Item: Xinet
Rating: 10
Author: Angelina Altobano

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The last agency I worked at used Xinet to manage client assets (images and video) and clients, partners, and employees were able to access these assets through an online database, which we also managed.

Pros and Cons

We were easily able to set up security measures, that gave us control over who couls access these assets.
Assets were easily searchable through metadata.
We were able to control the usage of assets by assigning expiration dates.

For my position, I didn't learn enough of Xinet to truly utilize the whole program, only one or two people in my department understood it inside and out.
During my time at the agency, we were unable to get the annotations to work on assets. And that would have been helpful to have to streamline our process of asset quality control.

Return on Investment

Increased employee efficiency
Proper usage of assets
Client management and control

Other Software Used

Adobe Photoshop, Basecamp, OneDrive

Likelihood to Recommend

Xinet is appropriate if you are working with multiple clients and partners, and with a high number assets that require certain security measures on individual assets. It would probably be less appropriate to use for a smaller company that handles more manageable assets and that doesn't have the staff available to man a program like Xinet.

Usability

Because I only used a portion of Xinet and I did not learn about all of it's features.

Usability Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Like to use Consistent	Unnecessarily complex Difficult to use Requires technical support Lots to learn

Easy Tasks

Searching for users
Creating a new database
Applying metadata and usage in assets in the online portal
Searching for assets in the online portal
Approving new users

Xinet for Asset Management

Overall Satisfaction with Xinet