Acquia DAM - June, 2025

Updated security headers

Acquia DAM has implemented an enhanced referrer policy to strengthen security headers across the application, addressing specific customer security requirements and improving overall platform security compliance.

Customer benefits

• Improved security compliance scores on security evaluation platforms like https://securityheaders.com/
• Enhanced protection through updated referrer policy implementation
• Strengthened security posture meeting enterprise-grade security requirements
• Better alignment with industry security standards and best practices

Asset digest insights enhancement

Acquia DAM has enhanced the Asset Digest Insights experience to provide a more unified and comprehensive analytics interface, aligning it with the main Insights reporting experience. This update delivers improved asset performance tracking and analysis capabilities for content creators and DAM contributors.

Customer benefits

• Access data to inform the quality of past work and influence the direction of future asset creation.
• Discover the frequency and format with which assets are downloaded, viewed, embedded, shared and be able to have this in a CSV format for easy data analysis or ingestion into BI tools.
• Bring alignment between the asset digest insights and the insights experience.

For more information, visit Asset Digest Insights Updates: Enhanced Analytics for DAM Contributors

Asset history in asset digest

Acquia DAM adds comprehensive change history tracking to the new Asset Digest interface.

Customer benefits

• Review all asset changes - who made them, what changed, and when - directly in the Asset Digest.
• Access complete audit trails for compliance and operational reviews.
• Continue using familiar workflows while transitioning to the new experience.

For more information, visit Asset Digest Change History

Google Gemini native integration

Acquia DAM now offers native integration with Google Gemini AI, enabling powerful artificial intelligence capabilities directly within your DAM and Entries workflows. This integration allows organizations to leverage Google's advanced AI technology for automated content generation and enhancement.

Customer benefits

• Auto-generate alt text and descriptions with AI
• Accelerate content creation workflows
• Enhance SEO with automated metadata
• Translate content automatically
• Maintain consistent content standards
• Extract text from images instantly
• Improve asset findability
• Scale content globally

Facial recognition

Acquia DAM's facial recognition feature transforms the time-consuming task of manually tagging people in images into an automated process. Using AI-powered detection and grouping, it helps administrators efficiently manage large image collections while maintaining privacy compliance and usage rights.

Customer benefits

• Quick access - Easily search for people in images by name
• Save time and effort - Speeds up identification and tagging of people
• Humanize your brand - Reduce barrier to featuring people in your content, increasing authenticity and engagement
• Control - Track and respond quickly to rights management or reputational issues

For more information, visit How does facial recognition work in Acquia DAM?

AI Copilot support

Acquia DAM introduces AI Copilot, a specialized support chatbot that provides instant access to DAM knowledge through an intuitive chat interface. This initial release focuses on delivering an optimized support experience, helping users get immediate answers to their DAM-related questions using natural language interaction.

Customer benefits

• Get instant answers through natural language queries
• Access support articles without leaving your workflow
• Learn DAM features through chat assistance
• Find information via familiar chat interface

For more information, visit What is Acquia Copilot? What can it be used for?

ADA Compliance enhancements for portals

Acquia DAM is enhancing its Portals application to meet full ADA and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance standards. These improvements ensure complete accessibility for all users, including those with disabilities, while helping organizations meet legal requirements and create inclusive digital experiences.

Customer benefits

• Full screen reader compatibility for visually impaired users
• Enhanced keyboard navigation across all portal features
• Improved focus indicators for better visual guidance
• Better alternative text support for images and media
• Reduced legal and compliance risks
• Support for government accessibility requirements
• Improved digital experience for all users

Zendesk native integration

The Zendesk to DAM integration is a native integration powered by Workato that allows automatic transfer of files and metadata from Zendesk tickets to Acquia DAM

Customer benefits

• Save time by automatically uploading assets and metadata to DAM
• Faster searching for users, connecting to one central source of truth

Key features

• Automated monitoring of Zendesk tickets and file uploads to DAM
• Ability to filter which files should be uploaded using Zendesk standard or custom fields
• Mapping of Zendesk fields to Asset metadata
• Option to select upload profiles through Zendesk custom fields

Shopify native integration

Acquia DAM now offers two native Shopify integration options, providing automated asset synchronization between DAM and Shopify platforms.

Customer Benefits

• Streamlined asset management with automatic syncing
• Centralized source of truth for digital assets
• Time savings through automated workflows
• Simplified content updates directly from DAM

Key Features

1. Product Imagery Integration

• Automatic sync of assets and alt text to Shopify products/variants
• Product/variant ID-based asset mapping
• Metadata-driven image management

2. Content Imagery Integration

• Direct sync to Shopify Media Library
• Flexible content deployment
• Simplified blog and general content management

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where the metadata import tool would skip valid values during import operations.