Feature Description

Your users will love CQ5's user interface, and you will love that it is 100% customizable to your corporate identity.

• Easy asset upload, search and organization helps to motivate asset managers   

• Correct design and branding is ensured, globally, enterprise-wide

• Easy search and retrieval of content, easy content re-use

• Advanced tagging and metadata support for high-quality metadata

Your assets gain value the more people are using them. This is why we've made it easy to share assets in shared folders or lightboxes, to add comments and discuss assets within CQ5.

CQ5 DAM has built-in support to access the repository via the widespread used open WebDAV protocol. On top of that, Day CQ5 DAM implements the Common Internet File System protocol defined by Microsoft. Both allow the desktop user (Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOSX and Linux) to easily and securely create, read, update and delete assets and folders within Day CQ5 DAM.

CQ5 DAM supports out-of-the-box a large number of different file formats. Images uploaded to the repository can be resized, scaled, cropped, watermarked, thumbnailed or processed in any other form, thanks to the integrated graphics engine. On documents CQ5 DAM supports full-text content and meta data extraction for Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel as well as PDF files. For PDF and Powerpoint, individual pages or slides can be treated as autonomous assets for reorganization and remixing. CQ5 DAM's multimedia capabilities include handling MP3, WAV, AVI and MOV files and can be extended to support custom formats.

Format Categories with extended features:

• Still Images: PNG, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, Portable Pixmap, Photoshop
• Compound formats: EPS, PDF, Quark Express
• Microsoft Office documents
• Audio in MP3, WAV
• Videos like MOV, AVI
• Archives like ZIP

Using Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) allows CQ5 DAM to integrate out-of-the box with other standards-compliant Digital Asset Management solutions and desktop software, such as Adobe Creative Suite CS4.

All digital assets, meta data and content of Microsoft Office and PDF documents are extracted and made searchable. Search allows sophisticated filtering on assets and fully respects the proper permissions.

CQ5 DAM supports multiple ways of organizing content - both in a hierarchical and in an unordered, ad-hoc way. It supports both a folder hierarchy for assets as well as multi-dimensional taxonomies. Users can edit tags from the DAM Asset Editor which also shows sub-assets, renditions and meta-data.

A powerful workflow engine, combined with an easy-to-use graphical userinterface allows business users to create, maintain and control a multitude of processes. These include parallel and nested workflows, automation of workflow steps, rules, notifications and escalation.

With CQ5 DAM, publishing content becomes a simple task. Whether you want to access your digital assets inside a Desktop application using a shared folder in a Windows network, or by using WebDAV; whether you want to send assets via E-Mail or download a ZIP bundle of assets; these are all available out-of-the-box with CQ5 DAM. Running CQ5 DAM and CQ5 Web Content Management side by side means that website authors can simply drag and drop assets into their Web pages to display them as part of their website.

CQ5's extensible out-of-the-box component architecture makes building a custom asset-centric application very efficient. With the workflow-driven media handlers, you can add support for custom file formats, custom metadata, and custom rendition plans that might even involve human interaction or remote web services. The CQ5 widget library and the query builder framework allow the user interface to be customized to any specific requirement. The rapid-web development framework - Apache Sling - and Eclipse-based development environment makes developers more efficient.