5 years ago
The latest Brand iQ updates and what’s next!
Wayne Harris
Brand iQ is a platform designed, developed and supported by us exclusively in the UK. This gives us greater flexibility and control over the architecture and roadmap. We regularly release minor updates to ensure improved security, device and browser compatibility and other minor improvements. Alongside these minor updates, we also continue to enhance the platform with new functionality. Working closely with our clients we get a better understanding of what additional features might be beneficial and roll them into our roadmap.
Our latest update includes some exciting new features for both our clients and our internal teams.
Download manager
To improve usability, we’ve added a new lightweight download manager, which allows users to create a virtual collection of as many digital assets as they require and then download them in one consolidated .zip file. This dramatically reduces the time taken to download individual files and also gives user a way of building a collection of files over time that can then be downloaded at a later stage.
Asset share links
Ever wanted to share a link to an asset on your DAM system with someone who doesn’t have access to the whole platform? Now you can, you can externally share download links to any email address outside of the platform. Select your expiry time which could be an hour or a day and once the time passes the link expires. It’s a great way to work collaboratively with external providers when only a single asset needs to be shared.
Featured Items
When viewing categories of assets, the user has the ability to sort by alphabetical or the latest items, however if there are popular assets that are used regularly they might need to be “featured”. Administrators can now choose which items are featured and these will display above all other items in the category views.
GDPR updates
The hot topic of 2018 has been GDPR and ensuring your organisation is compliant. With Brand iQ you can now choose which fields are collected at registration and the user can choose their communication preferences and then keep these updated via their account.
Internal developments
We’ve been busy working on our own productivity side as well to make processing orders and managing the platform more efficient…
· A new shipping module to make despatch and fulfilment more seamless
· Improvements to our production, pick, pack and fulfilment apps
What’s next…
Following the release of these new features, we have already started work on the following:
· Improvements to our single sign-on module to include new providers and further functionality
· A complete overhaul of the front-end to make it more customisable and running the latest version of VueJS
· Additional META data for each asset and revision history detail
· Front-end notifications
· Automated file conversions and thumbnail generation
