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Tracy T.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

Woodwing keeps track of your files and lets you see who has edited your file and when. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

nothing! it's great! i don't have any issues with it. it does get wonky when your computer crashes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm in publishing so it helps keep us organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

WoodWing Assets Overview

What is WoodWing Assets?

WoodWing Assets (formerly called Elvis DAM) provides organizations, publishers, and agencies with an advanced Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution that centralizes and streamlines digital content management. Tailored for teams that need to efficiently handle vast amounts of digital assets, WoodWing Assets stands out with its deep integration capabilities, particularly with Adobe Creative Cloud, allowing for seamless workflows that keep content current and accessible. Unlike one-size-fits-all solutions, WoodWing Assets is designed to adapt to the specific needs of diverse teams, offering unparalleled customization and integration options. Whether managing marketing materials or extensive digital libraries, WoodWing Assets ensures that your assets are secure, organized, and ready for distribution.

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German, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

WoodWing Assets is a digital asset management solution for storing, indexing, repurposing, and distribution of digital media content. With a rich set of APIs it enables businesses and organizations to break down silos and enhance their workflow through integration with other systems (PIM, CRM, CMS, MDM, AI etc.).

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Elvis DAM stands out with its modern and intuitive user interface, helping users to get started right away; no training required. For creatives, there's a dedicated InDesign plugin, offering the best Adobe CC integration on the market today. Elvis is built with the latest technology, using elasticsearch and clustering to scale with the needs of companies any size. Elvis DAM is the most future-proof DAM solution around.


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Year Founded
2000
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Recent WoodWing Assets Reviews

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Andrew P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Your single source of Truth - a home for all your Digital content"
Searchability of your content is incredible, with Elasticsearch Incredibly easy to use Highly customisable Massive standard metadata fields out t...
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5.0 out of 5
"8 years IT management experience in Media Industry"
The agility and the performance of the solution
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Andrew P.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

They don't have a great mobile version on phones. The Tablet version is okay, but could be better! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WoodWing Assets:

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oscar C.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

The agility and the performance of the solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

The workflow configuration is too complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WoodWing Assets:

Explore AI oportunities, workflow functionallity and third party integrations that you need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure and rapidly archive accesing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi Oscar,

My name is Madré Roothman. I'm the Product Marketing Manager of Elvis DAM here at WoodWing.

Just a big THANK YOU from the WoodWing team for providing us with such a great review. It helps us to continuously improve on our products.

Which brings me to your feedback on the workflow configuration being too complex. If you have the time - can you please send me an email with some bullet points on what exactly it is you have problems with? We’d love to help.

Feel free to contact me at any time at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a fantastic day!

- Madré

Kimberly A.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

Elvis allows my team to collaborate on designs and lets us keep track of what publications the assets was used in. Simple user interface with the ability to share with outside clients for image approvals, comments, and allows you to set a time limit on how long you want to share a link to assets. Drag and drop upload with batch tagging is good feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

When creating keywords, there isn't way to edit or delete keyword tags that was created. Video previews are only for the first 10 mins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WoodWing Assets:

It helps to have someone dedicated to uploading and cataloging images to save designers time when searching keywords. Don't just use words that only your team can understand but anyone that will need to access and search for images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

The design team had a problem with assets that was being stored/linked to another designer desktop. With Elvis we no longer have that as a issue and everyone has access to assets because they are now stored in one location and is able to link/drag and drop assets in to adobe software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi Kimberly,

My name is Madré Roothman. I'm the Product Marketing Manager of Elvis DAM here at WoodWing.

I want to take the time to say thank you for such a great review. We always appreciate when a customer takes the time to write a great recommendation.

If you ever need more information on our products, you can contact me at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a fantastic day!

- Madré

Mauro T.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

Difficult to say, maybe that the UI doesn't have too much "nerdy" features but, eventually, it's one of its main values. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi Mauro,

There’s not much we appreciate more than great customer feedback. Like the “nerdy” features you’d like to see more of in Elvis DAM. 🤓

We think you’ll be excited to know that we have some new features up our sleeve - due for release soon - and another exciting announcement tbc beginning of next year. But we’ll update you when the time comes.

We just want to say thanks for being a customer, and for taking the time to write a great recommendation.

In the meantime, if you ever need more information on our products, you can contact me at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a fantastic day!

- Madré

Product Marketing Manager of Elvis DAM

Belinda A.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

It is easy to find images, move images around and rename images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

I don't like how many images you can see at a time - I wish that interface was a little easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can share images with the customer instead of downloading them and saving them into an email. They can also download the images if they need to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi Belinda,

Thank you for the positive feedback on Elvis DAM.

We’re happy to hear that some of the features you like the most are things we also pride ourselves on. Like finding images easily, thanks to our built-in Elasticsearch technology.

But also hearing what your thoughts are on features like our view grid (thumbnails, list and filmstrip). It’s feedback like yours that we are able to always strive towards a better Digital Asset Management solution. Know that we’ll definitely take your suggestion into consideration with our product.

If you ever need more information on our product, or would like to suggest ways in which we can improve your Digital Asset Management experience, feel free to contact me at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a great day!

- Madré

Product Marketing Manager for Elvis DAM

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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

I have not something that I dislike about Elvis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Elvis DAM, we have a central repository for all of our documents and not spend much time to search what we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi there

It’s always great to receive positive feedback from our clients. Especially knowing that it takes time out of your possibly busy day.

Thank you for pointing out that our built-in Elastic search technology, version control and presets are some of the features you enjoy the most. The team at Elvis DAM always try to keep the end-user in mind, so we are very happy to hear that you are enjoying our product.

We just wanted to say thanks.

If you ever need more information on our product, or would like to suggest ways in which we can improve your customer experience, feel free to contact me at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a great day!

- Madré

Product Marketing Manager for Elvis DAM

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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

API Capabilities, HTML5 WebClient, third-party integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

The lack of a modern desktop app, in media users likes to have a desktop or mobile app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

We still as a prospect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi there,

There’s not much we appreciate more than great feedback like yours! We just wanted to say thanks.

You’ll be excited to know that we have a mobile app due for release soon - along with some other new features up our sleeve. We’ll be sure to announce it on our website once it’s live. To make sure you don’t miss out on the announcement - make sure you subscribe to our newsletter here: https://goo.gl/DLfeHb

In the meantime, if you ever need more information on our products, you can contact me at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a fantastic day!

- Madré

Product Marketing Manager of Elvis DAM

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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

I love being able to share the assets and folders with autenthic links.

I also like the ability to easily browse the strorage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

I'd like to have more options sharing the folders - "dropbox" kind of workflow.

I'd also like to have more simple UI and a workflow for sharing links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WoodWing Assets:

Easy to archive and explore the assets. Possible to make modifications to the assets without the need of download/upload actions.

Easy to make APIs and automations with production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've been able to replace the mailing and ftp workflows with the sharing abilities.

We've been also able to archive our magazine production assets automatically and explore them easily afterwards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi Eppu,

Thank you for the positive feedback on Elvis DAM.

You’ll be happy be know that, since your review, we’ve implemented product changes that have been positively received (and with great success) by our clients.

It’s thanks to feedback like yours that we are able to always able to strive towards a Digital Asset Management solution that puts our end users first.

If you ever need more information on our product, or would like to suggest ways in which we can improve your customer experience, feel free to contact me at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a great day!

- Madré

Product Marketing Manager for Elvis DAM

Tove S.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WoodWing Assets:

Go for it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gerard Van Den Akker of WoodWing
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Hi Tove,

We at WoodWing love it when a customer provides such thorough feedback on our products. It helps us improve–to provide you with the best possible product we have to offer.

We just wanted to take the time to say thanks.

If you ever need more information on our products, you can contact me at marketing@woodwing.com.

Have a great day!

- Madré

James G.
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What do you like best about WoodWing Assets?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WoodWing Assets?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WoodWing Assets:

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WoodWing Assets solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.