WB

Wade B.

Global Marketing / Digital marketing, Social media, Brand management

Real Estate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/18/2017

"JLL Brand hub and Brandworkz evolution"

4/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

Brandworkz have proved to be a great partner for JLL. Even with our large size, the fit with the Brandworkz team is a good one. It has been important for us to have a “customer built solution” for our requirements – and this has been well facilitated with the smaller but more dynamic approach that the Brandworkz core team and their development arm have provided. We do feel that the Brandworkz team really “know” our system as well as any other they work with.

And I have to say we like the recently upgraded “user interface” very much. It’s intuitive and very much more in line with our needs for the future. The experience we have now is dynamic and custom built just for JLL – with far more flexibility than what we could achieve without a web based platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

There isn’t much we dislike about Brandworkz. We now have a platform that is agile and responsive, which all employees can access at the drop of a hat (thanks to SSO configuration) to get the core learnings and assets they require for their day to day communications in JLL. The key thing is that we now can live and breathe the brand while working with key staff and external stakeholders on a broad global scale.

We are however looking forward to some updates in the "Reporting" modules - with a better dashboard experience there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brandworkz:

We’ve had a great experience with Brandworkz where they have helped us along our brand journey, hand in hand. I would certainly strongly advise anyone who wants a bit more than an “off the shelf” product for their brand experience - to take a look at what they have to offer.

There are some key areas we really want to develop and with the product offerings (such as web to print technologies) from the Brandworkz team, and we feel we are partnered with a company that is looking to the future as much as we are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brandworkz solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to have one global touch point for our brand – where all of our key staff can come to learn about JLL and find all the resources they need to externalise our brand and its positioning. We also want to enable some business partners and creative agencies to easily and quickly learn the JLL brand - so they can work closer and smarter with us. And of course being a global firm with need it to be always on and cloud based wherever in the world our people are.

We are seeing the benefits of time and efficiency savings when it comes to educating both employee and brand partners by using our brand hub as the first port of call. We also have removed “duplication” of brand sites and repositories around our global network saving valuable resource and digital “real estate” space - if you like. And with the current ability to value a “brand” becoming more and more achievable this has proved a crucial part of that journey – having a brand hub is helping us prove brand value for sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AW

Anthony W.

Head of Brand and Events

Sports

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/1/2017

"A DAM solution that I keep coming back to…"

5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

Brandworkz has been a solution that I have procured in the last 3 companies I have worked for (BAR Honda F1 Team, Red Bull Racing and Expo 2020). I was first introduced to this DAM whilst working for an agency and have then always insisted on using this product. Brandworkz is a very simple, easy to use DAM product that works well in the managing of our brand assets. The user interface is clean and intuitive to use and ensures we hold the latest version of all our assets. The search function is quick, intelligent and accurate which makes everyone’s life easier. We never have duplications of the same file. We have multiple versions of our logo in multi languages. The simple-to-answer questions in the Logo Finder make it very easy to get the right logo in the right format. We use Workflow to manage the approval process which has reduced a huge amount of emailing and manual sign offs which makes our brand more consistent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

There isn’t a huge amount to dislike about Brandworkz, it does what it says on the tin. The new DAM User-interface is another step forward so we’re looking forward to seeing it being rolled out across the rest of the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brandworkz:

I recommend looking at Brandworkz if you want to control your digital and brand assets. Their software is industry-leading and they have a great understanding of the importance of DAM. Their roadmap is well set and they have some very interesting new features coming out. The product is very flexible and configurable so if you want a site that works for your business or have special requirements, then Brandworkz will be able to provide you with a solution. They’re also a great team to work with! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brandworkz solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have seen many major benefits after integrating Brandworkz into our MarTech stack. We share our brand assets with several international partners and by giving them access to Brandworkz, we have greatly reduced the amount of time and resources needed to manage these requests. The Workflow feature has also given us great control over the various marketing activities other stakeholders are initiating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE

Verified User in Entertainment

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/31/2017

"A strong relationship"

5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

The team at Brandworkz behind the work. It is such a pleasure to work with a team that tends to your needs promptly; always eager to solve any queries we have and work with us to constantly looking at how we can improve things for our user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

Even though i understand the team at Brandworkz is small and highly productive, it sometimes take a very long time for certain problems to be tackled and that can slow down the process of our work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brandworkz solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Brandworkz as a repository of all our brand and programme assets that get used by global marketing teams and the PR team. We can upload individual assets to be packaged up by the different territories, or we can show them already packaged. This helps with brand consistency and time saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AM

Verified User in Medical Devices

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/1/2017

"My Brandworkz experience"

5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

I think my favorite part of working with Brandworkz is their professionalism and willingness to go the extra mile to meet the needs of their customers. If there is a feature that is beneficial to the customer they always try to incorporate it or discover another way to meet the customers needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

There is really nothing to dislike, possibly not having 24 hour customer service I guess. I really have no complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SW

Sophie W.

Marketing Manager

Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2016

"Brandworkz made our organisation more time efficient and improved our brand consistency and image"

5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

Brandworkz is a fantastic tool and provides many benefits to our business, since the launch of Brandworkz in our organisation we have found all users have taken to the portal extremely well and can now successfully source all of the information needed. What I like best about Brandworkz is that it is simple to manage and is straight forward, the excellent support from the team is extremely appreciated and any questions or problems are dealt with quickly. The portal always works well and has been brilliant for our needs and our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

There is very little i dislike about Brandworkz, its a great tool! It would be great to have a feature where you could send emails to people when assets have been added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brandworkz:

If you are looking to improve your brand image and consistency and save time then Brandworkz is a brilliant investment, Gone are the days of sending out datasheets and images all day and my time is used more efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brandworkz solving and how is that benefiting you?

The number one problem we are solving is time efficiency and productivity, before Brandworkz, I would spend at least 2 hours of my day sending customers and staff images and technical documents. Since the implementation of Brandworkz I never get asked for anything as everyone can access everything they need when they need it.

Brand consistency has been improved majorly both internally and externally which works wonders for our brand image as everyone is using the correct templates, logos and colours because they have access to this information 24/7 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AB

Aron B.

Senior Graphic Designer

Design

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/8/2017

"Resolves all the problems associated with brand consistency and asset management."

5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

All our most important brand assets are in one manageable place. Remote access to editable branded templates is a great time saver for the brand team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

Nothing to dislike. If there was, it would be considered and quickly acted on by the friendly, helpful and professional Brandworkz team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC

Alex C.

Marketing Services Manager

Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/26/2016

"Digital Asset Management... with bells on."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

The Brandworkz team are always striving to improve their software based on client feedback - the relationship we have with them is all about how they can help us and how we use the system, which is a total breath of fresh air, even though the software already provides most of what we need fresh out of the box, as it were. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

It's not really a gripe about the system - it has so much potential that I worry about having enough time and resource to use it to it's full capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Francesca P.

Global Brand Manager

Medical Devices

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/7/2016

"Helpful Tool for Internal and External Company Users"

4/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

I find the system very easy to use and I've have had excellent feedback about it from our users. People enjoy discovering the wealth of assets we have, as well as sharing their own. Its ease of use and successful adoption by our internal teams led to a further partnership with Brandworkz and the launch of an external partner portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

Waiting sometimes for new features to be developed in their road map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brandworkz:

We won over our users as soon as we launched the Brandworkz system. It is more user friendly than anything we've tried before. And we've requested new things and requested changes and the Brandworkz team works to make them happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brandworkz solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use our external partner portal to share marketing materials, brand assets and brand education materials with our third-party distributors globally. The system is truly a time saver. Productivity has increased as users can quickly access assets faster and have tools to market our brand downstream effectively and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nate S.

Marketing Director. Solution Architect. VP of Brandworkz Delivery for North America

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/17/2016

"A fantastic brand center/DAM for organizations in any industry. This system has everything you need."

5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

Brandworkz has a very clean layout & interface, making it intuitive for end users. It's also super simple for any admin to configure and change everything from the skin via the skinning wizard, to large & small metadata sets, to editing content and layouts on the page via their WYSIWYG editor. The brand guideline/style guide pages help keep everyone on brand, the logo finder virtually eliminates email requests asking for logos, and the dynamic InDesign template editing tools let our end users self-service with changes to approved image & text fields on ads & other print materials we upload to the system. Workflow for managing simple approval process & asset creation processes is nice too as it stores & tracks everything along the way right there in the DAM. The workflow integration with ProofHQ on-screen annotation makes the creative review process even more streamlined. Their showcase feature lets you present collections of assets in a really clean & effective way, and the reports give great insight into how the system is being used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

Brandworkz doesn't offer any tools for quickly sharing assets to social media sites (i.e. direct share to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) but we don't have a ton of use cases for that particular feature, though it would be nice on occasion. In the past it was also a bit slow to transcode image previews, but ever since they've moved all of their hosting infrastructure over to Amazon AWS at the end of 2015 that has no longer been an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brandworkz:

I would definitely recommend taking a serious look at Brandworkz if you are looking for a brand center / DAM. You won't be disappointed by it & their team knows the software inside and out...the CEO was the guy who built the original Brandworkz software back in the late 1990's and still stays involved in the code and the feature road map. You'll have top talent guiding you through your implementation. It's simple to manage and make changes with no coding knowledge required. They keep their clients very involved in the roadmap decisions and frequently release features that were requested along with new features we never realized we wanted & needed. They are also very willing to engage in conversations & plans for customizations based on your needs, though we haven't gone down that path ourselves just yet. Get a demo of the software and you'll see very quickly what it's capable of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brandworkz solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our company, Spinakr, is the place where "marketing, branding and technology come together"...which for us represents our services of building custom websites, apps & software, implementing brand centers and DAM's, and providing branded merchandise & company stores for businesses around North America. We use Brandworkz to store and centralize all of our own digital brand, sales & marketing assets (logos, images, content, videos, etc) as well as centralize and store assets and content we create for our clients (i.e web design PSDs, HTML files, InDesign templates, videos, etc). Creating a brand center and centralizing all of these assets gives everyone on our team immediate access to important assets without having to call or text or IM or email our marketing team asking for them and waiting for them. Our process is much more streamlined, and we are re-using assets much more effectively. The dynamic InDesign editing tools provide self-service capabilities that also minimize requests to our marketing team for simple changes to templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UA

Verified User in Architecture & Planning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/28/2016

"A system we find easy to use"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Brandworkz?

Nice on-brand interface and simple navigation. The best feature our brand site has is the ability to download an image or video in lots of different formats just by clicking on the 'download' dropdown menu. We configured the drop down for our own company use eg images need to be a certain size for our website or for our tender documents so when you click on that option the system automatically downloads the image in that size and format. It is the same for videos. I like that you can scroll through every page of multi-page documents in the system without having to download the document first. And that videos play full screen straight from the brand site, again without having to download. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brandworkz?

I haven't encountered any problems with our brand site yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brandworkz:

A system that is very easy to use by non-technical people like me. It looks great and works well. The Brandworkz team I've met at user group meetings are very nice and very competent too. I would highly recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brandworkz solving and how is that benefiting you?

We do a lot of sales pitches and tenders and we have people located in different offices who need access to pitch documents, images, case studies, pricing sheets etc. Having all these items stored centrally in the cloud has meant that we are producing these documents more quickly and more accurately. It also means we don't have problems sending large documents on email as we upload them to our 'work in progress' section on the site for other team members to review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.