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Acquia DAM (Widen)

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What is Acquia DAM (Widen)?

Acquia DAM (Widen) helps brands manage and distribute assets across teams, tools, and channels. A configurable metadata schema provides business-specific search and workflow capabilities. Plus, AI-powered auto tagging makes assets instantly findable. Content can be synced across systems using the…

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  • Asset storage (78)
    9.2
    92%
  • Uploading assets (78)
    8.5
    85%
  • Downloading assets (79)
    8.4
    84%
  • Asset search (79)
    8.0
    80%

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Acquia DAM (Widen) helps brands manage and distribute assets across teams, tools, and channels. A configurable metadata schema provides business-specific search and workflow capabilities. Plus, AI-powered auto tagging makes assets instantly findable. Content can be synced across systems using…

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Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

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DAM Features

Features commonly found in dedicated Digital Asset Management (DAM) Software.

8.1
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Product Details

What is Acquia DAM (Widen)?

Acquia DAM (Widen) helps brands manage and distribute assets across teams, tools, and channels. A configurable metadata schema provides business-specific search and workflow capabilities. Plus, AI-powered auto tagging makes assets instantly findable. Content can be synced across systems using the API or pre-built integrations with over 50 tools, from creative suites to project management. Product-based companies can use Acquia DAM to build a unique 360º view of their product content. It displays product associations and cascades parent level values to variants. Quick start implementation gets users up and running in two weeks. Acquia DAM is available standalone or as part of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP).

Acquia DAM customer results

  • 3M+ total digital brand assets managed by Fanatics
  • 12 hours saved weekly searching for, recreating, and resizing assets by Harvey Performance Company
  • $240,000 average yearly content creation savings by McCormick
  • 9M+ embed views over the past year by Igus

Acquia DAM Consists of Six Apps

  • Assets - Catalog, control, and deliver rich media assets from a central source.

  • Entries - Create a 360-degree view of product content to simplify distribution.

  • Insights - Track and measure assets to improve marketing efficiency.

  • Portals - Curate collections and create personalized brand experiences.

  • Templates - Create localized web-to-print collateral that’s on-brand on demand.

  • Workflow - Manage work in process and streamline collaboration, reviews, and approvals.

  • Integrations - Automate marketing workflows by connecting tools.

Acquia DAM (Widen) 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: Embed codes
  • 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

Acquia DAM (Widen) Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard can be customized to provide users with a springboard to popular assets, collections, and portals.Screenshot of Custom-branded portals to share curated collections of assets and microsites.Screenshot of Asset performance tracking including downloads, embedded asset views, and shares.Screenshot of Custom analytics dashboards to display system reports for all usage data.Screenshot of Any asset type can be searched, downloaded, shared, and embedded.

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Acquia DAM (Widen) Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Asset storage highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Acquia DAM (Widen) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Acquia DAM (Widen) Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)5%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)70%
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Widen as a central place to store, share, and publish our assets. It is also tied in to our customer-facing system to manage and deliver content to thousands of users. The analytics that Widen provides allows us to asses the frequency with which our assets are viewed and downloaded.
  • Metadata is easy to define.
  • It is easy to narrow one's search using the metadata fields.
  • It is easy to upload assets.
  • It would be great if the simple portal options for layout were expanded. It's very limited right now.
Widen is excellent for any company looking to manage their assets in a safe, central space that allows for easy searching and sharing. Sharing assets in a portal to a user group enables us to provide access to specific groups of assets in a controlled environment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
How we use it: Manage Digital Assets, Feed CMS with Images, Documents and Videos and Stream Video

Business Solutions: Global delivery, Performance, Integration

Scope: To power CMS, To power multi-channel organization

  • Portals: Allow partners from outside the organization to leverage assets
  • Governance: Streamline access and organize assets within the organization
  • Performance: Serve files fast and effectively (for both download & integration with applications)
  • Most issues I have seen result from clients not investing enough time or resources on how to use it effectively
Decoupled applications
API Gateway solutions
Enterprise Architecture
CMS
PIM & Product Management
January 11, 2024

Excellent DAM Option

Megan Spaid | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Widen to organize our marketing resources internally and to share them externally with our partners via the portals. We work with foodservice distributors, retailers, and restaurant owners to advertise our product. This platform allowed us to share our logo files, photos, videos, and training tools. We loved how we could organize our assets internally. It was more difficult to provide the "search" capabilities with our external partners via the portals. Widen had a good onboarding process with our team and did take feedback from us. However, there were just some functions and capabilities they could not provide so we ended up switching providers.
  • Adding Metadata
  • Version Control
  • Bulk Editing
  • Search Capabilities in Portals
  • Having to build our own images for use in portals to make it more visual
Widen is a great digital asset manager internally. I loved the framework that the platform has. However, we created a main portal to share with our external partners so we could control what was private and what was public. The portal framework was not as user-friendly and we tried too much to make it like a website when it was meant to be a DAM. The main reason we switched providers is that we wanted to have the option to have a consistent framework internally and externally that was more user-friendly with better search capabilities.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We employ the (DAM) system to seamlessly store and share a diverse array of digital assets, including images, documents, videos, audio, and more. We view it as an all-encompassing hub for organizing and accessing all pertinent assets. The product effectively tackles the challenge of swiftly finding and locating assets as needed. Thanks to the DAM's robust metadata functionality, the process of searching becomes not only more efficient but also quicker—a long-awaited solution that we are excited to integrate.
  • Makes searchability of assets easier.
  • Provides Asset Groups to store assets where needed.
  • Sharing of assets is easier which provides downloading functionality.
  • Admin is able to control user roles and permissions.
  • Providing short videos to support multiple users (User Guide Video).
  • File naming can be improved to include more characters.
  • The use of advanced search can be addressed by reading the behavior of user searches and providing recommended searches.
DAM proves highly effective as a storage solution for assets that are accessed periodically. Its versatility extends beyond mere storage, as it can be evolved into a sophisticated model that integrates technology seamlessly. In this advanced iteration, the DAM not only serves as a repository but also provides department-specific data, ensuring relevance to user needs. It can be further redeveloped as software where a user has set permissions to a specific department and seeks permissions to access, view, or download assets from other departments. This user-centric approach enhances collaboration by offering a streamlined process for acquiring the necessary approvals, fostering efficient asset sharing across different organizational units.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Acquia DAM to organize and share our digital assets across our company, provide access to our assets for our sales partners and vendors, and assure brand consistency throughout our portfolio. Before our system was set up, there was a lot of variability across our marketing efforts, and files would be lost or not readily accessible. The DAM has streamlined our efforts and increased collaboration and accessibility.
  • Organizing assets.
  • Making assets easily searchable to quickly find what you need.
  • Having a wide variety of sharing options to make assets accessible to a wide audience.
  • Better AI tools for search (tagging).
  • More customization on portal design.
Acquia DAM is well suited for large companies that need to organize and control the flow of assets being used by their teams and vendors. It provides much better control than file storage sites like Dropbox, where there's little control over what goes where and almost non-functional search functionality. If you're a smaller company, you may be able to get by or have someone dedicated to doing so, but for larger companies, it really takes a lot of the manual work out of it!
Michelle Bates | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Acquia DAM (Widen) to store and manage a large number of assets that we use across different brands. By adding metadata to these assets, we can make the updating process smoother. Our educational content relies heavily on a vast amount of assets. In order to determine the effectiveness of these assets within the content, we track how our users use them.
  • Track user engagement data
  • Upload assets quickly
  • Creation and Accessibility of Portals
  • Insight Reports
Before implementing the use of Acquia DAM, keeping track of the massive amount of assets utilized by different brands was a headache. Assets for different brands were stored in different locations which made it difficult to reuse assets across all the brands. However, once Acquia DAM was implemented, we were able to store all of the assets within one location where access was granted so that the ability to effectively and efficiently manage the assets was more convenient.
Jason Zema, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Acquia DAM (Widen) to save all are pertinent marketing assets that we use on a regular basis. Our asset types include marketing/fact sheets (native and PDF files) employee headshots, logos, stock photography, employee bios, etc. Before Acquia DAM (Widen), we would save these files to the company drive designated for the marketing team. It would always be a challenge looking for a particular file you needed as the file may be saved in a different location, files were not dated or were duplicated, or you may not be able to locate the file at all, even by doing a basic search. With Acquia DAM (Widen) our files are much more organized and are tagged with the appropriate brand, product and asset type which makes it much easier to locate.
  • Organization
  • Ease of navigation/user interface
  • Identifying what an asset is
  • Integration with third-party sites
  • Having a trail of all updates for assets (Dates, time stamps, etc.)
  • There should one interface when viewing an asset. If you click on a file name or click on the "Edit" button when doing a search you are presented with two different interfaces.
It is well suited if you are managing 1,000+ assets that are widely or commonly used for different purposes by multiple people, particularly if they are updated on a regular basis. It also allows us to control what assets can be viewed or used by others from a compliance perspective.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia DAM (Widen), in our organisation, is used by users across different teams like Brand, Sales and Marketing, Legal, Web and UI/UX. Before Acquia DAM (Widen), different teams were using all kind of solutions and we were struggling majorly with uniformity in branding, assets sharing, redundancy, search, user management, publishing and versioning. Also we moved our corporate website to Acquia Drupal which has seamless integration with Acquia DAM (Widen). This opened host of opportunities for web team to manage assets, metadata, versioning and also digital marketing team got in sync with other teams in the organisation.
  • Bulk upload
  • Metadata management
  • Versioning
  • Publishing workflow
  • User roles and permissions
  • Acquia DAM (Widen) portals has lot of scope of improvement. Currently it serves very limited type of audience. Customisation possibilities are almost none.
  • APIs
  • Integrations with third parties.
It is well suited if multiple teams are working on the floor but in silos. If teams are using different applications to manage assets. If you need versioning and publishing workflow. If access management and SSO integration is an issue. It is less appropriate if you want to create portals with great user interface and also want to share outside your organisation.
Elizabeth Nelson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to store our photography library and share with other communicators internally.
  • Organizes Photo Library
  • Easy to share outside of users
  • Easy to control levels of access to photo library
  • Portals are a great way to share photos with people outside of our user group.
  • Sharing links to photos at different size and scale.
It is a great way to share our photos with people outside of the user group. We use it to store our photography so that it is easily searchable for people that need to use photos within out department.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Acquia/Widen to manage all of our digital assets from photography to digital catalogs. We have users from within our own company that extends to distributors/resellers, ad partners, and more. Previous to using Widen we were managing assets on internal servers and it was a nightmare to store and find assets.
  • Organizing assets
  • Ease of uploading and entering metadata
  • Providing analytics for our DAM
  • Customer service could be improved. A dedicated person was appreciated prior to Aquia acquisition. Now you have to go through an automated system online.
  • I wish it were a bit easier for our sales team to navigate or if we could somehow tailor the experience more towards certain departments
Widen has been extremely well suited for our company by providing a means to organize our 30K+ assets. They are well organized and easy to find by our users. I also love how they integrate well with our other partners such as Salsify, Salesforce, and our other partner that managers our wholesale product guide.
Erica Holloway | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia DAM (Widen) revolutionized our workflow by centralizing digital assets for marketing, design, and content creation. With an intuitive interface and robust metadata, it efficiently tackles challenges of asset disorganization and time-consuming searches. Collaboration features and version control enhance teamwork, ensuring brand consistency. For organizations handling significant digital assets, Acquia DAM is a highly recommended, invaluable solution.
  • The platform's user-friendly design ensures easy adoption across departments globally - enhancing productivity.
  • Acquia DAM excels in attaching detailed metadata to assets, facilitating quick and accurate searches.
  • The platform efficiently scales with our growing asset library, maintaining performance and responsiveness.
  • Improvements in the cropping and editing features within Acquia DAM are essential to ease the workload for our graphic designers. The current functionality falls short in providing the necessary tools and precision required for efficient asset manipulation, not helping with that time management at all.
  • Enhancing the onboarding experience, we propose creating more video tutorials for Acquia DAM. These visual guides, covering topics from account setup to collaboration features, offer dynamic, step-by-step learning.
  • To improve the onboarding experience, we recommend expanding introductory tools and templates in Acquia DAM. Introducing more user-friendly features and providing a variety of templates will empower new users to navigate the platform with ease, fostering quicker proficiency and enhancing overall usability.
The platform shines in environments where collaboration among diverse teams, such as marketing, design, and content creation, is crucial.

Acquia DAM may not be as helpful for graphic design tasks. Its features might not fully cater to the specific needs and preferences of graphic designers, potentially requiring additional tools for design-related tasks.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
create a single source of truth for the company's digital assets
  • Portals
  • All users in included
  • Roles for uers
  • Permissions
Wel in portal integrated into web pagesLess in define different metadata settings
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Acquia DAM for storing all documents, graphics, photos, signatures, third party logos, etc.
  • I like portals -- for creating smaller, focused environments for users.
  • Search power and meta data -- fields
  • Saving new versions over old versions
  • Archiving capabilities
  • Share links for external users and web use
  • Thumbnails and Lists, is good, but sometimes I'd like to see thumbnails in different sizes
Aquia DAM (Widen) is very reliable. The interface is easy. The support team is reachable. There are education "modules" when you want to learn more and they don't cost extra. I use this tool everyday with ease. I have learned to upload and download assets. Our company requires metadata be added when uploading -- this ensures an asset has information included along with an expiration date.
December 12, 2023

Using Acquia DAM (Widen)

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by multiple departments including the library, media, marketing and communications to organize both current and historic digital assets.
  • Portals are a useful tool to share and make assets available both to internal and external clients with the ability for they to either download or view the items.
  • The ability to create categories and collections enables the user to sort assets into more manageable groups.
  • Metadata can be customized and also embedded into asset.
  • The inability to change the default search returns so that they stay each time one logs in. For example, in my experience, it always seems to sort to date asset is added even though it's been changed to filename countless times.
  • In my experience, search results are limited to 10,000. With hundreds of thousands of assets, this limit makes it difficult for metadata cleanup as it limits results.
The product is not easy to use when changes need to be made to the asset or different versions created. The downloaad to pdf puts a link as the filename which means it is impossible to share with a non user because they click on the link and are brought to a sign in page.




























Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia DAM (Widen) has proven highly effective for our diversified non-profit organization. Its greatest strength is a customizable framework that ensures robust security and offers comprehensive asset and user management. This platform is adept at facilitating both efficient distribution and seamless content delivery. Additionally, its analytics component provides key insights into our operational effectiveness. In essence, Acquia DAM stands as an exceptional tool for comprehensive digital asset management, catering uniquely to our multi-faceted needs.
  • User experience and design is elegant and clean
  • Customization of dashboards and portals is easy to create
  • Easily manage users and assets
  • Scales to any amount of assets and administration
  • Taxonomy and metadata structure is easy to build
  • High quality customer service
  • AI image scanning and description baked in
Acquia DAM (Widen) has proven to be a vital tool for our organization, ensuring centralized and secure asset management in spite of any personnel changes over years. It has transitioned us from scattered personal storage strategies to a singular, reliable source - streamlining access, preserving permissions, and guaranteeing unbroken distribution links.

Remarkably, Acquia DAM has expedited our disaster response. This platform allows swift offloading of on-site resources, thus enabling vital fundraising activities to commence quickly as emergency responses are urgent. Concurrently, it supports our national marketing efforts during fundraising seasons, harmonizing our brand messaging. Furthermore, it serves as a consolidated repository for our multimedia ministry library, storing and managing audio, video, graphics, documents, and images. In its totality, Acquia DAM has become an irreplaceable asset in the organization.
December 12, 2023

A DAM good option

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia DAM provides a great resource to host and organize all of our digital media content for easy dissemination and storage. Their team is great, albeit a pricey option, but they fulfill all of our needs as a digital asset management tool. We are constantly adding new products to our lineup, and being able to load in new LUTs from NetSuite to autofill metadata fields is also a huge perk.
  • Provides clean and easy portals to share with clients
  • Autofilling metadata fields
  • Providing multiple search options - searching by file type is great
  • More customization of the dashboard would be nice, but not needed
  • Better clarity on organization between user roles and permissions would be helpful
If you are a mid-large sized company that deals with a broad array of digital assets, and regularly sends content to large clients, Acquia is a good option. It helps keep things organized if you stay on top of your metadata consistency, and provides many options for sharing files.

If you are a small company, Acquia may be a bit overkill due to features and cost that will likely not be fully taken advantage of.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Acquia DAM is the global single source of truth for images across the Beam Suntory organization. We heavily utilize portals to curate content for our markets and on a brand level. This allows for us to disseminate the most recent and relevant assets to our stakeholders. Being able to curate content on branded sites helps drive home our Visual Identity as well.
  • Portals
  • Conversions
  • Searching
  • Language Capabilities
  • Collaboration
  • Feature updates
For a company with such a large portfolio of products, it is great to be able to have something like portals to help cut through some of the noise that the DAM system can have. It is a feature we utilize heavily. However, as we are a global company it can get difficult to manage some of the language needs of our foreign markets.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Acquia DAM (Widen) in our organization to manage our data and assets where we store them have a centralized place where every user can access the assets they need. Having used the Acquia DAM (Widen) apps it's really helpful to organize the metadata and assets. The problem I see with the portal app is how limited the options are and the option to export into csv files are limited.
  • Having a responsive customer support.
  • The maintenance of the apps are good.
  • Accepting the new ideas from the DAM Users.
  • Having more functions in the portals app.
  • Being able to have a smooth way to export files into .csv.
  • I hope that they can add more options of making the look and feel of the apps better.
The best scenario that I can think of is when a company needs to organize multiple thousands of assets, which needs to be digitalized and organized in a way where more people around the globe will have access. I would recommend that they should use Acquia DAM (Widen)'s array of apps that can make their workflow easier.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to store and organize our corporate media collections.
  • Organization of media.
  • Tagging of media.
  • Ability to download various formats/sizes.
  • Enhanced filter options for image sorting.
Widen is great for storing and organizing mass amounts of media for our organization. The Category and Collections features are particularly helpful when finding assets for business-unit-specific projects.
Robert (RJ) Deutsch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have implemented Acquia DAM (Widen) as our digital asset management system. We started with marketing assets and have expanded into sales and manufacturing files as well. Before, we were using an internal server with an elaborate folder structure. With more than 50,000 assets to keep track of, it clearly was inadequate. The nature of Digital Asset Management is messy - I don't think there is any way around it. Adopting Acquia DAM (Widen) was not a small task, but I think they have some good tools for making it more manageable and in the long run, it is making our business much more efficient and adaptable. Positives Acquia DAM (Widen) has some very nice tools. One tool is called "portals" which allow you to create public websites to access certain groups of assets. This is a great way to share files with people inside and outside of the company in a clean and professional way. There are many other options for sharing as well, which is helpful. Automatic file conversions are great, so multiple file types don't need to be uploaded. There is a robust analytics system to keep track of how assets are being used. Customer service is also very responsive and helpful. Negatives The way Acquia DAM (Widen) is structured took some time to wrap our heads around! Now that I understand it, I think the training could have been done more clearly for our organization. However, with the varying needs of all the different businesses which use Acquia DAM (Widen), it may be hard to have one onboarding solution that fits all of them really well. This said the UI design of Acquia DAM (Widen) could be improved to help users navigate and understand the system. Now that we are fully onboarded and using the system, we have identified some ways we can improve the structure of our DAM. We continue to make adjustments to better adapt the software to our needs. I am optimistic about the recent acquisition of Acquia DAM (Widen). Hopefully, the added resources will help to accelerate improvements to the system. Our overall experience with Acquia DAM (Widen) has been good and we continue to benefit as an organization in many ways.
  • Customer service
  • Personal Training
  • Accepting Feedback
  • Community Building
  • UI Design
  • Add-on Availability
  • Integration with outside software is clunky
Acquia DAM (Widen) has been a very helpful service overall. We have been able to find valuable uses for our DAM all over our company. Tools like Portals make sharing assets outside and inside the company fast, easy, and with a professional presentation. Acquia DAM (Widen) is a great fit for larger companies that have thousands of digital assets that need to be accessed and tracked.
April 24, 2023

Great service

Emilio Huerta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Acquia DAM (Widen) as a provider for a digital library in order to create a data base for many kinds of documents used in marketing, product development and as a source to share with our clients.
  • Excellent training
  • Very organized environment
  • useful and customizable platform
  • A more customizable interfase to upload documents showing only the most used items.
Acquia DAM (Widen) is perfect for marketing teams in order to share and keep safe many type of valuable documents.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This year is the first time I have used Acquia DAM (Widen). My previous employer did not have such a great source of storing files! I use Acquia DAM (Widen) for all documents, artwork, ads, and anything I create to store. I also use Acquia DAM (Widen) to link to my creative cloud programs to make linking photos 10x easier. I have enjoyed using this in the short 4 months I have been introduced to it.
  • Helps organize files by portals
  • Make sharing files/artwork with others easy
  • Provides extra storage of all artwork that can be easily accessible
  • Versioning sometimes takes a while to update
Based on how my previous employer stored files, this way is much more efficient and effective! On top of that you wouldn't have to worry about losing all of your files and everything is always secured by being shared through linking. It's really great and a game changer.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Acquia DAM (Widen) to create portals, share marketing collateral with customers, but also internally to share approved materials.
  • export links of collection
  • thumbnails
  • easy to filter
  • In my opinion, way too complex and hard to figure out some of the ways to create collections
  • portals are great, but not enough flexibility with the colors and tools
  • I think it should be able to create totally separate areas in one business
I think Acquia DAM (Widen) has the potential to be extraordinary, but a few things make it tricky still. Too complex, hard to manage, service team not global and hard to manage
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We found that several different departments had images and documents stored in personal folders and other folders not accessible by some internal and most external constituents. The DAM has allowed these teams to easily upload to the DAM, and share a link that can be used by internal and external users easily. Staff like the opportunity to update the files without haveing to lose the share link as many items might be shared on a website or in emails so not having to update the share link in many locations allows staff a level of efficiency. It is easy to find items in the DAM if they are tagged well but we do use collections to organize some of the documents. It has been very easy to train and onboard staff and it has been easy for staff to upload, edit, share, and later check their insights to view analytics.
  • The training they provided was GREAT.
  • The DAM is very user friendly.
  • The onboarding process for staff is very easy and training is quick.
  • They could provide better support when needed.
The WAcquia DAM (Widen) has been an easy tool to learn, train and use for internal staff. We are doing a better job of having one version of the truth.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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We use Acquia DAM (Widen)'s system to store and keep track of our media assets. We use it to keep metadata on final products as well as track expiration dates. We use it to organize our assets (stock assets, music, final video projects) by client so we know what is applicable where. It helps us know what assets we can use for what projects, as well as keep track of purchase dates and expirations.
  • Organization
  • Search Function
  • User Function
  • Shortcuts
  • Advance search function
  • adding categories
Acquia DAM (Widen) is well suited for our creatives to search previously purchased assets to save money on projects. It is well suited for storing media assets and their metadata or accompanying documents. It is suited for keeping track of assets and their expirations as well as contracts and their expirations. It is super helpful for our video production projects.
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