DAM with Nuxeo PlatformAlain ESCAFFRE

Designed for Digital Asset Management

Keep on Improving the feature set

Not Yet Another Photo Library !

Nuxeo Platform, for DAM Projects

● 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

Use Cases

● 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

● 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!

● Work order management● Raw Material re-use and re-purpose● Creative Centralised Delivery

Production of Creatives For Agencies

Under The Hood: Benefits of The Platform Approach

● 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

● 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

● 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.

APIs & Integration

● 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

● 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

● 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

Integration with Adobe Creative Suite

● Adobe Creative Suite Plugin● In Design, Illustrator, Photoshop● Great Features:

○ Image Search○ Dynamical linking○ Update notification○ Authentication management

Demo time!

● Similar content● Main Colors, Color Search● Cropping● Comparaison● Video Annotation

Some Cool Features