Alain Escaffre describes the new features available in the improved Digital Asset Management Solution (DAM) of the latest Nuxeo Platform release.

1. DAM with Nuxeo Platform
Alain ESCAFFRE

2. Designed for Digital Asset Management
Keep on Improving the feature set
Not Yet Another Photo Library !
Nuxeo Platform, for DAM Projects

3. ● Review some real-life Nuxeo Customer’s use cases
● Understand how the platform approach is a must in DAM projects
● Demo of some of latest features additions
Agenda

4. Use Cases

5. ● Customer portal for asset (videos) upload
● Validation workflow
● CRM Integration
● Video Transcoding following business constraints of the target publishing
device
● Asset transfer to the broadcasting layer
Collecting and Publishing Advertisement Assets

6. ● Workflow for creation of original art
● Validation, internal (art department) and external (licensor)
● Transcoding in terms of delivery; e.g. add original art to a t-shirt comp that is
sent for printing
● Centralize access to licensor assets (they have a lot of duplication currently)
Core Business Assets: T-Shirt Decoration!

7. ● Work order management
● Raw Material re-use and re-purpose
● Creative Centralised Delivery
Production of Creatives For Agencies

8. Under The Hood: Benefits of The
Platform Approach

9. ● DAM repository often grows very quickly: up to millions of assets
● Strong ingestion capabilities often required: ex: up to 1000 document update
per second
⇒ Nuxeo Platform has been benchmarked with a billion of documents, with
ingestion rates up to 3000/seconds with MongoDB - NoSQL implementation.
Scalability

10. ● Powerful and expressive data modeling:
Nicely mixing pure digital content and
business objects , design with Nuxeo
Studio
● Pluggable Content Store:
○ Content Delivery Network (CDN)
integration
○ Option for Visible Binary Storage (simple
file system)
○ Core integration with Dropbox, Google
Drive etc.
● Great search features: fuzzy search,
faceted Search, geosearch, color search
Powerful Repository

11. ● Lots of integrations are required in DAM
projects:
○ for enriching metadatas
○ for importing content
○ publishing content (in portals, in e-commerce
applications, in broadcasting systems, on social
platforms)
○ for creative tools
⇒ Nuxeo Platform provides a great set of APIs
(more than 150) for all sorts of asset
management actions, as well as the ability to
design from Nuxeo Studio coarser business
APIs & Integration

12. ● Transcoding, Cutting, Watermarking,
Changing resolution…
● Asynchronous Converters
Architecture
● Pluggable: ability to integrate new
converters easily
● Built-in: ImageMagick and FFMPEG
for Image, Sound and Video
● Declare a new conversion just with
some XML
Complete Conversion Stack

13. ● DAM projects are most of
the time workflow projects:
- Creative Workflows
- Localisation workflows
- Juridical
- …
⇒ Nuxeo Platform provide a
greatly customizable workflow
that allows to go deep into the
company’s process while not
endangering the maintainability
of the application
Highly Configurable Workflow

14. ● Enterprise DAM are most of the time B2B Applications: need for strong
isolation in the same system
● Intellectual Property management
⇒ Security Policies based on metadata, acls, temporary acls, security on
renditions
⇒ Asset Sharing module: publish on Youtube, on Wistia and quickly on any other
publishing platform
Sharing and Publishing Capabilities

15. Integration with Adobe Creative Suite
● Adobe Creative Suite Plugin
● In Design, Illustrator, Photoshop
● Great Features:
○ Image Search
○ Dynamical linking
○ Update notification
○ Authentication management

16. Demo time!

17. ● Similar content
● Main Colors, Color Search
● Cropping
● Comparaison
● Video Annotation
Some Cool Features