DAM Workflow & Automation Services
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Turning Your DAM Into The Central Source of Truth

Your Digital Asset Management (DAM) system should do more than just store files—it should streamline your workflows, eliminate inefficiencies, and serve as the central source of truth for your organization’s digital files—transforming them into digital assets.

Turning your chosen DAM into the central source of truth requires time spent reviewing processes and workflows—effectively tweaking and fine-tuning changes to improve efficiency and effectiveness to unlock the value in your investment. 

Every organization’s content workflows are unique, but they all face common challenges: manual processes that slow productivity, redundant steps that cause inefficiencies, and disconnected systems that create silos. 

Our workflow optimization services aim to fine-tune these processes to ensure assets move seamlessly through their lifecycle—from creation and review to approval, distribution, and archiving. By analyzing your current workflows, digital ecosystem and marketing tech-stack we identify areas where automation and smarter configurations can reduce friction and deliver results.

Connecting Your DAM to Your Ecosystem

A truly optimized DAM doesn’t operate in isolation—it’s fully integrated with the other tools and platforms your teams rely on.  From Content Management Systems (CMS) and Product Information Management (PIM) solutions to Collections Management Systems, Master Data Management (MDM) systems along with marketing platforms and creative tools like Adobe Creative Cloud.  

We work with solution vendors to support integration and a continuous flow of information. This ensures your DAM not only serves as the central repository for your digital assets but also updates and syncs with other systems in real time, ensuring accuracy and consistency across your entire ecosystem.

Triggers, Automated Events, and Task Management

One of the most powerful benefits of an optimized DAM is the ability to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks. With triggers and automated events, your DAM can respond dynamically to changes, reducing the need for manual intervention. For example:

  • Add keywords, descriptions and other metadata based on rules, naming conventions, and/or Artificial Intelligence.
  • Automatically notify team members when new assets are uploaded or approved.
  • Initiate workflows when content needs to be reviewed or updated based on usage rights or expiration dates.
  • Send assets to a CMS or PIM for distribution as soon as they’re finalized and approved.
  • Update specific fields in the DAM with information added about an object in a curatorial system or other business system.
  • Automatically retire assets or flag assets to be retired.

By configuring these automated actions, your team can focus on high-value tasks instead of getting bogged down by mundane processes.

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