CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
04 November 2004
Implementation Investments
Sandia National Labs Leverages Open Text's Artesia for Digital Asset Management Needs
Open TextT Corporation said that Sandia National Labs plans to implement its Artesia Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to manage its digital content, including a large store of historical images. The Artesia solution is provided by Artesia Technologies®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text and a leader in Digital Asset Management software.
Operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia National Labs is a multi-program laboratory with major research and development responsibilities in U.S. national security, energy and environmental technologies. With more than 8,000 employees and locations worldwide, the organization needed a way to maintain content such as artwork, technical photographs, testing results and components, as well as employee photos.
Sandia was looking for a fast, easy-to-use application to manage more than 40,000 images, with 2000 to 4000 images added per year. Sandia opted to implement Open Text's Artesia solution and hopes to see an almost immediate return on its investment as it deploys the system to 1500 active users.
"This system allows us to manage and store a large amount of subject matter in one location, including everything from historical images dating back to the 1940's, right up to the enormous volume of digital content we create today," said Russell Smith, Corporate Imaging Archive Administrator at Sandia National Labs. "We have photographers working on 20 to 50 assignments per month, producing as many as 25 images or more per assignment. An ability to easily find and retrieve content from this central system will be incredibly beneficial to the entire organization."
Artesia is an easy-to-use digital asset management system that serves as the single access point for all digital media files and their underlying information. Artesia enables users to easily find, access, share, reuse, distribute and archive all types of digital content. By centralizing storage and providing easy, efficient, enterprise access to these digital assets, Artesia extends value, allowing content to be quickly repurposed.
"The effective management of digital assets, such as those held by Sandia, is fundamental to organizations that need to retrieve information quickly," said Chris Veator, Chief Executive Officer of Artesia Technologies. "With a diversity of assets ranging from artwork to photo identification cards, Sandia will be able to benefit from its adoption of digital asset management technology in a relatively short period of time."
Solutions such as Sandia's will be among the broad range of capabilities Open Text will present at its upcoming annual user conference LinkUp Phoenix 2004, being held this year in Phoenix, Arizona, November 15-18.
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