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DAM implementation is not the finish line

Your DAM system needs to be maintained, governed, and continuously improved. This is particularly important as your asset library grows, your teams evolve, and your channel needs change. Ntara’s DAM managed services provide ongoing expert support throughout, without the overhead of building that capacity in-house.

Why this matters

Most DAM failures are operational. When no one is accountable for taxonomy, it drifts. When teams change, permissions get misconfigured. Rights and licensing records fall out of sync. Integrations break quietly, and no one notices until it’s a problem. 

DAM managed services create continuity. Instead of relying on internal staff with competing priorities, you get a dedicated team that knows your system and can help keep it running. 

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What it includes

Ntara’s DAM managed services cover whatever ongoing work that keeps your DAM healthy. That can include: 

  • Admin-as-a-service: day-to-day DAM administration, user management, and permissions 
  • Metadata and taxonomy governance: ongoing schema maintenance and consistency enforcement 
  • Rights and licensing monitoring: expiration tracking and compliance support 
  • Integration monitoring: ensuring PIM, CMS, and ecommerce connections stay healthy 
  • Performance reporting: usage analytics, adoption tracking, and ROI measurement 
  • Continuous optimization: refinements based on user feedback and evolving business needs 

Engagements like this are scoped to your needs. Some clients use managed services for a defined period post-launch. Others use them as a long-term operational model. 

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Ntara’s approach to DAM managed services

We don’t hand off documentation and disappear. Our managed services teams are embedded in your DAM environment. We know your taxonomy, integrations, governance model, and system users. 

To keep you informed, we provide regular reporting. That way, you always know how the system is performing and where adoption is strong or lagging. And when something needs to change, we proactively offer recommendations. 

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Results we’ve seen

Managed services matter most when the stakes are highest. We’ve seen that in terms of large asset libraries, complex governance, high user counts, and tight integration dependencies. 

After migrating 250,000+ assets and building a dynamic metadata model, Kimberly-Clark needed ongoing governance support to keep its system performing at scale. Our team helps support theirs with rights and licensing monitoring, metadata governance, and user administration. That way, internal teams can stay focused on content creation.  

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With 77,000+ SKUs and a live PIM-to-DAM connector operating across 19 regions and languages, Columbus McKinnon needed someone watching the integration. We provide ongoing monitoring to ensure the connector stays healthy, metadata flows correctly, and asset updates reach ecommerce channels as expected.  

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Visual Comfort discovered that connecting PIM and DAM was just the beginning. Their metadata fields, integration logic, and user workflows needed ongoing refinement as teams got trained and new use cases emerged. Our post-launch support helped them extend the integration and build on the initial MVP.  

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Why Ntara?

We support DAM environments for global manufacturers, CPG brands, and retailers. Our managed services teams understand both the technical side (integrations, configurations, metadata models) and the operational side (governance, adoption, change management). 

When you buy Ntara’s DAM managed services, you’re not getting a help desk. You’re getting a team that knows your system and has a stake in its success. 

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Ready to take ongoing DAM operations off your plate?

Let’s scope a managed services engagement that fits your team and your system. 

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