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title: "Overview"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Discover Acquia DAM: Centralize, manage, and distribute digital assets. Streamline workflows, transform content, and gain insights."
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Acquia Digital Asset Manager (DAM) is a platform for managing digital content. Users can use it to upload, store, and share images, videos, documents, and other digital files. Acquia DAM integrates with tools such as Adobe, HubSpot, and Drupal to ensure access to current assets.

[Product Legal Guide and Support Scope](/acquia-dam/dam-product-guide "DAM Product Guide") [Support User's Guide](/service-offerings/support-users-guide "Support Users Guide")

Benefits
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The following table lists the benefits of Acquia DAM:

**Benefit**

**Description**

**Centralize assets**

Store various types of digital content in one location.

**Self-serve access**

Access content regardless of location or time zone.

**Publish approved assets**

Manage assets and digital rights ensuring that the updates are made across all shared and embedded links.

**Automate workflows**

*   Notify users of new content using rule-based automation.
*   Apply AI for auto-tagging and metadata.

**Transform and reuse content**

Convert and resize images, videos, and audio files.

**Monitor content with analytics**

*   Assess content effectiveness.
*   Review version history for audits using analytics.

Applications
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The following table lists the applications of Acquia DAM:

**Application**

**Description**

Notes

[**Assets**](/node/68081)

Stores, searches, downloads, and shares assets.

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[**Portals**](/node/66606)

Builds and shares webpages to distribute resources, curate collections, and present brand content.

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[**Insights**](/node/67181)

Connects to a data pipeline and creates customized reports to analyze system performance.

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[**Admin**](/node/68286)

Manages users, asset metadata, and features.

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[**Entries**](/node/67171)

Manages product content and distributes it across channels using a Product Information Management (PIM) platform.

This is a paid add-on.

[**Templates**](/node/67676)

Manages branded marketing materials such as ads, brochures, and flyers. To do so, you can use system assets.

This is a paid add-on.

[**Workflow**](/node/68201)

Provides visibility into project files during the approval process until they become distributable assets.

This is a paid add-on.

System status
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To check the status of Acquia DAM, visit the [Acquia DAM Status](https://status.widen.com/) page.