XINET – Digital Asset Management: Customer Case Studies.
An iconic brand in the sports world, Wilson Sporting Goods has been one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of sporting equipment for almost a century. Providing athletic gear for sports like tennis, golf, baseball and American football, Wilson has earned a worldwide reputation for its exceptional products, designed to increase player performance.
Wilson is backed by some of the world’s most respected athletes, including Jorge Posada of the New York Yankees, Serena Williams, and Roger Federer, and has partnerships with the NFL, NLB, US Open, and NCAA, among others. Headquartered in Chicago, in the United States, Wilson has a presence in more than 100 countries and employs over 1,600 people globally.
With thousands of products and a constantly updating product line, the company’s limited digital asset management system wasn’t able to keep up with their production needs and rapid asset growth. David Barron, Manager of Creative Technology at Wilson, was brought in to help launch Xinet® WebNative® Suite. Because Barron works closely with the Wilson Creative Services and IT departments, he understands the unique needs and concerns on all sides—the marketing, creative and production staff, and the IT team. With WebNative Suite, the company wanted to better utilize their server space, eliminate errors and confusion about asset availability, and make it easier for users to find and update images.
“Since launching WebNative Suite, we are quickly rolling it out to our staff so that they can easily access our digital library. Wilson’s marketing team is utilizing the Xinet system to search for assets more efficiently. The creative services people are using it to improve workflow and to find the assets used in ads and catalogs. Our prepress vendor, Color4, which is an outside resource, is using it daily to get new photos from our internal photographer and to give us the retouched images. And since Wilson is hosting global assets, we are starting to register users in our worldwide offices, and dealers in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, China, Australia—everywhere that Wilson is—will be able to directly access the images in our library,” said Barron.
Before WebNative Suite, determining which file was the current version proved difficult because multiple copies could be found on local desktops, external drives and servers. Now users work and link directly from Wilson’s digital library.
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