Sugar Cube Digital Asset Management

Sugar Cube is a Digital Asset Management system that allows you to store and intelligently manage all of your digital content and brand collateral. A secure and easy-to-use web-based solution that gives you, your clients, partners and agencies the ability to collaboratively access assets and content at the click of a button, ensuring you are always working with the most relevant materials available.

Affective content and asset management improves production times, enhances project workflows and minimises work duplication saving time and money. Simple to use yet powerful, Sugar Cube’s upload and tagging functionality defines your assets which are then held in a secure repository environment for easy and secure access. Intricate user management options define who can access which assets and when, increasing the security of sensitive assets. The supporting email and RSS tools give you the added ability to quickly communicate your latest updates or changes.

Media Management

Upload photos, video, documents, music and other digital assets. Classify and tag all your media for easy searching and sharing. Manipulate and resize images of varying size, to ensure you have all the image sizes you need. Encode and transcode between media formats on the fly, reducing manual processes and improving efficiency.

Storage and retrieval

Store all of your electronic assets in one place and easily locate and re-use the content you have already created with a powerful built-in search function. A single tagging structure quickly produces relevant items, whether you need a video, a document, a photo or any other digital file.

Managing your content

Invite clients and partners to work in teams and collaboratively view, download, edit and share assets. Specify which areas individuals or groups are allowed to view and modify. Moderate content uploaded by partners and manage communications with simple to use, built-in RSS and email tools.

Availability and security

Sugar Cube is a web-based system which means your marketing materials, documents or brand collateral is securely available from any web browser whether on your computer or mobile device.

The access control settings allow you to define and implement varying levels of access depending on your needs, whether delivering content to a single or multiple recipients.

All of this is supported by the latest in security technologies to ensure your assets are safe and visible only to authorised users.

Highly flexible

Sugar Cube is a multi-lingual application that complies with the latest in web standards to ensure a seamless integration into legacy systems.

Sugar Cube was born out of a need to help organisations improve efficiency and reduce costs associated with distributing the latest digital assets to the right people both within the organisation and externally. The ability to quickly and securely provide access to relevant assets; from brand guidelines to the latest campaign work has proven to become essential in minimising production times and project workflows.

  • Asset Management

    • Assets stored as a freely defined collection of elements

    • User-defined tag-tree for defining meta-data

    • In-context editing

    • Lightbox functionality

    • Bespoke data import and export

  • Security

    • Extremely fine-grained bespoke user security

    • Tag-based security taxonomy

    • Detailed user logging

    • Optional IP-based security

    • Optional content delivery moderation – asset requests by users can be authorized/denied by administrators

  • Search

    • Integrated Lucene Search Engine

    • Search across both data and meta-data

    • Soundex Searching

    • “Did you mean” functionality

    • Tag-based search filtering and ordering

  • Scalability

    • Scales to millions of assets

    • Scales to terabytes of data

    • Scales to millions of users

  • Content Delivery

    • Integrates with Amazon S3 and CloudFront CDN

    • Integrates with Akamai CDN

    • Further bespoke CDN integration available

  • Design Freedom

    • Completely bespoke front-ends with no design limitations

    • Design for Web, PDA, Netbook, Smartphone

    • XHTML 1.1 compliant

    • WCAG AAA accesability if required

  • Workflow

    • Completely customizable content workflow with sign-off, preview and publish

    • Users can upload content into the workflow process

    • Built in email services with customized email workflow

  • Technical Architecture

    • Open Architecture uses XML, JBDC, Java, JSP and tag libraries

    • Interaction with external system via XML

    • Standard encryption technology support

    • Written in 100% Java

    • Runs on any Java (JSP 2.0) compliant application server (Jakarta Tomcat, BEA Weblogic)

    • Runs on any Java compliant operating system (Windows, Solaris, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD)

    • Runs on any JDBC compliant database (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle)

    • Built on solid OO principles; extendable, scalable and reliable.

    • Configurable caching tags for extreme performance

    • Host with Solid State Group, or with your own provider