platform …
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Aprimo Review

8 out of 10
February 15, 2022
We use Aprimo for Marketing campaign management. Using this system provides us with a clear trail of all marketing projects booked in and …
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Aprimo DAM review

8 out of 10
January 07, 2022
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We use workflows for the preparation of promotional materials and also to have a good repository of promotional materials
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DAM Learning Curve

8 out of 10
January 05, 2022
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We use Aprimo as the single source of truth for digital assets and content to share between regions and syndicate to downstream systems.
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Product Details

What is Aprimo?

Aprimo is a provider of digital asset management and work management solutions. Its content operations platform provides organizations with a single source of truth to optimize the way they plan, develop, organize, govern, and deliver exceptional brand experiences at scale.

Aprimo’s library of connectors provides integration with the applications teams already use, like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Adobe Creative Cloud.

The Aprimo Platform

Digital Asset Management - Aprimo DAM aims to enable organizations to produce higher value content, get content to market faster, enable approved, on-brand omnichannel across channels, and reduce content recreation costs.

Productivity Management - Aprimo Productivity Management supports marketing teams so they can focus on the work that really matters. Plan, work, and execute with agility, get content, campaigns, and experiences to market faster; ensure all in-market activities meet compliance and brand standards, and align marketing with corporate priorities.

Plan & Spend - Aprimo Plan and Spend helps users to accelerate and improve marketing performance by quickly shifting plans, budget, and spend to meet market and customer demands.

Aprimo Features

DAM Features Features

  • Supported: Uploading assets
  • Supported: Downloading assets
  • Supported: Categories
  • Supported: Asset storage
  • Supported: Asset sharing
  • Supported: Asset search
  • Supported: Tagging system
  • Supported: Content editing
  • Supported: Metadata
  • Supported: Collections
  • Supported: User access
  • Supported: DAM Integrations
  • Supported: DAM API
  • Supported: Workflow automations
  • Supported: Related asset discovery

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports
  • Supported: Data exportability
  • Supported: Content analytics

Additional Features

  • Supported: AI

Aprimo Screenshots

Screenshot of Contextual DAM Experience:
Allows users to see information that they need depending on their use case. Every metadata field is configurable to give DAM users the power to tailor the experience to their needs.Screenshot of Contextual DAM Experience:
Allows users to see information that they need depending on their use case. Every metadata field is configurable to give DAM users the power to tailor the experience to their needs.Screenshot of Content Return on Effort: Generates a full picture of how individual pieces of content and campaigns perform across channels.Screenshot of Aprimo Creative Cloud Connector: Aprimo assets can be browsed and searched directly from Adobe Creative Cloud.Screenshot of Brand Portal: A homepage view in Aprimo configured to different user groups, or each user can be allowed to configure this space to their own preference. The DAM is navigated from this screen.Screenshot of Marketing Calendar: Offers a single, integrated view into all planned, in-flight, and in-market activities.Screenshot of Productivity Management: Standardizes all marketing activities to get campaigns and content to market faster without sacrificing quality or compliance.Screenshot of side-by-side review, to enable more collaboration and approvals with markup, annotations.

Aprimo Videos

The Aprimo DAM software experience. A digital asset management solution with a streamlined user experience to elevate content operations.
Aprimo Productivity Management helps streamline and automate work, improve speed to market, and manage and allocate resources. Aprimo can also automate project management—automatic reports, agile boards, calendars, timelines, other tools—to save time and help prioritize complex tasks.
Aprimo Marketing Calendar provides an in-depth view of everything going on in marketing.
Modular content can be used to deliver personalized content.

Aprimo Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified)

Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe Experience Manager, Bynder, and Acquia DAM (Widen) are common alternatives for Aprimo.

Reviewers rate Aprimo Post-Sales Experience highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Aprimo are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Aprimo's SaaS DAM has proven to be a valuable tool for many users, allowing them to align their tools and customize them according to their specific needs. Users appreciate Aprimo's AI capabilities, particularly its ability to automatically add metadata and tags, as well as its feature for discovering duplicate assets. This automation has significantly improved efficiency and saved time for users.

One of the key use cases of Aprimo is its centralized process for campaign management. This feature greatly reduces risks and improves outcomes for organizations by providing a streamlined approach to planning, executing, and tracking marketing campaigns. Additionally, Aprimo DAM solves the problem of managing security for different user groups and allows for easy sharing of content with global stakeholders. The platform also addresses workflow problems by providing controlled availability of assets and searchability in a library format, which benefits both creative and administrative teams.

Another notable use case of Aprimo is its capability to serve as a centralized repository for content marketing. By housing all content-related activities in one place, Aprimo enables users to efficiently plan, create, store, and distribute content. Additionally, Aprimo's seamless integrations with popular reporting tools make it easier for users to generate reports and analyze the performance of their content strategies.

Many customers appreciate Aprimo's customization options and deep understanding of marketing. These features allow users to tailor the platform to their specific requirements and optimize their marketing operations. Furthermore, Aprimo serves as the single source of truth for digital assets and facilitates content sharing between different regions and syndication to downstream systems.

Aprimo is widely used across various industries for managing direct marketing campaigns, selecting customers for email sends, SMS communications, and surveys. It is also implemented as an audit trail and asset management system to ensure compliance with marketing rules and standards. Moreover, Aprimo is chosen as a Digital Asset Management tool for Intellectual Property, serving functions such as cataloging, creation information appending, production coordination, asset approvals, scheduling, and workflows.

Overall, Aprimo's versatile features and intuitive interface make it a valuable solution for users seeking to streamline marketing operations, improve collaboration, and effectively manage their digital assets and content throughout the campaign lifecycle.

Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Aprimo. First, users suggest verifying the functionality claimed by Aprimo before implementing it. This recommendation emphasizes the importance of thoroughly testing and evaluating the software's capabilities to ensure that it meets the specific needs of the company.

Second, users recommend improving the user interface and ease of use of Aprimo. This recommendation highlights the need for a more intuitive and user-friendly interface that can enhance user productivity and reduce the learning curve for new users.

Lastly, users advise having training and guides available for Aprimo users. This recommendation underscores the value of providing comprehensive training resources to help users fully understand and utilize the features and functionalities of Aprimo effectively.

Additionally, users recommend having dedicated IT support and super users for managing Aprimo and training new employees. This suggestion stresses the importance of having knowledgeable individuals who can handle technical issues and provide guidance to maximize the benefits of using Aprimo within an organization.

These recommendations aim to optimize the implementation, usability, and support aspects of Aprimo, fostering a positive user experience and ensuring efficient utilization of its features.

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Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Not used, and not deployable. Remains as expensive shelfware. We were unable to run a proof of concept, all features that were described or expected were unusable. two separate systems duct taped together. a crap mgmt UI that is required for any work, a newer UI that is just used to demo. The data model is not flexible, scalable, or usable.
  • strong professional services team
  • Working data model
  • Support multiple asset types
Not usable as a DAM, most any other vendor in this space runs circles around this. we ran POC for Bynder, Celum, widen, and others for 3 months. Every other vendor [was] better in every category. We manage large amounts and [different] types of media at scale. I haven't found any use case that this system would be able to address, maybe mail chimp marketing campaigns?
  • Negative costs, negative value.
  • We're paying for a system that is unusable & undeployable
Undeployable
Every other vendor is better than Aprimo in every category, workflows, approvals, metadata, tagging, UX, user mgmt, structure, data syncs, etc
Creative, marketing, product, engineering
shelf ware nothing to support
  • Asset mgmt between inhouse and 3rd party creative agencies
  • media lifecycle tracking
  • media approvals and workflows
  • Source of truth for multi TB of assets
  • None
  • nada
  • example to never buy a system that refuses to do a Proof of concept
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Communications uses Aprimo DAM as its media archive, Fundraising uses it for donor communication
  • Reliable
  • Easy to use
  • Constant updates
  • Listens to user requests
  • Easy to maintain
  • Solid customer service
  • Text document previews
  • Editorial possibilities to design entry pages
Aprimo DAM is a fantastic DAM and Aprimo a reliable vendor. It's fast and scalable, easy to maintain, and most of all - Aprimo listens to their customers. In their Voice portal, customers can leave their wish lists and Aprimo has picked up so many of them. We migrated to their recent SaaS version and are exceptionally satisfied with the results. User satisfaction has gone up significantly.
We are now going to add the Brand portal functionality. Keep in mind that it's a great DAM, but not a CMS.
  • User satisfaction has gone up significantly
  • SaaS saves us a lot of costs
  • Fast delivery of assets to customers
  • Great sharing features
Reliable and trustworthy vendor!
It has greatly improved with the SaaS version, but there a few more small steps to go
1800
Fundraising, Communications, Product management, management - basically every function
1
Business Analyst
Help desk manager
  • Fundraising communication
  • Global asset management and distribution
  • Donor communication via CDN
  • De-centralized content repository for member associations
We are simply very satisfied with the product and the business relationship
Yes
A homegrown sharepoint solution, totally outdated and not state of the art
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
The product features and the price played the biggest role and how the system fits into the existing system landscape
No reason to change
  • Third-party professional services
Book That In
No
Change management was minimal
The change was actually only going back to an out of the box system
  • Replacing some of the custom features with out of the box features
Nothing in particular
24/7 support is included
Yes
Always
  • The new user interface is beautiful and has great features
  • AI functionality
  • Updating the frontpage
Yes, but I don't use it
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Initially it was purchased so that we could track every step of projects, and lay out stopping points as well as figure out how many rounds projects went, easily. One of our large projects had over 100 steps easily, and once we tried implementing it, it fell off so many steps eventually we could not use it to create and track the project fully. In some instances I personally used it as a go-between to review a campaign email, but asked users to login to Aprimo, review the email, and then supply their feedback in Aprimo. No one used it correctly, most people reviewed outside of Aprimo and just sent me an email with their feedback. It was supposed to be used across departments, but mainly we just use it mid-sized group under 20 of managers and directors now. Currently we just minimally track projects here, including project codes, description and status, effort levels. It was a major learning curve to just get familiar with any part of the terminology and how to move just within the program, such as "save": vs "close" - if you choose close, it ends the project timeline and one is now entering information such as closing costs, delivered on time etc. We could not get our graphics team to really easily use it either. One bug was that when you were reviewing pdfs, it was not easily magnified, so missed or double periods were hard to notice. We found it hard to learn and work with, which is why we use it minimally now.
  • If you want a program that lays out step by step processes this is the program for you. Of course you have to list all these before entering them, and hopefully the program lays things out exactly right.
  • It can allow you to see what projects you are working on, if you have the opportunity to get them into the system.
  • Very difficult to learn, confusing language and practically no help to speak of.
  • too easy to delete or close a project, and no way to reset or skip a step. (this happens all the time.)
  • n/a (at my level)
n/a
20
Marketing
0
should be trained by Aprimo
  • n/a
  • we haven't
  • n/a
I understand that there are other aspects of the program that our organization was hoping to utilize, once we got past the initial usage, but we hav not moved in that direction yet.
  • none
  • project steps
  • working through a project
very hard to work with.
Adrienne Spohr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Enables the allocation across brands of various marketing activities, essential for multi-brand executions that we do freuently.
  • Connects seamlessly to IBM Cognos to create comprehensive reports that allow analysts and managers to see their budgets at any given point in time.
  • Interface is easy to navigate, with an ability to customize based on your usage needs.
  • Improved forecasting and planning tools, currently Aprimo does not enable teams to easily delineate starting budgets, actual spend, planned spend, and remaining budget.
  • Better filtering mechanisms - we rely on text lookups that can easily create problems if employees input misspellings.
  • Needs a capability to show snapshots of given points in time, for example, what the budget and plan looks like at the outset of the year vs. halfway through vs. end of year.
  • Aprimo enabled our team to efficiently deploy a $10M budget; in prior years we returned unspent funds to the corporation with little ROI benefit
  • Increased employee efficiency in researching spend on various programs - allowed our team to leverage one ananlyst vs. two across our pet and consumer business units
While Aprimo provides the fundamental tools to track our actual spend, it has a major void when trying to plan for future programs. Our teams often have offline Excel spreadsheets to track actuals spend vs. our original budget, and lay out the future programs against which we plan to use budget funds. Would also appreciate reporting mechanisms which could splice data in non table format. For example, we often use marketing calendars to display programs/spend over time. This helps our team ensure that programs which are intended to run concurrent with in-store sales executions are happening in the correct time frame. The visual is simply easier to follow.
I would advise him/her to meet with an Aprimo consultant to understand all of the capabilities of the software. I have a feeling that Aprimo does have the planning capability we urgently desire, but the training platforms Aprimo offers are very limited. Perhaps a valuable proposition would be for certain employees to become power users who are constantly seeking out improvements within our company's use of Aprimo.
50
Brand Marketing, Marketing Support, Finance, Shopper Marketing
2
Superuser capability with the software, and a strong working knowledge of how our company integrates software. When we need support, we have to arrange time with an Aprimo consultant to explain any challenges we are having or capabilities we are seeking from the software. Would be excellent if Aprimo offered more in-program training options.
  • Managing actual spend against marketing programs.
  • Allocating spend by brand for marketing executions and agency retainer payments.
  • Tracking invoices against budget amounts for the individual costs within programs.
  • Feeding ROI models that provide insight on Shopper Marketing ROIs.
  • Generating reports that show the percentage of cost allocated against a given brand across multiple programs.
  • Tracking unspent funding that can drop to the bottom line at the conclusion of our fiscal year.
  • Planning future spend.
  • Improved communication with software used by other cross-functional teams to manage funds collaboratively.
  • Viewing actual invoices against planned budget.
  • Percentage cost breakdown by brand.
  • Documentation behind each program, and associated costs.
  • Searching activites without relying on text lookups.
  • Planning spending and future programs.
  • Viewing budget spend in a more visually intuitive, non-table format.
No
Relatively easy to learn the basics, but there are a significant number of nuances. The system does not have user-friendly ways of allowing mass data manipulation in order to track large budgets over time. The only solution seems to be exporting into an Excel data dump and then performing analysis from there.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • In general the capabilities within Marketing Resource Management seem like a platform built by marketers for marketers.
  • The out of the box processes are pretty
  • The uniformity of the user experience across modules makes user training and change management a lot We are still in early stages of using the reporting capabilities, but we can see lots of value in what they Unica was not as standardized.
  • We are still very much focused on adoption.
  • Users have to adjust to Aprimo. More challenging for organizations that have deep-rooted processes and this is something that has to be addressed in training.
  • The portal full application experience varies greatly and it can become cumbersome for users to communicate via Aprimo on projects.
  • We are early users of the tool so it's hard to quantify actual benefits yet, but the following metrics have been established per business function:
  • Brand & Creative - Cycle time from creative brief intake to delivering the final design; Number of reviews/re-works per creative request
  • Field Marketing - Time to consolidate a field marketing forecast
  • Digital Engagement - Cycle time to complete a website request
  • PHSS - Time to complete a marketing plan for a specific PHSS campaign
  • CEOP - # of emails and phone calls required to get a CEOP request through the cycle; Time to develop a consolidate quarterly report on CEOP requests/status
  • Email Marketing - End-to-end email production process, through to launch date (# of launches that don't stay on schedule; # of email launches that have mistakes - audience, sender line, grammar; # of email launches that involve internal complaints, miscommunications)
  • On-boarding/CDRP - Time to generate a quarterly client status regionalization report; Errors in data capture and missed deadlines; Capacity to handle on-boarding requests
  • Direct Mail - % of mail campaign requests that miss 15-day approval service level, Involvement of LOB/ Stakeholders in the review process while maintaining response time.
The investment you have to make in process and ensuring your people have the right skills in the art of marketing is critical. For successful change management, make sure you form a team of what we called “process champions” composed of a member from each of the functional groups. These individuals will be the voice of their team to the deployment resources and the voice and the champions of the project to their teams. They should maintain an ongoing presence for the life of the relationship with Aprimo with their role being continuous evaluation of their processes, voice of their function with regards to new capabilities and requirements. Aprimo have taken the challenge of technology out of the picture by focusing so much on the user experience.
100
100 users in Marketing: – Brand And Creative – Field Marketing – Consumer marketing (Direct Response) – PHSS Marketing – RCO Microsites – Corporate Microsites – Celebrity and Entertainment programs
1
We have one contracted resource, but we are taking steps to secure full-time employees. We expect 1-2 FTEs to support this deployment.
  • In aggregate, Aprimo supports 6 processes and their sub-processes:
  • Field Marketing - National Campaign workflow
  • Field Marketing - Template Edit workflow
  • Brand & Creative - Creative Review workflow
  • RCO Microsite - Microsite workflow
  • Microsites - Corporate Microsite and WPG workflow
  • PHSS- PHSS workflow
  • Direct Response creative processes
We had no legacy systems that deliver the same capabilities. We were just using mass communication tools.
Unica - Both platforms (i.e. Unica and Aprimo) delivered comparable capabilities. However, due to internal limitations around technical support and technical maturity of the organization we selected Aprimo as it delivered the more user friendly user interface. Unica requires more technical saviness. With Aprimo you can be completely non-technical. We evaluated Epsilon, but they were too expensive and don’t compete on price. We evaluated Axciom. They offered an outsourced full service and were very powerful, but we wanted to bring capabilities more in-house. The capabilities were more advanced that we needed today. We felt Aprimo or Unica could both carry us a long way. We did not look at marketing automation vendors like Eloqua, Marketo. From a scale standpoint, we were looking for campaign management and not just marketing automation. Also wanted MRM (Marketing Resource Management) or internal workflow management capabilities. We did not take a deep dive as they didn’t have the full suite solution.
  • Vendor implemented
  • Professional services company
TopRight (http://toprightpartners.com/).
We were very well supported. TopRight who performed the process/requirements definition as well as project management functions came with ample experience with various marketing automation platforms. They also came with very good multi-channel marketing experience that allowed them to tackle this implementation as a marketing deployment and not a technology deployment. TopRight bring expertise in multi-channels strategy. Aprimo performed the configuration and training functions. Their personnel were very well versed in their platform and brought much empathy to a deployment that required a great deal of change management. I am stunned by how many people (from for-profit sector who work here) have not been exposed to these types of platforms. I want to make sure that folks are so accustomed to user interface. When I roll-out campaign management, teaching them the art and science of campaign management versus just learning the tool. TopRight are marketers. They are familiar with all these technologies. Their job has been to define processes, best practices and turn into training. Similar to training from Salesforce.com about funnel mgmt etc, vs. just the product. We will create training modules that are agnostic to the platform.
  • Online training
  • In-person training
Aprimo offered a number of hands on sessions customized for each group. As such, they address specific needs and configurations of each team. These sessions also offered another round of cross-functional collaboration in process design.
It was very generic and we took it prior to configuration. It was however adequate to educate our user in the basic capabilities that will have become available to them after deployment.
We have not had any need for customization. We went into this with the mantra of let’s adapt ourselves to the platform.
No
Customer service has been responsive and attentive in line with the service we have bought. However, any organization that wants to make investments in Aprimo should plan to make an investment in internal support headcount to serve as the first line of defense for user issues and inquiries otherwise it could become too expensive. We are on a standard service plan. You get 8 hours/month of whatever you want to ask them. This has been good enough. Will be buying more when we implement campaign management.
They have taken the challenge of technology out of the picture by focusing so much on the UI.
We have not yet experienced any downtime
We are struggling with it though I think it’s our firewall i.e. an internal issue. Accessing the software outside or on mobile is faster. They have a multi-tenant and single tenant option (more expensive) . We bought the single tenant option in anticipation of using Campaign Management and based upon our scale. You get more capabilities with single tenant.
  • Our first goal is to get integrated with data warehouse (Teradata). Ultimately the data warehouse will have integrations to Salesforce.com etc.
Teradata owns Aprimo and are integrated. It was a factor in our decision, though I'm not sure if there’s a system integration advantage, as Teradata has been agnostic historically.
Deeply discounted licenses. If you have in-house resources capable of configuring of the platform you will have significant savings in implementation costs.
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