Digital Asset Management (DAM) consists of effectively ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storage, retrieving as well as the distribution of digital assets. A DAM allows you to efficiently manage the downloading, filing, grouping, archiving, optimizing, thinning, distributing and exporting of digital media files ("assets") that your group or organization creates as daily routine. Digital Asset Management systems can reduce the time and cost of content production, maximize the return on investment (ROI) from media assets, bring new products and services to market faster and streamline compliance.

The need for Digital Asset Management:

Some of the most common reasons that makes having a Digital Asset Management solution imperative:

• Distribution of large media files is expensive, time-consuming
• Finding / managing media files is chaotic
• Consumers of Assets require to manipulate originals
• Storage requires heavy infrastructure investments and maintenance

cyn.in for Digital Asset Management:

cyn.in is an open source collaborative knowledge management appliance delivered to entperises and small businesses in an On-Premise and SaaS model. cyn.in enables teams, companies or communities to create, manage, organize, store, version, search through, collaborate and share any kind of information. The cyn.in Digital Asset Management system is designed to cost-effectively optimize media asset management across the organization.

• Image Transformation: With cyn.in you can easily store large picture creatives in their original form in galleries. Smooth thumbnails of the images are created automatically for you to easily browse through the images. Images can be transformed to flip or rotate without any losses to image quality.
  
• Collaborative digital asset management and organization: Every user of your cyn.in site can collaboratively tag uploaded pictures and media for easy access while searching and for categorization. All users can work collaboratively on media files and content.
• Smart displays of digital assets: The smart views can be used intelligently to display selective images from different digital asset galleries by adding criteria. The criteria can be selected from various options including but not limited to workflow state, categories, location and authors.
  
• Multi-Grade Security: Your rich assets are stored within the granular security of cyn.in's system. Each restricted asset can be made available to a select group of users.
  
• Automatic Revisioning: Every time any updated file is uploaded, a revision is automatically created by cyn.in for the older version. You can continue to update files as required, every user automatically gets the latest revision.
• Store, Find and Re-Use: Achieve optimum re-use of your existing media and pictures. The live search with full text capabilities enables users to find content or media added to cyn.in.

Benefits of cyn.in DAM:

• Achieve Consistent messaging and branding across all your locations
• Eliminate local Infrastructure maintenance overhead and costs
• Global Web-based Access to your cyn.in repository
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• Publish media for Intranet usage
• Notifications every time new content is added to the system by email and RSS
• Streamlining of time-consuming business processes

Who uses cyn.in for Digital Asset Management:

Any group can use cyn.in's Digital Asset Management solution to manage, share, version and collaborate on information; these are some of the broad categories where usage is typical.