1. Adobe Experience Manager

Collaborative/Communication features

•  Asset Link allow teams to design, revise, review, and approve any asset.
• Find and use assets directly from within Creative Cloud apps, increasing collaboration with marketers to create and deliver content faster.
• Adobe Experience Manager Assets brand portal can give distributed teams access to specific assets through a modern user interface.
• Adobe’s new Single-Page Application (SPA) Editor in Experience Manager Sites enables developers and marketers to preview, edit, and manage content in-context and in one place for faster collaboration.
• Interactive Communications in Experience Manager Forms enable authors to quickly create and personalize multichannel customer communications at 1:1 scale.

 Product Features/Specs 

• Assets templates provide a dedicated workspace that empowers the user to make changes to InDesign documents without having to leave the DAM.
• Asset check-out
• Asset collections
• Asset insights
• Brand portal
• Digital asset management workflows
• Digital rights management
• File type support
• Version history

• Install Java Platform, Standard Edition JDK or other supported Java Virtual Machines
• Experience Manager Quickstart file (Standalone JAR or web-application deployment WAR)

•  5 GB free disk space in the installation directory
•  2 GB memory 

2. CANTO

Collaborative/Communication features

• Administrators and contributors can set up their own private workspaces to collaborate on media assets.
• Keep the digital assets and team in sync by commenting on, approving, and rejecting steps of a defined linear workflow that was set up.
•  Comments can be targeted towards specific users and groups, which triggers an in-app notification and email for every new message.

 Product Features/Specs 

• Portals
• iOS app
• Powerful search
• Workflow automation
• InDesign Client for Adobe InDesign
• Metadata extraction, editing, and write back
• Image and video publishing
• Easy configuration
• Version control
• Asset relations
• Secure file transfer and sharing
• Social DAM
• Roles and permissions
• On-premise, private Cloud, and hybrid Cloud DAM deployment
• Mobile-friendly
• Analysis and reporting
• Configurable admin tools
• RESTful API
• Approval workflow
• Collaboration portal
• Keyword search
• Version histories
• Triggers

3. Intelligence Bank

Collaborative/Communication features

• Allows the user to add an annotations to conversation to specifically mark up files prior to release.
• Create email alert notifications when new files or new versions are added to the DAM platform.
• The user can also email links, files, etc to both registered and external users — which avoids clogging up email with large file sizes.

 Product Features/Specs 

• Advanced Search, Global Filters & Metadata
• Automatic Keyword Tagging
• Email Alerts & Email Links
• Creative Collaboration
• Public Link Tracking & Analytics

4. Frontify

Collaborative/Communication features

•  Centralize the team and discuss designs on the same page with context-driven annotations and @mentions.
• Ask specific stakeholders for feedback or asset approval. Set deadlines and notify co-workers or teams automatically.
• Stay in the loop with instant notifications about new comments, uploads, and other events via email or Slack.
• Coordinate projects with a Kanban-board based system and outline the entire design process from start to finish in one place.

 Product Features/Specs 

• Cover Page
• Custom domain
• Branded login page
• Account manager
• Multi-language
• User groups and targets
• Unlimited style guides
• Unlimited viewers
• Public sharing
• Powerful search
• Access request
• Analytics
• Priority support
• Private cloud hosting
• SAML-based SSO
• Advanced security packages
• Contracts and SLAs

5. Aprimo

Collaborative/Communication features

• Aprimo's DAM has built-in annotation and content mark-up tools with on-screen text boxes, pen tools, and highlighters.
•  Reviewers can add chat comments and can cast votes on the asset.
• Enables users to manage reviews and other actions from a centralized task management window.

 PRODUCT FEATURES/SPECS 

• Images
• Creative Files
• Video
• Emerging Content
• Text Articles
• Metadata & Taxonomy
• Search
• Digital Rights Management
• Version Control
• Localization
• Content Workflows
• Task Management
• Annotations, Reviews & Approvals
• Content Calendars
• PIM For Product Experience
• Configurable Product Structure
• Product Content Localization
• Content Analytics
• Brand Portal
• Integration Via Aprimo Connect

6. Web DAM

Collaborative/Communication features

• Webdam unites teams and creative assets on a common, cloud-based platform.
• Everyone stays in sync throughout the creative asset life cycle by working, reviewing, and approving from the same source.
• Users can provide clear feedback and collaborate effectively during the review process by leaving comments and notifying team members at each stage.
•  New version uploads can be easily reviewed and compared side by side.
• Enabling users to make requests and fill in the creative brief information.
• Easily define a creative and collaborative processes.
•  Group projects and make them visible to colleagues and any relevant third parties.

 PRODUCT FEATURES/SPECS 

• Organize, approve, save and share images, videos, and creative content directly from a mobile device.
• Integrated access to millions of visual assets hosted both inside and outside Webdam.
• Webdam connects to Shutterstock and many other asset sources.
• Scheduled publishing
• Robust analytics
• Auto-detect language
• Direct publishing
• Download rules
• Adobe Connector
• Custom metadata
• File conversion and cropping
• Digital Asset Management
• Creative Approvals
• Brand Templates
• Brand Identity Guidelines
• Bynder Analytics
• Plugins & Integrations

your Research team applied the following Strategy:

GOOGLE HANGOUTS

• Google Hangouts is a collaboration tool for business communication.
• It can be used to make voice calls, video calls, chat and send multimedia messages.
• It makes all types of group collaboration very easy regardless of the team members' locations and devices.
• Google Hangouts has a GSuites feature, business edition, and enterprise version.

SKYPE FOR BUSINESS

• Skype is the quintessential video chat platform. Its business edition comes with a lot of features which include large group meetings with up to 250 people, collaboration tools, and screen sharing.
• It can be used on any device and meetings can be scheduled through Outlook. 
• Its features include editable whiteboards and polls. It also allows screen sharing and power point annotation.

SLACK

• Slack is a multipurpose platform for instant messaging, video conferencing, and project management.
• It can create several channels for different teams and makes it easy to add new members to multiple channels.
• It has a free version for unlimited users and a paid version of at $6.67 per month.
• Its paid versions keep an unlimited searchable history of past messages and allow video meetings with up to 15 participants.
• Slack integrates with numerous external services and third-party applications such as MailChimp, Zendesk, Google Drive, and GitHub.

YAMMER

• Organizations utilize Yammer to manage internal communications. 
• The Yammer platform is very easy to use and can be accessed by using the email that is registered in a business’ computer domain.
• Yammer uses a variety of channels to enhance communication and it comes with a document storage facility and supports collaborative document creation.
• It is available in different pricing models starting from $5/user per month.
• Its platform is similar to Facebook and offers similar capabilities such as profile pages, status updates, likes, comments, groups, private messages, chat, and others.

ZOHO

• The Zoho tool is available in different forms such as the Zoho Meeting, Zoho Projects, and Zoho Cliq.
• It is "a team communication software pitched at small and medium-sized enterprises".
• It offers "a comprehensive online meeting solution that lets businesses hold live meetings to share product demonstrations with prospects, provide remote client support and more".
• It doesn't require maintenance and can track bugs, test system, and fix it when necessary.

TRELLO

• This tool has collaborative features and it uses the concept of boards to manage, track and categorize projects and tasks.
• It has drag-and-drop functionality that makes tasks easier to accomplish while allowing in-line editing.
• Trello is available in different packages. It can be free for individuals and small teams as payment grows slowly depending on how fast the business scales up the team size.
• It also has SSO, two-factor authentication, file encryption at rest, custom security review, and its enterprise plan is good for mid-sized companies that manage multiple teams and want more security.

FLOWDOCK

• Flowdock is a chat-based communication and project management tool which brings conversations, work items, and tools into a single place.
• It has a team inbox feature that keeps and organize emails and messages related to project management, customer support, and other sources.
•  Other features include the @ mentions to get a specific user's attention, hashtags, and chat histories with searchable transcripts.

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