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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. 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

  5. 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.