Acquia DAM (Widen) allows us to quickly find all of the needles in our haystacks!
March 03, 2022

Acquia DAM (Widen) allows us to quickly find all of the needles in our haystacks!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Widen

Using Acquia DAM (Widen) moved our department from a bunch of random, barely-organized digital piles of images, to a powerful, searchable tool. Although our legacy system is still limping along on life support, it's honestly hard to remember the before times.

Pros

  • Metataging
  • Sharing

Cons

  • User interface leaves much to be desired
  • SSO interface for users is somewhat confusing
  • Support seems to lag on buggy issues.
  • Collections
  • Sharing
  • Tagging
  • It's become an integral part of many workflows
  • Finding the right images is no longer an impossible task.
From my perspective, it seems to have reached its full potential with us. I'm honestly concerned about the recent acquisition, as those things never seem to go smoothly or well; speaking of ROI, M&A are all about squeezing more out of the customer (us).
Not nearly as responsive as other SaaS that we deal with.
It's used for print, electronic and social.
More fully-featured (and expensive) than Portfolio, less expensive than Canto (when we last looked at it).

Do you think Acquia DAM (Widen) delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Acquia DAM (Widen)'s feature set?

No

Did Acquia DAM (Widen) live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Acquia DAM (Widen) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Acquia DAM (Widen) again?

No

It's much (MUCH) better than the mess that came before it. Using Acquia DAM (Widen) makes it easy-ish to add, search and share images.

Acquia DAM (Widen) Feature Ratings

Not Rated
Uploading assets
Not Rated
Downloading assets
Not Rated
Categories
Not Rated
Asset storage
Not Rated
Asset sharing
Not Rated
Asset search
Not Rated
Tagging system
Not Rated
Content editing
Not Rated
Embed codes
Not Rated
Metadata
Not Rated
Collections
Not Rated
User access
Not Rated
DAM Integrations
Not Rated
DAM API
Not Rated
Workflow automations
Not Rated
Related asset discovery
Not Rated
Dashboards
Not Rated
Standard reports
Not Rated
Custom reports
Not Rated
Data exportability
Not Rated
Content analytics
Not Rated

Comments

  • Jake Athey | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thank you for your review. I’m happy to hear that Widen has helped you streamline your content workflows! We value your business, so I’d like to address your concerns about our recent acquisition by Acquia. While I understand that change brings some uncertainty, I want to personally do everything I can to assure you that our acquisition will bring greater value and opportunities to current Widen customers. Widen will continue to be available standalone. You will continue to experience the same Widen service and support, the same technical reliability and dependability, with an acceleration of advancements in our DAM roadmap alongside Acquia Open DXP integrations and opportunities to expand into the company’s Drupal Cloud and Marketing Cloud offerings. We are excited to be part of the industry-leading open digital experience platform that Acquia has created. I invite you to reach me directly at jathey@widen.com and we can discuss why I believe that Widen and Acquia are better, together. -Jake Athey, VP Marketing & Customer Experience, jathey@widen.com

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