A seamless workflow ultimately comes down to a synchronized tech stack. Learn how the PhotoShelter for Brands DAM platform synchronizes seamlessly with your team’s marketing operations and creative tools to help you all work smarter, not harder.
If you ask any working person today what their main pain point is, they will probably say: working efficiently and staying focused.
These commonly cited issues amongst teams often mean they have a disorganized workflow and a lack of teammate accountability. Oftentimes, project management is up to individual teammates to use whichever task management platforms or apps they’re used to using, but that leads to siloed deliverables and no project-wide transparency.
Finding a solution isn’t the hard part, choosing one is.
There are so many ways for teams to manage their workflows today—whether it be through a software solution, a digital platform, or an app. Every SaaS (software as a service) product marketed today promises exactly what teams need: increased productivity, true project transparency, and analytics to help you measure both the platform and your team’s effectiveness.
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So, how do you choose a platform that centralizes everyone’s workflow? Finding a solution that centralizes your entire organization’s work might take some time, but the return on the investment will be beyond worth it.
The first step: Survey the members of your team to understand what other platforms or apps they use to complete their work.
The second step: Find a digital asset management (DAM) solution that integrates with all of your teammates’ platforms and apps.
Having a smart, sustainable, optimized tech stack enables creative teams to seamlessly access their assets, create original content, save it, and share it easily.
Read below how PhotoShelter for Brands Integrations connect interdepartmental processes and systems so organizations can bring their brand’s story to market faster.
Integrations Built to Level Up Your Marketing Operations
Collect, upload, and centralize your brand assets from consumer cloud-storage solutions into your PhotoShelter for Brands digital asset management library to keep an updated digital asset management content library.
Dropbox, Box and Google Drive + PhotoShelter
Cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive allow team members and external contributors to transfer files quickly, and continuously, to keep your digital asset management library up to date.
Whether your creative contributors need to move files automatically from Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive to PhotoShelter on a regular basis, or you’ve outgrown cloud drive storage limits and need to do a one-time sync, you’ll be able to turn your manual file transfer process into an instant, automatic workflow with these platform integrations.
Wrike is a collaborative work management platform that helps teams increase productivity. With this integration, you’ll be able to make your approved creative work available to anyone who needs to use it quickly and easily. By setting up file transfer automation, approved images in Wrike can automatically be sent to your PhotoShelter media library, where your team can then browse, access, and share them.
Integrations Built to Optimize Your Content Marketing Strategy
Integrate your PhotoShelter for Brands digital asset management system with these content creation and sharing platforms to take your content marketing strategy and its results to the next level.
Adobe Creative Cloud + PhotoShelter
Adobe Creative Cloud is a suite of creative desktop and mobile tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro) that allow creatives and non-traditional creatives to make original visual art — from drawings to brochure layouts to video trailers. With our Adobe CC Integration, PhotoShelter users can access content from their PhotoShelter for Brands library without ever leaving their content creation project within the Adobe platforms.
Hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world use Slack as a daily communication and collaboration tool. It brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done efficiently. When you connect PhotoShelter and Slack, you can get real-time notifications when new content is added to your media library. You’ll be able to move content faster, make your creative team’s work more visible to colleagues across the organization, and save your team’s time when they’re looking for the latest content in your media library.
WordPress is the content management system your team relies on to power your website and tell your story. Our WordPress integration allows teams to access, search, browse and select content from within their PhotoShelter for Brands library to add them to website pages and blog posts. Open up the possibilities with all of your best content always at your fingertips!
With this integration, the typical three-step process of downloading, uploading, and posting is now one seamless platform workflow—you can search your PhotoShelter for Brands DAM library, select content, and post it entirely from the Hootsuite platform. Browse, search, and access all of your brand assets from your PhotoShelter library without ever leaving Hootsuite and help your brand’s most important moments get shared instantly—the moment they’re uploaded into your DAM library.
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Smart software integrations like this one allow creative teams to be more, well, creative, while simultaneously giving social media creators the autonomy to create on-brand content to post anytime. How does it work? See how this new tool gives social media managers creative autonomy.
By integrating with PrintUI, your graphic design team can now create custom-branded templates in Adobe InDesign and upload them via the PhotoShelter for Brands Portal, so anyone in your organization can edit or create on-brand graphics like email newsletter images, in-store signage, advertising collateral, sales enablement decks, and annual reports. See how it works.
Want to try out these PhotoShelter Integrations for yourself?
Schedule time to chat with a customer success team member to see how PhotoShelter can seamlessly integrate into your team’s everyday workflow—cutting out steps, helping you save time—opening up a world of possibilities for sharing your brand’s best and biggest moments in real time.
