Engineering the connection between creative applications and managed assets
Oglacs developed Silicon Connector to Silicon Publishing’s requirements: an integration solution connecting Adobe Creative Cloud workflows with digital asset management repositories, helping creative users work with assets from their managed source.
Built to meet Silicon Publishing’s product requirements.
Creative teams often work across authoring applications and asset repositories. The product requirement was to bring managed assets closer to the creative workflow and maintain links between documents and their source assets, reducing reliance on disconnected local copies and manual relinking.
- Engagement: Product development
- Client: Silicon Publishing
- Delivery role: Oglacs developed the product based on client requirements
- Evidence basis: Client-provided role confirmation and public product description
The engineering problem to solve
The product requirements centered on making the publishing workflow more connected, repeatable and accessible for its intended users.
CHALLENGE 01
Make repository assets accessible from within supported creative applications.
CHALLENGE 02
Maintain document links to the managed source asset.
CHALLENGE 03
Help creative workflows respond when linked source assets change.
CHALLENGE 04
Fit the integration into organizations’ existing digital asset management environments.
What the product needed to deliver
Oglacs’ engineering scope was shaped by Silicon Publishing’s requirements for the product. The points below describe the product-development scope, not a claim of a specific end-customer deployment.
- Product engineering for the Connector integration experience.
- Integration with supported Adobe Creative Cloud applications and DAM platforms as described in product materials.
- URL-based asset linking to managed repository locations.
- Workflow support for recognizing updates to linked source assets, subject to integration configuration.
From requirements to a working product
We organized the work around the user workflow and the product’s role in the broader publishing environment.
- Design the connection between creative applications and the asset repository.
- Enable users to locate and use managed assets from their creative workflow.
- Use URL-based references to connect placed assets with their managed source.
- Support update awareness so linked content can reflect source-asset changes within the configured environment.
Silicon Connector: the product Oglacs engineered
These elements summarize the product solution as described in Silicon Publishing’s public materials.
DELIVERABLE 01
A connector experience for accessing managed assets from supported creative applications.
DELIVERABLE 02
URL-based links that retain a relationship to the asset repository.
DELIVERABLE 03
A workflow intended to make asset changes visible to linked creative documents.
DELIVERABLE 04
Integration-oriented product design that works alongside existing DAM and authoring environments.
Product engineering aligned to the brief
Our role was to develop the product based on Silicon Publishing’s requirements.
Oglacs developed Silicon Connector as a product for Silicon Publishing, based on its requirements. The intended value is closer integration between managed assets and creative work. No quantified productivity, error-reduction or deployment outcomes have been supplied, so this case study avoids unsupported metrics.
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