Extensis Portfolio Reviews

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.

There are many things I like about Portfolio. When evaluating different DAM solutions we found that Portfolio had the features important to us while fitting our budget. DAM systems can be extremely expensive and prohibitive for small businesses.

Having the ability to maintain our basic folder structure with the 'watched folder' setup was important to us since we had our own system of organization. But other features were even more important—like the ability to map metadata to custom fields and include enclosing folder/file names as keywords, for example.

As a user, I find the QuickFind field with predictive search as well as the more detailed search capabilities quite powerful. For our assets and file naming convention, using QuickFind usually is enough to bring up the selection I need for most searches. But, digging deeper and refining a search is easy and intuitive.

Another feature I find very useful when collecting images for a project is to flag of the images I want to select for download. This collects them in the "Flagged Assets" gallery so you can download them in one zipped file instead of downloading each file individually.

Smart galleries are also very handy since you can add photos from your catalog to a smart gallery by simply adding a keyword or phrase, for example, depending on the field used in the saved query.

And, thinking long-term asset management strategy, scalability is important to consider. Portfolio can grow with your business through add-on module licensing. We recently added the Smart Keyword module which has improved our search efficiency and, for the nerd in me, is actually fun to use.

There's one minor user interface issue I've noticed in both the Portfolio 2017 browser and desktop app interface. The default size of the Filtered Fields (right-hand) column is quite narrow. It is about the width of the image thumbnails. I would prefer to have the ability to set my own default column width. Currently, you can drag to expand that column which is good but is not retained at relaunch. That ability may be there and I'm just not aware of it. I have not contacted tech support since it's just a minor annoyance. But, I've always found the Extensis support team to be very helpful and responsive to feature requests

Everyone has their own requirements for asset management software but, for us, Portfolio as been a good solution allowing for efficient ingesting, keywording, searching, and retrieval of assets.

Having the ability to organize, identify, and share our collection of assets with our staff has enabled us to retrieve images more efficiently. This has improved our productivity and streamlined our workflow for our various marketing projects.

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.

The team at Extensis is great to work with. That said, as with any software implementation, make sure you clearly identify your goals and needs so you can compare the fit Portfolio vs. the fit with other DAM products to see which meets your maximum number of goals for a manageable price. I'm not sure whether Portfolio can be used for audio or video files, and while I think there may be a cloud server version different from what we use, it's a whole different feature set and price package, so make sure you know what you're buying.

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.

I'm no longer spending hours to find the relevant digital assets i need. It has also become so much faster to share and deliver files. The usability is high enough that i trust my colleagues and the many volunteers at our festival to use the system with only very limited training.

My experience with the support has not been very good. This is however under elucidation by Extensis, and I trust that it will be sorted out.

File-sharing has been made much easier. Also, we spent much less time finding the assets we need. We have a gallery platform to show off our assets, which was very needed before.

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.

I like that our entire team can upload and share documents easily and efficiently. Portfolio creates an easy way to view assets along with their characteristics, set up virtual stores and cater them to customers.

I don't like that anyone can delete items or move folders accidentally.

If your company utilizes digital assets and you have a need to track, update or eliminate them so everyone is using the same thing, Extensis Portfolio is for you.

We have one centralized location for all corporate digital assets. It eliminates the need for multiple folders on different computers. Tracking who uploads and downloads images is a great feature, too.

We had 62,000-some digital assets when we installed Portfolio in 2013 - mostly photos. I'd been wrangling photos from multiple sources, and our users had been renaming files so they could record the details of an image. Extensis Portfolio made it easy to assign keywords, captions, and other details. I like being able to quickly create a gallery of images and generate a PDF. I also love the ability to batch rename files - or resize. We recently added the NetPublish feature to add the ability to share galleries with others within our network who don't have access to Portfolio.

We now have multiple catalogs (one for marketing photos, one for events, one for archive, one for confidential) and our users want to be able to search across the catalogs. Our users also seem to have problems with search requiring quotes around a name. (Otherwise, a search for John [space] Smith returns all photos tagged with John and all photos tagged with Smith.) I wish that if I chose to move a folder from one catalog to another, it would move the folder itself and not just the assets inside. The zoom is not as clear as the one on Adobe Bridge, so it can be hard to read peoples' name tags, for example, which would be handy for tagging. I have a bad habit of logging in and doing a search, and then closing the browser window and needing to start over, but I don't know how Extensis could fix that. I liked the product better when it had a desktop version - it was easier to link images in InDesign. The web-only option can be frustrating. Lastly, although this is great for photos, I expect there are better products for managing video.

This may not be the most sophisticated product out there. If you're looking for something to manage video, this is probably not the right solution.

We work with photos from across an entire academic health center. Extensis Portfolio helps us find, organize and tag files and is especially helpful when we need to remove a photo from our collection. It's helpful for tagging subjects so we know whether they are a patient, a model, a volunteer, etc. We purchased it to help manage patient photos and releases to make sure we weren't violating HIPAA law.

What I like best is the way Portfolio makes it easy to catalog items, create web galleries, and manage metadata.

What I dislike is performance issues that you see when your catalogs get really big (1 million + assets).

Make sure you ask the right questions to the right people at Extensis when you are planning your system. The posted requirements would work fine for a small deployment, but across an enterprise, you will need a consultation to assure you will have a setup to handle your needs.

Do your homework concerning your actual planned usage. Portfolio will requires more resources than you may think, based upon the information easily available. More than a million assets and hundreds of Netpublish sites require serious dedicated hardware. And don't forget storage.

Portfolio allows for our photographers to quickly catalog their images and provide the customer with their finished images quickly, through a Netpublish site. It allows our archivist to add important metadata to images and publish a library of images for use across the enterprise. It allows various groups to provide access to event photos. The best part of this is it eliminates the duplication of images by keeping all of the images centrally located while allowing the images to be used in multiple ways.

Fast image search and collection. Image download and change. Image gallery sharing via NetPublish. Allows more than 1 catalog. Extensis It is very helpful in answering questions.

There is certainly generally not much to be able to dislike - this ABOUTIE does everything you want at a very very good price. Not the most affordable but don't ever typically the most expensive and regarding all of us the biggest benefit for your money.

I seriously liked the product when I began. It still meets 80% of our needs but is apparently losing some of its luster. Maybe we are not the group it is being built for. Also the upgrades are pretty powerful time wise. Challenging to keep up with in a municipal corporation.

The item worked real well for everyone (a small internal innovative group). It kept a record of our assets was easy to use from an conclusion customer perspective. It saved the great deal of period of time in finding assets each on disk and DVD AND BLU-RAY. Making utilization of the APIs we were capable to existing property with a key phrases and condition check package prior to the asset was accessible.

Ease of use / not cumbersome to use

Great search capabilities

Smart galleries based on search results

NetPublish

Dependence on Flash (a huge drawback)

No support for multi-page PDF documents

Pretty costly

iPhone app was last updated in 2015

No iPad support

While you may be considering other products before purchase, we suggest giving Extensis a closer look as most likely it will meet most of your DAM needs.

We are a design school and due to the volume of digital content we are dealing with on a daily basis it is essential to have a reliable tool to manage all this data. We use Extensis internally in the Administration to archive, share assets and make them available for Programmes Office, PR, Marketing and Information Resources and soon plan to integrate Extensis in our curriculum as we appreciate the need for our students to be better prepared for their future workplace where effective digital asset management and teamwork is key.

I believe the strongest feature for us has been the way it handles keywords, especially the way folder names are automatically added to the files as keywords. On the fly, we can create a quick folder/subfolder structure, dump the files into that folder, and now all of those files are now tagged those folder names.

Please stop using Flash in the web client.

As useful as this tool is, it is still a tool that requires consistent maintenance through a basic understanding of it's core features. It won't magically clean up all of your files at the touch of a button. It's like buying a top of the line camera, without any prior knowledge of photography, and expecting it to produce superior photos on its own. So, before committing to Portfolio, sit down with your team first and go over what everyone thinks about file organization. It's important that everyone is on the same page. Does everyone know what keywords/metadata are? Has anyone worked with music playlists or photo album programs before (it's the same concept)? How do they name their files (Final-Final-v2-for_review.pdf)? The power of Portfolio relies on every single user, and how they can properly tag files, place in correct folders, name files logically, etc. That's all it really takes. Once you have that established, then you're golden.

Previously, our product photography had been organized by folders, and finding images meant scrolling through directories manually. The NetPublish feature alleviated all of that, as we now have the entire library accessible through a simple search engine. Not only did this cut down the time searching for images for ourselves, it has also eliminated all additional requests for us to deliver product images to other departments.

Portfolio is easy to use, and intuitive. The ability to drag and drop images from the database is great, it reduces the number of duplicate files we have on the network. The mobile app allows merchants to take images while they are in the field and load them for others to see.

I do not like that Portfolio is a server based system, I would prefer cloud based. This would allow the other offices around the county and around the world to easily use Portfolio Express.

Decide if a server based or a cloud based DAM is better for you.

Visibility of our assets for all brands. Images and Videos were shot by a certain brand, and others did not have easy access to the files unless they knew the shot was taking place or if you asked the photographer. Our websites and emails are now able to utilize the images, overall improving the look of our brands.

Fast image search and retrieval.

Image download and conversion.

Image gallery sharing via NetPublish.

Allows more than 1 catalog.

Extensis IT is very helpful in answering questions.

Onsite implementation IT are very proficient.

2016 version does not preserve transparency when converting format.

2016 runs in flash.

Take time to organize your assets and streamline the amount of unnecessary assets you have. The cleaner your assets are going in, the less cleanup you have to do later as well as the less assets packs you will need to purchase in order to fully process and display all assets.

Image search-internal and external.

push images to other areas of the enterprise.

publish galleries for business partners.

Business partners can change format and size for their needs.

Our Photo Studio has been using Extensis Portfolio Server for almost 10 years now. We have watched it grow into a formidable value for those who cannot afford a six figure (or more) solution. We could not be happier with the product support we have received from Extensis and it has scaled with us as our number of assets has grown from hundreds of thousands into the millions.

When they eliminated the desktop client I missed some of the user interface features as an Administrator, but the benefits of the web client for the users far outweighed those concerns.

If you are a department of a large company or a SMB, there are not very many choices for an affordable DAM solution. This is one of them, and it is a great product with great support at a reasonable cost of entry and a reasonable cost of product support.

Before we had a DAM it would take days to find assets, now it takes minutes or even seconds. The efficiency boost in turning around photo requests cannot be understated.

Extensis Portfolio is user friendly, with an easy and efficient way to catalog and share content. In the past, we explored many other ways to help store and distribute content, but Portfolio is the best solution for our mission. The support team is helpful, when needed and we appreciate the upgrades with improved functionality. I have used Portfolio at several other work sites, and it continues to best the best overall solution for saving the past work, taking care of the needs of today and moving forward towards the future. We have been able to create and share live images with our team, expanding our social media reach. Maintaining more than one MILLION assets, we count on Extensis Portfolio!

We work together with the fine folks at Extensis on a regular basis to update and improve on a great-working process. Their team has a spirit of cooperation in helping us solve problems. Nothing to dislike about this wonderful solution to our DAM needs!

We highly recommend exploring the world of Extensis Portfolio to help meet any asset management needs.

We serve a wide variety of clients needing dynamic imagery without the problems associated with cataloging one-million+ images. Extensis Portfolio helps us streamline our workflow and allows a thoughtful and effective method of asset management. Overall, we have been able to train easily and empower them to seek out imagery with little to no assistance.

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.

You're gonna find that Portfolio is the easiest to learn and use at a very competitive price among all the DAMs out there now.

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.

Love the ease of finding images at a glance. The fact that the platform looks the same on Windows as is does on a Mac. I like the keywords and PDF download option which makes things really easy.

I think it's very difficult to figure out at first. If you are unfamiiar with font administration and management, it can be a little overwhelming to use. You must have some understanding of font management in order to fully take advantage of their features.

Decide if a server based DAM is better for you.

I managing my digital assets . Extensis all me to access my digital assests in a succinct and organized manner.

When you have over 2 million assets and you want to reuse some past designs, or find an related design, Portfolio helps you do that within seconds. You can keep your assets super organized with very little effort.

The Web portal is ok, but i miss the Desktop app. Understand they are bring that back soon.

You have to engage your end users to enter metadata.

The problem was trying to locate past designs for reuse. It would take hours to find an asset that you were looking for and you had to have an idea of what area of the server to look at. When you have over 15 TB of artwork, you can spend all day looking for files your needing.

Now with Portfolio, you can search by numerous criteria and have your results in seconds. The ROI on this product was less than 6 months.

It's ability to keyword, accept multiple filetypes (haven't found one yet that it doesn't accept), and see the metadata of images.

Kind of clunky, takes a while to load if you have a lot of images. Not intuitive to start, need a lot of experimentation and training. Wish there was a way to share specific folders with others without needing the desktop app. Also some photos do not show a thumbnail without syncing them again, an extra step that takes a long time.

Give yourself time to learn how to use it and it will be an extremely useful tool.

We needed something to hold our 3Tb+ images and videos, and this is able to hold them and easily access them. If the images are keyworded, they're easily searchable, which becomes necessary on jobs that need to be done quickly.

It holds all the photos and design files we need. It helps make them accessible to the whole team as we take on new projects and pick up on older projects. The interface to access the folders it straightforwards and it's not too difficult to find and open the folders you've set up.

The search functionality is very difficult and frustrating. It's really important in a large database of files to be able to find what you need. There's multiple ways to search - a generic search and a more advanced search. The generic search doesn't seem to work at all. I literally have thought I was missing files, only to discover them using the same search but in the advanced tab (even without setting any fancy settings). I also really dislike how the application will attempt to autoload a library of images as soon as you login. I often don't need access to the main library but I still need to wait for it to load before I can use the navigation to find and open my folders I'm looking for.

The program has all the features you need. However it struggles to use them effectively and can be clunky and difficult to use. The main issue for me is the search functionality.

It does it's basic job well - holding and storing all the photos we need on a server that can be accessed by my team.

Extensis was implemented prior to my arrival, and the account team was very good at providing resources to me and my team to learn how our integration worked and to manage the application on our own. It is also pretty intuitive once you understand the basics and we are able to allow departments to manage their assets on their own with little assistance from IT.

A few users have complained about search parameters, but we have seen that improve in the product over the last couple of upgrades

We had the same image stored hundreds of places on our network. With tens of thousands of images, it meant we were wasting 4-5 TB's of storage. With Extensis, we have improved workflow and accessibility for our web, ecomm and marketing teams.

I like overall storage capacity as we have several hundred thousand images that need to be stored. I also like the ability for end-users to create public galleries and the presets options for downloads. There are several other new features that make overall maintenance easier, but really too many to write out here.

The biggest issues that I have are:

- Not being able to see more items in the grid view (thumbnails are too large)

- Not being able to create presets that would work for both horizontal and vertical images (ie, I would like to be able to create one preset that downsizes to a fixed height but has the images maintain the aspect ratio for the width. Currently, a hard height and width must be provided).

We have been able to make images available to more groups based on security access. Presets allow the users to resize images without the assistance of media/IT.

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.

It's easy to use from both the librarian's perspective and the user's perspective. Administration is pretty easy and the GUI to do this is very nice.

Sometimes when the metadata import fails the error messages aren't enough information to figure out why it failed.

Another frustration is that when we import metadata we no longer have the option to apply metadata only to items in an isolated location, it applies the imported metadata to the entire catalog by default. This can result in some unintentional metadata overwrites.

Make sure you decide ahead of time on your assets folder structure, naming conventions, keywords, and metadata requirements before you put your first asset into the system.

Centralization of assets in an easily accessible location. We no longer have to pull CDs off the shelf, or sort through poorly organized folders on multiple file shares to find our assets.

I like that I'm able to organize all photo and video assets into one central location and have the ability to distribute only selected items to clients. I also like the ease with which I can add/update metadata for the assets. And I love the new video playback in Portfolio 2016.

I have been using Portfolio since 2008. I became very accustomed to using the desktop client. What I loved about that (which is something that the current Porfolio doesn't offer) is that I was able to see ALL assets in a given catalog on ONE page. Now I am only able to see a maxium of 500 assets per page. Now that Portfolio is 100% net-based, it is way slower than the old desktop client. I also don't like that NetPublish does not offer the option for user to download smaller sizes (they way you can at Shutterstock.com, for example). We use large high-resolution photos for print marketing, but these huge files are not good for our sales team who insert JPEG files into Word documents. In the old version, they would copy/paste the image from the details page, which is no longer allowed. If they could download smaller files, the reporting function for which images have been downloaded would be a lot more accurate.

Be aware that you can only download ONE size (the original file) when downloading photos via NetPublish. It would be great if Portfolio NetPublish offered download of multiple file sizes (height and width) since the user have various needs ranging from low-res for the web to high-res for print.

We use Portfolio NetPublish to distribute our photo/video assets to our 54 offices around the world and to travel agents, press, and media. We would have a much harder time doing this without Portfolio. The benefit of having all our assets in one central location from which they can be easily distributed is vital to our business.

Easy navigation and user experience, batch processing and tagging capabilities and NetPublish is a next level. Majority of requests that I receive on a daily basis involve the sending of images and/or logos and NetPublish has made that part of my job even easier.

Besides being able to set up NetPublish sites that can expire in a specific timeframe without having to go into the main Admin pages, I really don't have any other issues with the product.

If you need a photo asset management system that is easy to use, learn and teach, Portfolio is your answer.

Archiving and tagging a large database of images and logos that our association owns. Creating a more functional and searchable group of assets that we can share to our stakeholders as well as for use internally. NetPublish has been a game changer in making all expectations come a reality and sharing our assets with ease.

Portfolio is a great search tool, I love the way it uses your keywords to intuitively search in the 'quick find' panel. Its also great that you can collect images and create PDFs quickly and easily. A pleasure to use.

The only problems I have are to do with inserting the description and punctuation. Portfolio seems to dislike paragraph/line breaks in the description and it takes ages to go back and add them in again - it takes two attempts - you cant just cut and paste a description which is annoying. We also had some problems with punctuation when transferring over our old catalogues but to be fair to extensis, they came in and took lots of time and effort to sort it out.

Portfolio has completely changed the way we search our databases and there is lots of scope to roll it out to other areas of the practice. I am developing new databases for the rest of the practice to use.

Portfolio is a terrific mid-price DAM system that has many features of systems that cost three or four times as much. We like the ease of creating custom metadata templates, the ability to seamlessly and easily publish to the web and the ease of management.

The admin console occasionally kicks back errors and we have seen some issues when upgrading from certain versions. Nothing major, minor annoyances, nothing more.

Extensis provides excellent support and professional services to this looking to customize.

The ability to centralize assets, dramatically decrease search times and customize searches has led to an increase in productivity and a shortening of work cycles. The ability to share selected assets with clients has also been a real benefit.

We recently upgraded to the current version of Extensis and I really enjoy the new look on the user interface. The ability to download and send feedback to the rest of our admins is a helpful feature, especially since we have so many active users who need to access photos. I also enjoy the separation feature for photos, videos and audio clips. It is handy for us since we have a lot of different multimedia files to maintain.

One feature I miss from the old version is the ability to have the list of clickable categories on the left side of the home screen. This was very useful for our users, especially since sometimes the photos were not thoroughly tagged making images difficult to fine by search.

We are solving the problem of photo sharing and storage for our organization. Benefits of Extensis are the tagging efficiency and the ease of batch uploads.

We really like the watch folder and auto ingest/keywording. Also the NetPublish feature is critical for our companies workflow. We also find the ability to add custom fields to really helpful when it comes to first organizing and cataloging our assets and second to the end user searching and finding what they are looking for.

This might seem silly but I don't like how you have to select a range of photos in order to preview them using the next/previous arrow keys. A more intuitive user experience would be if you preview a single photo in an album but then hit the next/previous arrows it would then show you the next or previous photo, without having to previously select them before previewing. This is how the Apple Operating System works when viewing a file/photo in the finder view.

Organize your assets ahead of time and take advantage of the auto keywording feature that will apply keywords based off the folder names/structure.

Centralizing, standardizing and sharing thousands of assets with a company that is spread across the nation. We have benefited from great accuracy in image use and less time/hassle spent finding the appropriate image.

We have been so happy with Portfolio's ability to quickly create asset derivatives and to securely share our assets both internally and externally through the use of NetPublish. We are able to implement this tool across most of the departments in our institution to help to solve asset management, discovery, and access issues. Users are typically quick to learn allowing for easy adoption throughout the organization

We often would like to have a work space or gallery that could be access across all the catalogs, but currently galleries are catalog specific. I would also like there to be a more obvious copyright filter on the previews or in the metadata. If copyright notices could show up in red or if there could be some easy way for individuals to know at a quick glance which images were approved images for publication or reproduction, it would reduce a lot of confusion.

Portfolio has been an easy for users to adopt and allows us to control who has access to particular groups of assets. It's easy, from an admin perspective to control these permissions and the regular updates are easy to install, maintain.

We are organizing, quality checking, and creating all of our derivative for our assets across the institution using this one tool. It has allowed multiple departments to jump on board with learning and using one tool to making it much easier and more streamlined process for employees searching for assets, or providing access for publication.

Portfolio is a complete package for any company needing a reliable Asset Management tool, every major update just makes it better and more through without complexity.

I don't really have any dislikes anymore - Extensis keeps ahead of the game for me. It seems every time I find something I don't like its fixed in the next major upgrade. I no longer keep a wishlist.

Before you look at other applications - try Portfolio first, you will save lots of time.

Giving staff members access to company purchased royalty free assets solved our problem with people just pulling items from the internet that are not licensed. We no longer have to be concerned about the legal issues. We are currently building an in-house corporate video library that will be a huge time saver for the company.

The team are very proactive and supportive. The product itself offers massive capability off-the-shelf with even further potential once you start looking at integration and expansion. It can be a massively powerful tool for our clients.

Nothing as of yet. We have only experienced good things with the solution to date, with our team adding value through customised development.

A highly flexible and performant solution for digital asset management. We regularly recommend this to clients.

We integrate Portfolio into our clients' websites and have found it to massively improve productivity around asset management, but also to increase the business' optimisation and usage of these assets. Through implementation of this solution clients have been able to realise new business streams, digitise large volumes of assets and better manage their brands.

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.

Extensis has done a lot of work to this product over the years. We started using the product over 15 years ago. Excellent at want it does. Worked really well at keeping the filesystem and the database in sync. It's ability to "archive" assets when removed from the file system was of great help to us.

It's ability to customize sites were a bit of a chore. If you wanted something that strayed from the templates you need you use their APIs. The API was pretty well documented. But it was not something the casual user could do.

This product worked real well for us (a small internal creative group). It kept track of our assets was easy to use from an end user perspective. It saved a great deal of time in finding assets both on disk and DVD. Using the APIs we were able to present assets with a terms and condition check box before the asset was available.

The application is fast, has a clean interface and the staff have been extremely accessible during our research and implementation phases. The core functionality of the software is easy to learn and key features are never more than a click or two away. Also find the help menu relevant and useful.

Some elements of the application still use Flash but apparently that is being phased out in the next update to full HTML5. Not much else to dislike about the application.

We were using a clunky install of TRIM asset management that was slowly grinding to a halt. Our business is a mixture of PCs and Macs which all have access to the same 'asset management experience'. We create a lot of project specific assets that need usage, permissions and versions tracked; we now have that covered.

Portfolio is really easy to set up on the server side with minimal knowledge required. From the user end the interface is very straight forward and user friendly. Organizing your assets and accessing them can be done with ease.

The only thing we dislike is having to wait for new features. But generally between versions there isn't a lot of wait time.

We are making the process in which we create, utilize and deliver images and creative assets to the business and customers much more streamlined. Portfolio has been a great way to put in safeguards to protect our assets by insuring they are in the right location and quickly accessible by a simple search.

Theres lots of functionality but its not overwhelming ultimately its very simple to use.

Watch folders are great.

Search is fast.

The option to reveal a source file (ctrl click - reveal in finder) doesn't seem to be in the new version in the browser, whereas it was on the desktop version. Perhaps it is possible but i haven't discovered it yet.

Essential software for anyone dealing with a huge amount of digital assets.

Just being able to file efficiently and find what i need fast.

The ability to search specific folders, the keyword search and also file formats etc. It's awesome to find what you need on a large server.

Using the web version it is disappointing you can't open a file from there, but at least you can see the server path.

The keyword search is great, it's awesome it pulls in the metadata of photos so it makes searching for a certain type photo easy.

Our marketing requestors can find PDFs and artwork on their own without having to bother graphic designers. It saves a lot of time to do actual work and not waste time looking for a photo or file.

Integration of all EXIF, IPTC and Adobe metadata. Integration with LDAP server for password security.

Scrolling via a trackpad is too sensitive.

It is important to configure the product correctly for the start.

Pay the extra to have on site consultation set up.

Have a DAM plan in place so you can hit the ground running.

Work with your IT department to maximize performance.

We have opened the vault on images across campus, this has freed up my time to make images not search for them for clients.

The server portion installs easy enough, it was a bit of a resource hog in our VMware environment. The client portion works well enough. Our main issue was in getting the end users to be consistent about tagging photos. Our biggest problem was that it uploading images always falls to an intern.

Expensive, would have liked to see a better non profit discount.

Make sure you get a buy in from your end users. Don't let the job fall to the low man on the totem pole.

DAM. It helped us organize our images in a way we can use other products if needed.

Embed and extract metadata. Export originals and converted images and metadata in reusable formats. It is reasonably priced.

Flash based. When the took away the desktop client it was much harder to do things you used to do. Also the netpubkish part become harder for non-coders.

Management of faculty media collections for teaching

Easy to upload, download, move files and setting up users and catalogues a breeze. One point access for everything

Currently the media share websites are more work for me. I used to have one url our staff shared with clients. All they needed was a unique password to access their specific files. Leaving all other files hidden, now we have to set up individual sites for each branch. Not friendly for my type of use. The search is not as robust and at times people are telling me its not working... It is making it hard to find what you are looking for, even if images are well tagged.

I really liked the product when I started out. It still meets 80% of our needs but seems to be loosing some of its shine. Maybe we are not the audience it is being built for. Also the upgrades are pretty aggressive time wise. Hard to keep up with in a municipal corporation.

This is a central location for all our media files across the corporation. This tool is to reduce duplication, help with expiry management and help to ensure we all have access to the best media files available.

A easy way to organise your images that can be shared easily with your colleagues.

Can take a bit of time to set up if you don't know what you are doing.

Design your system on paper first, start small and be prepared to make changes.

Being able to share 250,000 images dating back to the 1990's with 100 staff quickly.

Removing the need to have complex system of folders and making life easier for me.

the system has full active directory intergration to allow single sign in. it has many features allowing businesses to use it as a great asset server and allow customers to view products being created. for anyone looking for a asset management system with great features i would strongly recommend they try Portfolio

the system is complicated to get setup may features available that you may miss while setting up the system your self. but with assistance from extensis support you will have it up and running in no time.

i would recommend to any user to request that extensis help setup the system. there are many features that you may miss when doing a first setup. The expert help really does help in the long run and enables the server to run more stable.

with the portfolio is allowed us to catalog many thousands of customer images and allow them to get access to view them. it also allows for cross company access to be able to download stored images for use

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.

Great visual driven tool for digital asset management.

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.

The new interface of the web client has gained much in aesthetics and relative ease of use.

I sorely miss the standalone Desktop client of earlier versions with infinite scrolling and drag and drop capabilities.

For multi-catalogue searching this is not the proper DAM tool. User interface is intuitive, design is aesthetic and customized branding options should be sufficient for most users. Page load times can be slow, make sure your system/servers are optimized for best possible performance on web client.

Collaboration is greatly improved in the current version, sharing assets across an internal team has greatly improved our overall workflow.

Easy for users to use. Our Designers not intimated with loading or searching functions which helps the in house helpdesk.

On occasion we still fight the browser differences fight where we know all is functioning properly but users has an outdated or incompatibility issue with the browser they are using.

Affordable, reliable, easy even for your more challenging users.

We can now reach back nearly 10 years to check our archives for the components of products we have designed. Reusing these ASSETS when appropriate can potentially save us a ton of money. Being a fashion oriented business we are constantly redesigning.

Portfolio has an intuitive UI for non-technical users, but provides our team the ability to get very granular in how we administer our assets.

Automatic syncs aren't always reliable and there can be some discrepancies on what's on the server vs. what appears in Portfolio.

We needed a digital asset management system that integrated with MS active directory that would allow us to assign privileges to catalogs based on international regions. We've now moved off of using shared drives and Dropbox for storage and sharing.

As the IT support specialist at my company, I appreciate the ease of installation on both the server and client ends. The priority support has been invaluable and saved us in numerous binds. Portfolio interface and functionality has been improving with each and every release.

Having to update database file versions now and then when new releases come out.

Forget the rest, this is the asset management software you're looking for.

Centralized location for all of our assets. This has allowed users from numerous sites across the country to access those assets in one location instead of having to deal with version and location conflicts.