Brand And Marketing Operations

OpenText Digital Asset Management Implementation Services

Marketing teams accumulate hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and product visuals across SharePoint, Dropbox, agency hard drives, and a legacy DAM nobody uses. Time-to-market for a new campaign extends because finding the approved hero image for "Product X, Q4, EMEA legal-cleared" takes three days. Brand non-compliance shows up on social when agencies use outdated logos. OpenText Digital Asset Management is the AI-tagged enterprise DAM that the brand team can actually search and that integrates with Adobe Creative Cloud where designers already work. BCS implements the asset migration, the metadata schema, AI tagging at scale, and the brand governance workflow.

Find approved assets in seconds
AI VISUAL SEARCH

Natural-language and reverse-image search across the asset library. Marketing finds the right approved variant without three days of asking around.

Adobe Creative Cloud bridge
DESIGNER WORKFLOW

Designers check out and check back in from Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere without leaving the tool. The asset library becomes part of the design workflow.

3D model native
PRODUCT AND MANUFACTURING

Native handling of PLY, FBX, STL, 3DS, DAE, OBJ formats. Product imagery for parts catalogues and manufacturing visualisation lives with the rest of the brand library.

Architecture

Five Layers Of OpenText Digital Asset Management

An enterprise DAM built for brand operations at scale with AI-first retrieval

Generic DAM platforms work for mid-volume libraries with manual taxonomy maintenance. Enterprise DAM has different requirements: hundreds of thousands of assets, automatic AI tagging across image and video, integration with the marketing tech stack designers actually use, and brand governance workflows that audit changes per asset.

OpenText DAM is built for that enterprise reality. AI tagging at scale removes the manual taxonomy burden. Adobe Creative Cloud integration meets designers where they work. 3D model support extends the platform into product visualisation and manufacturing.

01 - Asset Library And Metadata

Taxonomy and multi-language metadata

The asset repository with metadata schema, controlled vocabularies, and multi-language metadata. Asset organisation follows brand and product hierarchies the marketing team actually thinks in.

02 - AI Tagging And Visual Search

Auto-tag images, video, audio

AI auto-tagging on ingest. Image and video classification, object detection, brand mark recognition, content moderation. Natural-language search and reverse-image search across the library.

03 - Rich Media Renditions

Format and channel generation

Automatic rendition generation for web, social, print, broadcast. The same source asset outputs cropped variations, resolution variations, and format variations for the channel mix.

04 - 3D Model Support

Native handling for product and manufacturing

Native handling of PLY, FBX, STL, 3DS, DAE, OBJ formats. 3D product visualisations live alongside imagery and video. Manufacturing asset documentation pairs with brand assets.

05 - Review & Approval Workflow

Brand governance

Markup, annotation, and approval routing for internal teams and external agencies. Brand approval workflow runs against the asset; usage rights and licence terms enforced at workspace level.

Why Digital Asset Management

The Four Triggers That Move DAM From Consideration To Programme

DAM programmes get budget when one of four operational realities forces the decision.

01 - Campaign time-to-market

Marketing cannot find the right approved asset fast enough

Time-to-market for a campaign extends because the marketing team spends three days looking for the right approved variant of an image, video, or product visual. Agencies use outdated brand assets because they cannot locate the current version. The CMO has accepted the asset estate as the bottleneck.

02 - Legacy DAM dissatisfaction

The incumbent DAM is not adopted by marketing

An older DAM (Bynder, Widen, Aprimo, or a Salesforce DAM module) is in place but the marketing team has reverted to Dropbox and SharePoint. The taxonomy was manual, the search did not work, the designer workflow was bolted on. The CMO wants AI-first retrieval and Adobe Creative Cloud integration as part of the next platform.

03 - 3D product content emergence

Product and manufacturing visuals need to live with brand

Retail, CPG, and manufacturing organisations need 3D product visualisations for parts catalogues, configurator UI, AR previews, and manufacturing documentation. The 3D assets need to live alongside the brand library so marketing and product teams operate on one source. OpenText DAM is among the few enterprise DAMs with native 3D model support.

04 - M&A brand consolidation

An acquisition brought a separate brand asset library

Post-merger integration surfaces multiple brand asset libraries with different taxonomies. The CMO needs a consolidated platform where the master brand and acquired brand live with controlled access. OpenText DAM absorbs the acquired library with metadata mapping.

Business Impact

Who Benefits From The DAM Implementation, And Through Which Operational Lever?

DAM has a CMO/marketing-led buyer panel. Each accordion names the specific lever.

CMOCampaign time-to-market, brand consistency

For the CMO, the asset estate is the operational chokepoint between campaign brief and campaign launch. DAM moves both: AI search makes assets findable; brand governance makes the approved variant the default.

  • Campaign launch time compresses as marketing finds approved assets in seconds, not days.
  • Brand consistency improves as the approved variant is the one that surfaces in search.
  • Personalisation at scale becomes feasible as channel-specific renditions generate from one source.
Head Of BrandBrand governance, agency control

For the Brand team, controlling which assets external agencies use is the day-to-day battle. DAM provides controlled access, usage rights tracking, and the audit trail for what was used where.

  • External agencies access the asset library with controlled permissions and usage rights.
  • Outdated brand assets retire on schedule with disposition workflows.
  • Audit trail tracks which asset was used in which campaign, in which channel.
Head Of E-commerce / Product ContentRetail product imagery, configurator content

For retail and CPG product content teams, product imagery and 3D visualisations flow into e-commerce, configurator UIs, and AR experiences. DAM is the source of truth for product content.

  • Product imagery feeds e-commerce, PIM, and configurator UIs from one source.
  • 3D model support enables product visualisations and configurator content.
  • Channel-specific rendition generation supports the multi-marketplace publishing strategy.
Head Of Broadcast OperationsMedia and entertainment asset workflows

For media and entertainment, broadcast content workflows handle high-volume video assets with format variety. DAM ships broadcast format support.

  • Broadcast video formats handled natively — ProRes, DPX, MXF, broadcast-quality codecs.
  • Rendition generation creates web, social, and broadcast variations from the source master.
  • Rights management tracks which version is licensed for which territory and channel.
CIOMarketing tech consolidation, DAM platform

For the CIO, the marketing tech stack has accumulated point platforms for assets, brand, video, and product content. DAM consolidates the asset surface onto one platform with enterprise integration.

  • Asset surface consolidates onto one platform — brand, marketing, product, broadcast.
  • Adobe Creative Cloud, PIM (Akeneo, inRiver), and Sitecore / AEM integration ships supported.
  • Native to the OpenText estate so DAM lives alongside Content Hub and Extended ECM.
Chief Compliance OfficerUsage rights, GDPR for marketing assets

For Compliance, usage rights tracking and the right-to-be-forgotten requirements (model release, photographer rights, regional restrictions) need a system that can audit asset usage history.

  • Usage rights tracked per asset — model releases, photographer contracts, licence terms.
  • GDPR right-to-be-forgotten executes as workspace operations across the DAM and downstream usage.
  • Audit trail of who used which asset where survives the campaign cycle.
Chief Data OfficerAsset metadata, AI tagging quality

For the CDO, the DAM's AI tagging is a data quality programme in its own right. The quality of the tags decides whether AI search and downstream analytics actually work.

  • AI tagging at scale removes the manual taxonomy burden.
  • Reverse-image search and natural-language retrieval ground on the tagged content.
  • Asset usage data feeds marketing analytics for performance and rights management.
CTOAdobe Creative Cloud integration, designer workflow

For the CTO, the platform's value depends on whether designers actually use it. Adobe Creative Cloud integration means designers check assets in and out from Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere directly.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud integration ships with the platform — Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere.
  • PIM connectors for Akeneo and inRiver feed product content directly.
  • Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager connectors push assets into the web/CMS estate.
Capabilities

Components Of OpenText Digital Asset Management

Five product components organised across asset library, AI, renditions, 3D support, and workflow.

P01

Asset Library & Metadata Management

Asset repository with metadata schema, controlled vocabularies, and multi-language metadata. Organisation follows brand and product hierarchies.

A02

AI-Powered Tagging And Visual Search

AI auto-tagging on ingest. Image and video classification, object detection, brand mark recognition, content moderation. Natural-language and reverse-image search.

G03

Rich Media Renditions

Automatic format/size/codec generation for web, social, print, broadcast. Same source asset outputs channel-specific variations.

P04

3D Model Support

Native handling of PLY, FBX, STL, 3DS, DAE, OBJ formats. Product visualisations, configurator content, manufacturing visualisation supported.

G05

Review & Approval Workflow

Markup, annotation, approval routing for internal teams and external agencies. Usage rights and licence terms enforced at workspace level.

I06

Adobe Creative Cloud Integration

Native plugins for Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere. Designers check assets in and out without leaving their tool.

I07

PIM, CMS, And Marketing Connectors

Connectors to Akeneo, inRiver (PIM), Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

How BCS Implements This

The Six Workstreams — What BCS Owns, What The Client Owns, When Each Runs

A DAM programme typically runs 14-22 weeks depending on asset migration volume and integration scope. BCS sequences six workstreams.

01Weeks 1-4

Asset Estate And Taxonomy Discovery

The current asset estate is inventoried across SharePoint, Dropbox, agency systems, and the incumbent DAM. Asset categories, brand and product hierarchies, usage rights status, and migration priority are mapped.

BCS owns: discovery tooling, estate inventory, taxonomy design. Client owns: brand team owners, asset access, usage rights data.

02Weeks 3-8

Metadata Schema And AI Tagging Design

The metadata schema is designed against brand and product hierarchies. AI tagging models configured for the asset types (lifestyle imagery, product photography, video, 3D). Tagging quality validated against a representative sample.

BCS owns: metadata design, AI tagging setup, sample validation. Client owns: brand team sign-off on metadata schema.

03Weeks 6-14

Asset Migration In Waves

Assets migrate in waves prioritised by usage and recency. High-usage current assets migrate first; historical archive migrates last. Metadata enrichment runs on migrated assets with AI tagging applied.

BCS owns: migration engineering, AI tagging execution, quality validation. Client owns: brand and product team sign-off per wave.

04Weeks 10-18

Adobe Creative Cloud And Integration

Adobe Creative Cloud plugins deployed to designers. PIM connectors (Akeneo, inRiver) activated for product content. Sitecore/AEM connectors push assets into the web estate. Pilot designers and product content teams onboarded.

BCS owns: integration configuration, plugin deployment. Client owns: Adobe Creative Cloud admin access, PIM/CMS access.

05Weeks 14-20

Brand Governance And Anugal Access

Brand approval workflows configured. Usage rights tracking activated. Anugal IGA extends access governance over the asset library with external agency access carefully scoped. Disposition workflows for outdated assets configured.

BCS owns: workflow design, Anugal policies. Client owns: brand committee sign-off, agency access decisions.

06Weeks 18-22

Production Cutover And Adoption

Production cutover. Marketing, brand, product, and broadcast teams adopt the platform. Adoption metrics tracked per team. Legacy DAM platform retires on a defined timeline once adoption is proven.

BCS owns: cutover, adoption measurement, legacy retirement plan. Client owns: team enablement, decommissioning approval.

About BCS

BCS — The Agentic System Integrator For Content

Content programmes that ship as an operating model, not an event

BCS implements DAM as part of the broader OpenText practice with marketing operations specialisation. The DAM team understands the difference between a platform with good benchmarks and a platform marketing teams actually use.

The agentic system integrator model means three operating platforms travel with every DAM programme.

Anugal

External agency access

Identity governance over the asset library, particularly for external agency access. Usage rights, licence expirations, and territory-specific restrictions enforced through access certification.

deKorvai

Asset metadata quality

Metadata validation that runs on migrated assets. Inconsistent legacy tagging, duplicate assets, and orphan files are remediated so AI tagging starts from clean data and search retrieval lands on accurate metadata.

Symphony

Migration wave orchestration

Migration orchestration for the wave-based asset migration. Validation gates per wave, rollback path, and parallel-access management execute as one workflow.

Recent Updates

What Has Changed In Digital Asset Management In 2026?

Three updates that shape the DAM conversation in 2026.

RecognitionQ1 2026

Forrester Wave Leader: Digital Asset Management Systems

OpenText recognised as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Digital Asset Management Systems, Q1 2026, with highest possible scores in asset onboarding, metadata, immersive content, search, adoption, and asset delivery.

Source: OpenText Forrester Wave DAM
3DOngoing

Native 3D model support: PLY, FBX, STL, 3DS, DAE, OBJ

Native handling of major 3D model formats positions the platform for retail, CPG, and manufacturing organisations integrating 3D product content with brand and marketing assets.

Source: OpenText DAM 3D capabilities
NamingAug 2025

Media Management is now Digital Asset Management

The Media Management product name was simplified to OpenText Digital Asset Management in the August 2025 rebrand. The DAM heritage name continues in market and analyst commentary.

Source: OpenText rebrand

Frequently Asked Questions

The five questions that decide the DAM programme.

How does OpenText DAM compare to Adobe Experience Manager Assets, Bynder, or Aprimo?

Adobe AEM Assets ties tightly to the Adobe stack and is the natural fit for organisations standardised on Adobe Experience Cloud. Bynder is strong mid-market with good UI. Aprimo has marketing resource management depth. OpenText DAM differentiates on enterprise scale (high-volume asset libraries with hundreds of thousands of assets), native 3D model support for product and manufacturing, broadcast format coverage for media and entertainment, and integrated workflow with the rest of the OpenText estate (Content Hub, Extended ECM).

How well does AI tagging actually work?

Realistic expectations: 80-90% accuracy on object detection (product type, scene type) for typical lifestyle and product imagery. Brand mark recognition trains on brand-specific samples. Content moderation flags potentially problematic content. Quality depends on the training data the AI tagging is configured with. BCS pre-validates tagging quality against a representative sample before full migration so accuracy is measurable before sign-off.

Can designers really work in Photoshop without leaving the tool?

Yes. The Creative Cloud plugin runs inside Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere. Designers browse the asset library, check out a master, work on it, check it back in — without alt-tabbing to a browser. The check-in carries metadata updates back to the workspace. The behaviour is similar to Frame.io or other in-tool DAM integrations.

What about Salesforce Data Cloud, Sitecore, or AEM integration?

All three are supported. Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager connectors push assets directly into the web/CMS estate. Salesforce Marketing Cloud connects for email and journey content. Akeneo and inRiver PIM connectors feed product imagery directly. The integration scope is configured per programme based on the marketing tech stack in place.

What is the commercial engagement model?

Most DAM programmes run as fixed-milestone delivery (14-22 weeks for initial migration scope), with discovery and metadata design priced separately. The team typically includes a programme lead with DAM and brand operations experience, two to three DAM engineers, a metadata specialist, a marketing tech integration engineer (Adobe Creative Cloud, PIM, CMS), an identity engineer running Anugal, and a cutover lead.

Scope The Digital Asset Management Implementation In 30 Minutes

BCS runs a 30-minute readiness session covering the current asset estate, the brand and product taxonomy priority, the Adobe Creative Cloud and PIM/CMS integration scope, the AI tagging quality target, and the migration sequence.

30-minute discovery session*