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OpenAsset

Score8 out of 10

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What is OpenAsset?

OpenAsset is a DAM tailored for AEC & Real Estate from the company of the same name in New York. A cloud-based Digital Asset Management designed for managing digital assets by property or project.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features OpenAsset has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Uploading assets

    Ingestion of digital assets into a DAM platform can typically be made individually or in bulk and can occur through a native browser interface. Drag-and-drop features can streamline file ingestion.

    Category average: 8

  • Categories

    Assets can be organized in drop-down menus to assist in discovery and grouped with related assets for greater utilization. Most DAMs offer AI and machine vision tagging tools to automatically recognize key data in visual elements which automatically sets tags and metadata fields.

    Category average: 6.9

  • Asset storage

    Centralized storage capacity and accessibility for centralized storage of marketing and brand assets. These can be anything from documents, audio files, videos, images, creative files (Adobe, etc.), etc. Outdated assets can be archived.

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Standard reports

    The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

    Category average: 5.8

  • Custom reports

    Users can create custom reports.

    Category average: 5.8

  • Content analytics

    Allow users to track digital asset usage and user engagement metrics across multiple channels.

    Category average: 7.4

Reviews

What users are saying about OpenAsset.
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OpenAsset it tailored to the AEC industry, offering integration with Vantagepoint unlike most other options.

Incentivized
Les Thomas
Proposal Specialist in Marketing at OWN, Inc. (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used OpenAsset at my last company and helped implement solutions that were not being utilized. These included setting up a PowerPoint template to automate the generation of slide presentations and setting up data sheet templates to automate the creation of project data sheets. I have served as an OpenAsset user, administrator, and instructor. One of the best use cases for OpenAsset has been integrating it with Deltek Vantagepoint so that the information from Vantagepoint automatically copies over to OpenAsset on a set schedule. In this way, both OpenAsset and Vantagepoint maintain the same project information and this information is, in turn, used to populate project information on the company website.

Pros

  • Automated PowerPoint presentations
  • Automated data sheet generation
  • Searching for digital assets based on keywords, project types, location, and personnel
  • Maintaining albums for quick access to the most used project digital assets.

Cons

  • You can create an album to share with those outside of your firm, but the only way to do this is to download files into a zip file. This is antiquated thinking. It would be much better if you could create an album that would generate a temporary web page that anyone outside of the organization could view by clicking on a link.
  • There are a number of legacy items that are no longer functional. OpenAsset needs to either make these functional or remove the options.

Return on Investment

  • Made the creation of PowerPoint presentations and data sheets much quicker and easier
  • Allows for customization of keywords for different user groups.
  • Doesn't offer any useful reporting. We wanted it to tell us things like how often a particular image or project was referenced. It can't do that.
  • Easy uploading and tagging system.
  • Using the DAM as a liaison for populate the website with information from our CRM helped maintain consistency across channels.

Alternatives Considered

MediaValet