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Designed for power and simplicity, ActiveMedia digital asset management truly keeps pace with a changing digital world.

Managing the digital media supply chain from creation to global delivery, ActiveMedia activates your digital media and marketing content —images, graphics, video, publishing files, presentations, fonts, logos, picture libraries.  The result?  It delivers the right asset, at the right time, to the right people, in the right format, every time. That’s business agility. That’s ActiveMedia. 

Fully web-based, ActiveMedia gives extended-enterprise users an anywhere-anytime shared workspace to organize, share, find, collaborate, distribute, and manage digital assets and media across departments, or around the globe. And now, ActiveMedia offers powerful Workflow Automation features to accelerate business processes.

Marketing and brand teams at leading Fortune 1000, advertising, print, media and consumer product companies have realized rapid return on investment with ClearStory digital asset management products as the foundation for:

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Users experience the system based on their privileges and role.

Designed with Creative Users in Mind

ActiveMedia CreativeConnections module extends the power of ActiveMedia to creative users of Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. Without leaving their layout application, creative users can interact with ActiveMedia seamlessly to facilitate creative workflow and ensure version control.  Directly from InDesign or QuarkXPress, users can search for assets, drag and drop graphics into layouts, manage images and upload layout files. 

Flexible deployment options

Available as both a hosted service and installed software, ActiveMedia Digital Asset Management solutions give companies the flexibility to meet any resource, budget and timeline goal.  Need to get up and running quickly?  Choose our hosted option and transition the system in-house when you’re ready.  Hosted or Installed ActiveMedia offers the same powerful features and web-based accessibility. Whatever your path, ActiveMedia is proven to deliver digital asset management and media solutions on budget, and on time.   

Improved productivity

From ingestion and creation to management and delivery, ActiveMedia offers a powerful suite of workflow and automation capabilities to improve business process and productivity. ActiveMedia not only gives you project management tools for creative routing, review, and approval, it automates system actions and asset management functions; expires and embargos assets; notifies internal and external users; and delivers content in required formats or secure e-mail links. Learn more about workflow automation.

Power inside

We’ve built ActiveMedia on the most powerful and flexible Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform available — our own Enterprise Media Server (EMS). The pure J2EE, services-oriented architecture of ClearStory EMS gives you a contemporary, scalable foundation for your enterprise digital media storage and initiatives. EMS can support multiple custom applications running alongside ActiveMedia so digital assets managed by ActiveMedia can be leveraged across many business applications—one platform, unlimited potential.  

ActiveMedia Benefits

  • Reduce Costs and Achieve Rapid ROI
    Find assets instantly 24/7, repurpose assets instead of recreating them, reduce media storage and distribution costs.
  • Manage Brand Consistency
    Organize, control, and distribute materials for efficient brand management.
  • Improve Channel Marketing Efficiency
    Improve marketing effectiveness by ensuring the most current digital media materials are available to partners, distributors and vendors.
  • Accelerate Time-to-Market
    Create, approve, and distribute content rapidly for product launches using powerful workflow automation.
  • Innovate and Streamline Processes
    Streamline operations, connect content to e-commerce solutions, or improve customer service.
  • Reduce IT Support Requirements
    Centralized repositories reduce the need for departmental servers, FTP sites, and shared volumes. Web-based access reduces end-user support. Hosted alternative requires no IT resources.
  • Leverage a Standards-Based Digital Asset Management (DAM) Platform
    Deploy ActiveMedia and build or integrate custom applications on a common open-standards platform.

Customer Spotlight

A global pharmaceutical giant began using ActiveMedia Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions for the launch of a single drug brand, managing all product, presentation, branded materials and other launch content. The system quickly proved to have positive impact on critical time to market, and they began to scale it out to include additional drug brand teams. Today, this global system manages 14 different brands with over 2300 active users in 70 countries.

Read the Case Study

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