Our Creative Services team is currently researching digital asset management systems and one of the things we’re hopeful for is Asana integration. We’ve narrowed down to our top two systems, but neither currently directly integrate with Asana. I was hoping someone might have experience working with a digital asset management system with or without integration with Asana. What is something I should look out for? What is something that you find helpful/harmful to your process? How do you personally use the two programs together?
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Hey Kelly,
Just noting we’re an Asana using organisation that is about to move to Bynder as our DAM curious about integrations here as well.
Ways that the two will work without integrations at the moment is graphic design requests and approvals happening in asana - and reference to media assets being currently folder links the hope would be with the DAM they are URLs instead - also GD sharing working files etc directly from DAM.
We are months away from the implementation but happy to let you know once we are up and running.
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I’d love to keep in touch! We’re leaning toward Bynder as well, so I’m happy to know you chose it. Do you mind sharing what made you decide to go with them?
One team member was familiar with it and after that point the Pricing / Flexibility seemed much more suitable than Adobe Experience Manager which was the other contender. We can start small with Bynder in regards to features and reassess as we need.
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Greetings all - I’m currently in the same bout. Our creative team has been on DrpBx/GglDcs since inception of company and now needs to level up. I’m researching DAM’s now and found the only one that natively integrates with Asana is MediaValet. So they’re the first on our list. All other contenders sadly don’t seem to have Asana integration(yet). I’ll keep this thread posted on my search as well.
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Thanks @anon39144214 for your input! We did not research MediaValet, but the 5 options we did all had some 3rd party integrations (mainly through Zapier). We have agreed to move forward with Bynder, a team who currently uses Asana (and according to them Asana uses them!). A native integration with Asana is on their roadmap, and they’ve stated that they expect it to be rolled out around the beginning of 2023! Until then we decided links within Asana to the DAM would be an acceptable supplement rather than try an integration via Zapier.
Canto also had a native integration with Asana on their roadmap with a similar expected timeline. Welcome (an Optimizely product) was the only system we found that did not integrate with Asana, but that is most likely because they have their own task management system!
I agree the pricing and flexibility were some of our main reasons we ended up choosing Bynder as well. Their sales rep was an amazing asset when vetting and really showed us how their system can work best for us in the long run!
Thanks Kelly for the reply. I actually have an intake meeting with Bynder today as well as Canto. But it’s great to hear about Bynder - I combed through there feature PDF and found a ton of great tools I know our team could utilize. I’d lean towards Bynder if they can answer the Asana element. I did have a really great experience with Media Valet’s rep though so it’ll be a tight race! May come down to price point - we’ll see what Canto has to say. Stay tuned…
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Huzzah for the bynder integration launched in April (see New Docusign, Bynder, Confluence and Freshdesk integrations!)!! I’m about to dig into this and see how it works.
@Kelly_Mooney Hi Kelly, I haven’t been able to track down an answer - is there a limitation to which tier subscription has access to the Bynder integration?
@anon93574682 It doesn’t appear to have a limitation. It’s essentially just a spot for you to put a link to the Bynder asset, so I would assume anyone with a Bynder account would be able to use the integration!
So when you place the link in Asana from Bynder - what sort of capabilities are available with the integration? For example the adobe integration allows designers to connect their proofs to Asana - users in asana can comment on the digital asset (directly on the image) comments become tasks and the designer can then access and action those tasks directly in Adobe - Does Bynder integration have any similar capabilities?
Or is the Bynder integration similar to the HubSpot marketing email integration feature where you add the link you get basic details and have to then click on the marketing email to go to the asset in the host tool?
I’m not familiar with that integration, but here are some screenshots of what it looks like in a task once installed! Clicking on the area will take you directly to the asset in Bynder
@Alex_Yabsley we (bynder) is launching an integration with asana this quarter if you want to check it out! https://support.bynder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013872880-New-Features
Hi All, I would love to hear your updates on your DAM integrations and how you like the DAM you chose. We are currently looking for one @Kelly_Mooney @Alex_Yabsley @anon93574682
Thanks!
Colleen
Hi Colleen! We ended up choosing Bynder and have been happy with it so far. The meta tags it adds for assets makes them easy to find, and we like the collection system and being able to drill down by custom categories. Much better than Sharepoint, which is what we’d been using before!