About Widen Collective
Widen, an Acquia Company, and maker of award-winning content management platform, the Widen Collective® is a cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) solution that allows users to find, share, upload, download, and analyze visual content anywhere, on any device. The product is suitable for marketers, creative teams, IT managers, and software architects of mid-to-large enterprises. It is designed to cater to the needs of various industries that include apparel, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, medical devices, hospitality, travel, and higher education.
The product has a wide feature set that helps in the creation of branded portals, asset tracking and archiving, workflow integrations, rights management, reporting and analytics, and so on. It uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ensure on-demand scalability and network access at a high speed for locations across the globe. The Widen Collective has the capability to automatically crop and resize assets and publish them on the web. Users can also get insights into the usage of the asset at different locations via geolocation map views.
Widen Collective dashboard and reporting tools allow users to export data and track asset usage by following the site with Google Analytics. Users can compare the asset performance across various portals through dashboards that are pre-loaded with “must-track” assets and user activities. All the data such as user information, metadata, asset search results, and upload history can be exported to Excel where users can drill down to analyze site activities.
Widen uses Agile product development methodology in which ongoing features are released on a monthly basis and customer feedback drives the roadmap for the Widen Collective. It offers integrations with a large number of marketing and creative applications that help in the easy syncing of brand assets across multiple channels. Some of the key clients of the Widen Collective are New Balance, Energizer, Progressive, Zeiss, La-Z-Boy, Steelcase, Electrolux, Brooks Running, and LG.
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Key benefits of Widen Collective
? Control what users see and do in your digital asset management system with permission-based user roles and groups.
? Manager version control, expire assets, attach documents and review and approve throughout the entire content lifecycle.
? Duplicate filenames that trigger conflicts can be added as versions.
? Widen Collective has configurable email alerts or notifications that help in tracking the assets against which any major actions are taken by the users.
? Track individual assets and collections for page views, embed views and downloads.
? The solution allows users to create a custom login page to enhance user experience with their brand’s color scheme and logo.
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Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, United States and 12 others
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Total features of Widen Collective: 170
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- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
I don't know how we lived without Widen's DAM solution before!
Reviewed on 28/11/2017
This software completely changed our office workflow. Finding assets used to be very painful, but...
This software completely changed our office workflow. Finding assets used to be very painful, but with all of our assets in one location and users connected to the DAM it makes finding things easy for our office, as well as external clients. By empowering our users to find their own assets it frees up our designer time, for things like DESIGN!
Pros
Ease of use, ease of empowerment for the user. I LOVE being able to share collections with clients.
And I LOVE when someone asks for an asset, I just add them as a user on Widen, and tell them to find it themselves!
Cons
I'm still waiting for drag and drop functionality with Indesign. A small workflow addition that would make things easier!
- Industry: Sports
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Widen Media Collective (DAM) Review
Reviewed on 07/10/2019
Pros
Its searchable content. As long as metadata is used, searching for assets is relatively easy.
Cons
Upload process. The Drag/Drop feature was nice! Now I'm forced to go through a wizard. Too time consuming for my liking.
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Widen Collective
Reviewed on 30/11/2010
The Digital Asset System was put in place to provide easy access to assets owned by Trek Bicycle...
The Digital Asset System was put in place to provide easy access to assets owned by Trek Bicycle Corporation for those internally and externally. These assets can be ordered and downloaded at any time of day or night. It's an invaluable tool for our dealers, distributors, and international offices.
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The Media Template is an online ad, and media builder. It allows Trek to control brand consistency, while it allows our users to build media in minutes using pre-approved images and text without the need of expensive software programs. We use this portion of the site to provide promotional items and in store signage to our large dealer base.
Overall, I think the Widen collective is a great product and I really enjoy working with Widen.
Pros
Good customer support
Robust reporting features
Assets can be downloaded in a variety of file formats
Various types of file formats are supported
Permissions can be setup to protect assets
Users can access the site through a standard web browser
Media can be built in minutes without needing expensive software programs
Assets/media can be ordered and downloaded at any time of day or night
Software updates made throughout the year
Cons
Pages can be slow to load at times
Reporting tools can be confusing
Custom enhancements to the site can be expensive
Some education is needed for new users of the site
The site is not setup for printing on demand
Home page can be confusing if your site includes the DAM and the media builder
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great hub for storing and sharing content
Reviewed on 27/09/2019
We are using it as a one stop shop for our field team to have access to training, resources,...
We are using it as a one stop shop for our field team to have access to training, resources, selling collateral, company news and other helpful things. We also love that we can quickly update the versions when needed. The team has been less frustrated now that they have 1 place to go.
Pros
I love that I can easily store all of my content in the system, then make a website like portal to share and organize my content in a neat way.
Cons
I wish there was a way to add hyperlinks to Asset Collections so that I can link out to other internal websites within my company or to an eCourse within Workday.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
My Widen DAM Review
Reviewed on 12/01/2020
Using Widen’s DAM to organize our assets has greatly reduced our marketing teams time spent hunting...
Using Widen’s DAM to organize our assets has greatly reduced our marketing teams time spent hunting for images.
Pros
My favorite things about Widen’s DAM software include an easy to navigate interface, very intuitive searching capabilities, customizable metadata fields for great detail to be attributed to assets, the ability to download files in multiple files types (fairly quick conversion depending on size of original file), the ability to customize your login screen and home screen (keeping everything on-brand is important!), and their customer support team is amazing.
Cons
I feel that the asset sharing options could be expanded upon. Currently, you can type an email in and send a set of assets. I would like to see additional options implemented because it feels fairly limited currently.
Widen Collective FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Widen Collective.Q. What type of pricing plans does Widen Collective offer?
Widen Collective offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Widen Collective pricing is based on a one-time implementation plus an annual subscription (€EUR and £GBP options available).
Q. Who are the typical users of Widen Collective?
Widen Collective has the following typical customers:
51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Widen Collective support?
Widen Collective supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Widen Collective support mobile devices?
Widen Collective supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Widen Collective integrate with?
Widen Collective integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Commerce, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Workfront, Akeneo PIM, Asana, Box, Brightcove, Cascade, Clarifai, Content Hub, Dropbox Business, Drupal, Enwoven, Google Analytics 360, Grin, Highspot, Hootsuite, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Jahia, Jira, Khoros Marketing, Marketo Engage, Meta for Business, Microsoft SharePoint, Modus, Modus, Optimizely, Outfit, Productsup, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salsify, Showpad, Sitecore, Slack, TINT, Trello, Twitter, Wistia, WordPress, Workato, Wrike, Zapier, dotCMS
Q. What level of support does Widen Collective offer?
Widen Collective offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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