Mace Group

Project teams were keeping graphic resources like stock imagery and project photos in folders. Resources for each project were managed separately, with project teams operating as separate entities with unique workflows. As the company continued to win business, the need for a centralised photo library was becoming exponentially more important.

Moreover, I needed a way to ensure that high quality images were being used, rather than outdated or low resolution images. With images scattered across the globe, it was nearly impossible to monitor which graphics were being used to create marketing materials.

We created different categories to manage employee photos, event photos, infographics, and project photos separately within OpenAsset. The library has been widely adopted throughout the organisation. End users are able to find the photos they need quickly and easily, without asking me where images are.

Everyone uses Albums. If you’re working on a big bid, you may have 5 people working on it. We create albums which are essentially “mini-libraries” that we can share amongst the bid team.

Life is easier – sharability is amazing. People know that they will find the photos they need in OpenAsset themselves, and create their own contact sheets.

OpenAsset is perfectly aligned with the goals that we have for photo management.

Mace’s marketing team produces a fair amount of infographics, which are used in presentations and marketing collateral. While Mace already had an existing SharePoint Word library to maintain a searchable library of infographics, the system was cumbersome when it came to uploading and downloading the actual images.

By integrating OpenAsset with SharePoint, the team is able to continue managing text descriptions of the infographics in the SharePoint library while directing users to access the graphics via OpenAsset. Managing infographics as a separate category in OpenAsset allowed the team to set up custom fields specific to these type of graphics, and a basic workflow setup for approval.

With the OpenAsset users simply drag and drop the infographics into InDesign or PowerPoint. If there is a new version of the infographic available, the image librarian uses the “Replace File” feature to upload new versions of the infographic. Using OpenAsset to replace the image, all the InDesign links and existing descriptive text and keywords associated with the image are preserved.

We created different categories to manage employee photos, event photos, infographics, and project photos separately within OpenAsset. The library has been widely adopted throughout the organization. End users are able to find the photos they need quickly and easily, without asking me where images are.

Everyone uses Albums. If you’re working on a big bid, you may have 5 people working on it. We create albums which are essentially “mini-libraries” that we can share amongst the bid team.

Life is easier – sharability is amazing. People know that they will find the photos they need in OpenAsset themselves, and create their own contact sheets.

Caryn Burrow

INFORMATION MANAGER

Gemma Goulder

IMAGE LIBRARY COORDINATOR