Access critical business data efficiently.
Does your business create, distribute, or use digital photographs, graphic design elements, video, or music clips? If you do, then you have digital assets. No matter the size of your company or type of business, if you need your digital assets to fulfill a service or deliver a product, then how you manage these assets can be crucial to your success. Your strategy for reuse, retrieval, archiving, and distribution can impact your return on investment.

Organizations typically fall into the following categories to describe their use of digital assets:

• Brand management — creating and consistently reusing brand elements
• Digital Archives — storing and retrieving digital media
• Production Assets — creating, updating, and storing frequently-changing media
• Digital content distribution — distributing content to retailers

Due to the increased importance of efficient asset management, there’s a vast array of DAM software from which to choose, and Apple offers hardware that’s essential to implementing these applications. Sorting through the choices can be daunting, and you may have questions such as:

Seek expert advice
Through the Apple Consultants Network, you can locate a consultant with specific expertise to help address your digital asset management challenges. Our members are independent consultants who are certified in Apple and third-party technologies. Members can assess your current workflow, plan a budget, and implement the appropriate DAM infrastructure. By hiring an Apple Consultants Network member, you ensure that you have the best solution, developed and deployed by an expert—without hiring additional fulltime staff.

Get the most from your digital assets with help from a consultant.
A consultant can increase workflow efficiency and improve overall productivity by improving your company’s digital asset management with comprehensive services, such as:

• Assessing your current digital asset practice
  A consultant will help evaluate requirements based on your business objectives, existing processes, and budget. Understanding details about your business, like the kinds of digital assets you utilize, how much storage space you’ll need to grow, and how stored data is shared and collaborated on, will help a consultant develop a solution that’s customized for your business.
• Customizing a DAM solution
  A member of the Apple Consultants Network will work with you to design a DAM solution that’s best suited to your business. This may include the selection of hardware and software tools, and decisions such as where the data is stored, how it is accessed, and the process for managing creation, updates, and archiving.
• Integrating DAM into your workflow
  Part of implementing a new DAM solution is ensuring that it runs smoothly within your workflows and is appropriately integrated with the rest of your company’s IT infrastructure. A consultant will make certain that improvements to data asset management don’t impede productivity. Having a professional on hand to ensure business continues to run smoothly during implementation can make all the difference.
• Ongoing Support and Training
  Your relationship with a consultant doesn’t need to end with the implementation of the DAM solution. Members of the Apple Consultants Network can provide end user training to ensure that your staff is fully knowledgeable of the new systems. These members can provide ongoing support and maintenance services to ensure your systems are up-to-date and working as designed.

Hiring a member of the Apple Consultants Network can improve your likelihood of success. Members of the Apple Consultants Network are available when you need them, for upgrades, future enhancements, maintenance, and ongoing support. Working with a dedicated professional who’s familiar with your company and understands your needs—that’s the true value of the Apple Consultants Network.