CONTENTdm vs. Veeva Vault PromoMats

Good if one does not have a lot of IT support such as our smaller university.

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As a leading platform for the Pharma space, Veeva Vault is a fantastic option if clients/your company is maintaining a focus on continuous improvement as the tool is updated and enhancements are released. As with all things tech, if the instance you have is dated or uses older capabilities, it is a challenge to maintain competitive speed to market. “More, Faster, Cheaper” is dependent on your tech stack and your willingness to accept the challenges and pain of releasing new functionality. Veeva can offer these capabilities but executing on rolling more contemporary solutions is the keystone issue whether Veeva will be a tool or a risk to your team.

• Constant URLs
• User interface is good
• Run by OCLC, not likely to disappear

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• Annotation of reviewer comments
• Reminders to review team

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• As a digital asset management system, one would expect the capability of managing preservation, which CONTENTdm lacks.
• Lack of batch updating and other advanced metadata management capabilities.
• The usage statistics does not work, and the company is not planning to fix it, at least based the interaction with tech support staff. Customers were referred to use Google Analytics.

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• I'm not crazy about how quickly I get timed out

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In my opinion, the interface is poor and in the last 4 years never improved

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We are evaluating Hydra, Islandora

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Monday is a great organizational tool but we use Veeva for FDA products. The two products are used in entirely different ways

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• It helped us to get started with our digital collections projects at a relatively low cost.
• As our needs grew, it became apparent that we needed something more powerful, and that provides better workflows and better statistics and is able to handle the whole life cycle of digitation projects.

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• Allowed us to free up administrative staff needs
• Allowed remote approvals
• Organized system to get through audits

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