The ultimate platform for recovering digital assets

The new generation Front Office has arrived! The Ephoto Dam Front Office is the platform dedicated to promoting and distributing your media. It’s designed to offer your users a path through your image bank that responds directly to their needs. It’s up to you to discover a world of your own colours and Responsive Design.

Two platforms to rule them all

Some tools have tried to offer a Front End and a Back End in a single Dam solution platform. Trying to do everything in a single solution means running the risk of not achieving anything satisfactory in either area.

For Ephoto Dam, maintaining a powerful photo library software package for managers is very important. It gives them the possibility to manage intellectual property in the right way, to set up advanced workflows between different collaborators, to manage different distribution versions or even to have very detailed rights management for each document collection.

A photo library software package is not just an improved file-sharing solution, but an expert documentary solution that meets the needs of information professionals.

What’s more, we quickly realised that the logic of document management is not necessarily the logic of media enhancement. Users don’t have to understand all the subtleties of the keyword tree in order to find media. Nor do they have to find out for themselves the conditions under which a media item is broadcast or whether or not they can download it.

That’s why the Ephoto Dam Front Office exists. First and foremost, its ergonomics have been designed with web users in mind, with components that require no special training if you have any web browsing experience. What’s more, it offers a high degree of customisation, both graphically and in the way the media are displayed.

Advanced level of customisation

It’s perfectly logical to want a Front Office that reflects your image, so that it fits in better with your ecosystem of web tools. That’s why Ephoto Dam offers advanced customisation by integrating your logo, your colours, your social networks, your wording, your footer pages, your welcome message and so on.

In addition to this customisation, the advantage of the Ephoto Dam Front Office is that it is based on a single platform, which is maintained and updated regularly. For example, all users of an Ephoto Dam Front Office automatically benefit from a high level of RGAA compliance via updates, at no extra cost.

Maintainability, at the heart of the construction of this platform, guarantees a platform that is always as close as possible to UX/UI requirements, as well as security and accessibility requirements, without having to go back to designing a new site, as can happen with ‘one shot’ sites.

Tailor-made user path

As mentioned above, the logic of describing media in all their facets, even if it is essential to base a search system on it, does not always meet users’ needs as it stands…

That’s why the Ephoto Dam Front Office is implementing a number of tools to offer users a real pathway to meet their needs. The portfolio system, for example, can be used to highlight themes, reports, news, video productions or publications as required. With their attractive layout, offering portfolios (which can themselves contain portfolios) means that users don’t get stuck with a free search, but can find their way around their centres of interest.

What’s more, as all this is contextual to the rights of the connected person, it is entirely possible to differentiate the displays according to the audience.

Finally, this configuration, if carried out with the help of the Ephoto Dam project team when the Front Office is initialized, is entirely in the customer’s hands. This guarantees that your Front Office will always be alive, and that you will always be able to react to news or a specific request by highlighting it on the home page.

Thanks to the Dam Ephoto Dam solution, you can reach an expert level in digital asset management. The Front Office gives you the opportunity to finally make the most of your audiovisual assets and all the descriptive work that has been done on them by making them available via a user-friendly platform, designed natively for media users