Need Asset Management

I'm in search of an asset management software for my company, we have about 50 Mac users, 3 Xserve's, 3 RAID's. I want something that I can use to scan the network for Mac Devices (and/or Windows) and provide information about the devices that we can use for asset management, I'm pretty open to whatever you can provide me.
Thanks in advance.
Ayokunle

Altiris' Client Management Suite has supported OS X as a client for several years now
If that's the case, it would be nice of them to actually tell people on their datasheet.
I always question a company's intent when they can't be bothered to include their Mac client support in their sales propaganda. What do they think they're going to lose by adding it? Are all those Windows users going to suddenly stop using their product just because it supports Macs too? I doubt it.

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Hello,
I am looking for ideas/help. I currently have a BB Z10 (10.1.0.2039) with Verizon Wireless. The company has a BB Enterprise Server for older devices (I previously was on that). I bought a Z10 several months ago and have been connecting to the corporate network through Lotus Traveler. They do not have and will not implement a BB 10 Enterprise Server. Some in IT informed that if the company used the BB software they could manage all devices..... not accepted.
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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
BB10 devices have the ability to run .apk apps via special methods. Development Mode is used only for installing the app...not for normal operation. So you install (side-load) the app in Development Mode, then go back to normal mode for normal operations.
If a .bar file for the .apk app already exists somewhere, you can side load it to the BB10 device and see if it works or not. If there is not yet any .bar file, there is an app called SideSwype that can convert many .apk apps to .bar and install it to your device.
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As an asset management tool it should manage all images but only adjust raw

Is Aperture an image management tool, raw converter/workflow tool, or both?
Let it be both! Restrict what is is ALLOWED to ADJUST, but manage it all.
When I do a shoot, I start out with 300-1000 RAW images.
By the time I am finished with the client I will have narrowed the pile of image assets down to 20% of the original RAW files, JPGs of all of those, AND 10% of the selected originals will also end up as layered PSD/TIFF files. But when I go back in and want to open a PSD file then why not allow just that Then save it back as the same or a version..
OR when I tell it to open a PSD file in CS2 it will as "make a version(full or flat), or edit original?" and of course a "don't ask me again for this format" check box!
So why not leave the layered PSD/TIFF files alone and NOT allow them to be adjusted, only managed?
Think about it, IF I want to adjust my multilayered PSD file I will most definitely only trust that to CS2 where I retain full creative control over the layers, and I can output a version if I want!
IF I am crazy enough to feel the need to use the shallow tools of Aperture to tweak the brightness/level/curves/saturation/WB/etc/etc of a flattened COPY of my layered PSD file then I will make a copy and drag it into Aperture. By shallow I mean that CS2 and layers has much more control than the single layer tools of Aperture.
As an option leave it open as a configuration choice in the prefs... "Adjustable image formats: RAW, JPG" and even on a per image basis, right-click--> image status-->Adjustable or Unadjustable.
Yes, I sent this idea off to Apple!

Moki,
Right there with you. Here's my rough scenario:
1. I shoot 500 RAWs.
2. Cull down to 100 keepers.
3. Client culls down to their 50 selects.
4. Anywhere from 25-50 become layered PSD files, depending on the presentation the client wants (sizes, packages, borders, special effects, etc.).
5. In addition to those 25, there may be *completely new* composites (PSD's) created from combinations of the 25 -- this isn't a version of one of the original masters -- it is a *completely new* image that Aperture needs to manage in the project (so import of PSD without flattening and/or allowing Photoshop to Save-As into the Aperture library is a must).
I'd even add to your request about allowing adjustments. It would be totally cool if the adjustment tools were context-sensitive, enabled when working with an image (like RAW or JPG) where Aperture can adjust, and disabled when working with an image (like layered PSD or TIFF) that it won't adjust.
Anyway, I have complete confidence that eventually, the RAW conversion will be fixed, so even though that's an immediate glaring issue, it doesn't seem to me to be the long-term workflow killer. Being able to traverse this editing stage of the workflow with Photoshop is crucial. Without this, its basically
a complete project export after the initial organization stage, and the rest of the workflow is either managed entirely in another tool, or a complete pain to bring back into Aperture for output, which leaves files strewn everywhere for backup and archiving.
Brad

Assets management and inventory Management.

This may be simple situation often encountered in industries. The need is to manage an item as an asset as well as manage inventory functions of purchasing, receiving, physical inventory and issue of these assets to customers as inventory materials. The materials are also needed to accounted for depreciation functions.
Can experts throw some light on the kind of best practice process flows that we could often consider.
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Good questions: I think I need to explain the full scenario.
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1. Forecast the reqiuirement of the materials according the different sizes. For example : small, medium and large. Each of these sizes could come from different vendors with different model numbers, but are groupd under the sizes.
2. Based on the forecast probably using APO, the materials are purchased in ERP for these sizes. But we still need to carry the vendor model number as part of the attributes of the materisl. Here there seems to be three options.
- One is to use Material classification and use capture the model number of the vendor.
- second is to utilise the Form Fit Function functionality of SAP IS for A&D.
- Third potential option might be to use Batch management and capture manufacturer number in batch characteristic.
Once the materials are purchases these are settled to assets and then there is a need to manage their inventory as the requirement is to utilise Logistic execution functionality including sales, delivery and goods issue functionality. In addition the materials also need to be transferred between different SAP plant locations.
There is also a challenge to manage the requirement as more often, the need is for just the size. but sometime there is a requirement for a specific model within a particular size.
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Adobe Bridge As A Digital Asset Manager

I've begun to work more with digital stills in my work with FCE. Bringing stills for touch up into Photoshop CS4 is typically part of the work flow. Adobe includes Adobe Bridge as one way to import the stills.
Adobe also suggests that Bridge is a "powerful program for previewing and managing a diverse array of assets." This suggests that Bridge can be used as a Digital Assets Manager (DAM) for stills, audio, swf, and video files.
The more work we do in media development - the more we need to better manage our media. I'm curious if there are any with experience attempting to use Bridge as a DAM and if so, how it has proved as a viable tool for asset management. Please let me know of any experience or knowledge you may have.
Thanks!

I posted it to this group for three reasons.
1) I'm curious if Bridge really does "bridge" well between Adobe and Apple products or is it really just for Adobe products. With Final Cut, we often find ourselves bridging between these competing companies. Id Bridge a viable solution?
2) Are there viable DAM products out there that media professionals are successfully using and if so what are they and is Bridge one of them?
3) Like many of us on this list, I use FC and Photoshop. Have FC users found Bridge to be a viable DAM solution or not for these tools?
Hope that helps to clarify my question.

Bridge/Prelude/Premiere/Encore, Arrrgh! Workflow/Asset Managment overload! Help.

I've been viewing a tutorial series in addition to some random one's on the web, mostly covering functionality, but what isn't clear to me (yet) has to do with asset management and workflow. I know enough to understand that these two areas are the most important aspects of the whole process; without organized asset management and an orderly, systematized, hierarchical approach to accomplishing tasks the creative side of things will suffer dramatically at the worst time.
Regarding asset management, I have three separate drives for for audio, video, and stills. All the files reside in their original locations except for video files that I originally had stored on my stills drive. These video files were copied to my video drive into the Adobe Folder> Premiere Projects Folder> Project Name Folder. In addition, I have a folder on the video drive called "Raw Footage" that I'm using for random footage unrelated to any project; sort of a personal stock footage resource.
As a practice project for the tutorial series I'm using assets from a 45 day Rail Pass tour I took a few years ago. Assets include SDDV. m2ts, and mov, files with different sample rates, in addition to jpg and psd files.
Where would the following programs come into play and at what point in the workflow does the transition from one to the other begin and/or overlap?
Bridge
Prelude
Premiere
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Where does Bridge come into play and when?
There are folders with m2ts files on my stills drive that I've copied and pasted to my video drive. Should I have used Prelude to ingest and "Transfer Clips To Destination" ("destination" being my video drive)? Should I have transcoded to a less resource hungry format and, if so, does Prelude create an EDL that can be used to conform the final edit replacing the low rex clips files the the original higher rez files?
I know I have to capture SDDV as DV (not HDV) with Premiere but what else do I need to know about such capture? As far as actual editing goes the tutorials are covering a lot of that.
Eventually I'll use Encore to author a proper DVD that is compatible with every DVD or Blu-ray player. Right?
I guess the question could be, "What is yout multi asset workflow?"
I feel like such a noob.
Thanks.

Michael,
I thought that might be the case. Sigh!
Well, as far as I can tell, if I were you, I would offer it with an alI I-Frame option first. That would probably be the easiest to implement cleanly. Those who can shoot that way would probably start shooting that way. Me included.
Then, take the AVCHD from a few of the most popular cameras, Canon, Nikon and of course, the Panasonic DMC-GH3 (my camera) and whatever video cameras are popular right now. Back up to the beginning of the long GOP and finish at the end of the long GOP. There is no need to get too specific with frames for subclips. After all, anyone who does not leave handles on their subclips while ingesting gets what they deserve anyway. In fact, there should be an option to always add one second of handles to every subclip. Personally I would leave that on as a default.
As for me, I recently posted a few videos using different codecs for people to download to test them. The links can be found in this forum post along with a short discussion: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1239519?tstart=0
I usually use 50Mb/s 60p using the MOV format, but if I was to shoot anything serious, I would probably shoot 72Mb/s 24p. Keep in mind, that if Adobe made it possible to ingest subclips without transcoding,I would change what I shot to all I-Frame for almost everything, either at 30p or 24p. And if you did it for my 60fps MOV files, I would be ecstatic.
I don't shoot AVCHD but I suppose that so many people do that the moment you gave the feature to all I-Frame shooters, there would be a huge clamor for AVCHD.
In my opinion, this could be a major game changer and everyone who could would start using Prelude without a second thought. Like photographers are flocking to Lightroom 5, this would be the videographers Lightroom. Reelroom? Naw. Prelude is a good enough name.

Asset Management and tracking using iOS?

Hi,
I would like to use iphones for asset management and tracking and am having a bit of difficulty finding what I am looking for. I bought delicious library 3 at home to see if it could track code39 or code128 but so far it doesn't work, and I can't seem turn off Amazon searching. Anyway, I also ran across iCody, which looked nice and even clz barry, but they all seem to be data entry only.
What I am looking for is an app/application set that can work in two ways:
1. Build a database (this could be manually if it needs to be) of asset items. I would then enter details about that item into the database.
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Hi Stephanie,
SAP Real Estate Management is made to manage space, room reservation, moves, lease administration and so on, while SAP Enterprise Management is used in a property management environment to manage repairs, maintenance and services. SAP Real Estate Management provides Usage and Architectural Master Data Object to display the portfolio, while SAP Enterprise Asset Management provides so called Functional Locations. In SAP Real Estate Management there is an option to automatically create and/or update Functional Locations in SAP Enterprise Asset Management and a BAdI to synchronize Fixture & Fittings on SAP Real Estate Management objects with entries in the Classification System in SAP Enterprise Asset Management. For more information please check the SAP Help Portal:
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Bridge for data asset management?

I've been looking for a while for a 'simple' data asset management application.
What it should be able to do or have is:
1. a simple interface, manageable by anyone.
2. both mac and windows compatible
3. drag and drop facilitated for both images AND their description into inDesign.
Why?: we work for a large mall group, that produces some 20 large folders a year. No need to say we have built up an image database of thousands of items, most of which are reused regularly. Locating them for use in a new folder is not such a problem in itself; but reusing the text is. Each time, our client provides more or less the 'same' texts and prices (they retype them), which means that all texts, whether they have been published 10 times before or not, always have to be reread, reviewed by a copywriter, and on top of that, retranslated (in Belgium, you always need editions in Dutch and French). This is a silly and costly situation.
I love to use Expression Media for comparing pictures, and it's drag and drop capable - for picutres - not for text. Bridge doen't seem to do the job either, and it's not an actual database.
So is there a simple way or application (affordable) to get over this problem, without the need of some complicated Unix-based, nerd-interfaced server?

So is there a simple way or application (affordable) to get over this problem, without the need of some complicated Unix-based, nerd-interfaced server?
Did you tried to explore Canto Cumulus ?
They have two editions, the 'single user' (very affordable) and a more complex build to order. When you have many users on different locations or use over a network it might be to complex for the single user version I'm afraid ;-(

Integrating barcode asset management and LR

I have discovered to my delight that you can integrate Lightroom and barcode based print asset management. This is a way to:
automate the printing of labels for images without any rekeying of information, and
automate the process of finding the image from which a print was made
Why do this? You may sell prints or just make them for your own pleasure. It is good practice to provide some labelling of prints so you (or the buyer) knows what they are looking at. It can be helpful to be able to quickly find the source image of a print. Of course you can just include the filename in the label and type it in to find the source image. But the labels produced look a bit messy with a sometimes arbitrary filename stuck in there. An option is to include a neat barcode on the label. You can then use your webcam to read the label and direclty insert the filename in the LR search field. Presto! Up pops the image from which the print was made.
Caveat: Apologies to Mac users, I have only worked this out on a PC. I'm sure there are substitutes for each of the things I've used.
What you need to do this [on a PC]:
Lightroom (LOL)
LR/Transporter (incredibly useful for many things)
Excel (optional but part of my workflow)
A way to print labels with barcodes. I use a cheap Brother label printer which comes with the P-Touch Editor software.
A webcam
Webcam barcode reader software. I use bcWebCam which is free
How I do it:
I'll sketch how I do it with the specific gear I have and then suggest how you may get by with other gear.
Simplest workflow:
Set up LR/Transporter to export a summary file from image exports that includes all the fields you may want on your label (including filename of course). Format for comma delimited a CSV file with a header line to define the exported fields. This is saved and reused as an export preset. Routlinely I can then select the images I am printing and export them to a dummy folder which I use for the purpose of transferring Image information.
I use my label printer software with a template that merges the CSV file data onto a label, with the filename printed as a QR barcode. I generally put one label directly on the print reverse and, if framed, another on the frame rear. With high quality art prints I only do the latter to avoid any possibility of problems of with the adhesive discolouring the paper obverse. Here's an example.
Having previously installed bcWebCam, if I need to find an image that needs a bit of a search (only likely if I've not worked on it recently), I load bcWebCam while LR is running, place my mouse cursor in the search field in the library view (having selected the root of my catalogue), and hold the print label in front of the web cam. Presto! bcWebCam inserts the filename in the search field and up pops the image in LR!
In reality, I use excel as an intermediary to read the LR/Transporter data and reformat some items. One reason is the GPS information exported by LR/Transporter has some weird characters in it and they need to be cleaned out. Characters with accents or umlauts also need some special treatment. Excel also lets me define how many of each label I want printed... The label printer software reads the excel file as a database and allows printing of the required number of labels.
If you are interested in this solution you are likely to have tens or hundreds of thousands of images in which case camera generated filenames will not be unique. I add a month and year in import and conversion to DNG into LR to ensure filenames are unique. There are a range of other work-arounds that may suit your workflow better. But remember, you need something that LR will find in a single search. It may be you create a unique identifier in a EXIF or IPTC field - this will work too... Some smart bunny may point out to me there is some foolproof automatic unique identifier for each image built into LR which can be accessed and exported but I am not aware of it. I guess image creation time (to the second) comes pretty close but I cannot see how to search on this from a search field entry...
Where you may need to find some workarounds:
If you are on a PC, the one thing that is not available on the net is the barcode label printer. In the past I used to print labels on multi-label sheets with a laser printer. It's not obvious to me how to translate the unique image identifier into a barcode for this approach but I'm sure there will be one out there. But I came to the conclusion that a dedicated "on demand" label printer would save a huge amount of messing around. I think the Brother model I use is about US$79 which doesn't exactly break any bank. And the continuous paper roll I use means labels end up about 2.5 cents a pop... What makes this or even the more capable models (with auto-cutters) such a great deal is the P-touch sofware which does do all the linking of database to label and info field to barcode. This is worth the price alone I reckon. There are other free and for-fee webcam barcode readers out there too; the one I've noted works for me...
This may sound pretty complex to set up. But the reality is, once export, database and print templates are in place, it's all automatic.

Hi,
Great use of LR/Transporter
The strange characters result from the fact that LR/Transporter outputs files with a UTF-8 encoding. You need to be able to read that so see them. Most applications can read UTF-8 nowadays.
Tim

CS4 Asset Management

Hi,
I’m having some difficulties implementing asset management in our CS4 InCopy and InDesign plugins.
I seem to have the basics right but I’m lacking some refinements.
I’ve created implementations of IAMSystemProvider, IAMServiceProvider and IAMServices for Initialize, CheckIn, CheckOut and CancelCheckOut.
Our stories and documents are stored in database, so the locked and editable status need to reflect the state of the document in the database.
When the user opens a story from database it is copied to a local store and edited in InCopy from there.
For the most part this works, the story is marked as Editing, and the user can make changes and save it back to the database.
The Links panel shows the correct file path, but there are inconsistencies.
The status is marked as Contained. I’m really not sure what this means; contained in what?
Story Status is marked as “Text Modified”, but if I close the story and check the text model, the dirty flag is not set, as I would expect and the user isn’t prompted to save. So the behaviour is correct, and I’m not really sure where the Links panel is getting this Text Modified status from if not the ITextModel.
The Managed Status is probably the worst, it shows “is available for anyone to edit”, and yet the bar across the top of the story shows Editing and most definitiely not “Available”.
How am I supposed to keep this in sync. Should the IAMService code explicitly update the Link status or does the link control panel query the IManagedStatus in some way?
The latter is what I was expecting and I’ve tried attaching an instance of an IManagedStatus implementation to the IManagableAsset during the call to the Initialize IAMService and it’s doesn’t seem to be called at all.
Is this documented somewhere, the CS3/CS4 Porting guide don't really go into this much detail, and the CS4 Programming guide doesn’t cover asset management, that I've found in any case?
Most serious of these problems is that if I open and close three stories then InCopy crashes with no call stack!
I’m hopefully guessing that the crash is associated with the asset management being out of sync, and in any case I would like to fix that up first.
Best Regards and many thanks for any assistance that you can offer.
Caerwyn

See http://forums.adobe.com/thread/852571?tstart=30 for an idea of sizes available.
Here is an example of getting a thumbnail and saving it on the desktop....
#target bridge
var thumb = app.document.selections[0];
var sourceBitmap = undefined;
app.synchronousMode = true;
sourceBitmap = thumb.core.thumbnail.thumbnail; //smallest
//sourceBitmap = thumb.core.preview.preview; //next size
app.synchronousMode = false;
if( !sourceBitmap || sourceBitmap.width == undefined || sourceBitmap.width == 0 ){
alert("Unable to get bitmap");
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var exportFile = new File( Folder.desktop + "/" + Name + "-thumb.jpg" );
sourceBitmap.exportTo( exportFile, 100);
There are many examples of extracting metadata and it might be best to look at some of them, also download the sdk where you will find all the documentation and examples.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/bridge.html
If it looks a bit complex you could use ExifTool http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ as an alternative.

Asset management solution

Hi everyone.
I'm currently outlining and storyboarding a (perhaps overly ambitious) project on modern cosmology. It will consist entirely of found media. I've now gathered about 600 or so images, a very large number of publicly available lectures and interviews (audio from which will be used as the narration), movies and animations and computer simulations, as well as music, of course. All these assets currently live, unprocessed, in different places. The images are in iPhoto, the lectures and movies are in a single folder in an external HD, etc...
After finishing the broad outline of the film and ordering my general concepts into a linear narrative, I expect to hit a bit of a snag. I need a way to manage all of these assets together in the same place, to attach descriptive text to each piece of media, and to organize it all in a way that will let me group different types of media together.
For example, for each lecture (most of which are about an hour long), I'll be taking snippets of audio from different places in the lecture, and editing them into different places in the film. I want to be able to go through each one and extract my chosen snippet and save it somewhere I can annotate it and group it with the relevant images and video.
I have never undertaken a project this big, and the asset management needs are markedly different from my projects in high school where I just dumped everything in FCP's bin and dragged what I needed into the timeline. In order for the narrative to emerge as coherent and well-woven, I'll need a way to assemble and organize and play around with synthesize all these hundreds of disparate pieces of media well before opening Final Cut. Or, perhaps are FCP users who have undertaken a similar project with lots of found media and think that FCP's bin/media manager are robust enough to meet these needs? Unfortunately I can't figure it out for myself just yet because after backing things up with Time Machine for the first time, FCP is now asking me to reenter my serial number which I've (hopefully temporarily) lost and am trying to find.
Anyone have advice? Please let me know if I can clarify anything else about my project and needs.
Thanks.

maybe, such a simple consumer-level solution is enough for your needs?
http://www.aquafadas.com/en/idive-digital-video/index.php
they offer a free trial ..

Silver software asset management competency

Can someone please confirm that I have understood correctly these things?
Company X wants to get Silver software asset management competency, to do that first step is:
Your company must employ or contract with two Microsoft Certified Professionals
(MCPs) who have each met one of the following exam or certification requirements:
Exam 70-673: TS: Designing, Assessing, and Optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM)
Your organization can attain multiple competencies. If your employees or contractors pass the eligible competency exams
for multiple silver competencies, you can count those exams toward attaining multiple silver competencies.
Do I understand correctly that first we have to get two MCP's and to become one we have to pass any exam (for example, MTA Security fundamentals)? And after that we need to pass Exam
70-673: TS: Designing, Assessing, and Optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM)?
Or do we need just this exam 70-673?
I am confused, can someone explain?
Thanks!

Hi.
You should ask your question in the Partner Support forum, here:
http://partnersupport.microsoft.com/en-us/mpnpartnermem
Good luck!
Best wishes, Davin Mickelson

Software Asset Management Solution Accelerator for SCCM 2012 (Contracts, Licenses, Userights, Installations and net usage

Hello All
With the given need from the market to manage license compliance proactively - the givven toolsets from MS SCCM 2012 should be capable of handling the given complexity. (reference 27 processes out of SAM ISO 19.770-1:2012
Where can I find the solution accelerator, which guides us to help clients on two tipical use-cases
a.) Client has SCCM 2012 - however not yet established the SAM componentes to it (Contracts, Use-rights and License-Comparizons)
b.) Client has no SCCM yet and wants to start his journey with the Commercial scope right away.
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SCCM alone isn't going to fit this need.
You need a License Compliance Solution / Software Asset Management (SAM) solution which SCCM is not.
The issue with those system, they fail of providing clean /usefull data.
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Like this:
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