Extensis Reviews & Product Details

I work in a small office but needed a better overall graphics asset management system than Apple photos could provide because I also need to manage documents and other things. Portfolio for that bill perfectly.

There is a bit of a learning curve, but not dissimilar to any other DAM out there. I think portfolio of one of the easiest to learn.

As I said, organizing and cataloging many different kinds of assets from photos and video clips to finished documents, logos and other graphics... It all makes my job earlier and easier to find files I need when a customer request them.

While the catalog of our repository is updated with library automation software, Portfolio provides a visual representation of our collection that is easily searchable and that can be shared with other departments in our building. I particularly appreciate having the capacity to make batch edits and develop PDF's with selected images. Being able to upload photos in a variety of formats (ex. tif, jpg) to the same space without having to convert the images to the same format increases our work efficiency.

I wish that uploading an image involved filling out a form with description and keywords during the asset add rather than doing these things after tracking the image down.

Extensis Portfolio makes it so much easier for the archive to share images/information with other departments in the building. With EP it is possible for my coworkers to interact with the archive while I am away and without submitting a specific request to me.

Portfolio's search tools are great. The automated tagging tool we added on has made the search tools even more useful by applying useful tags based on photo content without anyone on our team having to spend time manually tagging the images.

I wish it were easier/more affordable to access the Portfolio application and server via the cloud, and work remotely using the application and photos catalogued in it. Even when our VPN is working well for other purposes, it's very slow to use Portfolio over the VPN. Also, I wish we could dynamically resize image previews within the application interface. Lastly, occasionally when a search returns a large number of results, after I scroll through the first few dozen results, the result of the result set's preview images fail to load.

Our company gathers thousands of images annually, and we need an efficient way to index the images so we can retrieve them to use for marketing purposes at appropriate times. Portfolio cuts the time it takes to find the right image to a fraction of what it would be without the software.

What we liked best about the whole experience with Extensis, is the amazing support we have gotten through the whole process of getting everything set up. The documentation of the software is well written and easy to understand. Our main contact person Jeff has been phenomenal with answering any questions we have had.

It wasn't as easy to set up the catalog files, and get everything ported over. Though that could be just how we went about using the system. Since we always find a different way to use a software than most.

The business problem's we will be solving is the amount of time it takes to search for a single file in our old system. We can not search for images by file name, or add keywords to get those images to pop up. The other struggle we had were the issues with cross platform's Windows and Mac's have a different naming convention. Some files would end up looking very odd between the two. The benefits that we are realizing is the software is easy to use, we can control and manage user's and all around it will be easier to search for the files.

Easy to add assests and metadata. Customers can access files with simple searches.

Limited customization of NetPublish, (client website).

Customers are able to search, view and download images from our Photography Archives. Storing and organizing assets,

Portfolio is easy to integrate with/ It's Artificial Intelligence Auto-tagging saves huge time and resource for our clients, adds consistency and ensures that users find the images they need regardless of how they search. The Extensis staff are great, responsive adn supportive. They have a similar ethos to After Digital and are very customer focused whilst remaining attentive partners.

There is generally not much to dislike - this DAM does everything you need at a very good price. Not the cheapest but by no means the most expensive and for us the best value for your money.

We use Portfolio to offer our clients easy access to their digital assets. We use our own Connector to drive these assets into the front end CMS of the websites we build, creating beautifully designed, user-centered, mobile first sites but with the power of Portfolio to drive the content to the right page at the right time for the user to experience. Tye main issues our clients face is the accurate cataloguing and then retrieval of their digital assets.

The flexibility of Extensis Portfolio is really what works well for us. We can use existing workflows and pipelines that we have, existing servers and tools, and keep moving forward.

The web-based interface is nice, and has worked well for us, though there are times where we miss the client installs and the desktop applications that used to be available. It is a tradeoff, the web interface provides more flexibility and accessibility to more people, but the performance is sometimes diminished.

We use Portfolio to manage all aspects of our digital asset management strategy, and have seen large efficiencies gained through the use of the tool. It helps to streamline and simplify many of our logistics.

There are multiple things that I like, but Portfolio continues folder Autosync is one of the features we rely more in our environment. The other big plus for us is the graphic and visual interface of Portfolio.

Portfolio NetPublish is one of those tools that never quite worked for our environment. It doesn't necessarily mean the functionality is not there, it just never worked for our workflow.

We have a huge amount of files generated and maintain by our graphics department. Artists are not the best at managing files so Portfolio help us keep our digital assets organized and managed.

Easy to add files, easy to find. We can download full-size images immediatelly after we have find it in catalog. We use Portfolio during several years and we like it! Extensis support team helps us with all our questions. Watch folders are very helpful, just add it and forget about it! Application can recoginize multiple filetypes.

Desktop client was very convenient for users, we hope Extensis will return it in the future.

Now our creative studio catalogue all works we done and we can find any files in a seconds and use it again if we need.

i like the online publishing option, it saves me many hours of searching and sending assets.

user manual is huge and sometimes not very intuitive

I'm using the online publishing capabilities to allow employees from around the globe to have immediate access to our main product and marketing imagery.