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Fotoware Overview

What is Fotoware?

Fotoware is a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution for enterprises and organizations with advanced workflow requirements that need to handle their digital assets more efficiently. Fotoware is one of the industry's pioneers and has become a world-leading provider of DAM solutions over the last 25 years. The Fotoware DAM solution is the core of your content ecosystem, enabling you to build powerful, time-saving automations and integrate with all the most important tools in your tech stack, including your CMS, Microsoft Office, Adobe CC, and much more. Fotoware provides your organization with a central hub to store, manage, find, and share digital assets much more efficiently, thanks to the ability to add descriptive metadata to files upon upload to the system. As we always say, a file is not an asset until metadata is added! Our highly experienced Professional Services team is always available to help you build the perfect setup for your organization, and we have a global partner network that consists of Fotoware-certified technicians and Digital Asset Management solution experts who can provide local support. Fotoware is ISO 9001 certified and a Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Partner, which is the highest tier cloud platform partnership and reinforces Fotoware's credibility as a stable and secure SaaS vendor. Our solution is also available On-Premises and as a hybrid system. Our customers are always at the center of everything we do. Learn more at fotoware.com

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Product Description

Fotoware is a software company based in Oslo, Norway, with offices in Hamburg, Sydney and Gothenburg, and resellers in 41 countries. FotoWare has built one of the most efficient and productive solutions found on the market today for finding, processing and sharing videos, photos, graphics, audio, presentations, and documents.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Fotoware is one of the pioneers of the Digital Asset Management industry with a wealth of experience and thousands of customers across a wide variety of industries, particularly in Retail & E-commerce, Media & Entertainment, Marketing & Communications, and Law Enforcement.

Our solution is highly robust and customizable, and is an essential tool for organizations with complex image workflow needs, especially within the enterprise segment.


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FotoWare
Company Website
Year Founded
1997
HQ Location
Oslo, Norway
Twitter
@fotoware
1,409 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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91 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

FotoWare is a leading provider of digital asset management (DAM) solutions, specializing in helping organizations efficiently organize, manage, and distribute their visual content. Their software offers tools for media organization, searchability, and collaboration, making it easier for teams to find and share digital assets. With a focus on usability and integration, FotoWare serves a diverse range of industries, enabling clients to streamline workflows and enhance productivity. For more information, visit their website at [fotoware.com](https://www.fotoware.com/).


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Jochen A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
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Die Geschwindigkeit ist überragend. Auch das Routen der Daten anhand von Metadaten-Regeln ist unglaublich gut und einzigartig.
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"This system is very user friendly with great customer support"
Easy to use and easily navigate around the system. Customer support is swift to respond and highly knowledgeable. To have the ability to bespoke...
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Trystan L.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Tailored software"
The way we use Fotoware is very different to how most others use it, we potentially only utilise a fraction of its full capability. But even the sm...
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Fotoware Media

Fotoware Demo - Make your files searchable and organized with metadata
Store your assets safely in multiple collections and search across all of them at once. Group and arrange content precisely how your users prefer. Filenames are great, but we ❤️ metadata! Metadata is keywords and descriptions about your files that makes them searchable and possible to build au...
Fotoware Demo - Preview and share any file type
Easily select assets and share your selection with others via email, as a public link, or create an album and share directly. Then control who has the rights to view or download the assets.
Fotoware Demo - Work with your files in your favorite tools
As users, we're creatures of habit - we like to stick to the tools that get the job done. With FotoWare, users can access media right from the tools they use the most - whether it be the Adobe suite, Microsoft Office or your web CMS.
Fotoware Demo - Automate tasks using Actions and Markers
Set up efficient workflows to reduce the time spent managing your visuals. Many of the mundane tasks that used to much time to complete can be completely eradicated with one-click operations.
Fotoware Demo - GDPR compliance for images
Stay on top of GDPR and privacy requirements! Keep tabs on usage approval and consent forms. Respond swiftly to requests for access, rectification, or erasure.
Fotoware Demo - Make users feel at home
FotoWare can be styled to match your corporate profile and help users feel right at at home. Create a FotoWare that ties in with your corporate color scheme, uses your logos, incorporates your terms of use and holds clear information on how to get in touch. It's your brand, after all. FotoW...
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TL
3D Modeler & Animation Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

The way we use Fotoware is very different to how most others use it, we potentially only utilise a fraction of its full capability. But even the small parts we do use, the Fotoware team have helped created custom automated actions to fulfil our requirements, when we looked elsewhere no one else offered the custom tailored approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

My only critique of the software is its lack of colour palette changes to the interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fotoware:

Have face to face meetings with them; they can explain how it might work within your organization in a custom way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a problem where we wanted to bring an old database from another source and combine it with the one we had in Fotoware. The technical support team made custom interfaces that allowed the databases to be merged and work even better for quality procedures and checks. All of our content requires a unique number which also combines the date, Fotoware allows tailor made unique numbers. Were currently only scratching the surface of what Fotoware has to offer, we will be exploring adding image and video previews in the comming year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alex Kronenberg of Fotoware

Thank you for this kind review Trystan, we're delighted to hear that there is nothing you dislike about FotoWare and that you found the meetings with our team to be valuable. Our professional services team is always happy to help!

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JA
Betriebsrat und Fotoexperte
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

Die Geschwindigkeit ist überragend. Auch das Routen der Daten anhand von Metadaten-Regeln ist unglaublich gut und einzigartig. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

Keine vernünftigen (Übersichtlichkeit ist nicht gut) Logfiles. Die Daten werden an Stellen gespeichert, wo nur ein Admin hinkommt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Viele Kanäle brauchen lange bis sie dann endlich funktionieren. Vor allem in großen IT-Umgebungen mit vielen Servern ist das ein Problem. Auch der Umgang nur per UNC-Pfad zu arbeiten ist nicht sehr schön. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

Easy to use and easily navigate around the system.

Customer support is swift to respond and highly knowledgeable.

To have the ability to bespoke the system to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

The FotoWare App has a limitation which can't be adjusted for the purpose we need it for.

The Hospital uses iPads (batons) which staff have to log in and out via the settings.

The newer App removes text after upload, however using iPads, staff wouold be required to log the server name, and their log in details each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

The system enables Clinicians and Nursing staff to review patient images for monitoring, treatment and diagnosing conditions. It also allows them to upload patient images when the Clinical Photography service is unavailable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BC
Chief Scientific Officer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

The best feature, in my case, is the ability to lock the use of medical photos according to the consent of the patient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

Cannot really find a downside to using this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solved the issue of how medical photos can be used by authorised users and thus it allows me to align my work according to GDPR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NN
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

Fotoware posses great functionality in the assistance of organising work, based on type and purpose. This allows users (in my case a medical photography department in an NHS trust) to work on multiple 'jobs' at once with no chance of confusion, speeding up work rate. It has a very user friendly interface, which helps train new members of staff rapidly, and even though we can have numerous people working on varying jobs throughout the day, errors are a rare occurance. Even when they do happen, the customer support is very effecient and we are always back up running normally within minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

The editing option offered through fotostation is limited , and is generally not worth it, though can be used for basic manipulation such as image rotation and brightening. It would also be beneficial for an internal job management system to run alongside Fotostation and Fotoweb, but an external one can be used with no real issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Organising numerous photographic jobs that are worked on simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Publishing
UP
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

stabil DAM system, Fotostation as Powertool on desktop very usefull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

licence change from NEXR SaaS "Fotoweb" client, reducing of client rights is not aczeptable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rightsdocumentation, Metadata edditing at images Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rüdiger S.
RS
Agency Owner
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Fotoware?

Perfect product for my needings. Perfect and friendly support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

There is nothing to object or to mention here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Picture and photo work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

This program allows you to quickly find stored photos and maintain order in the program. The completeness with all attachments, photographers, keywords, and size specifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

The costs incurred and if it is not possible, for whatever reason, then all the work was in vain. :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem of not finding an image, and if it is correctly tagged and also correctly written, it is not a problem to find it again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stevo V.
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Professor of Photography
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

Freedom of making your own workflow and speed of any of their product in metadata indexing and searching. True photographer to photographer solution that survived test of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

Slight recent lean toward classical DAM system and decision they made about puting Fotostation on the side. Fotostation is best photographer software for a long time and should stay in development focus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

30+ years in photojournalism accessible in few seconds. Cant imagine nightmare if uandlaing my archive without Fotostation for last 20 years since i use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration
AG
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
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What do you like best about Fotoware?

FotoWare is a straightforward platform to use and to explain to new users. The ease of upload and management has made a huge difference to my organistation. The after sales support has also been first class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fotoware?

Nothing so far. The platform was delivered and installed very easily. And after several months of use there have been no complaints whatsoever in relation to the platform, it's use, or performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fotoware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fotoware was procured to provide a secure platform for storing and managing large amounts of evidential data. The security and access management have been a great improvement on our previous system and has professionalised and streamlined our digital media storage and management processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.