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Digital Asset/Project Management Solutions for Mac OS X?

Posted by Cliff on from the digital-office-assistants dept.

anwnn asks: "I'm looking for a complete digital asset and project management solution for my employer. My ideal solution would be something web-based, eliminating the cross-platform problem. I work in a Mac OS X based shop, with a few PCs sprinkled here and there. We need complete digital asset management, time tracking, project costing, expensing, and accounting. They're currently looking at a solution from Meta Communications, and my main problem with them is that they claim Mac OS X support, but in reality it's Mac OS, with Mac OS X support only via Classic. Ideally, I'd like to run something on the currently installed Mac OS X server, utilizing it's capabilities for Open Source solutions. What all is out there?"

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  1. Have you tried... by arcadum · · Score: 5, Informative
    these viable solutions? Digital Asset Management added to JobOrder

    MediaBin Project Manager

    http://www.jobmanager.com/

    Or even, Zenark 2: Digital Asset Management

  2. Open Source Digital Asset Management by Hungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How hard would it be to write one? Depending on the size PHP and mySQL would work fine. Or how about looking on Sourceforge and doing a search for "Asset" This turned up a number of mature projects that do what you seem to need.

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    1. Re:Open Source Digital Asset Management by tolldog · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No it didn't.

      I found one asset tracking program that was higher than beta. And it was an IT tracking system. Not digital asset management. True many results were returned, but most were in the beta stage or were in planning.

      -Tim

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  3. I use.... by Korgan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tutos for project management and basic CRM. It also kinda crosses over into an ERP application as well.

    Tutos does product and project management, client management (with the ability to attach almost anything to a client and break it down into departments and more) and a whole heap of other things.

    Best of all, its built using PHP on MySQL and Apache with *the only* (sic) free software license (GPL 2). I run it on Linux but I doubt you'll have trouble getting it to run on MacOS X.

    You'll find it at http://www.tutos.org along with some pretty decent info including full documentation, a demo, screen shots and more. It is fully web based.

  4. have you tried glonz.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    check out at www.glonz.com! it runs really great under mac os x and is much more than only project management.

  5. Check out MacSlash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not sure if you know this but this was posted a few weeks ago on Macslash - it's /. but only better (please be gentle...)

    http://www.macslash.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/ 14 17207&mode=thread

  6. great DAM server application by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suggest that you look into MediaBin.

    The user client is web-based and I believe can run on OSX. They sent us screen shots of it running on IE in OSX. We haven't made the switch because Quark is not on OSX yet.

    They also have a great technical partnership with Adobe.

    www.mediabin.com

  7. Custom, custom, custom. by The+Mainframe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Asset management... not very hard to write, code wise. IMHO, I would think that your best option would be to hire a coder to write your web-based software for you. You're looking at a couple grand or more, depending on who you hire, but it'll be exactly what you want. I'm thinking PHP... MySQL... Apache...
    This is, of course, a shameless plug for myself.

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    Former Lord Of Packets
  8. MediaBeacon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am a systems engineer for a large prepress shop. The software we use (and the best DAM software I have ever seen) is web based and called MediaBeacon, built by Brightech Consulting based in Minneapolis, MN.

    One of the best features is that it keeps your filesystem syncronized with the web side automatically. NO need to import assets manually. It also has a full archive solution and it can write to automated CD burners over the network, so you can burn your assets directly to CD over the web. It will also print the thumbnails and other info on the front of the CD.

    The server software runs on Solaris, Linux, Windoze, and Mac OS X. It's fast as hell and integrates with OPI software like Xinet and Helios if you need that.

    I highly recommend checking the product out beyond just visiting their website.

  9. Not hard? HAH! by kwerle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't believe all the folks saying that this is 'not hard to do'. As with most things, it's not hard to throw together some crap, but to do a really good job is a lot of work and planning.

    It's not open source, but I used to work for a place that provided DRM software - all web based:

    WebWare

    It is currently WebObjects based, but I understand they're moving to J2EE.