Asset anywhere

Asset anywhere

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  Access corporate digitalasset from anywhere AssetAnyWhere Managing digital assets TechSharp
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  AssetAnyWhere currently isan ISV, which provides CMS services to hundreds of customers across the globe. They want to venture into Digital Asset Management (DAM) space. Lot of the companies with whom AssetAnyWhere works with, are media companies with lot of digital data. Following image shows the applications which heavily is centered on accessing the digital assets or providing the content for the same. Design / Marketing Alias Sketchbook Pro Pixel Graphics Software AutoDesk Adobe Photoshop Raster Graphics Editor Adobe Adobe In-Design Publishing Adobe CADTools Computer Aided Design Autodesk Adobe Acrobat Pro PDF Adobe Adobe Premium Pro Video Editing Adobe Lectra RCS 3DM CAD/CAM associated Services Lectra Horma Cutting Diagrams Gama Control Zan Image Printer Virtual Printer Driver Zan Image Edrawing Rapid Fire Lite Publish and Share CAD files Geometric Global Modela V Pro II Prototype Rolanddga Roland Inkjet devices Rolanddga 3DSOM Object Modeller 3DSOM Light Box Image Editor Lightbox Cool Iris Photo Viewing CoolIris Capture1 Raw Converter- Imaging PhaseOne CADCAM archive data Brand data (live) Storage Eye Candy Photoshop plugin Alienskin Client font management Font Extensis Nero Burn DVD Nero Design Pro After Burner Create and Print Labels Avery Dennison Surething CD Labeler create cd/dvd labels SureThing Autovue Document Viewing, Annotate Oracle Z-Print Z-Printer Application Peakllc Z-Edit 3D Printer Software ZCorp TurboCAD 2D & 3D Design TurboCAD Solid Works 3D CAD Design Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Tetra 3D Publishing Tetra4D Rhino Modelling Tool Rhino3D Adobe Illustrator Vector Graphics Editor Adobe Sentinel Driver SafeNet Mayka Machine non CAD Data PicaSoft Brand data (archive) Archive Alphashot Compact Photo Studio AlphaShot Build Station Machine Control 3DSystem s Lectra RCS 2DM CAD/CAM associated Services Lectra Ditacor 3D Geometry of Heel red21 CADCAM Computer Aided Design Autodesk Shell Folder Fix Window Position/Size SevenForu ms 3D LightYear File Preparation 3DSystem s 3D Studio Max modelling, animation, simulation and rendering Autodesk Freeform 3D Modeling Geomagic MODO polygon and subdivision surface modeling Luxology, LLC Pro Engineer Units development Parametric Technology corporation ART CAM Pro 3D Design & CNC Matching artcam CADFix CAD Translation cadfix Magics STL Editor Materialis e VISI Wireframe surface & Solid Modelling visicadca m END USER EDITOR USERS APPROVER PUBLISHER AUDITOR ADMIN The solution needs to find a way to seamlessly integrate with various tools (example tools shown in the above diagram). The existing architecture is legacy and has issues with performance. Large enterprise customers using this existing architecture, have offices globally distributed and ensuring performance is a challenge. Certain enterprise
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  customers prefer instanceinstalled on premise and not use the cloud version. AssetAnyWhere although prefers to have only a cloud version, they want to build the architecture in such a way that these customers are not impacted. Lot of the design data is private and the customers are concerned about the data residing in the cloud, rights associated with it, privacy, chances of the IP stolen etc. The architecture needs to ensure that all these concerns are addressed. There are also a few customers who come from locations where there are rules that the data should reside in the same geographical area. Features intended to be implemented for DAM are as follows: 1. Web Content Management 2. Rich Media files – Extremely large files AutoCAD etc. 3. Workflow in the systems, publishers, contributors, approvers etc. 4. Collaboration between designers The designers use touch enabled design devices, the application should work across devices. When designers collaborate on large projects, they build part of the design and share their work with other designers, who add on their part of the design etc. The application should support such collaboration and versioning of the files. 5. Global Permissions, access from any device or restricted access on few features as appropriate. 6. Automated and manual Meta data creation and management. 7. Search capability of any file. This has been the challenge for most of the customers and hence the solution should provide intuitive ways to ease the search. 8. Library Services. 9. Indexing. 10. Most customers complain of duplicate images, documents. AssetAnyWhere wants to introduce image recognition and image based search features. 11. Customers also believe that managing assets is a process and wants to define the same, Standards and best practices of Asset (including naming convention, reusability of assets, photo capture- angles, light etc.,) etc., however it should also be useful to the user and intuitive. 12. Each digital asset needs governance. Establish governance policies. 13. When new customers are on board, the application has to incorporate a tool to make the migration simpler. 14. Analyze asset usage across customers, track number of downloads, number of uploads, time taken to upload, number of executed workflows, user based analytics, search based analytics etc. 15. Customers face huge challenges in organizing assets and asset libraries. The application should define easier way to organize assets. 16. Provide mechanism to stream videos with capability to pause and continue viewing on any device. 17. Provide social integration (with restricted access as needed by the enterprises) 18. Provide a solution for image and video thumb nails, video hyper lapse, with built in media player. 19. Image/Video renditions. 20. Quality renditions (HD vs other). 21. Expired asset management – via Archival etc. 22. Asset import utility. 23. Bulk management capability (bulk upload/download of files etc.). 24. Asset notification – processing, uploading, downloading etc. 25. Encryption, decryption facility. 26. API for common functionality for on premise users to implement and customize.
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  27. Additionally AssetAnyWherewants to implement a feature where in the assets can be directly accessed through VC facilities, LYNC etc. Additions: Use of disruptive technology: How do we size it? Methodology to use and reasons for the same What are the steps to be taken for Project architectural governance, monitoring? Define Application performance benchmarks!