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• Ad Agencies
• Corporate Creative
• Design Studios
• Medical Graphics
• Photo Studios
• Prepress
• Publishers
• Web Design

Digital Storage Manager Overview

Digital Storage Manager is the first intranet search and archive management system for creative workgroups and is poised to radically improve the ability of users to find, tag and archive files. Built on MetaCommunications’ award-winning Virtual Ticket product, Digital Storage Manager enables users to quickly search across their entire network of both online servers and offline repositories to accurately find any file.

Every day creative and prepress professionals are generating thousands of digital files to produce advertisements, brochures, direct mail, product packaging and web pages (among other types of art). We all know too well the frustration involved in recreating work that could have been easily reused from a previous job, if only we were able to find it. Digital Storage Manager provides the solution, ensuring that users never have to recreate work as a result of not being able to find an original.

Digital Storage Manager works in conjunction with standard desktop publishing tools and the Mac OS X Finder and provides real-time indexing of files, the ability to tag files with customizable metadata, and online and offline search and retrieval through one-step archiving and disaster recovery backup processes. Digital Storage Manager works in concert with these tools and does not require any change to an organization’s production workflow to realise tangible and immediate benefits.

Digital Storage Manager will improve user creativity by capturing previous concepts in a searchable repository and making them available for future projects. By eliminating the recreation of work, creative and prepress staff will now more than ever be free to do truly creative work. Archivists and IT staff will also benefit by saving countless hours managing storage, archiving, and retrieving files. With pricing starting as low as £750 for an unlimited user version, Digital Storage Manager will quickly pay for itself.

Product Information

InterSync™ indexing agents watch your online servers and collect metadata in real-time.

Centralized view of files in own Explorer provides users a centralized view of the entire network’s online and offline production files.

Reuse – don’t redo. The old days of endless searches comes to an end with Digital Storage Manager. Easily find needed files and reuse them or their concepts instead of wasting time and energy recreating past work.

Customizable File Tickets allow administrators to create custom metadata forms with design elements, fields, controls, and even scripts.

Full size previews and extensive metadata captured automatically for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, PDF, QuarkXPress, and PowerPoint.

Manage by job allows users to avoid complex directory structures and manage job folders in one simple view.

Lookup metadata from external systems including FileMaker Pro.

Web Server portal provides a simple, yet secure, portal allowing external freelancers, marketing departments, customers, or vendors.

Built-in archive & retrieval workflow. Digital Storage Manager supports two types of archiving workflows – centralized and decentralized.

Notifications can be set up based on events which can alert users when certain activities take place.

One step archiving functionality provides automated archiving and media allocation.

Maintenance free online archive server functionality provides a unique solution for archiving to online servers and creating disaster recovery media in one simple step.

Integration plug-ins for OS X Finder, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress.

Built on enterprise technology, Digital Storage Manager is available at a desktop price.