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Joris VerschoorCompany Profile
PubliSphere is Brand Management Software for Marketing Managers to help marketers establish consistent brand identity and share marketing assets.
A consistent visual design in marketing and sales communications is key to strengthening the presence and character of your brand. Centralizing, structuring and sharing information affiliated with your brand can help achieve a cohesive identity.
PubliSphere is an Internet application for storing your digital marketing assets, such as photos, PDF files, flyers, brochures and posters. Individuals approved to access the material can easily locate specific files and send them in a desired format.
PubliSphere centralizes all information and tools required to develop a stronger brand in a single, integrated program. Your company, distributor and partners are granted access to the program to interact with the information they need. The collaborative features allow members to use your brand the way it was intended. Individuals involved in your organization can instantly create marketing material that adheres to and enhances your brand identity.
New marketing collateral can be created in less than a minute without the need to consult a designer. The PDF files adhere your corporate identity and can be printed or used on the Internet.
A consistent visual design in marketing and sales communications is key to strengthening the presence and character of your brand. Centralizing, structuring and sharing information affiliated with your brand can help achieve a cohesive identity.
PubliSphere is an Internet application for storing your digital marketing assets, such as photos, PDF files, flyers, brochures and posters. Individuals approved to access the material can easily locate specific files and send them in a desired format.
PubliSphere centralizes all information and tools required to develop a stronger brand in a single, integrated program. Your company, distributor and partners are granted access to the program to interact with the information they need. The collaborative features allow members to use your brand the way it was intended. Individuals involved in your organization can instantly create marketing material that adheres to and enhances your brand identity.
New marketing collateral can be created in less than a minute without the need to consult a designer. The PDF files adhere your corporate identity and can be printed or used on the Internet.
Contact Email
joris@publisphere.comCompany Website
http://www.mediahove.nlYears Trading
4Office Locations
- Alemere, the Netherlands
Product Name
PubliSpherePartner Network
If the vendor operates through a sales channel they may use intermediaries who have regional focus or additional specialisms in a given vertical market.
- No
Licensing
Licensing Model
This refers to the type of licence the DAM system software is supplied under. Proprietary means that the developer restricts access to the source code (the instructions used to generate the software). Open source means that the developer provides full access to the code so you can modify it yourself. Split model is hybrid and means they may offer both options with some restrictions removed (or added) depending on the model chosen. If split is selected, it is advisable to verify the differences with the vendor.
- Proprietary
Use of Open Source Components
Many DAM systems use freely available open source components to deliver key functionality. The products themselves may not be open source, however. This question will help to identify to what extent they are open source.
- Some open source components used, but core product is not open source
Hosting
Software Delivery Methods
- Cloud/SaaS
Technology
Client
Client refers to the type of hardware or software device that can be used to access or control the DAM system.
- Web client
Service Oriented Architecture
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) means the vendor's product uses a modular architecture where each core DAM function is delivered as a service which can be separated out independently from other functions. It is important for large-scale Digital Asset Management implementations or more complex integration requirements.
- Yes
Unique SOA Services
If the vendor uses a Service Oriented Architecture, they should be able to identify a number of unique services that are isolated from each other. Note there is overlap between with question and the one about scalable asset processing. Some vendors do not have an SOA but do offer large scale asset processing capabilities.
- Metadata
- Storage
- Asset Media Processing
- User Authentication
Search
Search Features
This describes the search strategies that can be used to find assets. If you do not understand any of them, leave the options de-selected. Most DAM systems should support at least keyword search at a minimum.
- Keyword
- Folders
- Filters
- Faceted Search
- Linked Asset Search
Index/Search Text Content Of Documents
Some DAM systems can search the text content of document assets and that might be important for your DAM solution.
- Yes
Metadata
Embedded metadata support (reading)
Embedded metadata refers to information stored within asset files which can be searched from the DAM system. There are different standards for this type of metadata. Some image cataloguing software like Adobe Lightroom will write this data to asset files and a device like a camera may capture details also such as GPRS coordinates where an photo was shot. XMP metadata is often used with other types of files such as InDesign or PDF. If you are unsure whether this applied to you, do not check any options.
- IPTC
- XMP
- EXIF
Controlled Vocabularies
Controlled Vocabularies are predefined lists of search terms. They can be realised in many different ways but the common factor is the user picks from a restricted selection rather than enters a keyword. Most DAM systems will usually support both controlled vocabularies and keywords.
- No
User Defined Metadata Fields
The ability to configure metadata your own metadata fields is important for DAM systems so you can assign a dedicated field for certain items of information rather than using a generic classification method or one of the vendor's own standard fields.
- No
Cataloguing Interface Options
When cataloguing assets with custom fields, some metadata will be controlled selections, others will be free text. There are further choices like date fields, file attachments etc.
- Text field
Business Intelligence & Reporting
Asset Usage Records
To enable reports to be generated, DAM solutions must retain records of asset usage, including searching, download and editing of records. The reporting should include the user who carried out the activity and the date/time it occurred.
- Yes
Audit Trail
A detailed audit trail that logs every user action in a central record is useful to gain insight into user behaviour. Comprehensive audit trails allow DAM system users to produce reports that address their unique needs.
- Yes
Built-In Reports
A range of built-in reports that you can quickly generate is useful to answer common questions such as the "what is our most popular asset?".
- Most active users by uploads
- Most active users by downloads
- Download activity over a given period
- Login activity over a given period
Asset Processing
Dedicated/Scalable Proxy or Derivative Asset Generation
Nearly all DAM systems will generate thumbnails and previews of media, including more dynamic types like video or audio. Some products use a separate server to do this which usually makes them more suitable for large scale asset ingestion and processing.
- Yes
Multi-Page Document Asset Previews
If you deal with document oriented assets, having a solution which can generate multi-page previews (and also zoom in on them) can save the hassle of downloading a file only to discover it is not the one you need. For assets with very similar content, this can be a useful feature.
- Yes
Asset Manipulation
Image Manipulation
Many DAM systems allow users to manipulate images by resizing, cropping etc. Choose any features which are important to your users.
- Image cropping
- Format conversion
- Change colorspace
- Batch manipulate groups of assets
Video Manipulation
Some DAM systems may allow video assets to be converted or modified. If that is a potential requirement for you, specify those features which are likely to be needed. EDL = Edit Decision List and refers to providing in/out points when editing video footage.
- Format conversion
- Batch operations on multiple video assets
Integration
API
API means Application Programming Interface and allows third party software to control a DAM system. If you intend to integrate your DAM with another existing solution then you need to choose the API protocol that is compatible with that.
- REST
Storage Integration
Many DAM solutions will now allow assets to be stored on the server of Cloud storage providers. This allows asset files to be distributed and/or integrated with other solutions. Some third party services use generic protocols like FTP, others are proprietary.
- Amazon S3
Scripting & Plug-Ins
Scripting Capabilities
Some advanced DAM solutions have a scripting capability that allows users or third parties to add functionality which the vendor did not originally envisage. Usually programming skills will be required to use this, but some tools have visual interfaces also.
- No
Plug-In Support
In addition to scripting (or sometimes instead of), some DAM solutions will have a plug-in architecture that allows third party developers to extend the core platform.
- No
Authentication
Authentication Support
If you need to integrate with an existing corporate authentication service then this option will be important for you.
- Active Directory
- LDAP
Multi-Lingual Options
Multilingual Application Interface Support
The interface means the controls to use the DAM system. This is different from the metadata support which is usually entered by end users when cataloguing assets.
- English
- French
- German
- Dutch
Multilingual Metadata Support
See previous question. Most DAM systems with multi-lingual support will provide it for metadata.
- No
Version Control
File versioning
File versioning refers to the digital media associated with an asset record. This is usually the minimum requirement for a DAM system to claim support for versioning assets. See also responses to the related question about metadata versioning below.
- Yes
Metadata versioning
Metadata versioning is separate from the files associated with assets. Many DAM solutions will track updated digital assets but only retain a single current version of the metadata. Since metadata is likely to be edited many more times than assets get replaced, this can be an important point to check.
- Yes
Independent Metadata And File Versioning
This questions assesses whether the solution allows versions of either the file or metadata to be reverted independently or if both are linked to a single shared version instance.
- No
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