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Fully Fault-Tolerant Without the Hardware Investment

Hosted Picture Desk All of the features of the Merlin Picture Desk system in a Software-as-a-Service (SAAS), hosted solution.

What does that mean? It means we supply all the hardware (computers and storage), all the connectivity, and all the IT support. The systems are housed in a top-notch data center with redundant power sources including generators, 4 internet backbones, redundant air conditioning, and biometric security.

Let our world-class support staff serve you the best digital asset management software on the market at a lower cost than you can achieve internally. All you do is log in and start working!


With the Hosted Picture Desk System you can:

  • Manage millions of objects
  • Rely on fault-tolerant MSync systems
  • Build huge enterprise-scale configurations or focused departmental solutions
  • Global access via any web browser
  • Use fast, precise industry-specific search tools
  • Create easy, flexible, drag-and-drop workflows
  • Link pages with the source objects that appear on it
  • Link objects to the original assignment, out-takes and rights information
  • Import RAW camera files
  • Run content and system usage reports
  • And much more...

The Merlin Picture Desk system is configurable, flexible and extensible, and will let you handle both print and web file formats:
  • Photos including JPEG, TIFF, PSD, RAW and others
  • Graphics including TIFF, EPS or native formats like Illustrator™ or Freehand™
  • PDF files with full-text indexing and searchable content
  • Multimedia files such as QuickTime™, MP3, WAV, AVI
  • Text as ascii, XML, SGML, and HTML
...and a searchable video repository for web and professional video formats with Merlin Video Asset Management System.

Merlin supports other industry standards like IPTC and XMP. Merlin uses SQL databases running off-the-shelf operating systems and standard hardware platforms. Users can access content from any web browser, and power users creating and maintaining content can use the Merlin rich client application on a Macintosh™ or Windows™ computer. Merlin picture desk systems easily fit into almost any IT environment.

If you're interested in a fully-licensed version, learn more about the Merlin Picture Desk system.