Tridion Connector for Aprimo DAM

The Tridion Connector for Aprimo DAM provides access to media assets stored in Aprimo Digital Access Management (DAM) (formerly known as ADAM), such as images, videos, documents, and other resources. You can use the connector to build rich experiences on websites using media assets that are centrally stored in a DAM and can be shared across the whole organization.

Supported capabilities

The Connector for Aprimo DAM provides the following key capabilities::

  • List folders and classifications
  • List and query Aprimo DAM asset records
  • List asset files (derivatives, variants)
  • View asset metadata
  • Download of asset files
  • Associate or dissassociate a TCM-URI from Tridion Sites to or from an Aprimo DAM asset
  • Expose Akamai CDN links to assets
  • Publishing Aprimo DAM content from Content Manager

Example use cases

These capabilities make it possible to implement the following use cases (among others):
  • Manage assets and content from a single interface
  • Search assets based on tagging
  • Mark an asset as in use by Tridion Sites in the Aprimo DAM system
  • Pick a relevant derivative (aspect ratio, resolution etc) to optimize the content on a certain Page in Tridion Sites

Architecture

The following diagram gives a high-level architecture of the connector when used with Tridion Sites: