WoodWing Assets Reviews

Searchability of your content is incredible, with Elasticsearch

Incredibly easy to use

Highly customisable

Massive standard metadata fields out the box

Smart and sophisticated multiple sharing abilities - with massive customisation

Excellent and robust management of content, literally all content.

Super secure and reliable

Brand portal ability

Version control

Highly scalable

Excellent API's

They don't have a great mobile version on phones. The Tablet version is okay, but could be better!

If like us, our content (all digital) was exploding and trying to keep a grip on exactly where every file/document/image/contract was, became a challenge. We implemented WoodWIng Assets, did the bulk import and now, what used to take a couple of minutes, maybe even 10-15min looking for that digital content, is now almost instantaneous.

Everything is stored, managed, and shared from our SIngle Source of Truth. The one place we keep everything in, even all confidential documents as its highly secure and with detailed and granular permissions on users and groups, only the right people ever see the content they allowed to!

Finding all your content, quickly and easily, but super quickly and super easily.

Sharing large files with both internal and external users is incredibly powerful, as you can set the actual download presets.

We can manage every single version of all content, and we know which is the most recent and current version without having to open the files.

Metadata has allowed us to keep track of expiration dates on contracts.

We can keep track of the actual usage of our marketing assets.

We store all our legal and contractual agreements, and we have full details on exactly who changed what, and when.

The agility and the performance of the solution

The workflow configuration is too complex

Explore AI oportunities, workflow functionallity and third party integrations that you need

Secure and rapidly archive accesing

It's hard to say you need a DAM until you find yourself drowning in a tsunami of digital assets. Elvis make easy, in no time and with an almost flat learning curve to get back in control of what you have and what you can use.

Difficult to say, maybe that the UI doesn't have too much "nerdy" features but, eventually, it's one of its main values.

It make the difference between wasting time struggling to find the last version of a digital asset and simply using what you need being sure is the right asset. The main benefits are a terrific improvement of productivity and the reduction of errors down close to zero.

I put together an 80-page film guide for the Sarasota Film Festival. There was no way I would have gotten this done without Elvis. Superior Media Solutions was extremely instrumental in helping me use Elvis.

I really don't have anything negative to say. Elvis is as good as its namesake.

The film guide has thousands of assets, each requiring specialized metadata. I needed a system to help me quickly ingest those assets and give me the ability to put my finger on any one of them at a moment's notice.

Being able to browse a catalog of tens of thousands of images sorted in a specific manner is the key with this product. We are able to quickly gain access to critical data in a fraction of the time is used to take,

It would be great to have the ability to batch en masse images to meta tag.

Streamline and create batch processing of meta tagging. For instance: if you create a collection or "catalog folder" to house certain images that share a similar characteristics, when you drop these into a predetermined folder, they all become tagged with the attributes assigned to that folder. They can later be moved anywhere while maintaining those tags.

Having multiple workstations looking at the catalog from multiple locations. Quick access to a vast library of images presented in a logical, easy to read manner.

As I have a background as a layouter and is now production coordinator I am very fond of the highly visual and intuitive interface.

It's easy to search or browse for assets and it is great that you can create collections of photos from conferences or otherwise.

I like that I have all kind af assets in one place as opposed to an image database and a server with old layouts and PDFs and so on.

When I send a dossier with an article to archive from Content Station and have to bring it back again it is not the same type of document I'll get back.

I also have some troubles with the Elvis/Content Station integration, but I think that it mostly has to do with the fact that we haven't upgraded til Content Station 9 - yet.

Go for it!

Being a production coordinator at the Journal of the Danish Medical Association my main taks using Elvis DAM is helping the Journalists and layouters search for and retrieve photos and old articles or announcements that they need to reuse in some way. Our archive of articles dates back to 2002 so if a member of the Danish Medical Association needs something this old I'm the one who finds it.

I am also in charge of to archiving documents from Content Station to Elvis.

Woodwing keeps track of your files and lets you see who has edited your file and when.

nothing! it's great! i don't have any issues with it. it does get wonky when your computer crashes.

I'm in publishing so it helps keep us organized.

CyanGate chose Elvis DAM for the following reasons for mid-tier DAM solutions for departments and small to mid-tier companies:

User Friendly UI enables rapid adoption.

Elasticsearch provides scalability and reliability for searches to take milliseconds.

Share Feature enables secure file sharing without stressing email servers.

Rules based permission settings enables easy administration and security.

REST and SOAP APIs enables easy integration with other systems.

Underlying Technology: Elvis DAM is Java based enables easy customization. Elvis DAM was the first DAM to use the Lucene search engine to enable rapid search results.

Scalability. Elvis DAM is the only DAM solution that can handle 1 billion assets.

Native integration with Adobe CS, CC and CS6 allowing drag and drop features and auto-versioning.

If a customer needs support for 3D / multidimensional files or advanced video transcoding for video, the customer will need to integrate with another third party tool with Elvis DAM. This can be solved by leveraging the APIs or customization.

Although Elvis DAM is open for customization, some may need assistance if they are unfamiliar with Javascript. In these cases, a customer may want a consultant like CyanGate. On the other hand, I have seen customers with excellent java skills excel at making their own customizations.

Elvis DAM is an excellent solution for mid-tier and small companies and departments looking to organize, search, share, repurpose and distribute content. Given Elvis 5's server clustering, Elasticsearch and ability to handle a billion assets, Elvis DAM can be an Enterprise level solution.

Those who will benefit the most are the following:

Using Adobe CS, CC, CS6 and CC2014 on a daily basis

Using large amounts of photography and InDesign

Publishers using WoodWing Content Station or Enterprise

Indexing large amounts of material

Searching for text within documents

Regulating incoming materials via FTP sites

I encourage those considering Elvis DAM to run both individual tests for thirty days and a server trial to test on their own systems. Before engaging a server trial make sure you have the time commitment from all of those involved in the project, the equipment and test cases in a live environment.

To test hosting or a cloud solution, please contact CyanGate.

Typically, customers are looking to solve the following and received the following results:

Indexing all assets - Elvis DAM serves as the central place to search for all uploaded content.

Manage Versioning - Elvis DAM uses auto-versioning to monitor changes.

Regulating asset usage for copyright, legal, proprietary or marketing use - The rules and permissions settings enable administrators to grant access to assets. Some customers regulate assets by setting rules to sunset assets from usage.

Relieve the burden of sending large files via email - By leveraging the Share Client, hypertext to assets can be sent without encountering performance on the email server.

Better communication between sales and marketing - Marketers use Elvis DAM to share marketing collateral with sales reps in the field.

Tracking assets in large documents - Elvis DAM tracks all assets contained within a document.

Saving money - the ROI of Elvis DAM varies company to company, however the general benefits are reducing legal expenses from asset misuse, regaining time from staff by accelerating searches, repurposing content with a shorter time to market and eliminating file sharing tools.

I like the fact you can collaborate and share your digital work with everyone on the team. We can quickly and easily see how our work is coming along from others comments etc. the DAM is great, its easier than using separate windows with bridge and other content management system. The functions of woodwing too are intuative compared to Adobe DPS, there are less steps to remember which makes designing content so simple.

Nothing, its great! Would be great if the design of the DAM interface design was in light rather than dark, but that's just a personal thing, saves me getting headaches.

Stick with it! It's only going to get better.

Quickly organising content and keeping it easier to find our files and also makign content come alive is worth so much. Not only can we do our work quickly, means our reports get to our clients quicker too.

I like the possibility to share an asset with an external user, the possibility to have different saved versions for each asset, the possibility to manage diffent format

I have not something that I dislike about Elvis

With Elvis DAM, we have a central repository for all of our documents and not spend much time to search what we need.