Connector syncs Widen Collective assets in Showpad’s sales enablement platform so that salespeople can access accurate, brand-safe content quickly

I’m so tired of talking about integrations.

There, I said it. Now you say it. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

“I’m so tired of talking about integrations.”

Excellent. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

When engaging in digital business today, marketing organizations need several systems to guide their work functions like file sharing, data management and analysis, and project management. So it’s not unusual for the management of so many systems to quickly become overwhelming with multiple logins, functionality overlaps, isolated files and data, and project bottlenecks.

Nearly half of Americans use digital voice assistants, according to the Pew Research Center. This new channel presents opportunities and challenges for brands, one of which is delivering audio content straight into the home or office via voice command.

Admins spend a lot of time in the Widen Collective®. Whether they’re auditing the system, doing some clean up, adding metadata, or sharing a collection with a colleague, we know they take pride in a well-oiled digital asset management machine. But have you ever wondered what all that DAM work adds up to?

Artificial intelligence, once the invention of science fiction, is quickly changing the status quo for entire industries and businesses, including the world of digital asset management. DAM users of today can now use image recognition technology to help relieve the burden of manually tagging their images. There are many auto-tagging integration options available to DAM vendors, but at Widen, we’ve approached things with our very own special spin.

Digital asset management (DAM) systems provide that central source of truth for your assets. Versioning, governance, and metadata help your teams access the assets they need. But assets aren’t created in the DAM. And the DAM isn’t the platform your audience follows. So how do you take advantage of the structure and control of a DAM system when your assets need to be outside of it to be created and used?

How do you give your teams access to assets in the tools they’ve been using to do their job for years? It's just one of the many questions a DAM admin faces.

Content is a powerful sales tool. 87% of buyers surveyed said that the solution provider they chose provided ample content to help them through each stage of the decision-making process (via DemandGen Report). Are your teams equipped to provide your buyers ample content throughout the decision-making process?

In part 1 of this series, we examined how digital asset management (DAM) is the content marketing hub for all your content and experiences across marketing technologies.

In part 2, we’ll look at ways DAM can increase your marketing agility — also referred to as agile marketing — by streamlining processes for internal teams and improving speed to market with core business process and content deliverables.

These days, it’s critical for your digital asset management (DAM) software to play nice with your other mission-critical marketing technologies, or MarTech tools.

Luckily, when you’re using a DAM system like the Widen Collective, there are several ways to extend assets via integrations and extensions that leverage your central source of truth.