What are the best digital asset management (DAM) solutions?

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76 Options Considered

Best digital asset management (DAM) solutions	Price	Platforms	Mobile App
-- Alfresco	-	-	-
-- Nuxeo	-	-	-
-- ResourceSpace	-	-	-
-- Canto	-	-	-
-- WebDAM Solutions	-	-	-

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score 7 · Answer 2

Nuxeo

Top Pro

Free

Licensed under LGPL. See More

Top Pro

Self-host & SaaS options available

Top Pro

Open source

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score 6 · Answer 3

ResourceSpace

Top Pro

Flexible

Top Pro

Open Source

score 4 · Answer 4

Canto

Top Pro

Self-host and SaaS options available

Top solution for organizing, finding and sharing your brand assets: images, videos, presentations. Cumulus by Canto offers DAM for mid-market to enterprise deployments on-premise, cloud-hosted and hybrid cloud options available. Flight by Canto is a turnkey SaaS tool for basic DAM needs, ideal for SMB. See More

score 2 · Answer 5

WebDAM Solutions

Add Video or Image

score 2 · Answer 6

Extensis Portfolio Server

Top Con

Rated as "Risky Bet" by Forrester

Top Con

Not available as SaaS

score 2 · Answer 7

Notre DAM

Top Con

Not maintained

Does not seem to be maintained much as of 2016. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Licensed under LGPL. See More

score 6 · Answer 8

BlazeClan - Digital Media Asset Management & Publishing

Top Pro

Helps you save manual efforts to transcode and publish your content.

Top Pro

Publishes your content faster across various media channels.

score 2 · Answer 9

PHRASEANET (by ALCHEMY)

Top Pro

Free

Phraseanet is an Open Source software distributed under GNU GPL v3 See More

Top Pro

Self-host and SaaS versions available

score 1 · Answer 10

pCloud

Top Pro

Free bandwidth with ads

This is nice if you don't care about what is people see on the page when you share the file and you have large files to send. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

Top Pro

Desktop app doesn't take space on hard disk

Computers see it as a network drive. See More

Top Pro

Very reliable

Top Pro

2tb storage and 2tb bandwidth

Unlike all the other clouds this makes it great for sharing large files. To lots of people. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Backup and use your files from any device with Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, or iOS. See More

Top Pro

Other users can upload files to your storage

Have others upload files directly to your account from any browser using "Upload links". See More

Top Pro

No synchronization speed limits

Sync files as fast as your internet plan allows you to. See More

Top Pro

Lifetime options for storage space

Top Pro

No file size limits

Allows you to store your HD videos, FLAC music files, and large documents. See More

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score 1 · Answer 11

Widen

Top Pro

Great usability

Having compared a number of solutions, Widen repeatedly trumped other systems on usability and intuitive interface design. See More

Top Pro

REST + SOAP API available

Top Pro

Single Sign-On user authentication

Top Pro

Data exports and site management Analytics dashboard

Top Pro

Upload wizard with metadata pre-entry and smart workflow

Top Pro

Asset group level security for lifecycle management

Top Pro

Unlimited user roles with configurable permissions

Top Pro

On-the-fly file conversions for images, audio & video

Top Pro

Fully configurable metadata schema with read/write ability

Top Pro

Intelligent search options and filters

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score 1 · Answer 12

Phraseanet

Add Video or Image

score 1 · Answer 13

IntelligenceBank

Add Video or Image

score 3 · Answer 14

Daminion Software

Top Pro

Easy photo and document management

Top Con

Thumbnail preview slower than others

Other tools display the thumbnail preview images in the overview much faster. For example ACDSee is extremely fast, StudioLine is faster, too. On Daminion I first see a gray box then after at least 1 second the thumbnail is displayed. Also Lightroom 5 doesn't have such loading times. See More

Top Pro

Great tech support

Top Con

no face recognition available

Top Pro

Affordable for small teams with tight budgets

Top Pro

Allows to assign people to pictures

But no face recognition. So it works like a keyword. See More

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Answer 15

ACDSee

Top Pro

Dark style theme

ACDSee has a nice dark style theme. See More

Top Con

No face recognition

ACDSee doesn't allow you to set face recognition to files. It also doesn't read already recognized faces. Metadata for faces aren't shown. See More

Top Pro

Very fast image reader

ACDSee reads the images (jpgs) extremely fast. It displays them very fast, too. See More

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score 2 · Answer 16

Razuna

Add Video or Image

score 1 · Answer 17

Connecter

Top Pro

Regular updates

Top Con

Niche product

Not recommended for people who aren't dealing with 3d content. See More

Design Connected's Experience

Excellent! See More

Top Pro

Excellent customer support

Top Pro

Great UI/UX

Top Pro

Teamwork

Allows you to share your organized assets library with your colleagues. See More

Top Pro

Created for 3d professionals

You can work with 3d models and materials with ease. Something no other DAM is offering, especially not for free. See More

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score 1 · Answer 18

Image Relay

Add Video or Image

score 1 · Answer 19

HyperCMS

Add Video or Image

Answer 20

Onison Corporation

Add Video or Image

76 Options Considered

My Recommendation for Alfresco

My Recommendation for Alfresco

Free version available

Open source

Flexible metadata

Self-host and SaaS versions available

My Recommendation for Nuxeo

My Recommendation for Nuxeo

Free

Self-host & SaaS options available

Open source

My Recommendation for ResourceSpace

My Recommendation for ResourceSpace

Flexible

Open Source

My Recommendation for Canto

My Recommendation for Canto

Self-host and SaaS options available

My Recommendation for WebDAM Solutions

My Recommendation for WebDAM Solutions

My Recommendation for Extensis Portfolio Server

My Recommendation for Extensis Portfolio Server

Rated as "Risky Bet" by Forrester

Not available as SaaS

My Recommendation for Notre DAM

My Recommendation for Notre DAM

Not maintained

Free and open source

My Recommendation for BlazeClan - Digital Media Asset Management & Publishing

My Recommendation for BlazeClan - Digital Media Asset Management & Publishing

Helps you save manual efforts to transcode and publish your content.

Publishes your content faster across various media channels.

My Recommendation for PHRASEANET (by ALCHEMY)

My Recommendation for PHRASEANET (by ALCHEMY)

Free

Self-host and SaaS versions available

My Recommendation for pCloud

My Recommendation for pCloud

Free bandwidth with ads

Desktop app doesn't take space on hard disk

Very reliable

2tb storage and 2tb bandwidth

Cross-platform

Other users can upload files to your storage

No synchronization speed limits

Lifetime options for storage space

No file size limits

My Recommendation for Widen

My Recommendation for Widen

Great usability

REST + SOAP API available

Single Sign-On user authentication

Data exports and site management Analytics dashboard

Upload wizard with metadata pre-entry and smart workflow

Asset group level security for lifecycle management

Unlimited user roles with configurable permissions

On-the-fly file conversions for images, audio & video

Fully configurable metadata schema with read/write ability

Intelligent search options and filters

My Recommendation for Phraseanet

My Recommendation for Phraseanet

My Recommendation for IntelligenceBank

My Recommendation for IntelligenceBank

My Recommendation for Daminion Software

My Recommendation for Daminion Software

Easy photo and document management

Thumbnail preview slower than others

Great tech support

no face recognition available

Affordable for small teams with tight budgets

Allows to assign people to pictures

My Recommendation for ACDSee

My Recommendation for ACDSee

Dark style theme

No face recognition

Very fast image reader

My Recommendation for Razuna

My Recommendation for Razuna

My Recommendation for Connecter