Integration & Automation
Customise cavok
Have you still not found the exact function you want for your Digital Asset Management system to automate work steps or communicate with other systems? We’ll find a solution for you, because cavok can be extensively customised to your requirements!
Easier than you think
Other systems can be integrated into cavok, or steps automated, very easily. This applies to the whole interface as well as to workflows, interfaces and feature extensions. Practically any option is available to you that is also available on your server operating system - scripts (Perl, Bash, PHP, Javascript etc.), the integration of libraries or command line tools, other apps, web services and much more.
Unique system architecture
cavok’s system architecture is the reason why customised integration can be done so easily: the core of the system is streamlined and quick, customised adjustments are created in your own open source system layer with common script languages.
No problems with updates
Your individual customisation settings are retained through the unique system architecture even if there are updates and release changes that apply to the core system. You don’t have this security with other traditional DAM systems.
What’s also possible:
Downloads: always in the right format
The sales team should be able to download current images, presentations and advertising material. The original images and print PDFs are too big for their purposes. Simply allow them to download the required sizes and formats, then cavok converts the files and delivers them directly and securely. Of course, no duplicates are created through this process.
Transfer metadata automatically
Link metadata to a database, a PIM system or an Excel or CSV file. For example, product data is automatically added as soon as the article number of a product is entered. This saves time when keywording and makes searching for assets much more efficient.
Integrate media links in other systems
You have a webshop and a CMS? Why do you additionally manage the media files in it? You can connect cavok to the systems so that you only have one master document that is always up to date and supplies other systems with the desired image sizes and formats via media links. Even images with a transparent background can be created automatically from the path of a Photoshop file and integrated into the web store via a media link.
Design custom notifications
Notifications are one of the most popular standard features, but they can also be comprehensively customised. Do you want to be notified of which files need to be approved? Do you want a monthly e-mail containing an overview of all images with periods of use that are expiring? A notification can be sent individually or as a bundle in cavok.
Overviews as PDFs
Do you not want to download individual files, but instead send a colleague or client a number of files as a contact sheet in a PDF? This is a standard feature in cavok, but it can also be customised, e.g. by using your logo, your background, etc.
Automatically process tasks
Do you work in an advertising agency and do you use an agency or project management system? Then you can give cavok a to-do list for automatic processing, e.g. a broadcasting schedule for advertising spots, where cavok take on a lot of work converting films and delivering them to TV broadcasters.
Connecting an OCR System
cavok can also be connected to an external OCR program. This makes it possible to recognize the text of scanned pages from newspapers, magazines or books and store a PDF with the recognized text in cavok. In cavok you can then easily browse the pages, search the recognized text or copy it out.
Always the right file format
Do you produce your advertising material using InDesign? Your colleagues, clients and partners can’t use InDesign files - they want PDFs. And cavok makes it possible for them to find InDesign files in cavok, but then instead download the original PDFs, which cavok generates for you.
Error-free, personalised printing
Do you use pre-flight or Web2Print systems? They can be linked to cavok, giving you far-reaching automation.
... and the right resolution
Do you have high-resolution print PDFs which include crop marks, register marks and colour scales? But your colleagues, clients and partners actually need a lower resolution cropped PDF? cavok will also sort this out for you.
User administration with Active Directory
Those who work with the Windows Active Directory can now transfer all group memberships of the user administration program directly into cavok. Especially for larger companies with many users who already work with Active Directory, the setup of cavok is made much easier.